Word: spiridonovka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second day the routine was established. Mornings, the three principals conferred with their respective staffs. After lunch (often a ceremonial affair, with official Russian hosts) they completed their plans for the afternoon session, then drove to the handsome, Gothic, somewhat overpowering Spiridonovka House, where all the talks are being held.* The three ministers conferred through interpreters, called in the various experts of the staffs as they needed them. To the first full-length session Hull and Eden took their military advisers, respectively Major General John R. Deane and Lieut. General Sir Hastings Ismay, thereby leading correspondents to the solemn...
...Originally built by a textile millionaire, Spiridonovka House was taken over during the 1917 Revolution, later housed a U.S. relief mission for a time. Moscow legend insists that after the incurious Americans moved out, a Soviet bureau moved in, searched the cellar, found $5,000,000 in hidden treasure, mostly diamonds...