Word: vassili
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unseen by Museumgoers, too, was Otto Dix's great oil of War. This mighty work, compared by some to the war paintings of the late Vassili Vassilievich Vereshchagin, was originally hung in a Cologne museum. When Adolf Hitler came into power indignant Nazis spirited it away, whither no man will tell. Approximately 9 x 9 ft., War depicts a jungle-like ravine choked with abandoned corpses and military refuse. Grass grows from skulls that have spilled their brains; hands without bodies clutch vainly after life; a cadaver on the skeleton of a twisted barricade rots in mid air. The whole...
...Moscow strong-jawed General Vassili Blücher, commander of Red troops in Siberia, spoke just as bluntly to the All-Union Communist Party Congress, and made no retractions afterward...
...Vladivostok is the only decent port which the Soviet Union has in Eastern Asia, and it is only 490 miles from Harbin. Naturally the mustache of Soviet Commander Vassili Constantinovitch Blucher. Commander-in-chief of the Soviet Far Eastern Army, began to bristle. Five thousand miles from Dictator Stalin, in Khabarovsk, Siberia (which is only 480 miles from Vladivostok) bristling Commander Blucher shouted at his Red Soldiers: "We won't permit any White Guard imperialistic rascals to tread upon our socialistic soil with their dirty feet! If any one is thinking of stretching forth his dirty paws toward our coal...
Married. Prince Vassili Alexandrovitch Romanov, 24, nephew of the late Tsar Nicholas II, son of Grand Duke Alexander Michailovitch of Russia; and Princess Natalie Galitzine, 23 ; at Whitestone, Long Island...