Word: serebriakov
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...play of violent action or of individual detachment. A stale retired professor (Serebriakov), his young wife (Elena), and the daughter (Sonia), brother (Vanya), and mother of his first wife live cramped lives on a faded Russian estate. A visitor, the overworked local doctor (Astrov) wanders in and out of the household. Sonia loves the doctor, who is unaware of her as a woman. Vanya, who feels oppressed and trapped, shares with the doctor a love for Elena, who is quite miserable with her old and pompous husband. The doctor dreams of forestry and the future, yet sees his education...
Until the final departure of Serebriakov and Elena, the one real act in the play is Uncle Vanya's overflow of rage at Serebriakov because the overweeningly self-assertive professor has stifled his life. Vanya shoots Serebriakov twice, once on stage at close range. He misses. Thus the tensions between the principals, their coordinated emotions, and their interdependent sadness are vital. And this is a dimension of Chekhov that the Adams actors rarely create...
...assess him-outsiders who saw him compatriots who broke with him. U.S. Businessman Donald Nelson, caught up in the heady transactions of Lend-Lease, found Stalin "a regular fellow, and a very friendly sort of fellow, in fact." "He is the most vindictive man on earth," said Leonid Serebriakov, who had known Stalin for years. "If he lives long enough, he will get every one of us who ever injured him in speech or action." Stalin purged Serebriakov, along with some millions of others, in 1937. Wrote starry-eyed Joseph E. (Mission to Moscow) Davies, who was U.S. Ambassador during...
...about Mr. Krock. Old Bolsheviks- Dictator Stalin is no longer quite happy about the following most eminent Soviet Comrades, in addition to Comrade Radek, who sat jammed in the Moscow dock before the fascinated eyes of new U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies (see p. 17): 1) Leonid Petrovich Serebriakov, who from 1919 to 1921 held Stalin's present post, Secretary General of the Communist Party, and in 1929 was president in Manhattan of the Soviet trade monopoly Amtorg Trading Corp.; 2) Grigoriy Piatakov, until recently Vice-Commissar for Heavy Industry under one of Stalin's greatest cronies...
While troops were reported massing last week on both sides of the Sino-Russo boundary, the Soviet Government signified it would do its utmost to prevent their clashing, despatched from Moscow by air Railway Commissioner L. B. Serebriakov to confer with China's Foreign Minister. Onlookers wondered how oldtime Bolshevik Serebriakov, now high in the Communist Party, would deal with Communist-enemy Wang. Wise ones pointed out that Comrade Serebriakov is also vice president of Amtorg Trading Corp. of Manhattan, giant trade outlet for Russian goods; that he would doubtless do his conciliatory best to avoid Russia's having...