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1 wt I 41 TUESDAY JANUARY 14 1992 INTERNATIONAL EDITION THE MIAMI HERALD HA Royal revival What kind of a teacher gets these kinds ornotes? The Police Offic who teach UA1 Russian nobility is alive and well and waiting tcers 'ARE in South Florida elementary schools DARE is taught in Elementary Schools by Police Officers with the support of the Florida Board of Education For more information call the Florida Department of Law Enforcement at (305) 470-5500 DARE to keep kids off drugs Drug Abuse Resistance Education A public service advertisement by Sbc4Hianu Heraft The Miami herald Wake up to whats Going On I For home delivery please call 1-800-441 0444 Witefc to fin the whole One cousin died in a labor camp another in Siberia Those younger recall how avenues of advancement were blocked to them Count Bobrinsky 64 a mutton-chop-whiskered descendant of Catherine the Great recalls how his background haunted him decades after his uncle was executed by the Bolsheviks in 1917 and the family went into exile in Central Asia The Institute of Sciences he said refused him entry when an administrator looked at his identity papers and saw that he was a member of the Russian nobility Former Soviet President Mikhail program of perestroika put an end to that and the nobility began to emerge from the shadows Then came the end of communism the answer to decades of prayer they say "I fell to my knees and thanked Bobrinsky said Now resignation and the emergence of Russia as the leading republic allow these men and women a chance to shape the future they say "We can exert said Prince Golitsyn already come to us for How much they will be listened to remains to be seen Even before the revolution the Russian nobility was loathed by many Russians and even scoffed at by the European aristocracy difficult to see a future for the nobility movement" said Volkov who is not a member of the Russian Nobility League by the end of the last century the nobility was isolated and not supported There was equality already But they can do no harm either" More important than the restoration of property to the nobility is rebuilding the values destroyed by the Bolsheviks Some such as Vadim Lopukhin 36 a descendant of Catherine the Great believe the best way to do that would be to restore Grand Prince Vladimir Kirilovich Romanov the heir to the Russian throne as a constitutional monarch The Grand Prince who was raised in Europe visited St Petersburg for the first time three weeks ago According to the Russian Nobility League support for reinstating the czar is increasing Last spring 29 percent of Russians polled said they think returning the czar to the throne was so far-fetched By fall that number had increased to 34 percent But even within the Russian Nobility League some say restoring the czar would be unrealistic And outside the League some say the idea is downright crazy a notion held only by half-crazed monarchists By ELIZABETH NEUFFER Boston Globe MOSCOW Their jewels are now in museums their vast estates divided into collective farms Grand palaces long ago were carved into Communist Party offices and family portraits scattered to the winds Their ancestors were exiled or executed and their names were defiled in history books But NEWS nobility the descendants of the princes and counts and boyars who ruled this country before the Revolution are very much alive today Few are old enough to remember the days before the 1917 Revolution Only a handful speak French once considered the language of the upper class Professionally Prince Andrei Golitsyn is an artist Count Nikolai Bobrinsky a geologist Yet with the crumbling of Soviet power and the emergence of the Commonwealth of Independent States the nobility are now striving to do what they could only dream of under communism: Help restore Russia to its former glory and should Russia want it pave the way for the return of the czar They manned the barricades in front of the Russian White House during the August coup They say they have advised the Russian Federation Parliament They have visions of revamping palaces as museums and restoring so that the code word of their class honor will once again be the law of the land "The fact that the Bolsheviks came to an end and we hope they will never regain their status has given us said Prince Golitsyn head of the Russian Nobility League an association that is scarcely a year old "We want Russia to return to its traditions its Two weeks ago they scored a major victory moving their offices back into an 18th Century palace that since 1962 had housed the Marx and Engels Museum From a distance these men and women look like most Muscovites dressed in awkward-fitting suits a boot fixed with a paper clip a large darn in a wool dress But closer their faces look like portraits from the past Their ancestry is sketched in their cheekbones and even the simplest movement can betray a dignity of bearing centuries old Those who are old enough remember having their family estates taken away from them and watching members of upper classes executed "From all sides the news would come of terror" said Oleg Volkov 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AMERICAS FAMILY DRUG STORE Sudafed 12 Hour Amu 12 HOUR I MHLfW i Sudafed Plus Sash) IVconet-sUuH plus Antihistamine Aim 12 HOUR I MMMT Chess was seen as possessing unique revolutionary credentials It was not fatalistic and was deemed anti-religious The promotion of the game was a great success In 1923 the Soviet Union had 1000 registered chess players Within five years the number had grown to 140000 There were four million registered players when the Soviet Union ceased to exist Josef Stalin once said: players should be in the front ranks of the fighters for the building of Socialism for technical mastery and for the rapid and successful fulfillment of the five-year plan" Mikhail Botvinnik who captured the world crown in 1948 and whose lifetime spanned the period of Soviet chess hegemony was quick to cable Stalin after an early international victory at Nottingham in England in 1936 He told his "beloved teacher and leader" that by your slogan up and I am glad that I have been able to realize it" Botvinnik held the world title except for two one-year interruptions until 1963 through seven World Championships all against Soviet opponents before ceding it to fellow Soviet Tigran Petrosian He lost to Boris Spassky in 1969 Although Spassky lost to Fischer in 1972 the title defaulted to Soviet player Anatoly Karpov in 1975 when Fischer was unable to agree terms to defend it The current champion is Gary Kasparov He too has political friends but in a sign of the changing times was an early supporter of Russian President Boris Yeltsin Reuters News Service LONDON The collapse of the Soviet empire may mean bleak times for the game of chess Many countries will be happy if fragmentation into separate republics makes it easier to challenge Moscow's long monopoly on world team and individual championships The Baltic States and Ukraine for instance have already applied for separate recognition at the Chess Olympiad in Manila in July which suggests that the Russian team may be weaker than previous Soviet entries But loss of Soviet subsidies for chess a feature of communist rule may put the burden of funding the game at world level entirely on Western commercial sponsorship players say With more Soviet players also likely to move to the West the 1990s could see a glut of professionals chasing diminishing prize money Chess was long a shop window of Soviet achievement seen by successive Kremlin rulers as marking the supremacy of communist culture When Alexander Alekhine a Russian won the World Championship in 1927 it signalled an unprecedented era of dominance Since then only Max Euwe of the Netherlands (1935-37) and American Bobby Fischer (1972-75) have briefly managed to pry open the Soviet stranglehold The first USSR Championship was initiated in 1920 by Alexander Ilym-Genevsy Working with Nikolai Krylenko Commander-in-Chief of Russian forces after the October 1917 Revolution Dym-Genevsky secured huge funding Sudafed' Severe told horrmila OFest Rlef for Regular Price Afrin nasal spray any size or type Coupon good only at Eckerd Coupon good thru 2 892 Coupon must accompany purchase Regular Price Robitussin cough syrup all types and sizes Coupon good only at Eckerd Coupon good thru 28 V2 Coupon must accompany purchase Regular Price Nyquil 10-oz or larger Coupon good only at Eckefd Coupon good thru 2 892 Coupon must accompany purchase Regular Price Sudafed Sudafed Plus or Sudafed Severe Cold 20-pk size or larger Coupon good only at Eckerd Coupon good thru 2892 Coupon must accompany purchase in 1 1 ii mi 0 0 2 4 4 6 II II I 111 1111 0 0 2 4 4 8 0 0 2 4 4 7 0 0 2 4 4 5 I.