Word: vitebsk
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Hedgehogs. The cities of Rzhev and Vyazma lie a-flank Moscow, some 125 miles to the northwest and southwest (see map). Connecting them with Smolensk, Vitebsk, the town of Velikie Luki and nearby Toropets to the northeast are railways and roads, now the military arteries of a fortified rectangle. Against the eastern edge of this rectangle, between Rzhev and Vyazma, and against the upper edge just west of Rzhev and on two sides of Velikie Luki, the Russians drove last week. Their purpose was to surround both places, to cut the railways and roads serving them and the whole German...
Later Chagall went to Berlin, where he helped formulate the principles of Expressionism, refusing to identify himself with the resultant school. Chagall then proceeded to Russia, where he painted murals for Moscow's Jewish Kamerny Theater and taught art in his native Vitebsk. In 1922 he returned to Paris to become a naturalized Frenchman. "I owe all that I have achieved," he once wrote, "to Paris, to France." (Chagall is about as French as borsch...
Today Marc Chagall says of surrealism "Not for me." A hater of realism as well, he refuses to be joined by any artistic school. He will not even discuss his own work. "Monsieur," he says in his dense Vitebsk French (he speaks no English), "l'art est comme l'amour. If your wife is ugly, you do not talk about her looks. If she is beautiful, they speak for both...
...sudden thrust, Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov advanced 65 miles in ten days, swept around the Valdai Hills; recaptured Kholm, only 110 miles from the Latvian frontier; and cut the Leningrad-Vitebsk railroad, essential to German communication with Leningrad. In addition to claiming the death of 17,000 Germans, the Russians claimed the capture of 1,000 barrels of gasoline, 10,000 cans of Norwegian food, 150 freight cars of war supplies and "large stores" of good French wine...