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...PRINCESS ZINAIDA SHAKOVSKOY...
...PRIVILEGE WAS MINE (318 pp.)-Princess Zinaida Schakovskoy-Putnam...
Pasternak, the father of three grown sons, is married to Zinaida Nikolaevna Neuhaus, a plump, inconspicuous half-Italian woman (she is his second wife; little is known of his first, Eugenia, whom he divoiced in 1931). At Peredelkino, Boris Pasternak guards one of the few outposts of the "Other Russia" that exist in the U.S.S.R. On Sunday, over groaning helpings of zakuski (Russian hors d'oeuvres) and repeated toasts, Pasternak holds open house for bright young artists and intellectuals-or did until the Nobel Prize fracas. French, German or English may be spoken (Pasternak is fluent in all three...
...radiant little family group, Andrei Y. Vishinsky, 70, his wife Kapitolina and statuesque daughter Zinaida, flanked by three bodyguards, stepped off the liner Queen Mary in Manhattan, where Vishinsky will soon take up his cudgel again as chief Soviet delegate to the U.N. At first, Vishinsky claimed that he had no arrival speech prepared. But when newsmen cajoled him, he beamed and shyly drew out a little slip of paper. Sample: "I should like to express my hope that the American press, radio and other organizations will support the efforts of all honest men in their struggle for peace, international...
...Manhattan, where he went down to the Queen Elizabeth to greet his wife and daughter, Zinaida (a Moscow University professor of law), Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky was a honey bear to photographers, gave them his best peace-offensive smile...