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DIED. Prince Andrew of Russia, 84, a nephew of Tsar Nicholas II and the oldest known surviving member of the dynasty that ruled Russia for three centuries; in Teynham, England. An heir to the Russian crown, Andrew fled the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and finally settled in England, where he lived in a luxurious 13th century manor as the head of the exiled Romanovs...
DORMITORY NUMBER six, where we lived during our four-month stay in Leningrad, stands on the right bank of the River Neva almost directly opposite the Winter Palace of the Tsars. In pre-revolutionary times "6" served as a "public house" where public women offered their services to the Tsar's officers. We used to joke that the plumbing probably hadn't been fixed since that time and that when the women left they probably took the toilet seats and hot water with them...
During all the years of his exile after the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Nabokov obsessively sought to recapture "a Russian something that I could inhale/ but could not see." There are glimpses of that Russian something in Photographs for the Tsar (Dial; 214 pages; $35), the best of the color shots that the chemist and photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii began taking in 1909 at the behest of Tsar Nicholas II. Having fascinated the Romanovs with a color slide show at the court at Tsarskoe Selo, Prokudin-Gorskii gained an imperial commission to record the art and people of the Russian...
...Connecticut Avenue. Sure, there is the Kennedy Center. But where are the renegade artists and the experimental playwrights? Where are the writers? Every couple of years, someone will produce an article on the literary life in Washington, in which Herman Wouk's name is trotted out like the tsar's jewels. To be fair, there is no literary society in any American city now. But except for the work of a few first-rate poets and novelists, most Washington prose goes into memos...
...Islamic culture, which unites about 43 million Soviet citizens, nearly one-sixth of the total population. Since Lenin's time, the Kremlin has been sensitive to the danger that heavyhanded atheistic propaganda and cultural repression might trigger a replay of the 1916 Muslim revolts that broke out against the Tsar in Central Asia. With Islamic militancy embroiling the Soviet Union...