Word: vasili
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vasili Chapayev was a carpenter when the Bolsheviks rose up in 1917. When the White General Kolchak was making his last stand in 1919, Chapayev was the foremost guerilla chieftain in all the Russias. His services were obtained by the Red army and the commisar Furmanov sent to accompany...
...idea could have been more appalling to the late tall, bald Prince Georges Vasili Matchabelli. Georgian-born, like the marrying Mdivanis (but with the difference that his right to his title was never questioned), no Georgian prince was ever more aware than he of the value of a title. Once Minister to Rome for the short-lived Georgian Republic of 1918-21, he married the Italian Actress Maria Carmi, went...