Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...widely known work, the tragedy "Boris Godunov," which formed the basis of a famous opera by Moussorgsky, is represented by a first edition copy, published in St. Petersburg, 1831, and originally part of the library of Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaevich. This book was written in 1826, but the Russian Czar refused Pushkin permission to publish it, urging that he rewrite the story in the form of an historical romance like those of Sir Walter Scott. Finally Pushkin prevailed upon the ruler to grant permission, saying that he needed money for his impending marriage...
...little Paris flat last week Mme Dmitri Navachine joined the ranks of Russian widows who say their husbands have been murdered by Joseph Stalin's accomplished Secret Service or Ogpu.* Husband Dmitri Navachine was perhaps the ablest Soviet banker, economist and financier Communism has produced. As Director of the Soviet State Bank's Paris branch for some years, Red Navachine won the confidence of such leading French statesmen as the present Premier Léon Blum and his predecessors, Premiers Herriot & Laval. The Bolshevik banker convinced these statesmen that France could trust Dictator Joseph Stalin and the result...
Challenged Trotsky last week: "In official Moscow circles they begin to imply, al though in a very vague manner, the possibility of a demand for my extradition. I welcome this idea warmly. What is more, for my part, I demand that the Russian Government present such a request...
...Russian Imperial Government 5½%, due 1921. Alas for the sanctity of contracts. Cost $18.75, sold...
Novikoff-Priboy was a paymaster's steward on the Russian battleship Oryol, captured at Tsushima. To while away the long months of imprisonment in Japan he wrote down his eyewitness report of the battle, gathered enough material from fellow-eyewitnesses to fill a trunk. When these notes were all burnt in a riot, he set to and did the job a second time. Back in Russia after the war, Novikoff-Priboy became a known revolutionary, had to flee the country. He left his Tsushima notes with his brother, who hid them so well he forgot where...