Word: sasha
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Kaminskaya's most significant criminal case is both a lesson in unfamiliar Soviet legal procedure and a riveting mystery thriller. In 1967 the parents of a 16-year-old boy, Sasha, engaged her to represent him in a sensational case. Sasha and his pal Alik had been charged with the rape and murder of their classmate Marina in a village outside Moscow. During six months of pretrial detention the boys had confessed, then recanted. The prosecution's star witness was an old woman who claimed to have heard Marina cry out as the three youngsters passed under...
That Ivinskaya served two terms in the Gulag for her association with Pasternak is well known. This book discloses for the first time that Pasternak's cousin Sasha Freidenberg, Olga's brother, was arrested in 1937 and died in the camps, one of the millions of innocent victims of Stalin's Great Purge. Sasha's wife Musya, who was arrested before he was, survived...
...Great Purge. An architect, Alexander helped design and supervise the construction of the Moscow-Volga Canal, which was built by slave labor in 1936. According to the diary, when Alexander was slated to receive a medal from Soviet Chairman Mikhail Kalinin for his work on the canal, Cousin Sasha on the eve of his arrest pleaded with the Chekist to try to save his wife. "Sasha wasted no time in asking him to slip Kalinin a petition to have Musya freed when he received the medal from Kalinin's hands," Freidenberg wrote. "The idea was preposterous and utterly hopeless...
...with Joyce Ingalls, his Paradise Alley costar, and Actress-Singer Susan Anton. "Stallone is one of those eccentric, powerful and vulnerable males I've always adored," says Shire. "I think he was born sweet and spent most of his life repressing that. It's only recently, with Sasha's help, that he's decided to show...
...Sasha Stallone, 31, an accomplished photographer, waited calmly at home. "I figured it was the same old story-helping a man get to the top, and then he wants other things," she says. "But my negative feelings lasted only a little while." The actor's absence was short as well. Sons Sage Moonblood, 6, whose birth date his parents claim was astrologically planned (Stallone once wrote under the name Q. Moonblood), and Sergio, 3, helped bring him home...