Word: tsarist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring of their victory, came a moment of deep sadness for Russian military men. In the great Hall of Columns at Moscow lay the body of Marshal Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov, the Tsarist colonel who had turned to the Soviets in 1918, served as one of the few professional midwives at the birth of the Red Army...
...nearby Odessa a suitable equestrian statue of the general was made, and was ready for shipment when World War I broke out. When that war was finished, Ismail was no longer part of the Russian Empire, and the new Red Russia was not interested in the memory of Tsarist heroes...
Died. Alexey Nicholayevich Tolstoy, 62, long-haired, beret-wearing, best-selling Russian writer (Peter the Great, Darkness and Dawn), remote kinsman of the late great Leo Tolstoy; from a lung ailment; in Moscow. A Tsarist count, he renounced his title to become the Soviet's most enthusiastic propagandist and richest citizen (estimated fortune...
...Securities & Exchange Commission, well aware that Russia has repeatedly refused to recognize the Tsarist debt, was more suspicious. Quietly, it set out to see who was: 1) buying & selling the bonds; 2) spreading the rumor...
...also propose a Russo-French pact patterned after the Russo-Czechoslovak agreement or the Russo-French (Stalin-Laval) mutual assistance treaty of 1935. General de Gaulle might well hold out for something bigger. He is known to favor a modern version of the Triple Entente (1907-1917) that bound Tsarist Russia with France and Britain. France might again become the link between Russia and Britain...