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In Gulinka, a village overnight by train from Moscow plus a two-hour walk through the mud, there was no reason for rushing the election. But Maria Kurkina, the village President, thought the holidays on the anniversary of the Revolution offered an excellent chance to hold both an election and an Old Home Week. "We are rather a backward village," she said. "We have only a four-year school and frightful roads and no electricity yet. But we've stirred up in these past four years a lot of public spirit that is ready for great achlevements. Most of us have not seen the world and don't know the many things there are to get. Yet from our backward Gulinka no less than fifty people have gone to honorable tasks in our Soviet country- some engineers, an army commander, a doctor, a surveyor, an assistant editor, the foremen of the marten ovens in Stalingrad, many promislng students and several other notables. Let us invile them to tell us what is this Soviet power and what it offers. Let them tell us the shortcomings of our Gulinka, that we may know how to instruct our Deputies; then we shall be behind nobody in all new blessings there are to acquire."

Every one in the village thought the idea splendid, and as there was no opposing voice President Kurkina went to the township election commission and asked that commissioners be sent to see that Gulinka's election was held properly. "All your grain deliveries in?" asked the township commission. "Potato deliveries too? No village campaigns unfinished? No work which the outgoing Soviet has still to do? Then hold it when you like; it's your affair. Have you made your report yet ?" "Made it and printed it, and every one has discussed it," Kurkina replied proudly, producing a neat little folder, My Report to the Voters. Such reports, though not always printed, are made by all Soviet officials to their constituents. The reports, telling how the instructions given at the previous election have been carried out, must be discussed at least a week before the voting so that the election meeting may confine itself to candidates.

Kurkina's report was homely enough in its detalla. Nowhere in its sixteen printed pages did she brag of her own work; nowhere did she ask for votes. She told of great improvements in the village and described how they were accomplished.

"During your daily work you hardly notice how life is changing," President Kurkina's report began. But when you look back to sum up these four years you note a very great difference in our life, our village and our people. Many new brick houses replace the broken huts, A radio central rereiver gives Moscow conoerto to our homes. Outside the villago great brick structures are rising- the slables, barns and granaries of our collective farms. Cottage windows that formerly frightened one by their blackness are bright with flowers and white curtains People also are changing. The children of former farmhands become doctors , engineers, commanders."

The Voice of the Soviet Village, Anna Louise Strong (1935)

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"To enter the School of the Imperial Ballet is to enter a convent whence frivolity is banned, and where merciless discipline reigns. Every morning at eight, the solemn tolling of a big bell would put an end to our sleep. We dressed under the stern eyes of a governess, whose duty it was to see that all hands were kept perfectly clean, all nails in good trim, and all teeth carefully washed. When we were ready, we went to prayers, which were sung by one of the older pupils in front of an ikon underneath which a tiny flickering lamp was burning like a little red star. At nine, breakfast—tea, bread and butter—was served, and immediately afterwards the dancing lesson began.

We were all gathered in a big room, very high and well lit. There was no furniture except a few benches, a piano, and enormous mirrors. The walls were decorated with portraits of Russia’s sovereigns. After the small novices’ lesson, the elder, more advanced pupils had their turn, and the beginners withdrew to another room, where they pursued their work. At twelve the bell rang for lunch, after which we were taken out for a walk. Then more exercises until four o’clock, and then dinner. After dinner we enjoyed a period of leisure. Then came fencing lessons, music lessons, and from time to time rehearsals of dances which were to be performed on the stage of the Maryinsky Theatre. When we children had to appear in a ballet, we were taken to the theatre in great, well-closed cars. Supper used to be at eight, and an hour later we were sent to bed. On feast days were were taken to one of the Imperial Theatres: at times to the Theatre Michel, to see French plays performed by the French artists belonging to the Imperial company.

The most exciting days in our well-ordered life were those when the Emperor paid a visit to the school. In those times the imperial family used to mark their interest in the school by frequent visits. And then, to please the Empress, the children would perform a ballet on the school’s little stage. I can remember that one day, when I was a little girl, the Emperor Alexander and the Empress Maria, with other members of the imperial family, came to see one of those performances. At the end of the ballet we were allowed to go into the auditorium. The Czar took my little comrade, Stanislava Belinskaya, in his arms. He was so kind-hearted and unaffected, in all respects a true Russian! At that very instant I burst into tears. Naturally I was asked why I wept. And between two sobs I replied, with tears trickling fast down my cheeks: “I want the Emperor to take me into his arms too!’ Grand Duke Vladimir, in order to comfort me, took me upon his knee. But I was not satisfied, and went on weeping and repeating, “I want the Emperor to kiss me!” The Grand Duke laughed heartily. After the performance, the imperial family would come to the dining-room and have tea with us. We were not in the least embarrassed by their presence. The Emperor and Empress were so kind, so very much like a kind father and mother, that we were quite at ease with them, and altogether content.

Every Sunday my mother came to see me; and I used to spend all my holidays with her. During the summer we always lived in the country. We grew so fond of our little holiday cottage, that even now we have not the heart to give it up in favour of some more comfortable abode".

Anna Pavlova "Pages of my life"

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Relax On The Beach: Sink your toes into the soft sands of Manatee Public Beach, Anna Maria Public Beach, or Coquina Beach. For a quieter experience, head to Bean Point Beach for crystal-clear waters and serene vibes.

Explore Leffis Key Preserve: Take a tranquil stroll through this lush nature preserve in Bradenton Beach, complete with a picturesque boardwalk winding through mangrove forests and offering stunning Gulf of Mexico views.

Visit The Historic Bridge Street: Discover the charm of Anna Maria Island at Bridge Street, dotted with local boutiques, cozy coffee shops, tempting restaurants, and lively cocktail bars.

See The Bridge Street Pier And Clock Tower: Don't miss the iconic Bridge Street Pier and Clock Tower, remnants of the island's history and once-vital transportation link, offering panoramic views and a glimpse into the island's past.

Hit The Links At The Fish Hole Miniature Golf: Enjoy a family-friendly round of mini-golf at this nautical-themed course on Bridge Street, featuring waterfalls, lagoons, and scenic vistas for a delightful day on the green.

Hike The Grassy Pointe Preserve: Embark on a serene nature walk through Holmes Beach's Grassy Point Preserve, where the Grassy Point Trail leads to a picturesque boardwalk amidst mangroves and offers captivating bay views.

Go Parasailing Over Holmes Beach: Experience Anna Maria Island from new heights with an exhilarating parasailing adventure over the turquoise waters of Holmes Beach, offering breathtaking aerial views of the island.

Watch The Sunset From AMI City Pier: End your day with a breathtaking sunset spectacle at the AMI City Pier, where you can dine at the City Pier Grill and Bait while marveling at the vibrant colors painting the sky.

Tour The Anna Maria Island Historical Society Complex: Dive into the island's rich history at the AMIHS Museum, Belle Haven, Mangrove Walk, and Old City Jail, exploring exhibits, historic cottages, and scenic parklands.

Go Kayaking Through The Mangroves: Immerse yourself in Anna Maria Island's natural beauty with a kayaking adventure through lush mangrove tunnels, offering opportunities for wildlife spotting and tranquil exploration.

Explore Anna Maria Island's enchanting blend of history, nature, and relaxation, and create unforgettable memories in this hidden gem of Florida's Gulf Coast.

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Set against the Bridgerton-era backdrop of Regency London, Anna Bradley’s witty and sexy new trilogy sets fiercely alpha dukes against the duchesses who are determined to transform their delinquent husbands by any means necessary. A delight for fans of Mary Jo Putney, Sabrina Jeffries, Ella Quinn, Diana Quincy and Julia Quinn.

One should never judge a duke by his cover. As far as London society knows, Giles Drew, the Duke of Basingstoke, is everything a proper aristocrat ought to be. But when a notorious scandal sheet publishes details of Giles’s questionable bedroom antics, only one bride can salvage his reputation.

Prim and penniless, Francesca Stanhope has resigned herself to a season full of the ton’s snickering—until the Duke of Basingstoke’s dizzying courtship transforms her fate. Yet wedded bliss quickly turns into a clash of wills as Franny realizes her handsome duke is a devil in disguise.

But beneath the newlywed’s skirmishes lies scorching heat. And while each attempts to tame the other, the truth is that this unconventional union may be all either could ever desire . . .

My Review

5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Give The Devil His Duke is the first book in the Drop Dead Duke series and it was absolutely everything I want out of a historical regency romance. Colorful characters, an action packed and entertaining plot filled with humor, snarky banter, mystery and excitement. This stunning Duke will steal your heart as he tries to do what’s right not only for his family but for Francesca as well. But hold on to your seat as this spirited, strong, as well as beautiful, Lady Francesca will have you cheering her on as she puts the Duke in his place. But most importantly, the romantic and scorching heat between these two is off the charts!

Lady Francesca Stanhope at the age of twenty-one, had just returned to London after ten long years, living with her mother in a small cottage in Ashwell, Herefordshire, since being shunned and blamed by their family for a scandal.

Lady Crump a loyal friend to Francesca’s mother Lady Maria Stanhope was sponsoring Lady Francesca for a season. But Lady Francesca was not in London to dance, or capture a husband, but to try to remain invisible, until she could talk with her Uncle Edward and hopefully obtain some money that would help her mother’s worsening health issues.

Giles Drew the Eighth Duke of Basingstoke, is everything a proper aristocrat ought to be.

At least in the eyes of the ton, he’s charming, honorable, a man without vice, and a paragon of the highest principles. But to try to repair his family’s position after his father’s destructive behavior, he decides to marry Susannah Stanhope. But when a notorious scandal sheet publish details of his questionable behavior. Only one bride can salvage his reputation. Beautiful and penniless Lady Francesca. But will Giles make the right decision?

“How could I tell you, Francesca, that when I saw you in the garden that night, with those blue eyes and all that dark hair tumbling about your shoulders, I thought by some magical stroke of luck, I’d secured the hand of the most beautiful lady in London?”

So entertaining with snarky banter, and Francesca frequently putting Giles in his place had me constantly smiling. And when the scheming, selfish, egotistical relatives who were so mean spirited, received their due from the town I was dancing in my seat. This is such a fantastic start to this new series. You will not want to put this down. I am anxiously awaiting the next book in this series!

I received an early copy and this is my honest review.

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Kinder-totenlieder, a vignette on Grief and Music.

   In the stream of light which came through the window, the dust held itself in the air like the breath before one begins to weep. It was a simple cottage where he went to write, empty except for an old piano, and a desk with paper, and other little oddities, a stone, or the cocoon of an insect that had caught his eye strewn about, the simple furnishings which left for its occasional inhabitant respite from the business and turmoil of the everyday, as well as a solitude which he seemed to both require and resent, at least in times like this.

Nearly four months had gone by since his daughter, Maria, a happy and playful, but frail and sickly child, had passed away from scarlet fever, leaving Gustav empty, and pulling the growing silence and resentment between him and his wife into more of an irreparable divide. Retreating into himself, he counted the days after her death, days added against the time given to his ailing heart, and counted the beats of his broken heart as if they were written in his scores.

  Gustav swung open the door, and set his satchel of manuscript paper on the chair next to the desk. A few half dried autumn leaves that he tracked in crumbled under his boots as he sat down to his well-worn piano bench. Reaching for his papers, he paused and held his hands in the air for just a moment. Memories were brought to his mind of playing piano, not unlike the one he sat before now, with his daughter on his lap, singing. These memories of childhood folly now seemed of infinite value, and he held them in his heart, gingerly and carefully, like he once held his daughter.

   After this memory had fled from his brain, leaving the feeling of her absence yet again in him, Mahler played a few scales to ensure that the piano had held it’s tune despite the changing weather of the early autumn. It was determined that the instrument had, in fact, remained adequately in tune, and Mahler brought out the manuscript papers from his bag, as well as pen and inkwell. However, rather than continue working on his latest composition, he paused yet again, held his breath, and wiped a few stray tears away from the lens of his glasses. He ran his fingers through his hair, and began to play.

“Songs on the Death of Children,” he whispered to himself, “had I not imagined that I might be tempting Fate.”

   It was the third movement, which he felt like the stab of an arrow today. His gaze, like the father written in the score, was forever drawn away from the face of his wife, and towards the empty place in his heart once filled with the joyful face of his daughter. Did she blame him, for writing this tragedy into their future, or had the pain of their loss changed them so deeply that they could not reconcile it.

As he brought the words forth from his lips, it was now that he felt that the man who had written these songs had never considered himself as the father in the poems. He had lost so many of his siblings, his mother, and later, his brother too, to suicide. The loss of what could have been was a prominent feature in his young mind, but what he had written here was more than a requiem for a life unlived.

As he sang the words “Ach, zu schnell, zu schnell,” his voice broke and he held his head in his hands, weeping. Glasses falling to the ground unceremoniously, he felt so poignantly the loss of his future, with his daughter, and his present, with Anna and his wife.

“What right has the sun to rise again, and to shine through the trees, while she lies interred in the earth, never to see it?”

Gustav whispered to himself, with his voice still hoarse from crying. In the silence of the early fall, where no birds were left to console him with their song, the flowers had withered away and turned to dust, just as he felt he had.

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On Maria’s birthday,

The De Leon girls were surprised to wake up and find a cow on their farm, led and being cleaned by John.

"What’s this!” Maria asked.

“Someone I know was selling her for a bargain. I thought you could take great care of her here.”

“She’s splendid, John. But you know I can’t afford this.”

“Maria, please. Its a gift. No strings attached.”

Maria had a hard time wrapping her head around the idea of a gift. She was so accustomed to overly friendly men taking advantage of her misfortune. But once again, John’s sweet eyes conveyed his honesty.

“Besides, its more like a gift for the kids.” He added.

It was true. They had basically fallen in love.

“Thank you, my dear friend.”

He shrugged away her thanks, but smiled as if he couldn't be prouder. “So, what will you name her?”

“Hm... I think I’ll call her, Alice.” Maria said, and John got a kick out of that.

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Since the World War, when Italy though united with Germany and Austria-Hungary in the Triple Alliance, joined the Allies, no one has seriously contemplated a marriage alliance between the Italian House of Savoy and a scion of a German royal family. That is, not until two years ago.

The person to whom it occurred was a twenty-year-old girl. She was Mafalda, the second daughter of Vittorio Emanuele, King of Italy. At Rome had met a young German art student, Philip of Hesse, son of Prince Friedrich Carl of Hesse and a nephew of William Hohenzollern. Her was seven years her senior, blond, athletic of build, an enthusiastic sportsman, and intensely interested in architecture. One of his ideas was that the cottage could be as architecturally perfect as the palace if the same amount of interest were put into its designing. Other ideas he had, many of which Mafalda, herself interested in the arts, found absorbing.

When she went to Racconigi, the castle in northern Italy where the royal family was spending the summer, her thoughts were full of the young German. But she said nothing, for she knew that a marriage with a citizen of a country so recently an enemy of Italy would be most unacceptable. Her elder sister, Yolanda, had that spring been married to the Italian Count Calvi de Bergolo, greatly disappointing her grandmother, the Queen Mother Margherita, who had hoped for an alliance with an heir to one of the few crowns still remaining in Europe.

Margherita was indeed, at that very moment planning a royal marriage for Mafalda. To this end, the Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne, and his sister Marie Jose were invited to Raconigi. September 15 was the birthday of Prince Umberto, Mafalda's only brother. It was the Queen Mother's desire that at the birthday fete, the betrothal of Mafalda and the Belgian Prince should be announced.

Mafalda confided to her sixteen-year-old sister Giovanna that she was in love with the German Prince and not in the least interested in the throne of Belgium. “I wouldn't marry a man that didn't love,” replied the loyal Giovanna, “but Grandmother will be furious.”

On the eve of the birthday fete, Mafalda and Giovanna were both taken suddenly ill, whether with a bona fide malady or the kind that mysteriously grips children at the sound of the school bell has never been authentically verified. At any rate the celebration was called off, and the royal guests went home.

When the Belgian danger was well removed, Mafalda announced to her father that she wanted to marry the young German – not without misgivings for she knew that his race and religion (he is a Lutheran, she a Roman Catholic) were both against him, in addition to the fact that he is crownless. Said Vittorio Emanuele: “Your grandmother will never give her consent to such a marriage, but if you are really in love with this man, your mother and I will not oppose you. But you must wait.”

For two years Mafalda waited, riding her horses, driving her motor, playing tennis, seeing Philip occasionally and hoping that her grandmother would be won over.

September 1925. Again there was to be a celebration at Racconigi – and this one really came off. There were flowers by the crate. There were intricate and indigestible pastries from the choicest Italian caterers. There were interesting boxes of assorted shapes containing things wrapped in crinkling tissue paper. There were two motor lorries of orange blossoms from Sicily. There was a greeting card from every school boy and girl in Italy. There were forty Kings, Queens, and Princes of the Royal Blood in very many stars and ribbons and a quantity of gold braid. There was a ball at which the older guests sat decorously along the wall while the younger executed the most up-to-date steps to lively jazz tunes.

There was Princess Mafalda Maria Elisabetta Anna Romana in a gown of finest white Italian silk with a train four yards long, wearing a veil of exquisite handmade lace and a rope of three hundred pearls – and there was Philip of Hesse, to whom she was married in the first wedding to take place between royal houses who were enemies in the late war.

Before the marriage, which was by Papal dispensation, Prince Philip renounced his rights to any German succession which might in the future fall to him. For this reason the alliance is not considered in Europe to be of any great political significance.

Prince Philip and his bride will live in a villa which Prince Philip himself designed and built on an estate belonging to King Vittorio Emanuele. It is probable that their home life will be characterized by the same democracy and simplicity which has marked the household of the Italian royal family, Queen Elena, who is extremely fond of children, and has the most modern ideas for their upbringing, has given her own children an equioment which fits them admirably for the sort of lives which Yolanda and Mafalda have chosen for themselves. Italy, accustomed to the regal splendor of the days of the late King Umberto and Margherita, the present Queen Mother, was at first unkindly disposed towards Queen Elena's methods. Ideas have changed since the war, however and Italians have celebrated with enthusiasm the love marriages of the two eldest daughters of their Sovereigns.

-Our World Weekly, 1925

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·         Several facilities: This makes them worth all your time, money and efforts that you have invested to look for the place find it and finally book it even if they come with a slightly higher price tag on it. Though there is much more to the process than just that and if you are planning to rent a place, you must consider the chief advantages of staying in one of them.

·         Best view: One of the greatest benefits of staying in Anna Maria vacation rental cottage is that you get to choose the location and view from your room like by the beach that you like about the place. You may not even have thought of being at the location before which will make your experience even better. When you choose to stay in a condo by your favorite attraction, you have the leverage that the place is only a few steps away from the accommodation.

·         Excellent service: Most of the Anna Maria vacation rental cottage will also have spigots out of the home so you can rinse off the sand from the beach with ease. Also, these vacation rentals offer rooms and homes larger than you have imagined with a fully furnished and functional kitchen, most of the time at least. All this makes your stay ultra-convenient and comfortable.

·         Meals included: The most obvious benefit here is that you can eat your meals in there instead of spending money to eat out in restaurants as having three meals a day out in restaurants is a pretty expensive deal. You and your better half can have the newspaper with a cup of freshly brewed coffee or even give the kids milk whenever needed without waking up all the other family members or go to the gas station.

·         Relaxing stay: Another hidden benefit is that you don’t have to make any major changes to our daily routine that you used to follow at home. Your kids can play and relax in their lounge in their pajamas, have breakfast and watch cartoons on the television. 

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