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...awards are to: Bartholomeus J. Bok to determine the radial velocities of faint stars; Samuel H. Cross to prepare for publication a translation of the Laurentian Chronicle, a history of the Principality of Kiev, and a volume of memorial essays on A. S. Pushkin...
...that it has been appearing serially in a leading Soviet review, is confused, obscene and "written in English that can hardly be understood by an Englishman." Moscow critics urged Soviet composers to turn back to Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov; Soviet writers to turn back to Shakespeare, Goethe and Pushkin. In the general Bolshevik artist furor this week it was everywhere believed, although not officially confirmed, that Joseph Stalin early last week heard for the first time some of Shostakovich's music, then translated his personal reactions into the lashing Pravda editorial which called the Red Genius' works...
...Professor Cross, "Pushkin", Sever...
...years ago, now living with his 20-year-old adopted daughter in a modest villa at Grasse, France. Writer of the old school, called "the last heir to the Russian realist tradition of the 19th Century," Bunin has long had a big reputation in Russia, where he won the Pushkin prize for poetry (1890), was an honorary member (with Maxim Gorki and the late great Anton Chekhov) of the exclusive Academy of St. Petersburg. Enthusiastic Russians rank Bunin with Dostoyevsky and Turgenev. Europe has read translations of Mitya's Love and The Village. But until U. S. Publisher Knopf...
RUSSIAN Literature, like that of America began to free itself from western Europe in the early part of the nineteenth century. Pushkin, Tolstoi, and Dostoevsky all wrote with a nationalistic outlook. As a leading Slavophil, Dostoevsky wished that Russia, with its great spiritual resources, should inspire and redeem the decaying civilization of Europe...