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...rocked Europe in both philosophic and industrial terms since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 did not penetrate the unfriendly borders of Russia. Nicholas felt a token Parliament, the Duma, would stem the revolutionary tide of 1905. He approved a nationalistic birthday celebration of the 300th year of Romanov reign and relaxed in his luxurious train on a trip into the country, saying in the movie, "I didn't want to come on this trip, but my God I do love it when they (the peasants) stand and wave." He launched his country into World War I with the belief...
...high points of the show are the icons and the opulent czarist bibelots. But then the question of the limits of folk art comes up. Can the men who wrought a jeweled bowl, half boat and half bird, for Czar Michael Fedorovich Romanov in 1624 be called folk artists? Obviously not. This courtly paradigm of imperial extravagance is of an order quite different from the decorated spindles, distaffs and painted figures of the Russian provinces...
...lugubrious rummaging through the Romanov attic, this is a Love Story with historical footnotes. Extracted from Robert K. Massie's bestseller, it seems to have started as an attempt to make what the boys back at the studio call "an intelligent epic." For Scenarist James Goldman (The Lion in Winter) and Director Franklin J. Schaffner (Patton), that apparently means endless vistas of gilded scenery, plus dreary dialogues about the future of Russia and the Czar's responsibility to his family and his increasingly obstreperous subjects...
...lines, a guile-lessness making at once for high comedy and fine acting. Llody Schwartz's Kolenkhov is a natural scene-stealer. He pronounces "The Monte Carlo Ballet" with just the right Bela Lugosi intonation, he talks and gestures like a proud Rasputin fallen on bad times, and his Romanov leer is so hilariously Russian that one can smell the caviar in the pit. George Mager's classic internal revenue agent scene is a stunning shtic planted in the first act. And Suzanne Sato's wonderful costumes are more convincing than those in any other period piece I've seen...
Died. Alexander Kerensky, 89, second Premier of the short-lived provisional government that tried to bring democracy to Russia after the overthrow of the Romanov Czars; of heart disease; in Manhattan. A moderate socialist who first gained prominence as an eloquent defense attorney, Kerensky turned against Czar Nicholas II after the "Bloody Sunday" massacre of 1905, in which a procession of workers was cut down by Czarist troops. Reassured by constitutional reforms, he sided with the regime and was elected to the Duma (Parliament) in 1912. When repression increased again during World War I, Kerensky began to speak out against...