Word: soloviev
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Died. Yuri Soloviev, 36, one of the world's leading ballet dancers; of a gunshot wound (apparently by his own hand); outside Leningrad. Soloviev's exuberant grace and brilliant interpretation of classic roles won him fans not only in the U.S.S.R. but in the West, where he toured with Leningrad's Kirov Ballet. Although he lacked the passionate dynamism of Rudolf Nureyev or Mikhail Baryshnikov's transparent, effortless style, some critics believed that he was fully the equal of those famed Soviet emigres as a premier danseur...
...have perished...As I stand here today, accompanied by the shadows of the fallen, head bowed, allowing others to pass ahead of me to this place-as I stand here, how am I to divine what they would have wished to say?" Quoting from the Russian philosopher Vladimir Soloviev, Solzhenitsyn thus defines his obligation to bear witness for the dead: "Even in chains we must complete that circle which the gods have inscribed...