Alexander Volkov (writer) there were five short-lived productions at the theatre, and the final performance there was given on 27 July 1957. In October the interior was stripped; in November the contents of the theatre were auctioned; and in December the demolition team moved in. An office building, St James's House, was built on the site. It incorporated sculptured balcony fronts on each floor above the entrance. Four bas-relief panels by Edward Bainbridge Copnall depicted the heads of Gilbert Miller, George Alexander, Oscar Wilde and the Oliviers. The office building was demolished and a new one built on the site 	St James's Theatre
26650444	in the 1980s. The panels were moved from the King Street façade to the Angel Court side of the building. St James's Theatre The St James's Theatre was in King Street, St James's, London. It opened in 1835 and was demolished in 1957. The theatre was conceived by and built for a popular singer, John Braham; it lost money and after three seasons he retired. A succession of managements over the next forty years also failed to make it a commercial success, and the St James's acquired a reputation as an unlucky theatre. It was not 	St James's Theatre
26650445	Ntare IV of Burundi Ntare IV of Burundi Ntare IV Rutaganzwa Rugamba was the king of Burundi from 1796 to 1850. He was the son of king Mwambutsa I Mbariza. He achieved the greatest expansion in the history of Burundi, doubling the territory. Ntare IV of Burundi Ntare IV Rutaganzwa Rugamba was the king of Burundi from 1796 to 1850. He was the son of king Mwambutsa I Mbariza. He achieved the greatest expansion in the history of Burundi, doubling the territory. 	Ntare IV of Burundi
26650446	Mwambutsa I of Burundi Mwambutsa I of Burundi Mwambutsa I Mbariza was the king of Burundi from 1767 to 1796. His only son was Ntare IV Rutaganzwa Rugamba. He succeeded Mwami Mutaga III Senyamwiza Mutamo. Mwambutsa I of Burundi Mwambutsa I Mbariza was the king of Burundi from 1767 to 1796. His only son was Ntare IV Rutaganzwa Rugamba. He succeeded Mwami Mutaga III Senyamwiza Mutamo. 	Mwambutsa I of Burundi
26650447	Mutaga III of Burundi Mutaga III of Burundi Mwami Mutaga III Senyamwiza Mutamo was the king of Burundi from 1739 to 1767. He died in Butare. He succeeded king Mwezi III Ndagushimiye. Mutaga III of Burundi Mwami Mutaga III Senyamwiza Mutamo was the king of Burundi from 1739 to 1767. He died in Butare. He succeeded king Mwezi III Ndagushimiye. 	Mutaga III of Burundi
26650448	Ntare I of Burundi Ntare I of Burundi Ntare I Kivimira Savuyimba Semunganzashamba Rushatsi Cambarantama was the king of Burundi from 1680 to 1709. He was a legendary descendant of the Ntwero family, and the first king of Burundi. Ntare established the Sentare, a tribunal of judges to handle property disputes between chiefs. Ntare I of Burundi Ntare I Kivimira Savuyimba Semunganzashamba Rushatsi Cambarantama was the king of Burundi from 1680 to 1709. He was a legendary descendant of the Ntwero family, and the first king of Burundi. Ntare established the Sentare, a tribunal of judges to handle property disputes between chiefs. 	Ntare I of Burundi
26650449	Alexander Volkov (writer) Alexander Volkov (writer) Alexander Melentyevich Volkov ( ; 14 June 1891 – 3 July 1977) was a Soviet novelist, playwright, university lecturer. Аuthor of novels, short stories, plays and poems for children, mostly remembered for the Magic Land series of books, based on L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". Biography. Volkov was born in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Semipalatinsk Oblast, Russian Empire (now Oskemen, Kazakhstan). At the age of 12 he graduated from the Ust-Kamenogorsk town school as valedictorian, where he later began his pedagogical activity. In 1907 he entered the Tomsk Teachers Institute. In 1909 he graduated from it with  right to teach all subjects of the school curriculum, except for the Law of God. He began to work as a teacher in Ust-Kamenogorsk. Since 1910 he worked as mathematician teacher in the village of Kolyvan. In the 1920s he moved to Yaroslavl, where he worked as a school principal. In absentia he graduated from the mathematical faculty of the Yaroslavl Pedagogical Institute. In 1929 he moved to Moscow, where he worked as the head teacher of the rabfak. For seven months he completed the course and passed the external examinations at the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow  University. Since 1931 he worked as teacher, and later as Docent of the Department of Higher Mathematics of the Moscow Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals and Gold. Writings. Magic Land series. The first of these books, "The Wizard of the Emerald City", is a loose translation of the first Oz book, with chapters added, altered, or omitted, some names changed (for example, Dorothy becomes "Ellie", Oz is renamed "Magic Land" (), and Toto can talk when in Magic Land), and several characters given personal names instead of generic ones. Baum's name is mentioned in the first of Volkov books but  the Soviet Union paid no royalties to the Baum estate. First published in 1939 in the Soviet Union, the book became quite popular; and in the 1960s Volkov also wrote his own sequels to the story. He liberally borrowed from some of the originals, such as using the "Powder of Life" idea from "The Marvelous Land of Oz", but mostly created a divergent universe. From 1963 to 1970, four more books in the series were published, with the sixth and final story published posthumously in 1982. Other authors such as Yuri Kuznetsov, Sergei Sukhinov, and Leonid Vladimirsky (Volkov's original  illustrator) have recently written additional sequels in Russian, creating in effect an alternative series of Oz books. The context and situations found in the Volkov version are notably different from the original Baum version in their political tones. The situations, while still maintaining a childlike clarity of good versus evil, often involve the characters encountering very mature political and ethical decisions. The heroes are repeatedly called upon to defend Magic Land against invasions or topple feudalistic or aristocratic governments to free the populace. Both themes are often found in Soviet sci-fi and adventure literature (see the Strugatsky brothers' novels  Hard to be a God and "Inhabited Island"). Volkov had faith in the omnipotence of the man-made technique, so the wizardry of his heroes was usually won with the help of various technical inventions (a cannon designed by Charly Black, a mechanical drill, and Tilly-Willy's super-robot). Volkov's "Magic Land" series was translated into many languages and was popular with children all over the Eastern bloc. Volkov's version of Oz seems to be better known than Baum's in some countries, for example in China, in Germany (especially former East Germany), and also in Arab  countries such as Syria. In Germany, one author has written his own set of sequels to Volkov's books. The books in Volkov's "Magic Land" series have been translated into English — or retranslated, in the case of the first book — by Peter L. Blystone, and were published by Red Branch Press in three volumes (two books a volume) in 1991 (revised edition 2010), 1993, and 2007. Alexander Volkov (writer) Alexander Melentyevich Volkov ( ; 14 June 1891 – 3 July 1977) was a Soviet novelist, playwright, university lecturer. Аuthor of novels, short stories, plays and poems for children, mostly remembered for the