Word: siberias
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...genius was the heritage of Ignace Jan Paderewski. The Poland he grew up in was partitioned among Russia, Germany, Austria. Russia ruled his native province, Podolia. In the Rising of 1863, Paderewski's father was arrested and imprisoned for more than a year. His mother was born in Siberia, of parents exiled because Tsar Nicholas I was determined to make an example of the Poles...
...ballet dancer. Most of the present members of the Monte Carlo Company are in their teens, but they have had Diaghilev dancers for teachers. There is dark-skinned Tamara Toumanova, 14, whom London calls the second Pavlova. She was born in a train in Siberia while her parents were fleeing Russia. Blonde Irina Baronova is a few days older, one of the six ballerinas who travel with their parents. It was her slipper that Lawyer Cravath drank from at the champagne supper. Tatiana Riabouchinska, who looks something like Greta Garbo, is the daughter of the late Tsar's banker...
...entire Soviet peasantry east of the Urals. Stalin had not suddenly become a crackpot. He merely felt able, with U. S. recognition now safe under his belt, to take sweeping, super-drastic measures of defense against Japan. The best defense, he reasoned, is to make bleak, sparsely populated Siberia so attractive to Russians that they will swarm there with enthusiasm and, once established, fight to defend their homes. The tragic error of Nicholas II was to suppose that he could beat Japan with soldiers from European Russia who could not understand why Asiatic soil 4,000 miles from their homes...
...Russia is growing stronger and stronger. If such an attack were made, Japan would have to make it within the next six months. Russia's current project of colonizing Siberia is purely a defensive move...
...Stalin's youth, the Red sketch remarks, he edited a Bolshevist paper named Dro ("Time"). His crimes of robbery and assassination are omitted though his arrests, exiles and escapes are listed-with significant omission of the fact that Stalin did not escape from his last exile to Siberia but was pardoned by Kerensky...