SOVIET UNION: Just an Ordinary Couple

A Siberian honeymoon for Christina and Sergei

Seeking to learn more about her new husband's country, Christina Onassis recently asked a friend: "Who is Dostoyevsky?" One wonders what the great Russian novelist, a master of morbid psychology, would have made of last week's strange marriage in Moscow. Would he have found a chapter in The Possessed for impulsive, dark-eyed Christina, 27, the twice-divorced, jet-setting daughter of the late shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis? Would another Karamazov brother have emerged from his reflections on her spouse, Sergei Kauzov, 37, a former sales representative...

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