Word: sheremetiev
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...Just a poor Lithuanian peasant girl from Marienburg," answered his cautious host, bumbling 60-year-old Marshal Boris Sheremetiev, the third most powerful man in Peter the Great's Russia. "Does housework for Mme. Sheremetiev. I drew her when we divided the people...
...Drew her, eh," said the second most powerful Russian thoughtfully. "I must ask Mme. Sheremetiev to lend her to me awhile. That barn of mine is a perfect shambles...
...Peter's Moscow "as she would have gone into a new kitchen.... History felt her broom." She was illiterate, clean and piously Lutheran. Purchased for a ruble (approximately 50?) from the Russian corporal who first claimed her as a prisoner, the sturdy Lithuanian entered the household of Marshal Sheremetiev without fuss or fume. She obediently went to bed with him and next day set about tidying his house...
...called Bomb Boys & Girls of Bolshevism, terroristic heroes of Russia's Revolution, include not only active Bolsheviks like Josef Stalin but a host of passive old men & old women, safely pensioned on the onetime estate of Prince Sheremetiev, 40 miles from Moscow. Last week some of the pensionaries grumbled as old people will, remarked that even now only 40% of their number are Communists...
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