Word: poliakov
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recently legalized death sentence for proven corruption in a Soviet official was applied, last week, for the first time in the case of Director Poliakov of the State Bank Grain Department and an assistant, M. Telesnin. Their crime: granting concessions to private businessmen in return for fat bribes...
Biographer Poliakov recreates with fine emotional skill the dramatic scene which resulted in a Danish Princess eventually becoming the Empress Marie. She, a blooming girl, and the Grand Duke (Crown Prince) Nicholas of Russia (died 1865) had experienced for each other an undoubted and romantic mutual infatuation. Before they could be married he was stricken with paralysis. Brave, devoted, he called his fiancee and his brother Alexander to his deathbed and swore them to wed each other. The gigantic Grand Duke Alexander (later Tsar Alexander III) was as strong as a bear, as slow...
...clever to show his debauched nature to the Tsar, who saw in him the daily savior of the Tsarevitch Alexis' life, and thus listened too readily to the counsels of one whom he believed a holy man, able to "talk with the blood" of Alexis. Deft, Biographer Poliakov adds the tale of how Alexandra, Britain's Dowager Empress, sent the Dreadnaught Marlborough to rescue from a Bolshevik "Prison" in the Crimea her sister the Dowager Empress of Russia...
...MOTHER DEAR" : THE EMPRESS MARIE OP RUSSIA AND HER TIMES-V. Poliakov ("Au-srur")-Appleton ($3.50). ²H. R. H.-Major F. E. Verney-Doran ($3.50). ¼³THE TOUR OF THE PRINCE OF WALES TO AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA-Ralph Deakin -Lippincott ($4.00). *His full title is instructive as a gazetteer of his eight million square miles of absolute domain: "The Orthodox and Pious and Christ-loving, the absolute Autocrat and Great Lord, Crowned and Elevated by God, Alexander Alexandrovitch, Emperoi and Autocrat of All the Russias, His Tsaric Majesty of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod, Tsar of Kazan, Tsar...