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According to the poet's text, Russian Nobleman Nikolai Rezanov sailed into San Francisco harbor in 1806 intending to trade with California's Spanish colonizers. Instead he fell in love with Concha, the daughter of the commandant of San Francisco. As Rezanov's ships Juno and Avos waited, he set out to woo the 16-year-old beauty. For his seduction scene, Bolshoi Ballet Choreographer Vladimir Vasiliev designed a pas de deux that was conspicuously erotic by stuffy Soviet standards. Yelena Shanina (Concha), a Goldie Hawn lookalike, and Nikolai Karachentsev (Rezanov), a dark, dour figure, embraced...
When Concha's parents refused to allow the match on religious grounds, Rezanov returned to Russia, vowing: "I shall wring consent from my Tsar, the Pope, your father!" But on the homeward trek across Siberia, the nobleman died on the icy steppes, causing his disconsolate Concha to become "San Francisco's first...
...heavy allegory was there for all to brood upon. As Rezanov succumbed on stage, a narrator said: "He tried to unite Russia and America; the adventure was not successful." With a nod to the prostrate body, he added: "Thanks for trying...
Gregori Fedorovitch Rezanov, the Soviet Union's first Minister to Colombia, got an unhappy welcome when he arrived at the Bogota airport. Because of a Foreign Office bungle, no Colombian dignitaries met him. Uninvited local Communists infested the airport, carried his baggage, muscled into his news pictures, acutely embarrassed Mr. Rezanov. The Bogotá press was generally cordial. Privately, Colombians wondered why the new Russian Legation had a staff of 34 while Colombia was represented at Moscow by a single, lonely Minister. Probable reason: the Soviet Union wants to train diplomats for use in other Latin American countries which...
Experienced Empress. Empress Catherine the Great of Russia was born too early to believe that he who controls Alaska may control the Pacific (as Rezanov, founder of the Russian-American Co., believed). When the rich merchants of Siberia pleaded with her to make Alaska a Russian colony, the Empress slapped them down. "England's experience with American colonies," she said dryly, "should be a warning to other nations...
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