Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moscow the Soviet press roundly scored famed basso Feodor Chaliapin for having "forsaken" Russia to "sing in the lands of Mammon." Numerous Soviet journals gave space to the following "confession" allegedly made by M. Chaliapin to "a member of the Moscow Theatrical Guild, who interviewed him recently at Paris before he left for New York...
...have concert engagements in America and Australia for several years, and am obliged to carry them out. I left Russia without a cent and found it necessary therefore to sell my soul to the devil. Yes, I sold it, and it is not my fault. As soon as I fulfill these contracts, I hope to be able to accept your invitation to come to Moscow and Leningrad...
...have the good luck to find M. Briand's new cabinet sufficiently well established to make negotiating worth while. At that time discussion would seem to be in order concerning: the Tsarist debt to France; Franco-Soviet commercial treaties; a resumption of uninterrupted railway service between France and Russia; the final disposition of Tsarist gunboats now in French hands...
...000th time, that the Allies have agreed and given evidence of their intention to ease up on the Rhineland, that Germany must sign the Treaties and enter the League of Nations in order to thrive in peace, and that in so doing she would not be pitting herself against Russia on the side of the Allies or giving up the possibility of obtaining future concessions from the Allies...
...know that holiness and tranquillity had, for the time being, parted company. The Bishop was John S. Kedrovsky. He had asserted that he was Archbishop of his church in North America, and hence presiding prelate of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas, Manhattan. He had with him papers from Russia to prove it. It was in an effort to make clear his position to Platon, the temporary Archbishop, that he had suffered his humiliating contact with the asphalt. Archbishop Platon had simply clapped his hands and shouted in Russian: "Throw him out!" The disgruntled Kedrovsky, a naturalized U. S. citizen...