Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jean Herbette, accompanied by Mme. Herbette and an embassy staff, left Paris for Moscow to take up his duties as first French Ambassador to Bolshevik Russia, successor to the last French Ambassador to Imperial Russia, M. Maurice Paléologue...
...Affaires and a guard of honor and was conducted to the French Embassy to the strains of a military band playing the Toreador's March from Carmen. M. Herbette was amazed, expected the band to play the Marseillaise, but was told that foreign national anthems are forbidden in Russia. Bolshevik reporters called a few minutes later at the Embassy; to them the Ambassador said...
...recognition of her debts by Russia would return the sympathies of these poor people to the Soviet Union...
...journalist was emboldened to remark that Russia could not pay her debts without first obtaining a loan. M. Herbette rejoined: "The recognition of her debts would help Russia to reëstablish her credit...
...book of memoirs published in Russia by Sergius Tschoudnovsky was described the last moments of Admiral Kolchak and his able comrade, General Pepeliayev, the two leaders of the Siberian White Army that tried to smash the might of Bolshevism. Tschoudnovsky, as Chairman of the Investigation Committee, was commissioned, in 1920, their executioner...