Word: rozalia
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...Korzeniowski says, "not their food." But his main post-Athens goal is modest. His career has allowed him just two months a year at home in Krakow. "I dream about weekends at home," he says, especially since he and his wife will welcome a new daughter, to be named Rozalia, next month. (Their first, Angelica, is 12.) "I want to be with my family, play checkers and Monopoly, see my friends - an ordinary life," he says. After 20 years of walking, logging thousands of kilometers all over the world, the chance to put his feet up would truly be golden...
...early days of Bolshevism, leading women Communists tended to be of two kinds: either freewheeling intellectuals like the handsome and dashing Aleksandra Kollantay, sometime U.S.S.R. ambassador, who advocated free speech and practiced free love, or professional revolutionaries like somber, spectacled Rozalia Zemliachka, the civil war liquidator of the Crimea, and the white-haired oldtime Chekist Elena Stasova. Although Stalin liquidated thousands of male members of the party apparatus in the great 1937 purges, he left these and other top women alone. But Stalin did not trust old revolutionaries, men or women...
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