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Earnest Socialist. To reach this eminence, Strunsky had to master a language not his own. The Strunskys came to New York's lower East Side from Vitebsk, Russia, when Simeon was seven. At 17, Strunsky won a scholarship to Columbia University, made Phi Beta Kappa, was an earnest Socialist...
...bullet hole in his forehead), "I am Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Kiev, Novgorod, Kazan, Astrakhan, of Poland, Siberia and Georgia, Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Podolia and Finland, Prince of Estonia, Livonia and Bialystok, Lord of Pskov, Riazan, Yaroslavl, Vitebsk and All the Region of the North, Lord...
Chagall's peculiarly repetitive "humor" had its roots in Vitebsk, Russia. Under the Czars, no Jew could forget the burden of dread which Christian Europe forced on his race. But Chagall's family were Hasideans, who rebelled against the sober intellectualism of the Talmudists. They taught young Marc that the essence of religion was love, and that sorrow could only cloud communication with...
Lord of Pskov, Riazan, Yaroslavl, Vitebsk and All the Region of the North, Lord...
...Chernyakhovsky was the youngest Army general. A colonel at the war's beginning, he became one of the Red Army's top tank strategists. He scored notable victories over the Germans at Kursk, Voronezh, Tarnopol, Vitebsk. He was Kiev's liberator. His troops (he commanded more than 500,000) were the first to set foot on German soil-in East Prussia. There, in the current offensive, his and Marshal Rokossovsky's men had taken all but 700 of that province's 14,300 square miles...