Word: tutaev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SAVED FLORENCE by David Tutaev. 303 pages. Coward-McCann...
Technically, the title is wrong. Neither Wolf nor any one individual can be called "the man who saved Florence." But the consul's efforts were quietly heroic in limiting the damage. Aiming at something like Is Paris Burning?, a more exciting account of a threatened city, Author Tutaev, who is a specialist in Russian affairs living in England, sets down what he has unearthed with workaday, amateurish zeal. But the facts are eloquent enough. In 1955, Gerhard Wolf, Nazi, was made an honorary citizen of Florence and cited for "acts of incalculable courage, humanity, sense of brotherhood and Christian feeling...
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