Word: vasiliev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...important to remember that the Great Russian Revolution was not great, and it was not Russian," says Dmitri Vasiliev, the group's principal theoretician. "It was organized by Jews." Vasiliev is mildly contemptuous of Gorbachev ("He has no clear thoughts and no perseverance") and calls Lenin a "merciless Bolshevik." At the movement's noisy rallies, hecklers are often attacked by Pamyat toughs who are the Soviet version of skinheads. Soviet Jews are concerned that Pamyat's modest membership of several thousand is an inadequate index of its power. Says Boris Kelman, a Leningrad refusenik: "Pamyat is not only protected...
...pairs skating. The long reigns of the Protopopovs and Irina Rodnina and her succession of partners, Sergei Ulanov and Alexander Zaitsev, had come to an end. Since Lake Placid, several pairs had taken aim at one another, among them the Carrutherses, two Soviet pairs (Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev, and Veronika Pershina and Marat Akbarov) and East Germans Sabine Baess and Tassilo Thierbach. Compared with the liturgical certainty of pairs skating during the past three decades, the Sarajevo Games were a free...
...whom came from Europe (three from the East bloc) and all of whom frowned on the more robust American style in pairs skating. But as happens when no confirmed champion operates from a position of strength, the Soviets and East Germans overreached themselves in technical ambition. Only Valova and Vasiliev managed to skate a short program free of bobbles. The Carrutherses, meanwhile, skimmed through the wreckage, their bloopers merely those of timing, not of standing upright. When the smoke cleared, they were tied for second going into the free skating. "Did we expect it?" Peter asked later. "Are you kidding...
...golden opportunity. Make that silver. Two days later their coach, Ron Ludington, the last American pairs medalist (bronze in 1960), summed up the free skating: "I'd call that walking right through the door, wouldn't you?" Wouldn't anybody? On the big night Valova and Vasiliev held their gold-medal lead on a more difficult program. Nurtured, like the Protopopovs, in the Leningrad school, they showed its hallmarks: coolly cerebral slow passages alternating with flashy jumps and lifts. But the performance of the young Soviet pair, Larisa Selezneva and Oleg Makarov, with whom the Carrutherses were...
...trade with California's Spanish colonizers. Instead he fell in love with Concha, the daughter of the commandant of San Francisco. As Rezanov's ships Juno and Avos waited, he set out to woo the 16-year-old beauty. For his seduction scene, Bolshoi Ballet Choreographer Vladimir Vasiliev designed a pas de deux that was conspicuously erotic by stuffy Soviet standards. Yelena Shanina (Concha), a Goldie Hawn lookalike, and Nikolai Karachentsev (Rezanov), a dark, dour figure, embraced on the brightly lit, transparent Plexiglas stage. When the nightgown-clad Concha wrapped her legs around Rezanov, he fell avidly upon...