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Word: spiridonovka (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians were so delighted with the British-Soviet Alliance of May 26, 1942, that they hung a painting of the signing, by British Artist Frank Salisbury, prominently in Moscow's Spiridonovka House, where distinguished visitors are entertained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Soft Music, Professor! | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

Beetles & Buoyancy. The three Foreign Ministers had three meeting places. Significantly, the sessions grew more informal. First they gathered at a long, document-piled table in the big conference room of Spiridonovka Palace. Everyone had a gleaming white satin chair, decorated with embroidered gold beetles. Four days later they moved to a smaller, red-plush room, where the three, with a few aides, simply sat around and spoke their minds. At week's end they met in Russia's holy of holies, the Kremlin. That meant that Stalin was taking a hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Logs Moving | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...British Embassy dashed the U.S.-made car with bulletproof windows that the Soviet Government had placed at Winston Churchill's disposal during his Moscow visit. Other U.S.-made limousines brought 38 other guests. They were bound to Spiridonovka House for a four-hour, 14-course lunch with Stalin. Stalin wore his simplest Marshal's uniform-no decorations. Churchill wore his uniform as honorary colonel of a Sussex regiment-four banks of decorations. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, U.S. Ambassador Averill Harriman, British Ambassador Archibald Clark Kerr were in mufti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Momentous Meeting | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

TIME'S Moscow Correspondent Richard Lauterbach donned tails last week, repaired to the Spiridonovka House for Foreign Commissar and Mme. Viacheslav Molotov's formal reception on the Red Army's 26th Anniversary. Wrote Lauterbach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: AMONG THOSE PRESENT | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...gleaming gold-white conference room in Moscow's Spiridonovka House this week came news that will shape the course of World War II and the world after; news that was bitter-black for the Axis, but almost incredibly bright for the United Nations. That news, in its most significant essence, was simply that the U.S., Great Britain and the Soviet Union are fighting the same war, and that they are fighting it to win the same peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Shape of Victory | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

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