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...Glasgow applicant: "The Bible and Tolstoy led me to the conclusion that war is sinful and futile...
...stroll along the embankment behind the Winter Palace (now the Palace of Art), where, across the Neva, they can see the great bulk of the Peter and Paul Fortress, in which are buried many Tsars. Along the Prospect of the 25th of October (the Nevsky Prospect of Tolstoy's heroes' time) sparrows are thick in the trees. On this street is one of the world's largest libraries (5,000,000 volumes), one of 511 in Leningrad. It passes October Station, from which Bolsheviks used to leave for Siberia, and ends near the cemetery where...
...seen swimming under water. The Marineland tanks have 200 glass portholes through which the fish can be seen from the side and from below. The tanks get 2,000 gallons of sea water, filtered through coquina rock, every minute. Marineland cost $500,000, is managed by Count Ilya Tolstoy, grandson of the late great Russian novelist...
...this portrait, Sergei (like other characters in the book) has more of the Russian character as portrayed by Tolstoy and Dostoevski than of that played up by Soviet fiction. Soviet critics explain that Russians have changed, grown cheerful, hygienic, machine-minded, athletic, non-acquisitive. They That Take the Sword suggests that the Russian character survives more stubbornly than any Soviet official confesses...
...industrial power, left her self-sufficient in production of oil, coal, iron ore, manganese, cellulose, cotton, super phosphates. But it set a vast segment of the Russian proletariat moving from factory to factory, from village to city, in one of the great tidal movements of humanity that Tolstoy long ago described as the ceaseless wanderings of workmen over the earth. It ended uniform wages. Breakdowns, delays, confusions, led to experiments in management, industrial shock troopers, new incentives for labor, trials for sabotage. They resulted in celebrations at the dedications of power stations, but also in decrees that made factory managers...