| 单词 | Leningrad |
| 例句 | Five days after Lenin’s death, Petrograd, the former capital of Russia, was renamed Leningrad in his honor. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z For the Germans, the big targets were the cities of Leningrad, the old imperial capital in the north, which had been the birthplace of the Soviet Union, and the new capital in Moscow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In January 1943, Soviet soldiers managed to get control of the railway in and out of Leningrad, allowing a little relief for the desperate citizens of the city. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In 1941, the Nazis stole it from the Catherine Palace in Pushkin, near Leningrad. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z We had a million laughs in Hamburg and West Berlin and East Berlin and Vienna and Salzburg and Helsinki, and in Leningrad, too. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A reserve of food to last the siege of Leningrad. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She went from high school to digging trenches, then escorted other citizens to shelter during Leningrad’s long siege of bombing and starvation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In 1934 Marina graduated from the air navigation department of the Leningrad Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z There can be no performance of a piece of music that has had so powerfully symbolic an impact as on that night in August 1942 in Leningrad. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In more recent years, a reluctant consensus has emerged among musicians that Leningrad may not be Shostakovich’s best symphony, despite its iconic status. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In smaller cinemas a pianist or organist would provide a similarly live accompaniment; Russian classical composer Dmitri Shostakovich supported himself in Leningrad in 1924-5 by doing just that. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She’d been sixteen when war broke out, and living in Leningrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z As the snow began to melt in Russia, Leningrad was completely surrounded by German troops. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Dedicated, absorbed, and conscientious, she was soon promoted and began part-time studies at the Aviation Institute in Leningrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Leningrad, Russia’s old capital, was under attack and had been blockaded by the German army since September 8, 1941. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Muller encouraged her to study medicine and to follow him to Russia when he received research appointments both in Leningrad and Moscow—she ultimately remained in touch with him for more than fifty years. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Stalin got his emotional support from his colleague and best friend, Sergey Kirov, the swashbuckling head of the Communist Party in Leningrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The German army continues its advance on Leningrad. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Some were from tiny villages in the middle of nowhere, while others were from the big cities of Leningrad and Moscow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The 101st Long Range Air Regiment, as well as bombing, helped bring supplies by air to the blockaded and starving city of Leningrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z At the end of the first week in September 1941, as the German army surrounded the city of Leningrad, Marina gave a speech at a “women’s antifascist meeting” in Moscow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In the weeks following the murder, several thousand people were arrested in Moscow and Leningrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z By early 9 if 3, the Soviet army had finally halted the massive German invasion just short of the Soviet cities of Stalingrad, Moscow, and Leningrad. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first year of the Leningrad blockade, Yekaterina lived on not much more than a daily ration of soup made with boiled water and four slices of brown bread. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The Siege of Leningrad did not end until January 1944, almost two years after the premiere of the symphony dedicated to it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Whatever its meaning, its musical flaws or merits, Leningrad certainly succeeded in its patriotic purpose. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z A huge haul of art treasure was taken back to Nazi Germany, but there was one cultural item that could never be stolen from Leningrad: Shostakovich’s seventh symphony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “It’s only thirty kilometers from Leningrad, Elena,” Dr. Seltzer had told Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z In 1941, Leningrad had a population twice the size of modern Manhattan; Moscow was bigger than Los Angeles is today. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The 587th now shared an airfield with the 10th Leningrad Bomber Aviation Regiment. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The men of the 10th Leningrad turned out to be friendly and sympathetic, and were assigned to help train the 587th in battle techniques in their challenging, powerful Pe-2 dive-bombers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It was time for step two: the train ticket to Leningrad, the Soviet Union's second-largest city. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z People in Leningrad also worked frantically to build makeshift defenses. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The German army’s blockade of the city of Leningrad, which had begun on September 8, 1941, finally ended in its defeat there on January 27, 1944. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Back at their base, during the report they had to make about how the mission went, they joked with the 10th Leningrad pilots, calling them “brothers” or “old men.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In the fall of 1942, people in Leningrad had nothing left to eat but wallpaper paste and broth made of boiled leather. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Upon her graduation, Ms. Semyonova spent five years as a soloist in the Leningrad company, where she became a star. Marina Semyonova of Bolshoi Ballet Dies at 102 2010-06-10T04:52:00Z The film features six actors — a family of four and two not entirely welcome guests — and all of the action takes place in a Leningrad apartment. Russian Comedy Plays on YouTube, Not in Movie Theaters, to Avoid Censors 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Helen Dunmore, whose novel is about wartime Leningrad – its sequel, The Betrayal, is about the period immediately before Stalin's death – said that novelists stray into "dangerous territory" when they fictionalise real people. Author, author: Antony Beevor on faction 2011-02-19T00:05:34Z He offers a kind of companion piece in The Event, a collation of archive footage from the streets of Leningrad in August 1991, during the attempted coup against the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Venice film festival – plenty of punch to disturb the peace 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z But it is simply impossible, as it is in the “Leningrad” Symphony, that someone could hear Mr. Tarm’s sour take on “Horst Wessel” as a neutral or sympathetic presentation of this material. An Argument for Hearing a Work With a Nazi Reference 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z When the siege was finally broken in 1944, she successfully auditioned for the Leningrad Operetta Theater and then joined a music hall revue that entertained Russian troops. Galina Vishnevskaya, Soprano and Dissident, Dies at 86 2012-12-11T21:14:19Z He moved to then-Soviet Georgia and then to Leningrad in the 1970s, eventually taking the helm of the Leningrad Comedy Theater in the 1970s, but lost the job in 1981 after another fallout with authorities. Russian theater director Fomenko dies at 80 2012-08-09T14:21:16Z He talks about the siege of Leningrad in World War II. How his own father fought in that battle, but for the wrong side — against Russia, as part of the Nazi army. Perspective | Arnold Schwarzenegger tries to show Russians a different kind of strongman 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z In 1934, it was the toast of Leningrad, as St. Petersburg was known then, before setting off on a tour of the Soviet Union for nearly two years. Stalin Didn’t Like This Opera, but Audiences Still Do 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Staged in St. Petersburg, then freshly renamed Leningrad, at the opera house now called the Mariinsky Theater, Schreker’s youthful tour de force made a huge impression. Music: Franz Schreker?s Opera ?Der Ferne Klang? at Bard 2010-07-25T01:32:00Z A reserve to last the siege of Leningrad.” How “Life of Pi” anticipated 9/11 2013-04-28T19:00:00Z He was born in Leningrad, as it then still was, in 1972, an only child: "Russians," as he said to me with a doleful chuckle, "don't breed in captivity." 'America's top satirist' 2010-09-04T23:02:00Z In his teens, he studied piano and conducting at Moscow and Leningrad conservatories. Pianist Vladimir Feltsman knows Shostakovich the man as well as his music 2011-04-28T20:13:17Z Malevich was ordered to return to Leningrad mid-way through the exhibition, but he “always wanted to return to the West, to Germany,” said Mr. Rutten. Pushing Forward an Abstract Art Drive That Began a Century Ago 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was written in the thick of World War II action, in the besieged city of Leningrad, by which name it is known. Too few hands applaud Gerard Schwarz's powerful return 2012-04-27T17:03:04Z Penelope Skinner's new version of The Promise, set in a ravaged Leningrad in 1943, is the first play in the Donmar Trafalgar season. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-11-09T16:10:44Z While that very first performance was held in December, when a new “Nutcracker” production was mounted in 1934 in what was then Leningrad, the premiere was in February. ‘Nutcracker’ in May? The Virus Postpones a Christmas Tradition 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z In the question and answer period that followed the main address, the novelist Gary Shteyngart, born in what was then Leningrad and raised in New York, began his task as interlocutor with a jocular query. ArtsBeat: Rushdie Brings PEN Festival to Close 2012-05-07T14:23:30Z Mr. Sokurov bitterly contrasts the relative normalcy of France under German rule with the siege of Leningrad, whose citizens starved and froze and whose cultural patrimony was not spared. Review: ‘Francofonia,’ About World War II Foes Turned Allies, for the Sake of Art 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The Soviet hippy movement emerged in Moscow and Leningrad around 1966 and 1967, in the early years of Leonid Brezhnev’s rule. Life in the 'hairy underground': the lost history of Soviet hippies 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z At one point, they forbade his troupe to leave Leningrad. ‘Like a Bomb Going Off,’ by Janice Ross 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z It’s set in Leningrad in 1937 and narrated by Roman Markin, a painter co-opted by the state and turned into a Communist “correction artist.” Review: Anthony Marra’s ‘The Tsar of Love and Techno,’ Stories of Russia 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Leningrad in the nineteen-seventies was a closed, stultifying world all to itself, a microcosm of the Soviet Union: a universe of muted grays and beige, where nothing much seemed to ever change. A Russian Writer’s Lessons for Being a Nobody While Being Yourself 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z During a return to Estonia to protect the family’s property in 1941, his father was arrested by the Red Army and executed in Leningrad. Pierre Apraxine, Assembler of a Remarkable Trove of Photos, Dies at 88 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z The family was reunited in Leningrad toward the end of war, and Ms. Sizova began to attend an after-school dance program. Alla Sizova, Star Kirov Ballerina, Dies at 75 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z The finest of the post-war generation of Leningrad male dancers, "Cosmonaut Yuri" combined a phenomenal jump with supreme clarity and refinement of technique. The 10 best dancers 2010-07-31T23:04:00Z In Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony, under Andris Nelsons, its evocation of misty distances was startling. 10 Days at the Salzburg Festival, Music’s Disneyland 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z The first movement vividly documents the scene, starting with noble, tranquil music suggesting Leningrad before World War II. Music Review: ‘Shostakovich for the Children of Syria,’ a Benefit Concert 2014-01-14T22:39:52Z This remarkable collection of linked short stories moves from the last century to this one, from Leningrad to Kirovsk, a Siberian labor camp turned toxic hellhole, from Chechnya into outer space. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The poll struck a nerve with Russians for whom the resistance in Leningrad exemplified the suffering and heroism of the war. How Russia hits back at slights over WWII victory 2014-02-10T14:06:15Z His father, Sergei, a sociologist and historian, was a lecturer at Leningrad State University. Ilya Glazunov, Painter Entranced by Russia’s Past, Dies at 87 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z He was not scheduled to join the Philharmonic this season; this weekend was supposed to bring Shostakovich’s mighty “Leningrad” Symphony. Review: Yunchan Lim, Teenage Piano Star, Arrives in New York 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Instead, he went to sea, working on a freighter shipping heavy machinery to Leningrad. Rereading: Up in the Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell 2012-06-22T21:55:18Z He was honest, funny, good-hearted and patient, qualities that were healing the wounds I had taken with me to Leningrad. Modern Love: Breaking Free From the Nesting Doll 2013-08-01T20:02:45Z Shostakovich, who wrote the libretto along with three others, was only 22 when he finished the opera, which had its premiere in Leningrad in 1930. Opera Review: 'The Nose' Pared Down to Its Essentials 2011-09-27T10:47:47Z Composed partly during the Siege of Leningrad, it is a programmatic evocation of war that was broadcast at the invading Germans. Review: Staging Their Own Siege, Sardonic and Messy 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z White Fever has little to say about the current clique in the Kremlin – though Vladimir Putin appears briefly as a young lieutenant in the Leningrad KGB, when he breaks up a hippy commune. White Fever by Jacek Hugo-Bader - review 2011-07-15T21:55:04Z Nine would strike Leningrad; 23 would hit Moscow. Nuclear Nightmares 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z The inescapable contradictions of a Cold War-era tour of Leningrad and Moscow in the mid-1950s were chronicled wryly by Truman Capote. The Complex History and Uneasy Present of ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z A side trip to Leningrad was a must for me, a first time traveler to the country. Condoleezza Rice on the 10 Days Still Shaking the World 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z The cellist Mischa Maisky was born in Riga, studied in Leningrad and Moscow, served prison time outside the city of Gorky, and finally emigrated to Israel in the 1970s. Music: Musicians Sound Out for Russian Prisoners 2011-07-07T11:00:05Z In Shostakovich's Leningrad symphony the mutual energising between the two sets of players paid off best of all. RNO/LPO/Jurowski – review 2012-10-08T17:30:02Z And finally the postwar years, when she returned to a Leningrad in shambles and endured another Stalinist crackdown on the arts. Music: A Tortured Russian Poet's Twisted World 2011-04-05T13:30:06Z Although “The Bright Stream” — with its dancing farmers and deliberately anti-elitist music — was a hit in Leningrad and Moscow, that celebrated aesthete Joseph Stalin found it less than exemplary. Dance Review: Down on the Dacha, Farmers Showing Off Expressive Footwork 2011-01-23T22:45:37Z In the Siege of Leningrad, which lasted more than two years, thousands of the city’s residents starved or froze to death. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation This was not, however, Tchaikovsky's own familiar selection of divertissements, but an altogether more intense sequence compiled by Evgeny Mravinsky, the legendary conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic in the Soviet era. Philharmonia/Lazarev ? review 2010-12-15T23:20:01Z It's now 1941, the dawn of the siege of Leningrad, and Pekkala must uncover the secret of an apparently unexceptional painting of a red moth belonging to the passenger of a crashed German scout plane. Thrillers – review roundup 2013-02-22T09:01:00Z His version would be set during the second world war and the siege of Leningrad, he enthuses. Bernard Rose: Tolstoy, America and me 2012-12-17T23:11:56Z In big cities - Moscow and Leningrad - real vinyl discs were more common, but they cost a minimum of three roubles. Beatles for sale: The vinyl underground in the USSR 2012-10-05T07:06:49Z In addition to the military hardware on display outside the museum, these include artifacts from the two-and-a-half year German siege of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. For This Museum, Russian-German Collaboration Got Awkward 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z At last year’s Venice festival, Mr. Loznitsa presented “The Event,” a found-footage chronicle of the fall of the Soviet Union as viewed in Leningrad. Sergei Loznitsa’s Movie ‘Austerlitz’ Observes Tourists in Concentration Camps 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z M. T. Anderson is the author of books for young readers including “Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad.” A Graphic Nonfiction Account of Hitler’s Would-Be Assassin 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z The chorus and instrumentalists included performers from West and East Germany, Leningrad and London, Paris and New York. Watch 5 Moments When Classical Music Met Politics 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The Siege is narrated mostly in the present tense, living and dying through the first winter of the two-and-a-half-year German siege of Leningrad. The Siege by Helen Dunmore 2011-02-12T00:05:20Z On returning to Leningrad in 1944, he enrolled in a secondary school that offered art education and then studied at the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Ilya Glazunov, Painter Entranced by Russia’s Past, Dies at 87 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Sablin, 33, was born in what was then Leningrad and emigrated to the United States in 1992, settling with her parents in Cleveland. ArtsBeat: Images of Her Russian Aunts Win Award for Brooklyn Photographer 2013-09-02T18:29:32Z Even the names we use to talk about places reflect their political histories — Myanmar or Burma, St. Petersburg or Leningrad — as Liesl Schillinger points out in “The Geopolitics of Name-Dropping.” | Sentimental Journey 2014-03-21T21:21:20Z Anna, strong, resourceful, unsentimental, is the book's heroine, but the main character is Leningrad itself. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - reviews 2011-07-15T21:55:06Z He recalls traveling to Leningrad during World War II and finding fields of dying Spanish volunteers who joined the Nazi forces in the infamous siege of that city. Review | A child’s murder sets off a sprawling tale of politics, war and family 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Both men make the four years it took to put together the series sound about as much fun as the siege of Leningrad. Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again 2012-11-25T03:37:22Z Near the door sits a jukebox from his 1994 rockabilly comedy Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses. Aki Kaurismäki: 'I can watch Marvel movies – if it's Sunday and I'm hungover' 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Her father remained in Leningrad, which by then was under siege by German forces, to work as a driver delivering bread. Alla Sizova, Star Kirov Ballerina, Dies at 75 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Even so, I wanted to return to Leningrad to see, and my parents, as a graduation gift, agreed to pay for my flight. Modern Love: Breaking Free From the Nesting Doll 2013-08-01T20:02:45Z In Leningrad, I came to know circles of friends, mostly women, who met every week over cake, tea and wine to exchange news, thoughts and plans. Just Send Me Word by Orlando Figes – review 2012-05-30T07:00:02Z “For those who were born in Leningrad, it’s an honor to continue the traditions of our grandfathers who played table tennis many years ago,” Mr. Munenko said. Heads Up: Creativity Sprouts on a St. Petersburg Island 2012-08-24T18:26:51Z The Germans who invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 are represented in Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony by an unexpectedly bright tune that hardens into a bitter march. An Argument for Hearing a Work With a Nazi Reference 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z The new book takes place in modern-day New York, but in Ms. Malcolm’s telling it might as well be Leningrad in 1952. Books of The Times: A Murder Trial Unfolds Under a Gimlet Eye 2011-04-26T11:45:00Z Renamed Leningrad in 1924, the city fell under siege in the second world war and the Astoria served as a hospital. Searching for signs of the Soviets in St Petersburg 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z Born in Moscow in 1932, Mr. Shchedrin decided to become a composer when he traveled as a nine-year-old to Samara with his father, who was secretary to Dmitri Shostakovich on his Leningrad Symphony. Music: The Making of a Maestro Moment 2011-02-16T12:30:06Z After receiving a bachelor’s degree in Hispanic languages and literatures from the Herzen State Pedagogical Institute in Leningrad, as it was then known, she tried to emigrate to the United States. Svetlana Boym, 56, Scholar of Myth and Memory, Dies 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z Even if there are shadows of danger in the slow, crepuscular central section, the atmosphere is one of white nights in Leningrad, of brightness in the dark. Art, Music and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z He is a volunteer fighter in the defence of Leningrad, but also a playwright who has failed to keep to the Communist party line and cannot get his work performed. The Siege by Helen Dunmore 2011-02-12T00:05:20Z Shteyngart’s hilarious and touching account of his family’s move from Leningrad to Queens, and his emergence as a writer. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Shostakovich Symphony No 7, 'Leningrad' Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Petrenko Shostakovich wrote the seventh and longest of his 15 symphonies in the summer of 1941, following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 'Leningrad' – review 2013-04-27T23:07:01Z It’s 1970s Leningrad and Yevgeny lives with his family in one room of a communal apartment with a mixed bag of neighbors. A Charming, Poignant Middle-Grade Memoir of Soviet Russia 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Shutov looks back hungrily to his own youth and early love for a girl called Yana, when they were students in Leningrad one golden autumn. The Life of an Unknown Man by Andre? Makine 2010-10-02T11:18:00Z During the siege of Leningrad, both of his parents died of starvation. Ilya Glazunov, Painter Entranced by Russia’s Past, Dies at 87 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z In Ossetia, he even led Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony, completed during the German siege of that city in World War II and as charged a musical memorial as there is to Russian suffering. Putin’s Maestro, and the Limits of Cultural Exchange in Wartime 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z His earlier documentaries “Blockade” and “Revue” used archival footage to portray the siege of Leningrad in World War II and daily life under Communism, respectively. Sergei Loznitsa’s Movie ‘Austerlitz’ Observes Tourists in Concentration Camps 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z His father-in-law survived the siege of Leningrad during World War II, he said, nearly starving as Stalin’s troops successfully held off Hitler’s, and to this day he “always cleans his plate.” This American sells Russia radio airtime. The U.S. says that makes his firm a foreign agent. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The Leningrad music returns, now shrouded in the haze of war, and at the end the march tune limps back into play, spent and emaciated. Music Review: ‘Shostakovich for the Children of Syria,’ a Benefit Concert 2014-01-14T22:39:52Z After graduating from the Leningrad Engineering & Economics Institute in 1988, he went to work as the mill’s senior economist and became its finance director in 1992. Betting on America 2012-06-07T01:34:51Z Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony, a potent symbol of the Allied struggle against the Nazis, “seems to have been written for the slow-witted, the not very musical and the distracted.” Virgil Thomson’s Enduring Critique of Classical Music in America 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z “I have so many historical images in my head that I keep thinking about: Sarajevo in the ’90s, Leningrad during World War II,” he said. In Miami, a Ukrainian Art Show Becomes Unintentionally Timely 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z At far right is a sofa on which Akhmatova lounges in a kind of domestic exile, a Chekhovian model of aristocracy in twilight, in Leningrad. Review: In ‘Anna Akhmatova,’ a Magical Interlude Reconjured 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z They do not really want suits in the suburbs to discover Eraserhead, or Leningrad Cowboys: Total Balalaika Show, arguably the greatest music film ever made. Cult films: just bad movies in a good disguise? 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Set during the German siege of Leningrad in World War II, the story follows two young Russians on a perilous, absurd mission. New & Noteworthy, From Quentin Tarantino to Comic Essays of Female Friendship 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z He recalls as a boy watching a documentary about starving residents of frozen Leningrad boiling and eating wallpaper while under siege from the German army. Geoffrey Rush: 'Art doesn’t do well in the dark. But that’s where we’ve put it' 2013-07-15T05:13:00Z Known as the “Leningrad,” the Seventh Symphony is a massive work that famously poses more interpretive questions for listeners than for its performers. Review | Philadelphia Orchestra triumphs in epic Seventh Symphony 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z I remember a wonderful hunchback dissident in Leningrad with a circle of followers about him, but I couldn’t possibly write about him, as he was too identifiable. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z Truman Capote travels to Leningrad and describes the events leading up to the Soviet première of the American opera “Porgy and Bess.” Sunday Reading: A Night at the Theatre 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z And scream it did on Thursday at Geffen Hall, where Jaap van Zweden led the New York Philharmonic in a performance of the “Leningrad” that was intense and powerful — sometimes overly so. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Screaming Reflection on War 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The music of two unlikely friends is joined in this program, conducted by Jaap van Zweden: Dmitri Shostakovich, represented by his titanic “Leningrad” Symphony, and Benjamin Britten, with his Violin Concerto. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Stone also includes a less familiar newsreel clip of Shostakovich after he composed the Seventh Symphony, which became a hymn to the Siege of Leningrad. Television Review: Oliver Stone’s ‘Untold’ American History, on Showtime 2012-11-11T22:45:38Z After surviving the wartime siege of Leningrad, she tried studying at the reopened Rimsky-Korsakov School but left when she realised that her natural voice was being ruined. Galina Vishnevskaya obituary 2012-12-11T18:32:40Z He also revealed that as a DJ at his school in Leningrad he would play rock music at discos, after first getting the approval of the Communist youth organization. Russia's Medvedev finally meets Deep Purple 2011-03-23T13:58:06Z The Chekhov story preoccupies him, arousing memories of his own youth in Leningrad and his own experience of early love. The Life of an Unknown Man by Andre? Makine 2010-10-02T11:18:00Z Born in Leningrad in 1952, he studied piano and conducting at the conservatory, where music was pursued with a do-or-die intensity unimaginable to students in the West. From refugee to maestro 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Poetry is a constant conversation that resonates throughout the babel of millenniums, and one of small presses’ crucial tasks is publishing translations of little-known foreign poets — poets like Polina Barskova, born in Leningrad in 1976. Books of The Times: Poetry by Luljeta Lleshanaku, Lightsey Darst and Others 2010-07-22T22:18:00Z If the Fifth offers an idealist corollary to the defiance of Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony, its finest interpreters make that idealism sound plausible. Vaughan Williams: Complicated, but Not Quite Conservative 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z I spent my childhood in the ancient city of Kiev, the biggest city in the Soviet Union after Moscow and Leningrad. My grandfather, who finally came back from the second world war in 1981 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z It was the year a Russian audience heard the premier of Shostakovich’s Symphony #7 in Leningrad. "Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield, keeper of James Brown's beat, never truly got his due 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z As far as I was aware, no one was saying any little prayers for me anywhere in the giant dark city of Leningrad, or anyplace else in the world. Hearing Aretha Franklin’s “I Say a Little Prayer” in the Soviet Union 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Shcherbakov had praised the original Leningrad production of “Lady Macbeth” in a letter to Stalin. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Both had been all but destroyed during the Siege of Leningrad, and palace displays featured shocking before-andafter photos of the ruin at the hands of the Germans. Into the Baltic Sea, but out of the Cold: Revisiting Berlin and St. Petersburg 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Yet he misses Leningrad, now known as St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city and the country’s cultural capital. From Russia to Pittsburgh with classical music 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z He also revealed that as a DJ at his school in Leningrad, now St Petersburg, he would play rock music at discos, after first getting the approval of the Communist youth organisation. Purple patch: Medvedev meets his hard rock heroes 2011-03-23T19:11:42Z Despite his late start, Yakobson was eventually accepted at the Leningrad State Choreographic Institute, the post-revolutionary name for the Imperial Ballet School. Review: ‘Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia’ 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Shteyngart’s parents decided to leave Leningrad as part of a wave of Soviet Jewish immigration. A Wayward Son Checks in With Mother Russia 2010-10-24T23:06:00Z Ernst was sent to a school for artistically gifted children in Leningrad. Ernst Neizvestny, a Russian Sculptor Who Clashed With Khrushchev, Dies at 91 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Patrushev said the West had for years been preparing Ukraine for war with Russia, and that Ukraine had tried to attack Russian nuclear power stations, including the Leningrad, Kalinin and Kursk plants. Putin ally: West increasing risk of weapons of mass destruction being used 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z They were born in Leningrad 10 months apart, and Patrushev became head of the Federal Security Service, the main KGB successor agency, in 1999 when Putin became prime minister. Putin is expected to seek reelection in Russia, but who would run if he doesn’t? 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z At the same time, he warned Israel against blockading the Gaza Strip, likening it to Nazi Germany’s siege of Leningrad during World War II. Russia maneuvers carefully over the Israel-Hamas war as it seeks to expand its global clout 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z The Leningrad region's veterinary medicine department said the ponies had been examined and placed in quarantine. Austrian ex-minister Karin Kneissl moves to Russia with her ponies 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Both were born in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin challenged the Kremlin in a brief mutiny 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z Born in Leningrad, the rabbi emigrated to Israel in the 1980s to escape the former Soviet Union. Rabbi’s Brush With Danger in Ukraine Went Viral 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Putin’s rise to top leadership had come scarcely a decade after he and his family departed Dresden in 1990 for his native Leningrad, which was soon to revert to its pre-Communist name. Super spy or paper pusher? How Putin's KGB years in East Germany helped shape him 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z The Leningrad station is Russia's biggest atomic power plant. Russia detains Ukrainians for plotting attack on nuclear power station lines 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z The siege of Leningrad lasted 872 days and was one of the longest and deadliest in world history. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z This week, two separate explosions in the Russian border region of Bryansk derailed freight trains, while power lines were destroyed by a suspected explosive device in Leningrad Region. Ukraine war: Russia scales back Victory Day celebrations 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z Separately, the governor of Russia's Leningrad region near St. Petersburg said a power line had been blown up overnight and an explosive device found near a second line. Explosion derails freight train in Russian border region - governor 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z On Thursday, the higher Leningrad Regional Court upheld it, and it took force right away, according to Peredruk. Russia OKs alternative civil service for mobilized believer 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z After all, Putin not only served in the Soviet KGB but, according to new archival research, personally participated in searches and interrogations of dissidents in 1970s Leningrad. Opinion | Putin is planning a Soviet-style punishment for his critics 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z The German army stood at the gates of Leningrad, on the outskirts of Moscow, and on the Don River. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The reforms also call for two additional military districts, Moscow and Leningrad, which existed before they were merged in 2010 to be part of the Western Military District. Russia's military reforms respond to NATO's expansion, Ukraine -chief of general staff 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z The Battle of Stalingrad was among the bloodiest in history; Nazi and affiliated forces besieged Leningrad for more than two years. Fallen colossus: USSR’s terror, triumphs began 100 years ago 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Putin graduated with a degree in law from Leningrad State University in 1975 and joined the KGB that year after being earlier targeted for recruitment. Soviet artists drew a freedom message. A KGB agent named Putin investigated. 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Putin went home to Leningrad, but he got into a fight on the subway and broke his arm. Putin's brain and the Ukraine disaster: What does the Russian leader really want? 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z It said the timing for a complex to processing ethane-containing gas in the Leningrad region also changed "due to exit from the project of a European contractor". Russian gas chemical projects face delays after foreign partners exit -cbank 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Vast swaths of Western and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union knew this well at various points of the 20th century: Paris, Leningrad, Sarajevo. Analysis: Ukrainian liberation a powerful dynamic in war 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z Prigozhin and Putin go way back, with both born in Leningrad, what is now known as St. Petersburg. What’s ‘Putin’s chef’ cooking up with talk on US meddling? 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Prigozhin has risen far above his humble roots as a hot dog vendor in Putin’s home city of Leningrad. Mercenary chief vented to Putin over Ukraine war bungling 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z It's time to fight for life, the same way that you courageously and selflessly fought together against the Nazis during World War II, in particular in Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin. What media didn't tell you about the UN: 66 nations called for an end to Ukraine war 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z That was one of the core lessons of his hardscrabble youth that he took from the furious reaction of a rat he cornered on a stairwell in what was then Leningrad. A Cornered Putin Is More Dangerous Than Ever 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z In a combative speech to Leningrad Communists at the Smolny Institute, Mr. Gorbachev spoke largely without notes, insisting that the economy be re-energized, demanding that people who could not accept change must stand aside. Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z "You're lagging behind the rest of the economy," he told the communist bosses of Leningrad, which was renamed Saint Petersburg in 1991. Obituary: Mikhail Gorbachev - Soviet leader who helped end Cold War 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z He outflanked party rivals, in one instance arranging the resignation of Leningrad’s party boss, whose rich tastes and corrupt use of power were as well known as his drunken displays. Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z According to court documents, Mr. Doronin was born in what was then Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, and renounced his Soviet citizenship after leaving the Soviet Union in 1985. Aspen’s Tangled Summer Saga: The Rich Developer vs. the Local Paper 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z To the north, the attack on Leningrad stalled and Hitler ordered that the city be cut off from the rest of Russia. Winter is coming: Vladimir Putin faces his "Hitler moment" 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z In the balloting, the Communist Party leadership in Leningrad was turned out, pro-independence parties won in the Baltics, and Yeltsin, the radical reformer, triumphed in Moscow. Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Short recounts Putin’s hardscrabble childhood in postwar Leningrad, his indifferent academic record, and the German and martial arts teachers who saved him from an unpromising future. Review | A biography that gives Vladimir Putin the benefit of the doubt 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Patrushev first served alongside Putin when they worked in the KGB’s counterintelligence division in what was then Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, in the 1970s. The man who has Putin’s ear — and may want his job 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z They don skeletal masks and costumes and stage protests with “corpses,” or in a cemetery where Soviet war dead and victims of the Leningrad blockade are buried. Art of dissent: How Russians protest the war on Ukraine As soon becomes clear, the fuse is endless: Kharitonov walks thousands of miles, all the way to Leningrad, and it never runs out. How Ukraine’s Greatest Novelist Is Fighting for His Country 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z The first U-2 mission over unfriendly territory took place on July 4, 1956, the spindly plane flying over Leningrad — St. Petersburg — and taking photos of a shipyard there. Perspective | In 1956, the CIA’s photo spies moved into a shabby D.C. office building 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z She saw the lights turn on in her students’ eyes when the book group read David Benioff’s coming-of-age adventure about two young Russian soldiers during the siege of Leningrad, “City of Thieves.” This summer, Blue Kettle Books will drive Seattle’s newest and smallest bookstore to you 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z She trained originally as a nursery schoolteacher, but then had the chance to study law at Leningrad State University, now St. Petersburg University. On the Trail of Russian War Crimes 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z The Russians “are creating a blockade for us, as in Leningrad,” the Mariupol council wrote after a week of war, referring to Nazi Germany’s World War II siege of the imperial Russian city. In Mariupol, echoes of history, utter devastation and a last stand 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z Vladimir Putin learned his brutal code of war in the “sandpit streets” of Leningrad when he was a poor boy of perhaps 7 and got into his first fight with a neighborhood gang. Opinion | Has Putin’s brutality finally hit a wall in Ukraine? 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z She lived in Leningrad — since renamed St. Petersburg — at the time McDonald’s first opened there. The ‘deglobalization’ of Moscow Born in 1952 in a city then called Leningrad, Putin grew up in the shadow of the Soviets’ war with Nazi Germany, known to Russians as the Great Patriotic War. The making of Vladimir Putin 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z “Mariupol will become part of a list of cities that were completely destroyed by war; I don’t need to name them — they are Guernica, Coventry, Aleppo, Grozny, Leningrad.” An elegy for Mariupol 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Putin’s mother, Maria, was a “deeply religious” woman, according to biographer Steven Lee Myers, who survived the siege of Leningrad in World War II after moaning for help amid a pile of corpses. Opinion | A month into war, Putin’s mind-set is complex — and dangerous 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Nearly 900 days was not enough to break the will of the Russians in Leningrad, nor did massive advantages in troops and bombs give the Nazis victory at Stalingrad. Opinion | Putin should know: Rain hell on Ukraine and it still may not fall 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z "My mother-in-law was born in 1936. She survived through the siege of Leningrad," he said, referring to the 900-day Nazi encirclement of the city now known as St. Petersburg. Dead buildings tower over uncollected corpses in Mariupol, on the front line of Ukraine's war 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z His father, who fought with the Nazi army, was injured in Leningrad — now St. Petersburg — during World War II. Arnold Schwarzenegger invokes Nazi father in plea to Russian people: 'I don't want you to be broken' 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z "When my father arrived in Leningrad, he was all pumped up on the lies of his government." Arnold Schwarzenegger makes passionate plea to Russia amid Ukraine invasion: ‘You can stop this war’ 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Mr Putin's profile on the Kremlin website shows that he was studying at the Leningrad State University at the time, and graduated in 1975. War in Ukraine: Why Vladimir Putin couldn't have trained fighters in Africa 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z No one with an ounce of decency would wish the fate of Leningrad or Stalingrad on the people of Ukraine. Opinion | Putin should know: Rain hell on Ukraine and it still may not fall 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z She spoke bitterly of the Russian forces and compared them to the “fascists” who besieged Leningrad, now called St. Petersburg, for nearly 900 days so long ago. At 91, siege of Leningrad survivor is besieged by war again 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z In the city of Kaliningrad near the Baltic Sea, a woman protesting the war was recorded in a video posted on Twitter telling a police officer that she had survived the Nazi siege of Leningrad. Police Arrest More Than 3,000 as Protests Grow Across Russia 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z "When he left Leningrad, he was broken — physically and mentally," he continued. Arnold Schwarzenegger makes passionate plea to Russia amid Ukraine invasion: ‘You can stop this war’ 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Proud veterans of the sieges of Stalingrad and Leningrad, chests sagging with medals and despair, sat begging at bus stops in temperatures of below zero Fahrenheit. Mikhail Gorbachev changed history — and then the West paved the way for Putin 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Despite nearly 25 years of Putin propaganda about the taming of Chechnya, the stories of Leningrad and Stalingrad are still well known to every Russian. Opinion | Putin should know: Rain hell on Ukraine and it still may not fall 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z He is one of three Putin loyalists who have served with him ever since the 1970s in St Petersburg, when Russia's second city was still known as Leningrad. Ukraine conflict: Who's in Putin's inner circle and running the war? 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z The German advance had stalled at Leningrad and Moscow late in 1941. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is the duty of every government to remain vigilant of unlawful acts against public order, democratic principles, and innocent civilians,” he wrote in a letter to Leningrad’s governor, Aleksandr Drozdenko. Maryland leaders pull vodka from shelves, sever sister-city ties with Russia 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z To a man who brawled on the streets of Leningrad in his youth and made his career in the Soviet security services, Russian weakness after the Soviet Union’s collapse had become revolting. Wielding the threat of war, a new, more aggressive Putin steps forward 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z Quickly, the Nazis blockaded Leningrad in a siege that lasted nearly 900 days. At 80, Tamara Moskvina Is Still Going for the Standing Ovation 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Another old hand from the Leningrad KGB, he took over the leadership of its replacement FSB when Nikolai Patrushev moved on. Ukraine conflict: Who's in Putin's inner circle and running the war? 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z On September 8, German forces put Leningrad under siege. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Having witnessed the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, I am obliged to immediately dissolve and terminate Maryland’s partnership with the Leningrad Region.” Maryland leaders pull vodka from shelves, sever sister-city ties with Russia 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z A tank of Russian armed forces drives during military exercises in the Leningrad Region, Russia, in this handout picture released February 14, 2022. Russia returns some troops to base in areas near Ukraine - report 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z A tank of Russian armed forces fires during military exercises in the Leningrad Region, Russia, in this handout picture released February 14, 2022. Russia's Shoigu says some military drills have ended, others close to completion 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Linnas died that year in a Leningrad hospital after the Soviet authorities had commuted his death sentence. Neal Sher, U.S. Government’s Leading Nazi Hunter, Dies at 74 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Impatient with the progress in Leningrad, Hitler looked to Moscow, the capital and heart of the Soviet Union. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Maryland’s three-decade relationship with the Leningrad region dissolved with a curt letter. Maryland leaders pull vodka from shelves, sever sister-city ties with Russia 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z The retired librarian still remembers the beginning of the Leningrad siege by the Nazis in September 1941, when she was five years old. Germany expands pensions to more Holocaust survivors 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z In Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, she palled around with newspaper columnist Leonard Lyons and novelist Truman Capote, who recounted some of their experiences in a 1956 nonfiction book, “The Muses Are Heard.” Priscilla Johnson McMillan, historian who knew both JFK and Oswald, dies at 92 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z The made-for-TV film first aired on Leningrad Television in 1991 and was thought to be lost to time, as first reported by The Guardian. The long-lost Lord of the Rings adaptation from Soviet Russia is a glorious fever dream 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z I recognised the music as typical of the Leningrad rock club scene, so I walked in to take a look. Khraniteli: The Soviet take on Lord of the Rings 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z A pianist, Shulman studied music at the Kyiv Conservatory and eventually went to study conducting at what was then called the Leningrad Conservatory of Music. Russian orchestra conductor known for his musical passion dies of coronavirus 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z The siege of Leningrad, the Russian city now called St. Petersburg, lasted nearly 2½ years until the Soviet Army drove away the Germans on Jan. 27, 1944. Germany expands pensions to more Holocaust survivors 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z In 1944, during World War II, the Soviet Union announced the complete end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years. Today in History 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z His grandfather was a highly decorated Soviet officer, and the family, though not wealthy, had an apartment in the center of St. Petersburg, which was then known as Leningrad. A Former Russian Rock Star Surprises His Fans … With a Desk Job 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Computer graphics had only just come to Leningrad TV and there was nobody who could put them to professional use. Khraniteli: The Soviet take on Lord of the Rings 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Sadly, he hasn't heard for a while from Nina, the survivor of the siege of Leningrad. The dying teenager who wanted world peace (and love) 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z The Leningrad plant near St. Petersburg and the Kola plant near the northern city of Murmansk, “operate normally, with radiation levels being within the norm,” Tass said. Radioactivity hike seen in northern Europe; source unknown 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z The Leningrad plant near St. Petersburg and the Kola plant near the northern city of Murmansk, “operate normally, with radiation levels being within the norm,” Tass said. . quoted the Rosenergoatom spokesperson as saying. Radioactivity hike seen in northern Europe; source unknown 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z One possible reason, he said, is that Leningrad has been losing steam in recent years, so “now he is trying some new tricks.” A Former Russian Rock Star Surprises His Fans … With a Desk Job 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Mr Putin identifies on a personal level with the sacrifices made in the war: his father was seriously wounded in combat and his infant brother Viktor died in the siege of Leningrad - today's St Petersburg. Russia holds WW2 victory parade in virus shadow 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z “For my parents, the war meant the terrible ordeals of the Siege of Leningrad where my 2-year-old brother Vitya died,” Putin wrote in an article published in the U.S. journal The National Interest. Putin uses World War II parade to boost support before vote 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Outside the main railway station, a huge sign on a building reads: “Hero City Leningrad,” referring to the city’s endurance in the 1941-44 siege, when it was named Leningrad. AP PHOTOS: Memorials weave WWII into Russia’s psyche 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Valentina Bushuyeva, an 80-year-old survivor of the siege of Leningrad, joined four other veterans and war survivors to be awarded medals at a gathering on the outskirts of Moscow last Friday. Pandemic Mars Putin’s Coronation and Endangers Russia’s Veterans 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z The siege of Leningrad, the German blitz of London and the Allied firebombing of Dresden. Virus causes surge in WW II references, but is it merited? 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Putin graduated from Leningrad State University in 1975 with a law degree and joined the KGB -- the main security agency operating at the behest of the Soviet Union, where he became a Soviet intelligence officer. Who is Vladimir Putin, the Russian president and ex-KGB officer? 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z He unveiled a monument in Jerusalem’s central Sacher Park to the victims of the siege of Leningrad, a grisly 900-day national trauma that cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Russian civilians. Holocaust Gathering Lets Some Leaders Score Present-Day Political Points 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Medvedev grew up in St. Petersburg, then known as Leningrad, the bookish only child of a chemical engineer father and a teacher and later tour guide mother. Dmitry Medvedev was Putin’s political wingman for years. Now Putin wants some distance. 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z A million people died in the Nazis’ siege of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg — among the 27 million Soviets who perished in World War II. Pandemic Mars Putin’s Coronation and Endangers Russia’s Veterans 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Medvedev toyed with the idea of studying linguistics but eventually plumped for law, enrolling in the autumn of 1982 at Leningrad State University. Dmitry Medvedev: the rise and fall of the Robin to Putin’s Batman 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Did he create a little Leningrad on Lake Champlain? Socialism is as American as apple pie. Yes, really 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z He shot several music videos, including a concert by Aquarium, the godfathers of Russian rock, who, in 1988, performed in Leningrad with Dave Stewart from the British pop band Eurythmics. The Kremlin’s Creative Director 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z In 1956, the family moved to Leningrad, now St Petersburg, where he studied violin, piano and conducting at the city's conservatory. Conductor Mariss Jansons dies at 76 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Now she earns a meager living as a street sweeper in bleak Leningrad, nourished only by a sense that her destiny waits in Paris. Review: 'Anastasia' at the Pantages has a look that dazzles. The story, not so much 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z In 1990, the ambitious Sobchak returned from Moscow – where he was a deputy – and joined Leningrad’s city council, becoming its chairman. Dmitry Medvedev: the rise and fall of the Robin to Putin’s Batman 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Leningrad and Shnurov made huge amounts of money as Russia’s most popular band. How Russia's biggest rock star gets away with speaking truth to power (aka Putin) 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z No longer dependent for her access to the Baltic on the narrow gulf which leads to Leningrad and which is frozen in winter, Soviet Russia now controls the sea approach to Latvia and threatens Finland. The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact – archive, August 1939 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z As a college student in Leningrad, now known as St. Petersburg, Russia, Janet Fitch immersed herself in the other superpower’s brilliant literature and tumultuous history. Crazy about books? These 5 L.A. book events offer inspiring stories from Los Angeles and beyond 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z While still at school, he went to the regional headquarters of the Soviet KGB in Leningrad, as St Petersburg was still known then. The west thinks Putin is Russia's spymaster. But are the spies controlling him? | Mark Galeotti 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z But this magic was happening in Leningrad in the mid-1980s, and there was nothing like it since,” she reminisced. The California girl who defined underground Russian punk rock and became a KGB 'enemy of the state' 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first wife once famously danced to Leningrad’s music with a group of students in a viral video. How Russia's biggest rock star gets away with speaking truth to power (aka Putin) 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z The play was about the siege of Leningrad, which was spoken of all the way through. 'I even loved his Twankey': Dench, Hopkins, Mirren and more on Ian McKellen at 80 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Every few years, the design would change, but entire districts of cities such as Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev were populated with rows of colorless high-rise buildings that seemed to stretch to the horizon. Soviet housing was famously drab. This Ukraine complex is all about color 2019-05-12T04:00:00Z And so he did: Putin went to Leningrad State University, graduated and joined the KGB. The west thinks Putin is Russia's spymaster. But are the spies controlling him? | Mark Galeotti 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z The constituency was once a communist stronghold known as the "Leningrad of Bihar." The firebrand student making waves in India's election 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z At the time, Leningrad — the band — was dominating Moscow and St. Petersburg’s underground music scene, with Shnurov as guitarist and lead singer. How Russia's biggest rock star gets away with speaking truth to power (aka Putin) 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Far away from the big cities of Moscow and Leningrad, Soviet punk bands were targeted by the KGB. Yakutsk is one of the coldest cities on Earth. It’s producing some of Russia’s hottest punk rock 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z The siege of the city, then called Leningrad, lasted nearly 2½ years until the Soviet Army drove the Nazis away on Jan. 27, 1944. Russian parade marks 75 years since WWII siege of Leningrad 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z The Nazi siege of Leningrad lasted nearly 2 ½ years until the Soviet Army drove the Nazi troops away on Jan. 27, 1944. Leningrad siege survivors recall their ordeal after 75 years 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z According to the Kremlin, Putin joined the KGB immediately after graduating from the law faculty at Leningrad State University in 1975. Soldier, spy: more details of Vladimir Putin's past revealed 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Shnurov describes Leningrad’s original sound as a mixture of vampire rock mixed with Soviet prison music and brass instruments to give it punch. How Russia's biggest rock star gets away with speaking truth to power (aka Putin) 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z And Leningrad, where he grew up, was home to some of the most popular Russian rock bands that arose in the wake of Beatlemania. Editorials from around New York 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Estimates of the death toll vary, but historians agree that more than 1 million Leningrad residents died from hunger or air and artillery bombardments during the siege. Russian parade marks 75 years since WWII siege of Leningrad 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Estimates of the death toll vary, but historians agree that more than one million Leningrad residents died of hunger and air and artillery bombardment in one of the most horrifying episodes of World War II. Leningrad siege survivors recall their ordeal after 75 years 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z At the time of her death, The New York Times reported she narrated a documentary about the Kirov Ballet school in Leningrad called “The Children of Theater Street” and briefly appeared on the screen. Grace Kelly still yearned to act after becoming Princess of Monaco, but was devoted to her children, royal title, nephew says 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z With the band calling it quits this year after playing together for more than 20 years, it was one of the last concerts Leningrad would play in Moscow. How Russia's biggest rock star gets away with speaking truth to power (aka Putin) 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Their mother was a cellist, and their father was a professor of philosophy in Leningrad, where the brothers grew up. Zhores Medvedev, dissident Soviet scientist who was arrested then exiled, dies at 93 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z But her sons did not enjoy living in 1980s Leningrad, where anti-Semitism was “an epidemic,” said Mrs. Gilchenok. Alone in New York, She Needed a Mattress 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z “They say she survived thanks to the chocolate that Galina’s father, who fought the Nazis outside Leningrad, brought now and then from his army food ration,” Chernykh said. Leningrad siege survivors recall their ordeal after 75 years 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z During World War II, the city was the gateway to St. Petersburg — then called Leningrad — and the Soviet Union’s Baltic Fleet. Estonia is still clearing thousands of World War II mines from its waters 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Officially, the ban was because of vulgar lyrics, but many believed it was because of Leningrad’s subtle criticism of the political elite. How Russia's biggest rock star gets away with speaking truth to power (aka Putin) 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z It follows him from his humble beginnings in provincial Russia, to Leningrad where he joined the Kirov and to his untimely death from an Aids-related illness in 1993 at the age of 54. How dance legend Nureyev continues to inspire 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z Two days later, a video surfaced of Corbyn addressing a pro-Palestinian rally in 2010, comparing the length of the Israeli blockade of Gaza to the sieges of Stalingrad and Leningrad in the Second World War. Jeremy Corbyn's Anti-Semitism Crisis 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Slepakov, whose patriotism had been called into question by some fans, teamed up with Sergei Shnurov, the founder of the band “Leningrad”, to try to make amends in a new song called “Champions”. Comedian who mocked Russian World Cup soccer team says sorry in new... 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z “The streets of Leningrad taught me 50 years ago that when a fight is inevitable, you must strike first,” was one of the recollections. Putin unlikely to let a US strike in Syria go unanswered 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z By the early 2000s, Leningrad was selling out large concert arenas. How Russia's biggest rock star gets away with speaking truth to power (aka Putin) 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z The Leningrad Institute of Rainmaking was established in the Soviet Union in 1932. The people who think governments control the weather 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Putin was born in Leningrad, which regained its historic name of St. Petersburg after the 1991 Soviet collapse. Russia marks 75 years since breaking Nazi siege of Leningrad 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z “Forgive us guys, we were real morons,” Slepakov, accompanied by Leningrad’s musicians, sings. Comedian who mocked Russian World Cup soccer team says sorry in new... 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z “Easy-going,” encouraging and even healing is the description offered by Yuri Tolstoy, who was one of Putin’s law professors in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. Putin: Public man who is reserved even by Russian standards 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z He even traveled to Soviet Union, Finland’s former enemy, to compete in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. 101-year-old Olympian’s life tells story of Finnish century 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z A tank commander--Vasily Falin wore all his medals on his blue serge suit to the dinner we had in his honor at a restaurant in the city then called Leningrad. For Russians, 75 Years Later, Stalingrad Is a Battle to Remember 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z In July 1933, 175 gay men from different walks of life were arrested in what came to be known as the Case of the Leningrad Homosexuals. Russian gay community's brief window of freedom 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z In 1960, Mr. Lombardy was the top board for the United States team that competed in the World Student Team Championship in Leningrad — now St. Petersburg — in Russia. William Lombardy, Chess Grandmaster Turned Priest, Dies at 79 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z In the fall of 1942, the Red Army was facing desperate odds: Leningrad was still under siege and the grinding battle for Stalingrad had only just begun. Opinion | The Communist Party’s Party People 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z But in our well-intentioned effort to avoid becoming another San Francisco, we can’t allow ourselves to become the next Leningrad. Job No. 1 for Seattle’s next mayor: Be ready to stand up to City Council 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Back in Leningrad, blockaded until January 1944, his family members were starving to death. For Russians, 75 Years Later, Stalingrad Is a Battle to Remember 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Elizabeth Taylor reportedly called KJL, as Mr. Lane was affectionately nicknamed, from Leningrad to custom order reproductions of diamond jewelry she already owned. Kenneth Jay Lane, popular designer known for replications of priceless gems, dies at 85 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z The city where Shostakovich composed his famous “Leningrad Symphony” became a symbol of resistance and the strength of the human spirit—something that Stalin and subsequent Soviet rulers deeply feared. The bloody founding of St Petersburg 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z The book portrays Putin as a street “hooligan” from Leningrad who grew up dreaming of escape by becoming a secret agent. Opinion | Dozens of books try to explain Putin and his Russia. Here are some of the best. 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z During its illustrious history, it appeared at the French Revolution bicentennial, graced the 100th anniversary celebrations of the Statue of Liberty and, in 1989, traversed Soviet waters in Leningrad. Pittsburgh’s weird concert boat could soon be dismantled 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Odontuya Davaasuren was 17 years old, studying paediatrics far from home in Leningrad, Russia when her father died of lung cancer in Mongolia. The doctor helping Mongolians die with dignity - BBC News 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z There is a nuclear plant in Hiroshima, witness to atomic energy at its worst; and near Leningrad, Frankfurt, Buenos Aires. AP WAS THERE: Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Founded in 1703, the city went on to experience two historical traumas—the Russian revolution and the siege of Leningrad, as it was known under the Soviets. The bloody founding of St Petersburg 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z In 1990, Putin, after a K.G.B. posting in Dresden, took a job at the mayor’s office in Leningrad, which, a year later, after the Soviet collapse, was renamed St. Petersburg. Putin’s Shadow Cabinet and the Bridge to Crimea 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Lyudmila Putin was the wife of Vladimir Putin for three decades. They met in Leningrad, married in 1983 and moved to East Germany, where her husband was a KGB spy. Putin’s ex-wife returns to the spotlight with a dashing young husband and a fancy French villa 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z In Moscow, dozens of young people gathered outside the Kremlin to lay flowers at a World War II memorial to the city of Leningrad — as St. Petersburg was called then. Bomb in St. Petersburg subway, killing 11, sets a city on edge 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Putin the Survivalist notes how his parents made it through the siege of Leningrad, although his older brother did not. Review | Trump’s new Russia expert wrote a psychological profile of Vladimir Putin — and it should scare Trump 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z The decision to relocate the capital was vindicated when the Nazis laid siege to the city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924. The bloody founding of St Petersburg 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Rotenberg and Putin grew close travelling around Leningrad, and soon around the whole of the Soviet Union, for competitions. Putin’s Shadow Cabinet and the Bridge to Crimea 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z The year was 1978, and my family and I were at Pulkovo Airport, in Leningrad, about to become Soviet refugees in America. Confessions of a Watch Geek 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Photos from the visit show Trump and his first wife, Ivana, squinting in the sunlight at the Peterhof Palace outside St. Petersburg, then called Leningrad. Russian real estate deals never materialized for Trump 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z He was the unremarkable only child of an unremarkable working family from Leningrad. Killer, kleptocrat, genius, spy: the many myths of Vladimir Putin 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z In 2014 it was careless enough to ask an unthinkable question via a Twitter poll: “Could the sacrifices of the Leningrad siege have been averted by surrendering the city to the Nazis?” I’ve reported on Putin – here are my tips for journalists dealing with Trump | Alexey Kovalev 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z It also hosts a permanent exhibition on the Leningrad blockade in the second world war. Plan to hand control of St Petersburg cathedral to church sparks outcry 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Later on Monday, it tweeted a message about a British exhibition of a Russian artist's drawings of the siege of Leningrad in World War Two. Russia taunts British PM with cartoon frog tweet - BBC News 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Putin has described an important lesson he learned as a young man in Leningrad: “When a fight is inevitable, you have to hit first.” World War Three, by Mistake 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z A native of Leningrad like Mr Putin, Mr Sechin studied at Leningrad University’s prestigious philology department. Igor Sechin, head of Rosneft, is powerful as never before 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Trump is an entitled “golden child”, while Putin was born in extreme poverty in postwar Leningrad. I’ve reported on Putin – here are my tips for journalists dealing with Trump | Alexey Kovalev 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Social media in the era of Trump is essentially Leningrad, 1979. Aftermath: Sixteen New Yorker Writers on Trump’s America 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Seven of her relatives starved to death in the siege of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, and the rest were scattered across Siberia in the mass evacuation. They survived WWII. Now they live on $4.50 a day. 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z At this point, Karl Eliasberg, the sole conductor left in Leningrad, decided to raise the city’s spirits by cobbling together an orchestra to play Shostakovich’s symphony. When the Enemy Is at the Gates 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Mr Putin's father was seriously wounded as a soldier on the Leningrad front. Putin backs WW2 myth in new Russian film - BBC News 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Before finishing medical school in St. Petersburg, then known as Leningrad, he played for the Soviet Development Basketball Team in the 1950s, choosing not to pursue a professional athletic career because he thought it unstable. The Soviet Doping Plan: Document Reveals Illicit Approach to ’84 Olympics 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z Like Mr. Putin, the urbane, English-speaking Mr. Ivanov studied at Leningrad State University and began his career in the security services in the 1980s. Russia’s Putin Fires Top Aide in Highest-Profile Dismissal in Years 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Invoking his training as a lawyer at Leningrad State University, Mr. Mutko demanded proof. As Olympics Near, Russia Braces for Doping Inquiry Report 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z The only example of a genuinely successful renovation of a constructivist building in Russia, Selivanova says, is the central library in Vyborg, a small town in the Leningrad region near the Finnish border. Demolition of Moscow 'workers' villages' raises fears for avant garde heritage 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Born in 1931 in what is now St Petersburg, Korchnoi survived the siege of Leningrad during World War Two and is seen as one of the best players never to be World Champion. Chess legend Korchnoi dies in Switzerland aged 85 - BBC News 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z “My grandfather served. He was gravely wounded in Leningrad. My other grandfather was a Belarusan partisan,” she said. One of Russia’s biggest holidays is a WWII anniversary Americans don’t think about 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z On the Eastern Front, Leningrad met a very different fate than did Paris. 'Francofonia' is an elegant rumination on the Louvre through the lens of war 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Six years later, the cellist founded an opulent concert venue known as the Hall of Music in St. Petersburg, as the city of Leningrad is called today. Meet the Russian Cellist Behind Putin's Alleged Offshore Fortune 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Mr Tsilikin, a graduate of the Leningrad State Institute of Music and Cinema, turned to journalism after the collapse of the Soviet Union, working for the newspaper Rush Hour and editing Culture and Society. Russian journalist Dmitry Tsilikin found dead in St Petersburg - BBC News 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Witness St Petersburg’s transition to Leningrad and back to its czarist nomenclature after the fall of the Soviet Union. China: Renaming Road by Chinese Embassy a 'Political Farce' 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z She relished the luxury of being on location for as long as two weeks at a stretch in places as far flung as Leningrad, New Orleans and Nepal. Christy Turlington Burns: From Supermodel to Activist 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Instead, he was sent to a junior position in KGB Leningrad Directorate. Alexander Litvinenko murder: UK freezes assets of chief suspects – as it happened 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The targets ranged from military command centers to “population centers”–such as the suburbs of Leningrad. Declassified: How the Pentagon planned to nuke the Soviet Union and China during the Cold War 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z It has become one of Shostakovich's best-known works, often referred to, appropriately, as the Leningrad Symphony. Shostakovich's symphony played by a starving orchestra - BBC News 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z These were the rules which were supposed to limit the savagery of war, to protect humanity from another Auschwitz, siege of Leningrad, or Dresden firestorm. Geneva Conventions laws of war need fixing - BBC News 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z It is well documented that he grew up in a tough, communal housing block in Leningrad - now St Petersburg - and got into fights with local boys who were often bigger and stronger. Vladimir Putin: Russia's action man president - BBC News 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Instead, he was sent to a junior position in KGB Leningrad Directorate. Alexander Litvinenko murder: UK freezes assets of chief suspects – as it happened 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Moscow, the Strategic Air Command picked 175 ‘Designated Ground Zeroes’ or DGZs, while in Leningrad there were 145. Declassified: How the Pentagon planned to nuke the Soviet Union and China during the Cold War 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z After a performance the previous December of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture - which depicts the Russia's victory over Napoleon's invading army - the only remaining orchestra in the city, the Leningrad Radio Orchestra, had shut down. Shostakovich's symphony played by a starving orchestra - BBC News 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z “The streets of Leningrad taught me one thing: If a fight can’t be avoided, it’s best to hit first,” he said in October. Putin’s Record Augurs Tough Response if Cause of Plane Crash Turns Out to Be Terror 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z "Fifty years ago the Leningrad street taught me a rule: if a fight is inevitable you have to throw the first punch," Mr Putin said in October 2015. Vladimir Putin: Russia's action man president - BBC News 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z According to the list released by the emergency situations ministry, 130 residents of the city were killed, along with 43 residents of the surrounding Leningrad oblast. Russia Mourns Victims of Plane Crash in Egypt 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z The streets of Leningrad taught me one thing. Putin Says Assad Backs Russian Support to Rebels Fighting Islamic State 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Survivors of the pitiless winter of 1941-42 in Leningrad recall bodies lying in the street, with nobody to bury them. Shostakovich's symphony played by a starving orchestra - BBC News 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z During the siege of Leningrad the Soviet authorities found 2,000 tonnes of mutton guts which they turned into galantine to feed the starving citizens. Fried eggs with jam? A short history of the USSR through its food 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Paulsen was cited for “This Side of Wild: Mutts, Mares, and Laughing Dinosaurs” and Anderson for “Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad.” Daughter of Malcolm X among book award finalists 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Paulsen was cited for "This Side of Wild: Mutts, Mares, and Laughing Dinosaurs" and Anderson for "Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad." Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X, a National Book Award finalist for young adult story 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z The Leningrad region weighed in with theatrical footage of workers unloading illicit nectarines into a landfill in the middle of a thunderstorm. Cheese It: It’s Russia’s Calamari Cops 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Shostakovich had dedicated his symphony to the people of Leningrad, who went on to endure another year and a half of siege before the Soviet army broke through the encirclement in January 1944. Shostakovich's symphony played by a starving orchestra - BBC News 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z As a result, hundreds of thousands of visitors to Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev and Odessa were introduced to the dish, and disseminated its fame. Fried eggs with jam? A short history of the USSR through its food 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z In a country which suffered famine in the 1930s, where hundreds of thousands starved to death in the siege of Leningrad and 22m people live below the poverty line, the destruction of food is taboo. The bonfire of the vans of cheese 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z More than two hundred tons of other food followed—cheese in Orenburg, pork in St. Petersburg, nectarines and tomatoes in the Leningrad Region. Why Is Russia Destroying Food? 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Khochinskiy claimed he inherited the painting from his father, a former Soviet soldier who hung the painting for years in his apartment in Leningrad and died in 1991. U.S. judge blocks extradition of Russian to Poland over Nazi looted art 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Eliasberg would perform the symphony again in Leningrad on a handful of occasions. Shostakovich's symphony played by a starving orchestra - BBC News 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z A nice trip to Leningrad and they'll ship me right back. Why is the US still using a Nazi tall ship? - BBC News 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z In the fall of 1994, eight years after emigrating from Leningrad to the United States, I started using email on a regular basis. Snail Mail and the Safety of Distance 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Even more measured was the response from Vasily Shestakov, who was Putin’s friend and sparring partner in the 1960s, when they were both teenagers studying judo at the same gym in Leningrad. Russia Sees U.S. Conspiracy Against World Cup Plans in FIFA Scandal 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z This was part of the bitterly contested front line around the city then known as Leningrad. Russia's WW2 parades overshadowed by Ukraine crisis - BBC News 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z She shares her bed with a senior officer from Leningrad with whom she discusses literature and the meaning of life. The rape of Berlin - BBC News 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z He cited the recent loan of the statue of the god Ilissos, one of the Elgin Marbles, to the Hermitage museum in Leningrad, and loans of objects to museums in Greece. Elgin Marbles: UK declines mediation over Parthenon sculptures 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Under Russian law, his lawyers say he became the legal owner of the painting after inheriting it from his father, who hung the painting for years in his apartment in Leningrad and died in 1991. Russian fights extradition from U.S. in World War II looted art case 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Putin was born in Soviet Leningrad in 1952, the only surviving child of parents who had lived through the Nazi siege of the city a decade earlier. Putin: The Rise of a Villain Straight From Central Casting 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Flicking through his photo album, his war memories are still sharp - the ferocious fight for Leningrad first, then deployment to Kursk and finally Berlin. Russia's WW2 parades overshadowed by Ukraine crisis - BBC News 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z What Arthur Tress remembers most about Leningrad are all the world-weary faces in the crowds. Back in the U.S.S.R. 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z “All that meat - chopped in pieces for your convenience. … It was easier to shop in Leningrad: lines always led to the food available at the moment, eliminating the necessity of making a choice.” Book Review: ‘Russian Tattoo’ is worthwhile read 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The second, on July 5, involved going over Leningrad and Moscow. Lessons from Eisenhower’s secret U-2 spy missions 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z He discovered that Leningrad’s self-styled democrats could get almost nothing done and that he could embezzle money both to help address the city’s challenges and to enrich himself and his cronies. Putin: The Rise of a Villain Straight From Central Casting 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z He has a Soviet-era PhD in economics from Leningrad University and is fluent in French and Portuguese, the latter of which he employed as a Soviet Army interpreter in Angola in the 1980s. For BP and chief executive Bob Dudley, a bumpy ride in Russia becomes worse 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z At the sound of Gershwin’s famous tune, everyone in the Leningrad crowd relaxed a bit. Library honoring Billy Joel with pop music prize 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z He reaches into the guts of the city to extract some humanity from the blood and darkness, and at its best “Leningrad” captures the heartbreak, agony and small salvations in both death and survival. Book review: ‘Leningrad: Siege and Symphony,’ by Brian Moynahan State-owned energy companies transferred accounts to Bank Rossiya, and the governors of St. Petersburg and the surrounding Leningrad region told state institutions in their jurisdictions to do the same, according to Russian news reports. It Pays to Be Putin’s Friend 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z In 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the KGB recalled him to Leningrad and assigned him to his alma mater, where his former law professor Anatoly Sobchak still taught part time. Putin: The Rise of a Villain Straight From Central Casting 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z On January 26, 1924, the city was renamed Leningrad to commemorate the recently departed leader of the Bolsheviks. In St. Petersburg, the Ghosts of Petrograd Putin likened the 5-month-old battle between pro-Russia separatists and Ukrainian government forces in eastern Ukraine to the World War II siege of Leningrad by invading Nazi troops. Putin denies invading Ukraine, warns West 'not to mess with us' 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z After launching the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Nazis had by mid-September cut off the last land route out of Leningrad. Book review: ‘Leningrad: Siege and Symphony,’ by Brian Moynahan Local press also reported that it plans to begin inspections in the North-West Leningrad region on Aug. 25. Russia keeps up pressure on McDonald's with new sanitary inspections 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z After months of delays, the case is finally before a judge at the St Petersburg and Leningrad region arbitration court. Music piracy in Russia in spotlight 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z In the summer of 1991, with the Soviet Union on life-support, the citizens of Leningrad were allowed to vote on whether to return the city to its original name. In St. Petersburg, the Ghosts of Petrograd He compared the Ukrainian government's offensive to retake territory seized by pro-Russia separatists to the 2 1/2-year siege of Leningrad, where as many as a million people died, most of hunger and disease. Putin denies invading Ukraine, warns West 'not to mess with us' 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Here, in this remote, wooded, scarcely populated part of Leningrad, you could actually get a few foreign stations on the radio. Remembering the Death of Andropov, on the Anniversary of His Birth 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z After graduating with a degree in Scandinavian languages from Leningrad State University, Kiselev worked as a television journalist during the Soviet era. Pushing the Kremlin Line This decidedly pre-digital form flourished during the last 20 years of the Cold War, acting as the connective tissue that held together dissidents in Moscow, Leningrad and far-flung parts of the Soviet Union. Op-Ed Contributor: Forget Facebook, Bring Back Samizdat 2014-05-11T22:50:23Z Then it became Leningrad, withdrawing further into itself. In St. Petersburg, the Ghosts of Petrograd Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, is Putin's hometown and his older brother died during the strangling Nazi encirclement, which remains a powerful symbol of Russian defiance. Putin denies invading Ukraine, warns West 'not to mess with us' 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Specifically, it demanded southern Finnish border lands that lay opposite the key city of Leningrad. 7 parts of Russia that other countries could call theirs 2014-03-27T12:15:00Z The question was: “Would it have been better to surrender Leningrad to the Nazis during World War II in order to save hundreds of thousands of lives?” Op-Ed Contributor: Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot on the Olympics’ Deceptive Face 2014-02-20T09:59:58Z "Today, though, something stops us from celebrating his victory," he wrote, reciting some of the scenes of Nazi barbarity, including the Dachau concentration camp and the siege of Leningrad. Olympic Nazi row threatens top Russian radio station 2014-02-13T16:32:31Z And yet Petrograd remains, looking more like Leningrad with each passing year of Putin's reign. In St. Petersburg, the Ghosts of Petrograd They contributed to the change of attitude, which started with the young elite in Moscow and Leningrad who were increasingly less interested in the mores of their parents. Sex, gay rights, women’s rights in Russia: Fighting oppression behind closed doors 2014-02-09T16:00:00Z The much-criticised Dozhd opinion poll coincided with the 70th anniversary of the Soviet breakthrough which pushed besieging Nazi German forces back from Leningrad. Liberal Russian TV channel may close 2014-02-04T11:02:55Z Mr. Putin has turned the wartime siege of Leningrad into a sacrosanct event, all while imposing a new siege on Sochi. Op-Ed Contributor: Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot on the Olympics’ Deceptive Face 2014-02-20T09:59:58Z A soldier watches a parade marking the 70th anniversary of the battle that lifted the Siege of Leningrad, now known as St Petersburg. Week in pictures: 25-31 January 2014 2014-01-31T16:21:43Z I recall, from my childhood on Leningrad’s outskirts, a diet rich in clashing visions of nuclear holocaust and triumph over the corrupt, capitalist West. In St. Petersburg, the Ghosts of Petrograd Hundreds of thousands of Russians died in Leningrad during the blockade - which lasted more than two years - but was a key turning point in the war. Should Russia have surrendered Leningrad? 2014-01-29T16:40:09Z The siege and blockade of Leningrad, now known as St. Petersburg, was lifted on Jan. 27, 1944. Photos of the Day: Jan. 27 2014-01-27T21:11:18Z He'd fought for the Soviet Army in Leningrad and Ukraine, during the Second World War, before returning to Tajikistan to become a firefighter. Looking for the village of Bollywood extras 2013-12-29T00:21:12Z ONE of my first childhood memories: New Year’s Eve, Leningrad, 1976. Op-Ed Contributor: It’s the Most Unknowable Time of the Year 2013-12-24T23:51:17Z Police attempted to arrest three suspects outside a building on the Leningrad Road, one of the city's most important transport arteries. Two policemen shot dead in Moscow 2013-12-13T11:32:24Z At the end of June, she took a week off to take me to Leningrad, but I came down with a fever on the train ride there and couldn’t enjoy the trip. Lara Vapnyar: “Katania.” 2013-10-07T04:00:00Z In a 2012 interview he said that his elder brother died from diphtheria during the Nazi siege of Leningrad; his father barely survived his combat tour with the Soviet army. Can Vladimir Putin Survive America's Energy Boom? 2013-08-29T10:00:55Z “Leningrad’s Perestroika: Crosscurrents in Photography, Video and Music,” examining the years before the dissolution of the Soviet Union and its aftermath. Calendar: Events in New Jersey 2013-07-27T00:19:21Z In this way, he hand-delivered the cells to colleagues in London, Moscow, Leningrad and Belgrade. Medical research: Cell division 2013-06-26T17:20:24.203Z “Leningrad’s Perestroika: Crosscurrents in Photography, Video and Music,” examining the years before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and its aftermath in the city now known as St. Petersburg. Calendar: Events in New Jersey 2013-06-15T01:15:43Z I defended Leningrad, held a machine gun then, but now everyone's forgotten about that. Valentina Tereshkova: The Greta Garbo of space 2013-06-08T00:01:26Z She met her husband in their home city of Leningrad, now St Petersburg, when a mutual friend invited Putin to see a play along with several girlfriends. For Lyudmila Putin, solace now that first lady 'shift' is done 2013-06-07T17:03:00Z Some of the most interesting works in the exhibition are the videos, which show Leningrad artists pushing even further beyond traditional mediums and boundaries. | New Jersey: ‘Leningrad’s Perestroika,’ at Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick 2013-06-01T01:44:16Z The remains of more than 200 soldiers who perished in fighting during the blockade of Leningrad will be reburied on Tuesday. Photos of the Day: May 6 2013-05-06T20:48:14Z He was among 10 lucky crew members to be sent to a Leningrad hospital within a day of the disaster. Eyewitness: Tragedy of Soviet nuclear submarine K-27 2013-01-24T12:39:31Z Mr. Schmidt became a criminal lawyer after graduating from the legal department of Leningrad State University in 1960. Yuri M. Schmidt, Russian Human Rights Lawyer, Is Dead at 75 2013-01-17T04:27:33Z A New York Times dispatch from Aleppo portrays a city under conditions beginning to resemble those that might be familiar to survivors of the World War II sieges of Leningrad and Stalingrad. Assad's Roll of the Dice: Is Winter Coming for Syria's Rebellion? 2012-12-24T18:05:23Z You can see this in “Leningrad’s Perestroika: Crosscurrents in Photography, Video and Music,” an exhibition at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. | New Jersey: ‘Leningrad’s Perestroika,’ at Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick 2013-06-01T01:44:16Z The remains of more than 200 soldiers who perished in fighting during the blockade of Leningrad will be reburied on Tuesday. Photos of the Day: May 6 2013-05-06T20:48:14Z Five days after the accident, the rest were taken to Leningrad - now called St Petersburg. Eyewitness: Tragedy of Soviet nuclear submarine K-27 2013-01-24T12:39:31Z Mr. Strzhalkovsky is a longtime associate of Mr. Putin’s; the two served together in the K.G.B. in St. Petersburg, called Leningrad at the time. Norilsk Nickel Pays Strzhalkovsky $100 Million Severance 2012-12-18T00:53:49Z Vishnevskaya was born in what was then Leningrad and survived the city's blockade by Nazi Germany during World War II, serving in missile defence troops when she was a teenager. Russian opera singer dies aged 86 2012-12-11T17:45:50Z It says nothing about what he did between graduation from Leningrad State University in 1984 and 2000 when he became deputy chief of Putin's presidential staff. Rosneft's Sechin marks rise of Kremlin as oil power 2012-10-18T18:07:59Z In the 1970s he moved to Georgia and then to Leningrad, where he eventually took the helm of the Leningrad Comedy Theater. Pyotr Fomenko, Innovative Russian Stage Director, Dies at 80 2012-08-10T03:50:23Z A one-time judo champion in his native city of St Petersburg, then called Leningrad, Putin is likely to be at his combative best during his first visit to Britain in nine years. Black belt Putin to tackle Cameron on Syria 2012-08-02T09:42:57Z Mr. Khil, a baritone trained at the Rimsky-Korsakov conservatory in what was then Leningrad, achieved early fame in his country for his renditions of popular folk songs. Eduard Khil, Unlikely YouTube Sensation, Dies at 77 2012-06-06T03:30:06Z She studied in Leningrad, after which she was accepted into Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre. Russian opera singer dies aged 86 2012-12-11T17:45:50Z The Serb siege of Sarajevo went on longer than the 900-day siege of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. Bosnia Marks 20 Years Since War Broke Out 2012-04-06T17:55:09Z The crisis ended in Mr. Sobchak’s “starry hour,” as 180,000 Russians jammed into Palace Square in Leningrad — to hear a speech that passed into legend, urging the populace to press ahead toward freedom. Kseniya Sobchak, Russia?s ?It Girl,? Dons Opposition Cloak 2012-03-17T23:15:59Z His father was a military man who fought in World War II; his mother, still living, is a physician who as a teenager survived the brutal siege of Leningrad. The Saturday Profile: Sergei Kolesnikov Aims to Expose Corruption of Putin Era 2012-02-04T01:07:21Z Mr. Shteyngart, who was born in Leningrad, often writes about American culture with a comical and satirical bent. Bits Blog: One on One: Gary Shteyngart, Author of 'Super Sad True Love Story' 2011-12-20T18:12:06Z Seven years later his artistic development was accelerated by his encounter with Henri Matisse's pictures at the Hermitage in Leningrad, now St Petersburg. Zdenek Sykora obituary 2011-07-19T17:28:50Z He was executed in a Leningrad prison in February 1938, one of the hundreds of thousands of innocent victims of Stalin's terror. Why Is Quantum Gravity So Hard? And Why Did Stalin Execute the Man Who Pioneered the Subject? 2011-07-14T11:45:00.427Z In 1990, Ms. Sobchak’s father, the reformist chairman of Leningrad’s city council, was a rising political star when he extended a job offer to a veteran K.G.B. officer adrift in a disintegrating Soviet Union. Kseniya Sobchak, Russia?s ?It Girl,? Dons Opposition Cloak 2012-03-17T23:15:59Z He earned a doctorate in biophysics in the early 1970s and spent more than 15 years conducting military research in Leningrad on “biological defenses” against cutting-edge weapons like lasers. The Saturday Profile: Sergei Kolesnikov Aims to Expose Corruption of Putin Era 2012-02-04T01:07:21Z After the war, she studied medicine in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. Elena Bonner, Widow of Sakharov, Dies at 88 2011-06-19T22:21:06Z She was only two when her father died in the Siege of Leningrad, so she never knew him, or knew him only through the letters that her mother would read to her on Sundays. My Nazi father 2011-03-28T23:01:22Z Determination of gravity at Leningrad by Russian scientists likewise has indicated that the 1906 Potsdam value is too high. Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Papers 34-44 On Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, 1966 2011-01-22T03:00:16.753Z Areshian, then an archaeology graduate student in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, was summoned. Ancient winemaking operation unearthed in Armenian cave 2011-01-11T05:19:00Z Father Alexeev, too, lived a secular life until he reached college in what was then Leningrad. East New York Journal: Newcomers From Russia Are Reviving a Church 2010-12-25T01:38:28Z Russia’s secret weapon is Viktor Ivanov, a former KGB colleague of Vladimir Putin’s in Leningrad who remains a close friend of the Russian prime minister. Beefing Up the Russia-China Connection 2010-12-03T22:45:00Z Both lectured at Leningrad and Moscow universities and broadcast on radio. Dorothy Knowles obituary 2010-12-13T18:26:00Z "We're the same communists as the CPRF, just better: more contemporary, more fun, more creative," says the website of his party, called Communists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. Reds Rebel at Ship Revels 2010-06-11T21:26:00Z He got an undergraduate degree in psychology at Leningrad State University in 1976, according to university records. Russian Inventor Has Friends in High Places 2010-03-05T02:34:00Z It is a joke, a terrible, terrible joke they are taking my husband Fyodor on the Stalintrek when he lacks sufficient imagination to go from here to Leningrad or even Tula. Voyage To Eternity She dressed in the latest styles from the dressing centers of Prague, Leningrad or from the local houses, ignoring the raised eyebrows of her embassy associates. Frigid Fracas How he had managed to get from there to Leningrad without being seen once was more of a mystery, but certainly not impossible in the light of what had been done since. Anything You Can Do! For some reason the C.I.A. thought there might be less observation on the part of the KGB if Hank approached Moscow indirectly, that is by sea and from Leningrad. Combat It would never had one in Moscow or Leningrad, of course, but here it was very amusing indeed. Freedom For the chance to live a normal life, for the chance to forget Leningrad in the wintertime, watery potato soup, rags for clothing, swaggering commissars, poverty, disease. Voyage To Eternity I passed up Kamchatka because it would mean too long a haul through unfriendly waters from Leningrad and because there is not much water power. The Solar Magnet Eight months later, a non-vision phone call had been received by the Regent's Board of the Khrushchev Memorial Psychiatric Hospital in Leningrad. Anything You Can Do! Of these, Hank Kuran estimated, approximately half were Scandinavians or British being transported between London, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Helsinki on the small liner's way to Leningrad. Combat Through the efforts of Malcolm Bell, Jr., of Savannah, Georgia, and Frank Braynard, a search was made by Russian authorities at Leningrad for contemporary references to the ship. The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80 Then, three weeks ago, a non-vision phone call was received by the secretary of the Board of Regents of the Khrushchev Memorial Psychiatric Hospital in Leningrad. Anything You Can Do ... He was told, as expected, that the factory and distribution point was in Leningrad and given instructions and letters of introduction. Revolution It is cultivated and produces fruit in Leningrad, young specimens of it were planted on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea and there outlived excellently. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934 They were only a day and half in Leningrad. Combat In the text: "If it had hit around Leningrad or Moscow ..." the word "Lenigrad" was corrected to "Leningrad." The Answer He killed another man in Leningrad—we have since discovered that it was for the purpose of stealing his personal flyer. Anything You Can Do ... The Leningrad subway, as much a museum as a system of transportation. Revolution J. Regia grows well in the park of Botanic Institute in Leningrad, attaining 8-10 M.; in the southern part of Smolensk district the tree produces fruit as far as Minsk. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934 The tour lasts eighteen days including the time it takes to get to Leningrad. Combat His posters and calendars are best-sellers in Japan; several of his painting are on permanent display at the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad. 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s He had managed to get here from Asia by stealing a flyer in Leningrad. Anything You Can Do ... To cut it short, when the war came along, my mother was killed in the Nazi bombardment of Leningrad. Revolution There was a slight delay while the craft relayed back exact measurements, and waited for the Leningrad to punch a safe and adequate hole in the final dome. Oberheim (Voices) Paco said, "Well, just to change the subject, gentlemen, there is one thing above all that I noted here in Leningrad." Combat Within hours of Yeltsin's statement in defiance of the coup leaders, handbills reproducing his statement papered the walls of the Moscow metro and Leningrad houses. The Online World We cannot forget the heroic defense of Moscow and Leningrad and Stalingrad, or the tremendous Russian offensives of 1943 and 1944 which destroyed formidable German armies. State of the Union Address Actually, I have practically no memories of Leningrad, very few of my family. Revolution He wondered if they were related, or how a Joyce had come to settle in Leningrad. Oberheim (Voices) The Red Arrow Express had round wheels, burned Diesel fuel and made the trip between Leningrad and Moscow overnight. Combat It is closer to Moscow than to Leningrad. After the Rain : how the West lost the East The Intourist guide who had shepherded them around Leningrad took them to the train, saw them all safely aboard, told them another Intourist employee would pick them up at the station in Moscow. Combat The question became increasingly interesting following recent visits not only to Moscow and Leningrad but also to various other capital cities of the Soviet complex. Revolution He was the second officer of the first destroyer, and the man taken into the confidence of Soviet Colonel Joyce, Commander of the Leningrad. Oberheim (Voices) Leningrad had cushioned the first impression of Moscow for Henry Kuran. Combat But he recalled their conducted tour of the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad. Combat The idea of the KGB putting tails on the tens of thousands of tourists that swarmed Moscow and Leningrad, became a little on the ridiculous side. Combat On the fifth day he took the Red Arrow Express to Leningrad and established himself at the Astoria Hotel, 39 Hertzen Street. Revolution Then I think you should organize a landing party and come to the Leningrad. Oberheim (Voices) By the time they'd reached Leningrad aside from Paco and Loo, his cabinmates, Hank had built an Iron Curtain all of his own between himself and the other members of the Progressive Tours trip. Combat "I was born here in Leningrad," Paul said evenly. Revolution But what I was getting to is what happens when your outfit takes over here in Leningrad? Revolution Visiting in Sweden at the Soviet Embassy in Stockholm is a colonel who is at the head of the Leningrad branch of the KGB department in charge of counter-revolution, as they call it. Revolution With a knotting throat and a rising anxiety he could not contain, he guided the ship himself into the open receiving dock of the Leningrad. Oberheim (Voices) |
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