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Baron Alexander Meyendorff, relative of the assassin of Rasputin, graduate student at Harvard last year, avowed member of the Communist party, and present inmate of Ellis Island in solitary confinement, has appealed to the Harvard CRIMSON to "publish something in my behalf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNIST EX-STUDENT HELD ON ELLIS ISLAND | 10/1/1941 | See Source »

...blew up scores of schools, and 600 Dukhobors were imprisoned for refusing to send their children to school. More clothes were shed. The Dominion thought of putting the unassimilable Russians on a reservation, like an Indian tribe. The leadership succeeded upon Peter's son, Peter Petrovich Verigin, a Rasputin-like paranoiac whose mismanagement and personal vices helped ruin the Dukhobor's communal enterprises. The sect disintegrated during the 19305, but in western Canada there are still 17,000 Russians, confused and distrustful of everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spirit-Wrestlers | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Meyendorff, who is a relative of Princo Ussupov, the assassin of Rasputin, expressed "confidence in the leadership of Russia. Nowadays a leader must be supported by a majority of the people, especially the poorer classes, must be a good Marxist, and must have talent, Stalin has all three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUSSIAN GIVES LIFE TO SOCIALISM, PLEDGES ALLEGIANCE TO STALIN | 10/18/1940 | See Source »

Married. Maria Rasputin Soloviev, 39, animal tamer, self-styled daughter of Russia's "Mad Monk"; Gregory Rasputin; and one Gregory Bernadsky, 39; in Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 4, 1940 | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

Arrested in Miami, Fla. by immigration authorities for overstaying her leave in the U. S. was Mme Maria Gregorievna Rasputin Soloviev, animal-taming daughter of murdered Grigoriy Rasputin,* the "Mad Monk," spiritual adviser to the late Tsarina of Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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