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...sent to Moscow, where he was lionized and appointed to the Frunze Academy, the U.S.S.R.'s most important military school. Against his will, he was to be groomed for the Russian army. To his disgust he was forced to accept a new title and name: "Komisaro Piotr Antonovich...
...Married. Piotr Pirogov, 32, Russian airman who made headlines three years ago when he fled to Austria with his fellow pilot Anatoly Barsov,* is now working for the U.S. Air Force; and Valentino Burnos, 25, Russian D.P., who was imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II, came to the U.S. from Austria; he for the first time, she for the second; in Washington...
...Died. Piotr Andreyevich Pavlenko, 52, "most popular Soviet novelist," who never missed a Kremlin cue, thrice won the Stalin Prize (for his screen scenarios, Alexander Nevsky and The Vow, his 1947 novel, Happiness); of undisclosed causes; in Moscow...
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...