Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rasputin is a Russian nickname meaning the "Debauchee." For twelve years the Black Monk, Gregory Novihh, famed as Rasputin, dominated the Tsaritsa Alexandra, and through her swayed Tsar Nicholas the Last,* and through him warped the destiny of All the Russias...
Today Prince Felix Youssoupov, one of a patriotic group of Russian noblemen who slew Rasputin in 1916, is being sued at Paris for 25,000,000 francs ($1,000,000) damages, by the Black Monk's surviving daughter, Mme. Boris Soloviev, once Mlle. Matrona Novihh (TIME, June...
...Pokrovskoie, where Rasputin was born, and as they clattered past the murdered Monk's house, the Tsaritsa Alexandra waved to his daughter, Mme. Soloviev, who was standing in the doorway. Boris Soloviev, was serving at this time as a secret emissary between the Tsar and his White Russian adherents. Some historians maintain that he betrayed a project for the rescue of the Imperial Family to the Bolsheviki, thus precipitating the mass murder of the Romanovs, at Ekaterinburg, on July...
...which two mighty producers went to war over the Indian market. Standard Oil had bought Soviet Oil, was shipping it direct from Russia to Calcutta, Bombay, Madras. Dutch Shell charged the oil was "stolen" by the Soviet from its pre-Revolutionary owners, including Dutch Shell itself. Determined to keep Russian stolen oil from India, it began a price-cutting war which made Indian gasoline-users chuckle with joy. They were the victors in a contest which was costing Standard Oil something like $4,000,000 annually, costing Dutch Shell perhaps three times as much...
...girl escape across the border to avoid being butchered by the shaggy Soviets. In The Red Dance they do it in an airplane. And yet, the film is first-class entertainment. Dolores Del Rio and Charles Farrell are a capable pair, though they do not look very Russian. To Ivan Linow went the sympathy and the praise of the audience. He plays the part of a vodka-guzzling peasant, who thinks no woman worth more than a horse, and who becomes one of the Soviet dictators. But he makes possible the escape of the grand duke and the girl because...