Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cops tore out to the farm, where they heard a sinister tale. The woman was a schoolteacher who had been brought to New York from Russia two years ago to instruct the children of Soviet diplomats. She was to have returned to Russia at the end of July; the Russians had closed the school. But she was afraid to go because her husband had been "liquidated." She had asked the editor of a New York Russian-language newspaper for help. She was sent to Reed Farm, which the Countess ran as an asylum for Russian exiles...
Things Went Black. Three hours later, the Russian consulate in New York invited newspapers to send men to an unprecedented press conference. As soon as reporters walked in, it was plain who had gotten Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina. She was in custody of Jacob M. Lomakin, the handsome, blackhaired Soviet consul general. She was a plump, nervous-looking, middle-aged woman who wore a floppy-sleeved blouse, a black skirt, turquoise-colored bobbysocks, and red shoes. Lomakin announced, happily, that she had endured a rare ordeal and that she was about to describe it-through an interpreter, of course...
...Suddenly," he said, "she didn't arrive at the boat." Then he let slip the fact that two other teachers were on the loose: "At the same time they didn't come either on the boat Mikhail Ivanovitch Samarin, teacher of mathematics, and his wife, teacher of Russian languages...
...consul, and my driver, and came there. I found her in the kitchen . . . Came a few men and took her hand and tried to pull her . . . Three men began to crack the car and damage it. But she still cried, 'Take me home! Take me home!' White Russian bandits, few big men, began to throw some stones. But we got her in the car and we came here...
...Nobody, including Countess Tolstoy, seemed to know. The next day the Countess mused dourly that the woman might have been a Red spy. And the case was complicated by the fact that Mathematics Teacher Samarin dramatically turned himself over to the FBI. This week no less a person than Russian Ambassador Panyushkin asked that Samarin be returned forthwith...