Word: piotr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pilot Barsov was the Russian who crash-landed his Soviet bomber at a U.S. airfield in Austria last October, and in Russian and broken English announced that he and his navigator, 2nd Lieut. Piotr Pirogov, wanted to see the U.S. They particularly wanted to see the state of Virginia, about which they had heard on the Voice of America. Brought to the U.S., they were marched through Virginia in high style, given the full hero-of-the-cold-war treatment (TIME, Feb. 14). Then the Voice of America gave them $100 apiece, and they were turned loose in the land...
Dreams & Delirium. Young (28), handsome Piotr Pirogov quickly found a literary agent, arranged to give lectures, write articles and turn out a book. But Barsov was at a loss. Older than his navigator and outranking him, he seemed to resent his pal's success. An inarticulate, heavy-boned man with thick-knuckled peasant hands, Barsov found himself all but ignored. In his diary he noted: "As always, all-knowing and haughty to the point of stupidity, [Pirogov] insulted me repeatedly . . . Today's quarrel with Pirogov made clear my dependency upon...
...week's end two cars arrived at La Guardia field, bearing the departing Russians, a dozen suitcases, several cartons of cigarettes and 155 Ibs. of excess baggage. Under his arm, Shostakovich carried a large bundle of phonograph records. He was, he said, "glad to be returning home." Novelist Piotr Pavlenko told a Polish-speaking cop: "America is a wonderful country, a strong country. And it has one of the finest police forces in the world." Czech Journalist Jiri Hronek, however, said that "I wouldn't live in this country even if I were invited." Soviet Film Director Sergei...
...prime specimens would attract more publicity than Gargantua and His Mate, Virginia go-getters set out to bag them. Last week, after negotiations with the State Department and the armed forces, Virginia was rewarded. The Russian airmen, blond, 32-year-old Anatoly Barsov, and black-haired, 29-year-old Piotr Pirogov, were delivered to the U.S. for a grand tour of the Old Dominion...
Twenty-eight-year-old Lieut. Piotr Pirogov and his copilot, Anatoly Barsov, had been planning for a year to escape from Russia and get to the U.S. They had left their base near Lwow, formerly Poland, on a routine training flight that morning and headed for Munich in the U.S. zone of Germany. The third member of their crew, a flight sergeant, was not in on the lieutenants' plan. When they were airborne, Pirogov told the sergeant he could either come along or bail out while still over Russian territory. Since there were no parachutes in the plane...