Suzanne Massie their jointly written book, "Journey." "Journey" followed her husband's 1967 book, "Nicholas and Alexandra," a biography of the last Emperor and Empress of Russia whose son also was born with hemophilia. Massie subsequently married Seymour Papert. Reagan first became interested in Massie when he read her book "Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia." She eventually visited the White House where she became an informal messenger between the President and Mikhail Gorbachev and his administration. She also asked Reagan to learn the now famous Russian phrase ""Doveryai, no proveryai,"" which translates as "Trust, but verify." Her importance in
Treaty on the Creation of the USSR position but officially took over as a supreme authority in the USSR. One area where the Soviet division of power was not resolved at the time of the Treaty's signing, was Soviet Central Asia which contained several problems. A major battleground during the Russian Civil War, the region would remain unstable afterward. Turkestan came under Russian control fairly recently, between 1867 and 1885. Moreover, unlike other ethnic borders of the former Russian Empire, which were delimited during the Tsarist days (e.g. Transcaucasia lost its feudal administration by the mid-19th century), the Soviet authorities inherited two provinces that were "de jure"