Word: vassilievitch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Foreign Minister Gregory Vassilievitch Tchitcherin is in Moscow it is not unusual for the windows of the Soviet Foreign Office to blaze until dawn. M. Tchitcherin is lank, indefatigable. Once an aristocrat and trained in the Tsarist diplomatic school, he has espoused the cause of the Soviets with a vehemence that drives his hard pushed subordinates to the last fringe of desperation...
...years; of Rykov, the most popular man in Russia; of Alexandra Kallontai, only woman member of the Cabinet; of Father Tikon, "clinging to the splendor of gold and jewels"; of Lunacharsky, who reëstablished art and education " out of nothing"; of Tchitcherin. Brief notes and excerpts: Of Anatol Vassilievitch Lunacharsky, Minister of Education: " ' Illiteracy,' he told me once, 'is the great curse of Russia; we must fight illiteracy like the plague.' . . . Has left off composing sonnets to fight ignorance, superstition, drunkenness, prejudice, disease, dirt." Bitterly attacked. Saved Tsarist statues from the mob. Heated art galleries...