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Alyosha (other)
Alyosha is an affectionate diminutive (hypocorism) of the name Alexey and may refer to: People *Alyosha (singer) (born 1986), Ukrainian pop singer * Alyosha Abrahamyan (1945–2018), Armenian football player *Alyosha Andonov (born 1961), Bulgarian football coach * Alyosha Dzhaparidze (1880–1918), Georgian Bolshevik * Alyosha Efros, American computer scientist * Alyosha Svanidze (1886–1941), Georgian Bolshevik Fictional characters *Alyosha Karamazov, protagonist of Dostoyevsky's ''The Brothers Karamazov'' * Alyosha Kravinoff, real name of comic book villain Kraven the Hunter II *Alyosha Popovich, Russian folk hero * Alyosha Skvortsov, protagonist of the 1959 film ''Ballad of a Soldier'' *Alyosha the Pot, protagonist of Tolstoy's short story of the same name Monuments * Alyosha Monument, Murmansk, Russia World War II monument * Alyosha Monument, Plovdiv, Bulgarian World War II monument ** "Alyosha" (song), a 1966 song inspired by the Plovdiv monument *Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexey
Alexey, Alexei, Alexie, Aleksei, or Aleksey (russian: Алексе́й ; bg, Алексей ) is a Russian and Bulgarian male first name deriving from the Greek ''Aléxios'' (), meaning "Defender", and thus of the same origin as the Latin Alexius. Alexey may also be romanized as ''Aleksei'', ''Aleksey'', ''Alexej'', ''Aleksej'', etc. It has been commonly westernized as Alexis. Similar Ukrainian and Belarusian names are romanized as Oleksii (Олексій) and Aliaksiej (Аляксей), respectively. The Russian Orthodox Church uses the Old Church Slavonic version, Alexiy (Алексiй, or Алексий in modern spelling), for its Saints and hierarchs (most notably, this is the form used for Patriarchs Alexius I and Alexius II). The common hypocoristic is Alyosha () or simply Lyosha (). These may be further transformed into Alyoshka, Alyoshenka, Lyoshka, Lyoha, Lyoshenka (, respectively), sometimes rendered as Alesha/Aleshenka in English. The form Alyosha may be u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alyosha Popovich
Alyosha Popovich (russian: Алёша Попович, literally ''Alexey, son of the priest''), is a folk hero in the Rus' folklore, a bogatyr (i.e., a medieval knight-errant). He is the youngest of the three main bogatyrs, the other two being Dobrynya Nikitich and Ilya Muromets. All three are represented together in Viktor Vasnetsov's famous painting ''Bogatyrs''. In Byliny (ballads) he is described as a clever-minded priest's son who wins by tricking and outsmarting his foes. He defeated the dragon Tugarin Zmeyevich by trickery. Character Alyosha Popovich is "noted for his slyness, agility, and craftiness, may be fun-loving, sometimes being depicted as a ‘mocker of women’, and may occasionally be a liar and a cheat", as described by James Bailey. His tongue-lashings are attested by his mockery of Tugarin's gluttony and insult to the unfaithful Princess. His clever ruse was his disguise as a deaf pilgrim to make Tugarin approach him without caution. He then plays a pract ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronze Soldier Of Tallinn
The Bronze Soldier ( et, Pronkssõdur, russian: Бронзовый солдат, ''Bronzovyj soldat'') is the informal name of a controversial Soviet World War II war memorial in Tallinn, Estonia, built at the site of several war graves, which were relocated to the nearby Tallinn Military Cemetery in 2007. It was originally named "Monument to the Liberators of Tallinn" ( et, Tallinna vabastajate monument, russian: Монумент освободителям Таллина, ''Monument osvoboditeljam Tallina''), was later titled to its current official name "Monument to the Fallen in the Second World War", and is sometimes called , or after its old location. The memorial was unveiled on 22 September 1947, three years after the Red Army reached Tallinn on 22 September 1944 during World War II. The monument consists of a stonewall structure made of dolomite and a two metre (6.5 ft) bronze statue of a soldier in a World War II-era Red Army military uniform. It was originally lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alyosha (song)
Alyosha (russian: italic=yes, Алёша) is a Soviet-era Russian song by composer Eduard Kolmanovsky and poet Konstantin Vanshenkin. The subject is the Alyosha Monument, the common local name for the statue of a World War II Soviet soldier which stands in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv as a monument to all Soviet soldiers who died during the fighting in Bulgaria. Creation of the song In 1962, Eduard Kolmanovsky visited Bulgaria, including in the city of Plovdiv where the Alyosha monument stands, where he learned the story of its origin. Kolmanovsky later shared his notes with poet Konstantin Vanshenkin, who was inspired by the topic and soon wrote a poem. Kolmanovsky then composed music for the verses. The mournful feeling of the song is achieved with the minor mood of the music and by the lyric which employs both slow repetition: and pathos: "Alyosha" was published in 1966 in the Soviet army magazine ''Sergeant Major/Sergeant'' (russian: italic=yes, Старшина-се ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alyosha Monument, Plovdiv
Alyosha (an affectionate diminutive of Aleksey) is an tall reinforced concrete statue of a Soviet soldier on Bunarjik Hill in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The statue tops a pedestal lined with granite. The memorial commemorates Soviet casualties incurred during the Soviet occupation of Bulgaria (which had been an Axis ally) in World War II. It was installed in 1954-57. " Alyosha" is also the name of Konstantin Vanshenkin and Eduard Kolmanovski's song that was adopted as Plovdiv's official anthem until 1989. A well-known poem about the Plovdiv Soldier was written by Robert Rozhdestvensky. Plovdiv authorities sought to have the statue removed on at least two occasions, in 1989 and 1996. The 1989 decision led to a preservation campaign which included a guard by the statue day and night in order to prevent it from being demolished. Alyosha Skurlatov, a soldier of the 3rd Ukrainian Front The 3rd Ukrainian Front (Russian: Третий Украинский фронт) was a Front of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alyosha Monument, Murmansk
To the Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War (russian: Защитникам Советского Заполярья в годы Великой Отечественной войны), commonly called Alyosha (russian: 'Алёша'; Alyosha is an affectionate diminutive form of the name Aleksey) is a monument in Murmansk, Russia to Soviet soldiers, sailors, and airmen of World War II (called, in Russia, the Great Patriotic War). Description The statue is of a soldier in a greatcoat with a submachine gun slung over his shoulder. The height of the pedestal is ; the statue is tall. It is the second-tallest statue in Russia, after The Motherland Calls in Volgograd. The weight of the statue, which is hollow, is over 5,000 tons. The soldier faces west, toward the Valley of Glory, where the fiercest fighting of the Arctic Campaign occurred when the German invaders were turned back from the approaches to Murmansk at the Zapadnaya Litsa River in July 1941. In fron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alyosha The Pot
"Alyosha the Pot" (russian: Алеша Горшок 'Alyosha Gorshok'' is a short story written by Leo Tolstoy (1905) about the life and death of a simple, uncomplaining worker. It was published after Tolstoy's death in 1911 and received high praise from Tolstoy's contemporaries. D. S. Mirsky considered it "a masterpiece of rare perfection." Without ever calling Alyosha a holy fool, Tolstoy centers the story on his meekness, aloofness, and foolishness. Alyosha's simple life, soft-spoken manner, and calm acceptance of death epitomizes Tolstoyan principles. History The hero and namesake of the story was based on a real person. According to the memoirs of Tatyana Andreevna Kuzminskaya (Lev Tolstoy's sister-in-law), "the assistant to the cook and yard-keeper was the half idiot Alyosha the Pot, who was, for some reason, romanticized to the point that reading about him, I could not recognize our holy fool Alyosha. But, as far as I remember, he was quiet, inoffensive, and meekly did all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alyosha Skvortsov
''Ballad of a Soldier'' (russian: Баллада о солдате, ''Ballada o soldate''), is a 1959 Soviet film directed by Grigory Chukhray and starring Vladimir Ivashov and Zhanna Prokhorenko. While set during World War II, ''Ballad of a Soldier'' is not primarily a war film. It recounts, within the context of the turmoil of war, various kinds of love: the romantic love of a young couple, the committed love of a married couple, and a mother's love of her child, as a Red Army soldier tries to make it home during a leave, meeting several civilians on his way and falling in love. The film was produced at Mosfilm and won several awards, including the BAFTA Award for Best Film From Any Source and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Plot A middle-aged farm woman walks through her village and gazes down a country road. A voiceover reveals that her son was killed in the war and buried in a foreign land. On the Eastern Front, nineteen-year-old Private ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kraven The Hunter (Alyosha Kravinoff)
Kraven the Hunter (Sergei Kravinoff; Russian: Сергей Кравинов) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Debuting in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' issue #15 (August 1964) as an adversary to the superhero Spider-Man, he has since endured as one of the web-slinger's most formidable foes, and is part of the collective of adversaries that make up Spider-Man's rogues' gallery. Kraven has also come into conflict with other heroes, such as Black Panther and Tigra. He is the half-brother of the Chameleon and one of the founding members of the Sinister Six. In Kraven's first appearance, he refers to Spider-Man as "the most dangerous game" which is a direct reference to the 1924 short story of the same name The Most Dangerous Game, in which General Zaroff, a Russian big game hunter, hunts people as sport. Kraven is typically portrayed as a renowned big-game hunter whose goal in life is to best Spider-Man in order to prove himself a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alyosha (singer)
Olena Oleksandrivna Kucher-Topolya ( uk, Олена Олександрівна Кучер-Тополя; born 14 May 1986), better known by her stage name Alyosha ( uk, Aльоша), is a Ukrainian singer. Career Early life Alyosha was born on 14 May 1986 in Zaporizhia. She studied vocals at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts and signed with the Catapult Music record label in 2008. 2010: Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 On 20 March 2010, Alyosha won the Ukrainian National Final and thus represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. She replaced Vasyl Lazarovych who was originally picked on December 29, 2009, to represent Ukraine. After some political changes that took place in Ukraine his candidacy was withdrawn on March 15 under suspicion that he was picked with the help of the current director of the State National Television ( 1st National) Vasyl Ilashchuk. The petition to organize another concourse and to cancel the current results was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alyosha Karamazov
Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov (russian: Алёша Карамазов), usually referred to simply as Alyosha, is the protagonist in the 1880 novel ''The Brothers Karamazov'' by Fyodor Dostoevsky. He is the youngest of the Karamazov brothers, being nineteen years old at the start of the novel. The preface and the opening chapter proclaim him as the hero. Dostoevsky intended to write a sequel, which would detail the rest of Alyosha's life, but died shortly after the publication of ''The Brothers Karamazov''. At the outset of the story Alyosha is a novice in the local monastery. In this way Alyosha's beliefs act as a counterbalance to his brother Ivan's atheism. He is sent out into the world by his Elder and subsequently becomes embroiled in the sordid details of his family's life. He becomes involved with, and later engaged to, a young girl named Liza (or Lise) Khokhlakov, daughter to a confidante of Katerina Ivanovna's. Later on in the novel, Lise sinks into depression and self-hatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alyosha Svanidze
Alexander Semyonovich "Alyosha" Svanidze ( ka, ალექსანდრე სვანიძე; russian: Александр Семёнович Сванидзе) (1886 – 20 August 1941) was a Georgian Old Bolshevik, politician and historian. He was a personal friend of Joseph Stalin and a brother of Stalin’s first wife Kato. Nevertheless, Stalin had him arrested during the Great Purge in 1937 and he was shot in prison in 1941. Life and career Born of a petty noble family in a small village of Baji in western Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire, Svanidze was educated at Tiflis and later at Jena where he learned German and English and engaged in historical research of ancient civilizations. He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1901 and then the Bolsheviks in 1904. worked in the Bolshevik underground until being forced by the authorities to leave independent Georgia in 1919. He worked for the Soviet foreign office in the years 1920–1921 and then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
