Word: spiridonovka
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...Communist newspapers agreed it was "a great event," but "the All-European Security Conference" was not so well attended as Molotov had hoped. No Western or even neutral country turned up. Across the hollow square of tables in Moscow's Spiridonovka House, Molotov was left confronting the hollow men representing Russia's seven European satellites...
...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...
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...
...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...
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...