Word: vladimir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strollers, screwing up their eyes, appraised again the astonishingly mongrel collection of Haitian types done by the expedition's third artist. He, Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfielieff, onetime captain of Cossacks, had a story to tell about painting Haitians...
...efforts they seem to have detracted from the ability of both for Love Is Like That tries to impose heroics of romanticism upon comedy of manners, a process automatically self-canceling. What is left are attractive scenery, one or two bits of good acting, a few, isolated, clever lines. Vladimir Dubriski (Basil Rathbone), silky-suave Grand Duke in exile, is tumbled into Manhattan's gaucherie, faced with the dilemma of marrying a bloated divorcee of means or engaging in menial service for a livelihood. In a last act silhouette, he is represented donning his tall high hat, preparatory...
...York Symphony Orchestra, and Producing Director Vladimir Rosing, these students have been permitted to appear as full-fledged professionals before a Manhattan public that included in its audience famed Impresario Gatti-Casazza of the Metropolitan Opera...
Today those ultra-conservative news organs, the London and the New York Times, sneak, though with reluctance, of Vladimir Ilvich Ulyanov Lenin as a man whom History will dub "The Great." But biographers would reflect: A child, he was one of the six children of a starved schoolmaster. A man, he lived for years expatriate and struggling outside the country he loved. A Power, he died paralyzed and speechless...
...full title is instructive as a gazetteer of his eight million square miles of absolute domain: "The Orthodox and Pious and Christ-loving, the absolute Autocrat and Great Lord, Crowned and Elevated by God, Alexander Alexandrovitch, Emperoi and Autocrat of All the Russias, His Tsaric Majesty of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod, Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Tsar of Poland, Tsar of Siberia, Tsar of Chersonesus in Tauria, Tsar of Georgia, Lord of Pskov and Great Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia and Finland, Duke of Estland, Lifland and Kourland and of Semigallia, Samogitia, Bialostok, Karelia, Tver, Jugoria, Perm, Viatka...