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Land the Issue. As in Russia under Tsar Nicholas II, land in what is now China's sore spot has been leased by the peasants from rich Chinese landlords...
...wanders far from Moscow nor from his self-interested, skeptical observer's viewpoint, but the scores of characters that throng the story come from many outskirts, are of every tinge of political conviction, agnosticism or despair. Clim's history winds through real events, from the coronation of the late Tsar through the Russo-Japanese War to the Bloody Sunday (Jan. 22, 1905) in St. Petersburg?the dress-rehearsal for the 1917 Revolution. Recognizably real figures hover on the edges of the action: Lenin, Trotzky; you hear Feodor Ivanovitch Chaliapin's mighty bass lifted in revolutionary song in a Moscow restaurant...
...cheeriest French customs is that whenever the President goes off on an official visit he takes with him all kinds of costly and delightful presents. Just before the War, for example, Tsar Nicholas II's four daughters squealed with rapture when nice old President Raymond Poincaré brought them wrist watches, then a great novelty. One day last week an entire moving van full of presents and regalia swung out of the courtyard behind which lives modest, genial M. Le Président Gaston Doumergue. "Notre bon Gastounet va en la Tunisie!" murmured the crowd. But before beloved little...
...Union Soviet Congressmen rose to their feet when Comrade Molotov entered, as the House of Lords rises to King George. They then sat down upon red plush seats provided by Tsar Nicholas II who liked red plush. His Imperial Majesty refurnished the Moscow Opera House wherein the Red Congress meets...
...great scandal. But nothing can be done and the old Prince is kindly and forgiving, even to the rascally assistant kennelman Peter who left the gate open. And the summer passes with great happiness and much excitement, for it is known that the Grand Duke Nikita, the Tsar's viciously cruel old uncle,† has invited himself to hunt with the Prince in the autumn. He is coming with his whole hunting train-a set of rakehells mostly from the cavalry -and his best hounds and horses, his finest borzois with their terrific jaws for slaying the hounded wolf...