Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just about everything that is important happens to the three sisters of the title. Living in a middle-class house in a provincial Russian city around the turn of the century, each of the sisters looks for reason, some pattern in her life--through love, work, or an escape to the heavenly city of Moscow. Each in her own way fails to find ultimate happiness, but they all learn that reasons are unimportant and that living itself is enough happiness...
...They can manage it in several ways," said Harry M. Hayward, Research Fellow at the Russian Research Center. "His expulsion from the Society of Russian Writers is sufficient excuse to deny him a passport to Stockholm and thus simply to detain him. Or they could issue the passport and still hold him by refusing to transmit his application for the Swedish visa...
...author re-entrance into the Soviet Union. There could be little western indignation to this action, since it is comparable to the United States' treatment of Charlie Chaplin, Hayward observed. But to exile Pasternak would break a tradition established with Trotsky's demise, and more defamation of the Russian world might result from Pasternak's work...
...away at the Crown's inability to prove that on any particular occasion any of the defendants had preached revolution. At one point he seized a batch of documents that the Crown had introduced as evidence, waved them in the air crying: "Here, my lords, we have a Russian recipe book, an Indian school magazine, a letter saying a check has been lost, another that it has been found. There are 10,000 of these documents and it would be impossible for anybody to read them all," yet when any individual asked what the charge against...
...rich, philistine Edwardian society, the Manners family was an island of liberal, slightly wacky culture. Mother patronized that daring new thing, the Russian Ballet, and was a talented artist. Once Queen Victoria posed for her briefly. (The duchess had to finish the sketch by rigging out a servant in a pudding-basin and mantilla.) Diana's sister-in-law took some pigs up in an airplane to prove that they could fly. Once in Venice the rich young pixies were visited by an old family friend, dressed him up as a doge and danced around him to celebrate...