Word: yakov
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...evening of July 17 a member of the Soviet's executive committee, Yakov Yurovsky, ordered the prisoners to dress. They were herded into a barren, unfurnished room with a single grilled window. Because "your relatives are continuing to attack the Soviet Union," Yurovsky told Nicholas, the committee had ordered his execution. A firing squad of 11 Russians and Latvians began shooting. The scene was bizarre as well as murderous. Some of the women were wearing, in effect, priceless bulletproof vests: they had hidden jewels in their corsets, which sent slugs ricocheting around the room. Pulses were checked and the stripped...
GELL: I haven't yet had a chance to criticize the pseudo-romantic thing between Bennett and Dr. Alan Champion (Dennis Miller), a seldane-popping ("It's the antihistamine of champions," he remarks in one of the film's wittiest moments) psychiatrist who resembles the comedian Yakov Smirnoff, not the host of Weekend Update. Miller appeared uncomfortable in his $4,000 suits and often-forced lines. Also, I was hoping to see more of Miller's character, given the high billing he had in advertisements. Essentially, his role was a glorified cameo appearance. Indeed, every actor in this film--save...
Sudoplatov reports a conversation between Bohr and Yakov Terletsky, a Soviet physicist and intelligence agent, in Denmark in 1945. Terletsky supposedly told Bohr that a nuclear reactor built in the U.S.S.R. would not work, and Bohr gave precise advice on what went wrong and how to fix it. The conversation did occur, but Bohr's son Aage, who was present, insists his father gave away no technical secrets. His account was backed up by Terletsky -- at least according to Roald Sagdeev, a former Soviet physicist now teaching at the University of Maryland, and other scholars who have read...
Comedy Connection at Faneuil Hall. Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Boston. 248-9700. Show at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 22. Shows at 8 and 10:15 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 23 with Yakov Smirnoff...
...that took their lives also believed in recording the minutia of its terror. Glasnost gave Radzinsky access to information that had long been locked away. Radzinsky discovered a folder headed "File on the Family of Former Tsar Nicholas the Second 1918-1919." The file included the written statement of Yakov Yurovsky, a longtime revolutionary who had commanded the execution squad, in which he set out a precise chronology of the massacre...