Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blow to the ancient German family was the discovery that it had contributed to the spread of the dread blood disease, hemophilia. Marriage of two princes of Hesse to Princess Beatrice, Princess Alice, daughters of England's Queen Victoria, carried this curse to the blood of the imperial Russian and royal Spanish families. Princess Alice married Prince Louis of Hesse and was the mother of Alexandra, last Empress of Russia, who in turn transmitted hemophilia to her only son, Tsarevitch Alexis. Princess Beatrice married Prince Henry of Battenberg, son of Grand Duke Alexander of Hesse, and was the mother...
...winter's day a Russian ballet comes to the village. One of the dancers is the spit-&-image of Mansell's dead fiancee, is, in fact, her cousin. Mansell marries her. In 1955, at book's end, he is still a munitionsmaker (interested in ''anything that shortens war and limits the rule of generals in human affairs"), but is more famed for his London ballet theatre, his model garden city of St. Margaret's, which blankets the fields where fox hunters once jumped or fell...
Margaret Bourke-White's salary remains in the five-figure class. She wears Paris clothes, but she roughs it to photograph Russian peasants, floods, droughts, American workmen, all of which have come to interest her more than ice-boxes...
...Soviet constitution, with all its ostensibly democratic features, will not make any difference whatsoever," said Karpovich in discussing the social features of the Russian political system...
...Russian Empire," stated Karpovich, "has survived essentially intact in a new form under a new name. The unity of the whole is secured by the growing economic need and cultural ties, and by an equally growing consciousness of common interest and common historical fate...