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...Another official removed from his post was Aleksei Romanov, chairman of the State Cinematography Committee, better known as the former Soviet intelligence officer who denounced Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1945 and was thus responsible for sending the great novelist to prison and exile for eleven years...
...claim of Anna Anderson Manahan that she is in fact the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter and only surviving child of murdered Czar Nicholas II. Anna, who married former History Lecturer John Manahan in late 1968, refuses to accept the ruling, which also affects her bid for the rumored Romanov fortune reputedly banked by Nicholas in Europe. Said...
Whose Man? At the school for the Corps of Pages in St. Petersburg, Princeling Kropotkin began to learn of the Byzantine rituals of the Romanov court -attendance at court balls, parades, mess dinners, the opera, blood horses, mistresses and some fashionable adultery. But at some stage something went sour. Was it when his father came back from a campaign with a medal for gallantry on his chest? It turned out that the deed that won the medal was actually performed by father's batman. The feudal father saw nothing odd about this. It was his man, wasn...
Mother is Nada Romanov, "a minor but famous writer" who collects lovers. Father is a high-trapeze-act executive, swinging smoothly from one corporation vice-presidency to another. Both are moral and parental failures. But both, like Richard, are victims as well as executioners...
...self-publishing," a pun on Gosizdat, the acronym for State Publishing House. ? TIME's quotations are taken from the Collins edition. * The counterintelligence organization popularized by Ian Fleming. Its name is an acronym from the Russian words for "death to spies." The man who denounced Solzhenitsyn was Alexei Romanov, now chairman of the State Cinematography Committee...