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More interesting were the works of Russia's pre-revolutionary artists. Not so concerned with depicting Utopia, they showed pathetic trains of cold-numbed peasants crossing the steppes on sleighs, a stooped little stoker with immense gnarled hands, weary Volga boatmen, a slushy country road stretching across endless plains...
...Stern plays a Wieniawski Concerto and Sarasate's Ziegeunerweisen. As Basso Feodor Chaliapin, Ezio Pinza, in a blond wig, swaggers off with the show by giving a lustily humorous performance and singing snatches from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Gounod's Faust, and a chorus of The Volga Boatman. These latter-day artists offer an earnest approximation of the originals. David Wayne, using a vaguely Russian accent, plays Hurok as a kind of uncommercially-minded wet nurse to a gang of temperamental darlings. Veteran Hurok himself, now 64 and one of the shrewdest showmen alive, would undoubtedly...
...When the real body began to deteriorate rapidly at the beginning of World War II, Stalin was afraid the people would "take it as a bad sign." A perfect likeness was made and Lenin's body was cremated, the ashes placed in an urn and submerged in the Volga near his birthplace...
...shipyards, lumber camps, factories and foundries to meet the harsh Russian levy. They have delivered, among other things, 300 paper mills, 7,000 locomotives and freight cars, countless miles of cable, electric motors by the truckload, scores of thousands of prefabricated wooden houses, huge river barges for the Volga, and a 573-ship merchant marine...
Salmon & Secrets. In 1946 a Communist friend turned him over to a Tass correspondent named Anisimov, who plied him with champagne at his home, treated him to cozy téte-à-téte dinners of jellied Volga fish, Siberian smoked salmon, choice vodka, potent Swedish export beer and voluble persuasion. After three years of this, Ernest was considered ready for espionage...