Word: tretyakov
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...Baku. Borodin might still be a Baku bureaucrat if, in 1945, the government had not summoned him to go overseas and study penicillin production. Shuttling back and forth between Russia, Britain and the U.S., Borodin forgot his resolution to stay clear of the Moscow meat grinder. His chief, Andrei Tretyakov, seemed to be on the skids.* Scientists in all fields were being purged. In London, Scientist Borodin was ordered to attend a lecture just to make sure that a fellow scientist read a paper about "rotten and decadent Western pseudoscience" exactly as it had been okayed. Suddenly Borodin balked...
...premature judgment. Though his Ministry of Medical Industries was abolished, Tretyakov made a comeback as Health Minister, and lived to sign Stalin's death certificate. In March 1954 Tretyakov finally lost his Cabinet post...
...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...