Word: petrovna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wheaton for their annual national convention, theosophy was once again under some suspicion. The scarcely adequate reason is that Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Kennedy's accused assassin, had asked for and received a copy of the society's most sacred book, The Secret Doctrine. Its author: Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-91), the Russian-born founder and high priestess of the movement...
...this musical remake of the 1936 play, she is the Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna, a 1920s Parisian exile from the Winter Palace of Czar "Nicky." With her is her consort. General Mikhail Ouratieff, played with the suppleness of a tin soldier by Jean Pierre Aumont. For food, resourceful Tatiana steals artichokes; for fun, the local White Russians have dances in their peasant pantskis-Kazachoks. waltzes, soft shoe, maxixe, tangos, polonaises-name it, they do it. Mikhail carries around 4 billion francs that the Czar gave him "as a sacred trust." come the counterrevolution. As of 1927, a sly Bolshevik commissar...
Capping it all was tea with Nina Petrovna Khrushchev at the Moscow House of Friendship. Russia's first lady remained friendly even when one of her guests asked her, over apples and chocolates, to "convey to your husband the deep concern we feel that within the past month the Soviet Union has tested 17 atom bombs...
...most certainly shall tell him that," said Nina Petrovna. "We are also concerned over the necessity of these tests." Earlier the same day, Russia had exploded Bomb No. 18, the biggest...
...Have a Saying ..." Nina Petrovna Khrushchev proved herself a more engaging personality. At the Franco-U.S.S.R. Society, and at the two-room apartment once occupied by Lenin, she threw her solid arms about French Communist leaders and bussed them resoundingly. At the middle-class department store, the Galeries Lafayette, she fell in love with a pale green at-home dress. Later she took in a bit of the Louvre-the Mona Lisa, Napoleon's crown, the Venus de Milo-along with two of her daughters, in a 40-minute sprint. Meanwhile, at a luncheon at the Diplomatic Press...