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Kirov, Sergei Mironovich
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Kirov, Sergei Mironovich (b. 27 Mar. 1886, d. 1 Dec. 1934). Russian Communist revolutionary Born in Urzhum in the Vyatka province, he moved to St Petersburg, where he became an effective
Bolshevik organizer in the
Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917. He took part in the
Russian Civil War, and was an important influence in the Bolshevik victory in the northern Caucasus. He became leader of the
Communist Party in Azerbaijan. He helped to create the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist republic in 1922, one of the first four republics to form the USSR. He became a close ally in
Stalin's brutal quest for power against the Old Bolsheviks (former followers of Lenin), and in 1926 was made head of the Communist Party in Leningrad and north-west Russia. His eloquence and authority soon aroused Stalin's distrust, and he was shot by a minor party official. His murder, which was possibly ordered by Stalin himself, resulted in the execution of hundreds of Leningrad citizens and the deportation of thousands more, as well as triggering the
Great Purge.
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KIROV SHOWS NEW SPIRIT ON TOUR
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/6/1989; ; 700+ words
; TORONTO - The legendary Kirov Ballet from Leningrad demonstrated both...came in tentative performances of the Kirov's first Balanchine ballets, recent...and derivative -- Soviet works. The Kirov's Toronto performances were part of...
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Kirov's Vinogradov: "I don't feel my position is in jeopardy."(Oleg Vinogradov of Kirov Ballet)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 11/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...leadership--all of these have long made the Kirov Ballet's offstage adventures at least as intriguing as its onstage ones. When the Kirov's expected fall 1995 five-city United...Washington. The presenters could not meet the Kirov's fee requirements, he says, and...
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Kirov Ballet balances old and new // Lavish `Swan Lake' is the centerpiece of North American tour
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/25/1986; ; 700+ words
; ...visit to North America by the esteemed Kirov Ballet in 22 years. The visiting contingent...world's leading ballet companies, the Kirov is famous for its precise, highly controlled...preserving classical Russian dance. The Kirov first performed and popularized many classical...
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America to celebrate the Kirov. (Kirov Ballet comes to U.S.)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 5/26/1986; ; 700+ words
; America to celebrate the Kirov When the Soviet Union's Kirov Ballet dances onstage May 21 for its first U.S. visit...ballet, which was brought to birth and then nurtured by Kirov performers. George Balanchine, Mikhail Baryshnikov...
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Kirov's calling card
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 1/9/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...January, conductor Valery Gergiev and the Kirov Opera are there for the Red Sea International...of that. Last January, Gergiev led the Kirov orchestra and chorus in three concerts...by the growing fame of Gergiev and the Kirov. When Gergiev first brought the opera...
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Where the Kirov differs. (Kirov Ballet of Leningrad)
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 8/11/1986; ; 700+ words
; WHERE THE KIROV DIFFERS FOR THOSE OF us who had never seen Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, but had pieced together an ideal from the...and from the standard-shattering performances of Kirov defectors Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova and Mikhail...
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Who Killed Kirov?: The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery.(Review)
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 6/14/1999; ; 700+ words
; Who Killed Kirov?: The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery By...Leningrad Communist Party chief Sergei M. Kirov on December 1, 1934, by Leonid V. Nikolayev...passive Russian style, "They've killed Kirov; now let them kill Stalin." Despite...
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'Nobody says no to Gergiev' London is to get a Verdi festival thanks to the Kirov Opera circus's tough ringmaster
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 7/5/2001; ; 700+ words
; THE visit of the Kirov Opera to Covent Garden next week is certain...this time conductor Valery Gergiev, the Kirov s ruling tsar since 1988, is broadening...the usual Russian operatic staples. The Kirov has taken on Verdi. The Kirov now boasts...
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'Nobody says no to Gergiev'; London is to get a Verdi festival thanks to the Kirov Opera circus's tough ringmaster.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 7/5/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Byline: TOM SUTCLIFFE THE visit of the Kirov Opera to Covent Garden next week is certain...this time conductor Valery Gergiev, the Kirov s ruling tsar since 1988, is broadening...the usual Russian operatic staples. The Kirov has taken on Verdi. The Kirov now boasts...
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Kirov's Sparkling Heirloom 'Jewels'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/16/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Balanchine left the company we now call the Kirov Ballet in search of artistic freedom. The century would nearly run out before the Kirov, in turn, attained the freedom to reclaim...at the Kennedy Center Opera House, the Kirov presented its first American performances...
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Kirov, Sergei Mironovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
KIROV, SERGEI MIRONOVICH (1886 – 1934...the northern Russian province of Viatka, Kirov was abandoned by his father and left orphaned...party activist before the age of twenty. Kirov joined the Bolshevik Party and was arrested...
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Kirov
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kirov kē´ref , formerly Vyatka , city (1989 pop. 440,000), capital of Kirov region, central European Russia, on the...The city was renamed Vyatka in 1780, and Kirov (for S. M. Kirov ) in 1934. In the 19th...
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Kirov Ballet
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Kirov Ballet Ballet company founded in 1735 at...of Petipa (1862–1903), the Kirov Ballet was the world's leading company...Rudolf Nureyev , and Mikhail Baryshnikov . Kirov Opera has also made a major contribution...
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Sergei Mironovich Kirov
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sergei Mironovich Kirov , 1888-1934, Russian Soviet leader...Stalin's order. However, Stalin used Kirov's murder to institute the party purge...1930s. Among those tried and executed for Kirov's murder were Zinoviev , Kamenev , and...
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...century, Alexander Pushkin. He joined the Kirov Ballet in 1967, entirely bypassing the...Union in June 1974. Still a member of the Kirov, he had been dancing in Toronto, Canada...Natalia Makarova, who had defected from the Kirov in 1970. His Western admirers, critics...
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