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Category Archives: Shibaraku: wait a moment!

Anecdotes and tips about some Japanese writers and their books, Japanese woodblock prints (Ukiyo-e) and quaint subjects like Japanese silent movies before WW2, the shipping line NYK and theire ships the Kamakura Maru and the Asama Maru, which in 1942 took western diplomats to Lourenço Marques in exchange for their Japanese counterparts. Among those western diplomats were the Dutch writers F.C. Terborgh and Robert van Gulik.

Posted on 10/12/2019 by admin

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  • Moussia 2: Alexander Borovsky
  • Moussia 3 : Maria Viktorovna
  • Moussia 4: The beginning of a turbulent life
  • Moussia 5: Her ancestry – the Sila-Nowicki family
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  • Moussia 7 : A double wedding in 1905
  • Moussia 8: Youthful aspirations, 1915 and 1916
  • Moussia 9: Vladimir’s ancestry (1)
  • Moussia 10: Vladimir’s ancestry (2)
  • Moussia 11: Timeline Petrograd 1917, preparations for the escape
  • Moussia 12: From Petrograd to Yokohama in twenty-two days
  • Moussia 13: The news of 27 november 1917, the full version
  • Moussia 14: Mistaken identity causes a 24-day delay in Japan
  • Moussia 15: From the Orient to the Sunshine Belt
  • Moussia 16: 1918: “Kerensky will come back, woman says.”
  • Moussia 17: San Francisco, 1918
  • Moussia 18: The first year in San Francisco, facts and riddles
  • Moussia 19: Los Angeles, 1919: “Madame will cut a wide swath in stagedom”
  • Moussia 20: 1920: “Rescuing the Czar”
  • Moussia 21: “An Imperial Affair”
  • Moussia 22: Vladimir Baranovsky back in Siberia, 1919
  • Moussia 23: 1919-1920: Siberian opportunities turn into pipedreams
  • Moussia 24: 1920-1921, Moussia and Sergey Prokofiev
  • Moussia 25: 1922, Moussia meets Alexander Borovsky, a great Russian pianist
  • Moussia 26: A splendid time at the Esplanade
  • Moussia 27: 1922-1923 Marriage and honeymoon
  • Moussia 28: 1923 : Genoa – Rio de Janeiro – Buenos Aires – New York and Carnegie Hall
  • Moussia 29: 1924, the birth of Natasha, daughter of Alexander and Moussia Borovsky
  • Moussia 30: Meanwhile, back in Chicago: Vladimir and Fern
  • Moussia 31: More about Moussia’s and Vladimir’s ancestry before 1900
  • Moussia 32: 1925 Life in the Borovsky family
  • Moussia 33: 1926 An irregular but happy family life
  • Moussia 34: Life with Sergey and Lina Prokofiev
  • Moussia 35: 1927 (1): Moussia looks for her brother in Lubyanka Prison, a stopover in Poland.
  • Moussia 36: 1927 (2) An eventful holiday trip with the Prokofievs in their legendary Ballot car
  • Moussia 37: 1928/29 Moving to Berlin in its Golden Twenties
  • Moussia 38: 1929 Moussia’s brief reunion with her brother Julian in Moscow
  • Moussia 39: 1931 Separation of Moussia and Alexander Borovsky
  • Moussia 40: 1931-1937 Going through the rapids
  • Moussia 41: My chance encounter with Giacomo Antonini
  • Moussia 42: The mystery about Giacomo Antonini
  • Moussia 43 Antonini’s early years
  • Moussia 44: Antonini, in search of position and identity 1925-1934
  • Moussia 45: 1935 – 1937, Antonini’s fateful years (1/2)
  • Moussia 46: 1935 – 1937, Antonini’s fateful years (2/2)
  • Moussia 47 : 1938 -1941 Turbulent times for the Antoninis
  • Moussia 48: 1941-1943 Antonini’s activities during the German occupation of France
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