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...little, lose a little for Ballerina Natalia Malcarova, 30, who defected from Russia last year and joined the American Ballet Theater. She won a fiancé, Vladimir Rodzianko, who had helped her defect and left his wife and two children to be her manager. But she lost the chance to dance before Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal Ballet's gala when she tore a muscle in her thigh...
Capitalist ways and wiles were almost too much for Ballerina Natalia Makarova, who defected from Russia's Kirov Ballet in England last fall, then moved to the U.S. Returning from a visit with friends, she and her good friend and interpreter Vladimir Rodzianko found that the locks had been changed on their Manhattan apartment: Landlady Irene Epstein claimed that Natalia and Vladimir owed telephone and electricity bills and had done $1,000 worth of damage. Chort vozmi! Natalia's costumes and specially made ballet shoes were inside, and she was about to go on tour with the American...
...statesmen of strongest will who testified that they could barely resist these powers were onetime President of the Duma Michael Rodzianko and onetime Prime Minister Peter Arcadevich Stolypin...
President of the Duma Rodzianko, a man of huge physique, told thus of a similar encounter: "Rasputin faced me and seemed to run me over with his eyes; first my face, then the region of the heart, then again he stared me in the eyes. ... I, speaking literally, felt my own eyes starting out of my head. ... I felt myself confronted by an unknown, tremendous power...