Word: poltava
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...became the hero of novels, the theme of poems. Some people thought he looked a little like Peter the Great, victor at Poltava (which Semion Budenny lost fortnight ago). One of the largest coal trusts in Russia was named for him. A city in the Caucasus, a town in the Ukraine, factories, collective farms changed their names to Budenny. The grey peaked cloth hat which used to be part of the Red Army uniform is called Budennovka. Among men who knew horses he became the incarnation of horsemanship, something approaching the upper half of a Centaur. Red cavalrymen sing...
They reported that the Russians' southern Commander, Marshal Semion Budenny, had set up a strong defensive zone near Poltava, where in 1709 Peter the Great finally stopped the aggrandizement of Sweden's Charles XII. The new Budenny resistance was even admitted to be taking the form of counterattacks...
...coldest winter in centuries-so cold that vodka froze and it was said wood would not burn in the open air. By spring, Charles's Army had dwindled from 44,000 to 20,000 men. In June it was overwhelmed by Peter's well-fed men at Poltava...
...Brasol was born in the Government of Poltava, Russia, of Russian parents. After his graduation in 1908 from the University of Petrograd with the degree of Bachelor of Law, he immediately entered the Department of Justice of the Russian Government, and in 1910 was made Assistant District Attorney at Petrograd. He served in this capacity and subsequently as District Attorney in various other Russian cities...
...Engineering School the Hennen Jennings scholarship goes to Vsevolod Nicolas Krivobok gr. E. S. of Poltava, Russia, a graduate student in metallurgy; the Eveleth scholarship to Nahum Sabsay E.S. of Cambridge; the Searle scholarship to H. M. Gault of Boston...