Word: semion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eight of Red Russia's top-rank fighting men stood on trial last week in a small, bare courtroom before an array of judges including Marshal Semion Mikhailovich Budenny and Vassily Jakovlevich Ulrich, president of the Military Colegium of the Soviet Supreme Court. The eight...
Troyka. When news of the Revolution reaches the bleak prison island of Sakhalin, the Russian commandant shoots himself in the head and the Siberian exiles are free to try to recapture their former lives, to wander back to wives and children. This situation is complicated for Semion and Ivan, fast friends, because they both love a beautiful Siberian, Natascha. Semion has mated with her for eight years; for five of those years Ivan, living in the same cabin, has manfully choked his desire. But when freedom comes, no such suppression is possible. Ivan confesses his passion to Semion, and they...