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Poliakoff
Poliakoff is a surname, a variant of Polyakov. It may refer to: *Alexander Poliakoff, Russian-born British electronics engineer, inventor and businessman, father of Martyn and Stephen *Élie de Poliakoff, Russian-born equestrian *Joseph Poliakoff, Russian-born British telephone and sound engineer and inventor, father of Alexander *Martyn Poliakoff, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham, brother of Stephen *Nicolai Poliakoff, British clown, born in Latvia *Serge Poliakoff, Russian-born French modernist painter *Stephen Poliakoff, British playwright, director and scriptwriter, brother of Martyn *Marina Catherine de Poliakoff-Baydaroff, birth name of Marina Vlady, French actress, sister of Odile *Étiennette de Poliakoff-Baydaroff, birth name of Odile Versois Odile Versois (born Étiennette de Poliakoff-Baydaroff; 15 June 1930 – 23 June 1980) was a French actress who appeared in 47 film and television productions between 1948 and 1980. Versois was the sister of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Poliakoff
Stephen Poliakoff (born 1 December 1952) is a British playwright, director and screenwriter. In 2006 Gerard Gilbert of ''The Independent'' described him as the UK's "pre-eminent TV dramatist" who had "inherited Dennis Potter's crown". Early life Poliakoff was born in Holland Park, West London, to Ina (née Montagu) and Alexander Poliakoff. His father was a Russian-Jewish immigrant and his mother was a British Jew. His maternal grandfather had bought 16th-century mansion Great Fosters, and his maternal great-grandfather was Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling. The second of four children, he was sent at a young age to Marlborough House School, which he hated. He then attended Westminster School, where he attracted sufficient attention for ''Granny'', a play he wrote and directed, to be reviewed in ''The Times'' newspaper. After Westminster, he went to King's College, Cambridge to read history but left after two years, later recalling Cambridge as "a stuffy place" and the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martyn Poliakoff
Sir Martyn Poliakoff (born 16 December 1947) is a British chemist, working on gaining insights into fundamental chemistry, and on developing environmentally acceptable processes and materials. The core themes of his work are supercritical fluids, infrared spectroscopy and lasers. He is a research professor in chemistry at the University of Nottingham. His group comprises several members of staff, postdoctoral research fellows, postgraduate students and overseas visitors. As well as carrying out research at the University of Nottingham, he is a lecturer, teaching a number of modules including green chemistry. Poliakoff became popularly known in the late 2000s and early 2010s as the main presenter for the YouTube channel ''Periodic Videos''. Early life Poliakoff was born to a British-Jewish mother, Ina (''née'' Montagu), and Russian-Jewish father, Alexander Poliakoff (russian: Поляко́в). He has a younger brother, the screenwriter and director Stephen Poliakoff. His pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serge Poliakoff
Serge Poliakoff (January 8, 1900 – October 12, 1969) was a Russian-born French modernist painter belonging to the 'New' Ecole de Paris (Tachisme). Biography Serge Poliakoff was born in Moscow in 1900, the thirteenth of fourteen children. His father, a Kyrgyz, supplied the army with horses that he bred himself and also owned a racing stable. His mother was heavily involved with the church, and its religious icons fascinated him. He enrolled at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, but fled Russia in 1918. He arrived in Constantinople in 1920, living off the profits from his talent as a guitarist. He went on to pass through Sofia, Belgrade, Vienna, and Berlin before settling in Paris in 1923, all the while continuing to play in Russian cabarets. In 1929 he enrolled at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. His paintings remained purely academic until he discovered, during his stay in London from 1935 to 1937, the abstract art and luminous colours of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Poliakoff
Joseph Lazarevich Poliakoff (russian: Ио́сиф Ла́заревич Поляко́в; 24 April 1873 – 24 November 1959) was a Ukrainian-born British telephone and sound engineer and inventor, particularly of hearing aids. Poliakoff was a Ukrainian who experienced first-hand the communist revolution in Russia from the family's Moscow flat across from the Kremlin. Near starvation after the revolution, he was given a government job as a district telephone inspector from an admiring commissar and he helped build Moscow's first automatic telephone exchange. He then fled with his family from the Soviet Union to the UK in 1924. Poliakoff was a renowned inventor of electrical devices whose many inventions included a selenium photograph telephony shutter in 1899 (US patent 700,083, 13 May 1902), which, along with electrical sound amplification, allowed for synchronized audio on film, the radio volume control, a magnetic induction loop that allowed hearing-impaired people to hear in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Poliakoff
Alexander Poliakoff (russian: Алекса́ндр Ио́сифович Поляко́в; 20 August 1910 – 26 July 1996) was a Russian Empire-born British electronics engineer, inventor and businessman, and the chairman of Multitone Electronics for over 40 years. Poliakoff was born in 1910 at his parents' country house at Losino-Ostrovskaya, near Moscow, the only son of Joseph Poliakoff, a Russian-Jewish telephone and sound engineer and inventor, and Flora Shabbat, the granddaughter of a textile millionaire. He was of Jewish descent. In 1946, Poliakoff married Ina Montagu (died 1991), granddaughter of the British-Jewish banker Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling. Their elder son is the chemist Sir Martyn Poliakoff, and their younger son is the playwright Stephen Poliakoff. He was appointed OBE in the 1982 New Year Honours. His reminiscences were published in ''The Silver Samovar'' - Atlantida Press 1996 (ISBN 5-88011-013-3) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Poliakoff, Alex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolai Poliakoff
Nicolai Poliakoff Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, OBE (2 October 1900 – 25 September 1974; lv, Nikolajs Poļakovs; russian: Николáй Петрóвич Полякóв) was the creator of Coco the Clown, arguably the most famous clown in the United Kingdom in the mid-20th century. Biography Nicolai Poliakoff was born in 1900 to a Jewish family in :ru:Даугавпилс, Dvinsk (today Daugavpils), Latvia which was then part of the Russian Empire. His family were poor and worked at the local theatre to supplement the money his father earned as a cobbler. When his father was conscripted to the army in the Russo-Japanese War the five year-old Nicolai started singing for food to avoid starvation. * 1908—Nicolai “ran away and joined the circus,” as the saying goes. He travelled 300 miles by train to Vitebsk, in Belorussia (today Belarus), where he persuaded a circus owner to give him a job, telling him that he was an orphan with no one to look aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Élie De Poliakoff
Élie de Poliakoff (russian: де Поляков) was a Russian-Jewish aristocrat and equestrian, who was regarded "among the best sportsmen in Paris". He competed in the long jump, hacks and hunter and four-in-hand events at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Poliakoff was born in Kharkiv, Russian Empire, in 1870. He had at least five brothers and two sisters. Élie de Poljakow was the son of banker Lazar Polyakov. He lived in Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ... and died in 1942. References External links * 1870 births 1942 deaths Sportspeople from Kharkiv Sportspeople from Paris Jewish sportspeople Russian male equestrians Olympic equestrians of Russia Equestrians at the 1900 Summer Olympics {{Russia-equestrian-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odile Versois
Odile Versois (born Étiennette de Poliakoff-Baydaroff; 15 June 1930 – 23 June 1980) was a French actress who appeared in 47 film and television productions between 1948 and 1980. Versois was the sister of actresses Marina Vlady, Hélène Vallier and Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff. Their father, Vladimir, was a noted opera singer of Russian descent, and their motherMilitza Envald Voropanoff was a dancer. Born in Paris, she began acting as a child and for a while pursued a ballet career. Personal life Versois married actor Jacques René Dacqmine (30 November 1923 – 29 March 2010; ''The Queen's Necklace'') in 1951 but the couple divorced a year later. She had four children by her second husband, Comte ''Comte'' is the French, Catalan and Occitan form of the word 'count' (Latin: ''comes''); ''comté'' is the Gallo-Romance form of the word 'county' (Latin: ''comitatus''). Comte or Comté may refer to: * A count in French, from Latin ''comes'' * A ... François Reynier Ambroise Henr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Vlady
Marina Vlady (born 10 May 1938) is a French actress. Biography Vlady was born in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine to White Russian immigrant parents. Her father was an opera singer and her mother was a dancer. Her sisters, now all deceased, were the actresses Odile Versois, Hélène Vallier and Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff. The sisters began acting as children and, for a while, pursued a ballet career. From 1955 to 1959, she was married to actor/director Robert Hossein. From 1963 to 1966, she was married to Jean-Claude Brouillet, a French entrepreneur, owner of two airlines and member of French Resistance. Vlady was married to Soviet poet/songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky from 1969 until his death in 1980. She lived with French oncologist Léon Schwartzenberg from the 1980s until his death in 2003. Vlady won the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival for '' The Conjugal Bed''. In 1965, she was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. Vlady starred in Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polyakov
Polyakov or Poliakov, (russian: Поляко́в, uk, Поляко́в, he, פוליאקוב, be, Палякоў, Paliakoŭ), or Polyakova, Paliakova (feminine; ) is a Slavs, Slavic surname. It may be transliterated as ''Poliakoff''. Notable people with the surname include: * Aleksei Poliakov (born 1974), Russian/Uzbek goalkeeper * Alexander Polyakov (other), Alexander Polyakov, multiple individuals * Alla Polyakova (born 1970), Russian politician * Anatoly Polyakov (born 1980), Russian swimmer * Andrei Polyakov (1950–2021), Russian diplomat * Dmitri Polyakov (1921–1988), Soviet General and a spy for the CIA * Dzyanis Palyakow (born 1991), Belarusian footballer * Elena Polyakova (born 1981), Russian ultramarathon runner * Ella Polyakova (born 1941), Russian human rights activist * Igor Polyakov (1912–2008), Soviet rower * Ivan Alexeyevich Polyakov (1886–1969), Russian Cossack military leader * :be-x-old:Іван Палякоў, Ivan Jaŭcejavič Paliakoŭ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian-language Surnames
Russian (russian: русский язык, russkij jazyk, link=no, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language mainly spoken in Russia. It is the First language, native language of the Russians, and belongs to the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. It is one of four living East Slavic languages, and is also a part of the larger Balto-Slavic languages. Besides Russia itself, Russian is an official language in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, and is used widely as a lingua franca throughout Ukraine, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and to some extent in the Baltic states. It was the De facto#National languages, ''de facto'' language of the former Soviet Union,1977 Soviet Constitution, Constitution and Fundamental Law of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1977: Section II, Chapter 6, Article 36 and continues to be used in public life with varying proficiency in all of the post-Soviet states. Russian has over 258 million total speakers worldwide. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
