Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty" Cyril I, "Tsar of All the Russias," decided to convoke a "Crown Council of all Russian Grand...
Dukes who recognized him as Emperor." At the same time, His Majesty appointed Grand Duke Dmitri Pavolovitch as his representative in Paris with Count Igor Sacken and Count Tolstoy Miloslavsky respectively as Military and Civil Counselors. These facts were published by Possledny Novosti, Russian newspaper printed in Paris...
...spreader of untruth concerning. "Saint" Lenin. His party suspects him of having designs to usurp the dead leader's place, and change the name of Leningrad to "Trotzkgrad". He is feared especially because the five consonants coming together in the name "Trotzkgrad" make a strong appeal to every true Russian heart...
...course, impossible at this time to judge Trotzky's merits in this new role. Perhaps his historical works are propaganda. Still, they may be books of great historical value. If the latter, Trotzky has done a rash thing to brave the patriotic furor of the Russian people with truths they do not want to hear. He might well have remembered the calumny visited upon American historians who dared to hint that the British of the Revolutionary period were not all tyrants and rogues, and that George Washington may not have cut down the cherry tree...
...Childhood is the name of Charles Martin Loeffler's new symphonic poem. He reminisces in music of a time when he did not know he would be a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, nor a famous composer. Opening with church bells, the poem sings of a Russian village, Smiela, where as a boy Loeffler heard "Russian peasant songs, the Yonrod's Litany-prayer, fairy tales and dance songs." Here is a novelty. So far, it has been given only by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra...