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Kamensky (surname)
Kamensky is a Russian surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Aleksandr Kamensky (1922–1992), Russian art critic and art historian *Jane Kamensky (born 1963), American historian *Mikhail Kamensky (1738–1809), Russian field marshal *Nikolay Kamensky (1776–1811), Russian general, son of Mikhail Kamensky *Sergei Kamensky (1771–1834), Russian general *Valeri Kamensky (born 1966), Russian hockey player *Vasily Kamensky (1884–1961), Russian Cubo-futurist poet See also * Kaminsky Kaminsky is a surname with various origins. It may be derived from Czech/Slovak Kaminský, uk, Камінський, russian: Каминский, be, Камінскі, or Polish Kamiński. Feminine forms include Kaminská (Czech and Slovak), K ..., a surname {{surname, Kamensky Russian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Kamensky
Aleksandr Abramovich Kamensky (Александр Абрамович Каменский) (1922–1992) was a Soviet art critic and art historian. In 1954 he wrote an important article attacking the art establishment under Stalin. he argued that artistic merit needed to be valued over ideological correctness. He would go on to write about and champion the works of artists such as Marc Chagall, and Martiros Saryan Martiros Saryan ( hy, Մարտիրոս Սարյան; russian: Мартиро́с Сарья́н; – 5 May 1972) was a Soviet Armenian painter, the founder of a modern Armenian national school of painting. Biography He was born into an Armenia .... Selected bibliography * ''Konenkov'' (1962) * ''Vernisages'' (1974) * ''Nathan Altman'' (1978) * ''Knightly Feat: A Book About The Sculpture of Anna Golubkina'' (1978) (reprinted as ''Anna Golubkina, Her Personality, And Age'' in 1990) * ''Etudes on the Artists of Armenia'' (Erevan, 1979) * ''Martiros Sarian'' (1987) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Kamensky
Jane Kamensky, an American historian, is a professor of history at Harvard University. She is also the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library. Kamensky graduated from Yale University in 1985 with a B.A., and in 1993 with a Ph.D. in history. She was a Radcliffe Institute Fellow in 2006–2007. She married Dennis J. Scannell Jr. in 1987; they live in Cambridge, Massachusetts with their two sons. Awards and honors *1987 Mellon Fellow *2009 George Washington Book Prize finalist *2009 Fellow, Society of American Historians *2016 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History for ''A Revolution in Color'' * 2018 Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the a ... Works * ''A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Kamensky
Count Mikhail Fedotovich Kamensky (russian: Михаи́л Федо́тович Каме́нский; 19 May 1738 – 12 August 1809) was a Russian Field Marshal prominent in the Catherinian wars and the Napoleonic campaigns. Biography Mikhail Kamensky served as a volunteer in the French army in 1758-1759. He then took part in the Seven Years' War. In 1783, Kamensky was appointed Governor General of Ryazan and Tambov guberniyas. During the war with Turkey, in 1788, he defeated the Turks at the Moldavian settlement of Gangur. When prince Potemkin fell ill and entrusted his command of the army to Mikhail Kakhovsky, Kamensky refused to subordinate himself, referring to his seniority. For this, he was discharged from military service. In 1797, Emperor Paul I granted Kamensky the title of count and made him retire. In 1806, Kamensky was appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian army in Prussia, which had been fighting the French armies of Napoleon. After six days of being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolay Kamensky
Count Nikolay Mikhailovich Kamensky (russian: Никола́й Миха́йлович Каме́нский; 27 December 1776 – 4 May 1811) was a Russian general who outlived his father, Field Marshal Mikhail Kamensky, by two years. Life and career Nikolay and his elder brother Sergei were educated at a cadet school. In 1787, he was appointed Aide-de-camp to his father. He participated in the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792. French count Louis Langeron, who fought on the Russian Army during this conflict, wrote in his memoirs about Kamensky's behavior during the war. According to him, after being upset by a storm that affected his army, Kamensky took all the Tatar prisoners his army had captured and beheaded them. Later, a Jewish person was tied naked to a post and cold water was sprayed on him, leaving him to freeze to death. Kamensky would later have burned down an entire village and left its inhabitants in the snow to die of cold and hunger, then taking all the surviving an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Kamensky
Count Sergei Mikhailovich Kamensky (russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович Каме́нский; November 5, 1771 – December 8, 1834) was a Russian infantry general who served in the Napoleonic wars. Early life Sergei Kamensky was the son of Field Marshal Mikhail Kamensky and brother of General Nikolai Kamensky (in military histories he is known as Kamensky-1 and his younger brother as Kamensky-2). Like many sons of nobles, he was enlisted as an infant in a regiment and received his education in a cadet school. Military career In 1789, he became a lieutenant colonel in the Ekaterinoslav Grenadier Regiment and participated in the Russo-Turkish War; in 1792-1794, he served in the Russo-Polish War and was wounded in the stomach at Praga, across the river from Warsaw. In 1797 he was promoted to colonel and in 1798 to major general, but he was disgraced by Paul I and discharged from the army in 1798. He returned to service after Paul's death in 1801 and was appointed command ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeri Kamensky
Valeri Viktorovich Kamenski (russian: Валерий Викторович Каменский) (born 18 April 1966) is a Russian former professional ice hockey player. Playing career Before the National Hockey League (NHL), he started his career with Khimik Voskresensk in the Soviet Championship League (1982–1985) and then played for the powerhouse club CSKA Moscow (1985–1991). In 1991 he moved to the NHL, where he played for the Quebec Nordiques (1991–1995, spending the 1994 lockout break in HC Ambri-Piotta, Switzerland), Colorado Avalanche (1995–1999), New York Rangers (1999–2001), Dallas Stars and New Jersey Devils ( 2001–2002). He won a Stanley Cup in 1996 with the Avalanche. He is also known for scoring one of the most memorable goals of the 97/98 season. He received a pass and scored while spinning in mid-air. The goal was used in the opening intro for the NHL 98 video game. He also scored the first goal in the Avalanche's history in Denve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Kamensky
Vasily Vasilyevich Kamensky (russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Каме́нский; – November 11, 1961) was a Russian Futurist poet, playwright, and artist as well as one of the first Russian aviators. Biography Kamensky was born in Perm, where his father was an inspector of goldfields. (The story that he was born on a boat on the Kama River, which he himself promoted and recounts in his memoirs, is untrue.) He lost his parents at the age of five and went to live in Perm with his aunt, whose husband piloted steam tugs on the river; he later wrote "My whole childhood took place in a house on the Kama wharf among tugs, barges, rafts, boats, stevedores, sailors, bargees, captains..." He left school in 1900, and from 1902 to 1906 worked as a railroad clerk. In 1904 he began to contribute to the newspaper ''Permskii Krai'', publishing poems and notices; at the newspaper he met local Marxists and developed his own leftist political orientation. At this time he als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaminsky
Kaminsky is a surname with various origins. It may be derived from Czech/Slovak Kaminský, uk, Камінський, russian: Каминский, be, Камінскі, or Polish Kamiński. Feminine forms include Kaminská (Czech and Slovak), Kaminska (Polish and Ukrainian), and Kaminskaya (Belarusian and Russian). Its Lithuanian-language counterpart is Kaminskas. People * Adolfo Kaminsky (1925–2023), French WWII resistance fighter and document forger * Alexander Kaminsky (1829–1897), Russian architect * Bohdan Kaminský (pen name of Karel Bušek) (1859–1929), Czech poet and translator * Bronislav Vladislavovich Kaminski, (1899–1944), General-Major of Waffen-SS * Dan Kaminsky, American computer security expert * David Kaminsky (born 1938), Israeli basketball player * David Daniel Kaminsky, birth name of American comic Danny Kaye (1911–1987) * Frank Kaminsky (born 1993), American basketball player * Graciela Kaminsky, American economist * Grigory Kaminsky (1895–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
