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...White Nights." For most tourists, Leningrad, the old czarist capital of St. Petersburg and cradle of the Revolution, with its superb setting on the Neva River, is the handsomest city in the Soviet Union. Number one draw is the Hermitage Museum, which contains a dazzling art collection of nearly 3,000,000 works that includes a whole room of Rembrandts, and the world's finest assemblage of Gauguins, Matisses and early Picassos. Two other great sights: the Peter and Paul Fortress housing the tombs of all the Romanovs from Peter the Great to Alexander III (except Peter...
Born Romain de Tirtoff in St. Petersburg, Erté, an admiral's son, adopted a nom de palette based on his initials shortly after he arrived in Paris in 1912. Now a dapper 74, he is still going strong at his studio, turning out costumes and sets for avant-garde operas. He has also designed a ballet to be shown on CBS-TV this Christmas, and contributed seven huge floats to Flying Colors, a musical spectacular starring Maurice Chevalier that will open next week at Expo 67. Still addicted to the ornate fantasies...
Born: Feb. 20, 1904, in St. Petersburg, son of a lathe operator...
...Momsen, 70, U.S. submarine expert and inventor of the Momsen lung for underwater escapes, who in 1928 devised the first successful escape device by rigging a mask to a rubberized bag of oxygen, testing it himself before it became standard equipment on all U.S. subs; of pneumonia; in St. Petersburg...
...years, discriminating hostesses have seated their dinner guests at place settings crafted by Josiah Wedgwood Ltd. Catherine the Great of Russia had 952 pieces created for her summer palace near St. Petersburg; Queen Charlotte of Britain in 1765 was so enamored of her cream-colored earthenware that she commanded that it henceforth be called "the Queen's Ware." Only recently the Queen of Thailand placed her order for 400 pieces of powder blue Columbia...