Word: petrovna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rodka's rescuer is his faithfully unbelieving schoolmarm, Paraskovia Petrovna, who hales Father Dmitry before District Agitprop Director Kuchin and argues with him en route on behalf of edifying atheism. Director Kuchin is fed up with staging anti-God lectures ("Nobody comes but atheists"); he has his own sophisticated recipe for the conversion of Russia. "We must make it so that the last of the old ones believes no more in the omnipotent, but in us," he says. "And for this we mnst show what we can do. First, a piece of meat in the soup, good clothes...
Smiling but reticent during most of her strenuous tour across the U.S. with her husband, Nina Petrovna Khrushchev, 59, returned to Washington, agreed at last to hold a VIP-sized press conference ("not customary in my country") for eager newswomen. Self-possessed and pleasant, Nina Petrovna made a big hit, even got a laugh when in careful English she kidded Jinx Falkenburg (who was present as Pat Nixon's guest) about her beehive-shaped hat: "You look like a Ukrainian bride, no?" With the promise that "I will give you some bits of information you desire," Mrs. Khrushchev laid...
...There on American soil was Nikita Khrushchev, short, bald and portly, wearing a black suit, Homburg and three small medals, bowing down the receiving line, accepting a 21-gun salute, parading past a guard of honor. There on his one hand stood his pleasant, shy wife Nina Petrovna, his daughters Julia, 38, and Rada, 29, his studious-looking son Sergei, 24, and a retinue of 63 officials and bureaucrats. There on his other hand stood President Eisenhower. "Permit me at this moment to thank Mr. Eisenhower for the invitation," Khrushchev said graciously, responding to the President's coolly proper...
Pleasant, shy Mrs. Nina Petrovna Khrushchev, 59, is on her first headline trip outside Russia. According to Kremlin publicists, she fought for the Bolsheviks as an 18-year-old in the Russian civil war, went on to become a social science teacher, married Khrushchev in 1938. She is his second wife -First Wife Nadezhda died-and she raised Khrushchev's children. Three of the children will be with them in the U.S.: Julia, 38, a chemist, married to Kiev Opera Director Viktor Gonchar; Rada, 29, a biologist, married to Izvestia Editor Alexei Adzhubei; Sergei, 24, an electrical engineer. Khrushchev...