Word: tretyakov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presentation to the University of Wisconsin, generous Alumnus Davies is bringing along with him his latest art purchases from Moscow, 14 extremely rare icons described by the famed Tretyakov Picture Gallery's official experts as "constituting perhaps the most valuable collection of icons now in private hands...
...rather, a majestic piece of stagecraftsmanship which takes as its text the exploitation of helpless, sprawling China by a red-faced British Imperialism, aided and abetted by a sour-faced U. S. Protestantism. Roar China! was written for the famed Meierhold Theatre in Moscow by S. M. Tretyakov, poet, dramatist, photographer, co-editor of Lev (literary monthly...
...incident upon which the play is based is supposedly actual. Tretyakov, traveling in China at the time, learned of it, and signalized the tragedy in verse. Four years ago the poem was made into a play...