Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. By Maria Rasputin Bern, 45, animal-taming daughter of mad, murdered Grigory Rasputin, spiritual adviser to the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia: Gregory Bern (formerly Bernadsky), 44, electrical engineer; after six years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
...Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's least known operas is Tsar Saltan. A skip-along scherzo in its second act has become one of the inevitable pieces in any violinist's repertory: Flight of the Bumblebee. Last week Rimsky-Korsakov's little earsore was a strong jukebox nickel-puller, helped by a steady left-hand beat, and a new name: Bumble Boogie...
...Every nation, small or great ... or incorporated against its will into the structure of another state, should be free in its inner life. . . . [We declare] annulled all the ... treaties by which the Tsar's Government together with its allies, through force and corruption, enslaved the peoples of the Orient, and especially the Chinese nation, in order to profit the Russian capitalists, the Russian landlords and the Russian generals...
Last week the only two nations carving out new foreign privileges in East Asia were the Soviet Russians and the Chinese. In Manchuria the Russians had taken back many of the Tsar's concessions-a naval base at Port Arthur, a free port at Dairen, a 30-year partnership in the main Manchurian railways. They were asking for more-reportedly for control of Manchurian heavy industry, long regarded as the key to China's future...
...emigres listened longingly to Mother Russia's call. Somehow the gulf between Tsar and Commissar seemed not so vast any more. The years had made them more Russian than White, their children more Red than White. The homeland had mellowed, too. To prove it, Shanghai's Soviet consul general, hulking Nicholas S. Ananiev, gave a reception for emigre clergymen, showed them pictures of the election in Moscow of Metropolitan Alexei as Patriarch of all Russia...