Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russian Ambassadors, too, have been noted in the past for the splendor of their ambassadorial receptions; but all that belongs to another age. Today, working clothes, red ties and other hallmarks of the proletariat are in fashion at the Bolshevik Embassies...
...happened last week that the Bolshevik Ambassador Leonid Krassin gave a dinner at the Russian Embassy for his colleague, M. Herbette, French Ambassador-designate to Russia. M. Herbette pondered long over his dress. Should it be corduroy pants, a flannel shirt and a shoddy coat? Or the capitalistic regalia of full evening dress? Inquiries, discreetly made, revealed that the sombre black and white of evening dress would be worn. But still, the reception and dinner would be a simple affair, for the Bolsheviki are noted for their Spartan simplicity...
...early hour of the evening, M. Herbette ascended the steps which led to the Russian Embassy. The doors were opened by powdered and uniformed valets. A moment later the Bolshevik Ambassador dressed in correct capitalistic attire greeted his guest, who was then introduced to Mme. Krassin and the Miles. Krassin, all wearing the latest and most expensive of Paris "creations." M. Herbette was glad that he was wearing a white...
...years ago, he paid a visit to the U. S., delivered some lectures on "Form and Color in Art," "The Art of Costume," in which he denounced timorous pastel shades in dress, advocated the bravery of barbaric Russian colors. Everywhere society feted him. One dowager invited him to her parlor, which she had adorned for the occassion in crimson and gold. She herself was accoutred in emerald and azure; her children in clothes copied from Russian ballets. "How do you like this?" she asked. "Dear madame," he replied, "do you see me calling on you in golden trousers, red waistcoat...
Died. Leon Bakst, 58, famed Russian painter and stage-designer; in Paris, after a long illness. (See Page...