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Vanya
Ваня (''Vanya''), a male diminutive of the Russian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian and other Slavic given names Ivan. It is the Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian and other Slavic form of John itself derived from a Hebrew name, meaning "God is gracious" or "Graced by God". An alternative spelling of the name is ''Vanja''. In Russia it is a male given name, in Bosnia and Herzegovina mainly a male given name, in Serbia and Croatia it is a unisex name. In the Scandinavian countries and in Bulgaria, it is a female given name. Vanya may refer to: People Given name * Vanya Cullen, winemaker * Vanya Dermendzhieva (born 1958), Bulgarian former basketball player * Vanya Gospodinova (born 1958), retired Bulgarian middle-distance runner * Vanya Kewley (1937–2012), British journalist, documentary maker, and nurse * Vanya Marinova (born 1950), retired Bulgarian gymnast * Vanya Milanova (born 1954), violinist and recording artist * Vanya Mirzoyan (born 1948), Armenian scientist-mathemati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uncle Vanya
''Uncle Vanya'' ( rus, Дя́дя Ва́ня, r=Dyádya Ványa, p=ˈdʲædʲə ˈvanʲə) is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1898, and was first produced in 1899 by the Moscow Art Theatre under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski. The play portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his glamorous, much younger second wife, Yelena, to the rural estate that supports their urban lifestyle. Two friends—Vanya, brother of the professor's late first wife, who has long managed the estate, and Astrov, the local doctor—both fall under Yelena's spell, while bemoaning the ''ennui'' of their provincial existence. Sonya, the professor's daughter by his first wife, who has worked with Vanya to keep the estate going, suffers from her unrequited feelings for Astrov. Matters are brought to a crisis when the professor announces his intention to sell the estate, Vanya and Sonya's home, with a view to investing the proceeds to achieve a higher inco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of The Umbrella Academy Characters
The following entry is a list of characters from ''The Umbrella Academy'', a comic book series created and written by Gerard Way and illustrated by Gabriel Bá, and its television adaptation on Netflix. The adaptation currently consists of three 10-episode seasons, the most recent of which was released on 22 June 2022. ''The Umbrella Academy'' features seven super-powered children: Luther Hargreeves, who has superstrength; Diego Hargreeves, who has trajectory manipulation meaning he can control projectiles; Allison Hargreeves, who can influence people to her command with the phrase "I Heard a Rumor", followed by what she wants to happen; Klaus Hargreeves, who can communicate with and summon the dead; Five Hargreeves, who can teleport and time travel; Ben Hargreeves, who can summon monstrous tentacles from his torso; and Vanya Hargreeves (later Viktor Hargreeves in the television adaptation), who can control sound waves. All the orphans were adopted by Sir Reginald Hargreeves, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanya Petkova
Vanya Petkova ( bg, Ваня Петкова; 1944 – April 2009) was a Bulgarian poet, novelist, short story writer, and translator of Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Greek descent. Petkova is widely regarded as one of the most consequential Eastern European poets, with 34 poetry books and 6 novels to her name. Her poetry has been translated to 13 languages, including English, Spanish, French, Russian, Greek, Armenian, Polish, Czech, Hindi, Arabic and Japanese among others. Petkova worked as a cultural envoy for Bulgaria's diplomatic mission to Havana, Cuba from 1974 to 1978 where she learned Spanish and received her PhD in Latin American Culture and Literature, shortly after majoring in German at Bulgaria's State University "St. Kliment Ohridski". She also studied Arabic in Damascus, Syria, and has also worked as a diplomatic interpreter at the Bulgarian Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan. Vanya Petkova has translated the works of a number of Western and Middle Eastern writers to B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanya Mishra
Vanya Mishra (born 27 February 1992) is a technology entrepreneur, former actress and a beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Femina Miss India World in 2012. Vanya was born in Jalandhar, Punjab, and raised in Chandigarh. She studied electrical engineering at Punjab Engineering College. She represented India at the Miss World 2012 event in China in August 2012. She finished at 5th rank, and won two major subtitles out of six, '' Miss Multimedia'' and '' Miss Beauty with a Purpose''. She has been the co-founder and managing director at her fashion discovery portal, SummerLabel, launched on Android. Early life Vanya Mishra was born on 27 February 1992 in Jalandhar, India. Her father was an Indian Army officer and mother an engineer and former school teacher. She did her schooling from Chandigarh and later attended Punjab Engineering College (PEC). She graduated in 2014 with a Bachelor of Engineering degree, and electrical engineering as her major. In 2022, she completed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Umbrella Academy
''The Umbrella Academy'' is an American comic book series created and written by Gerard Way and illustrated by Gabriel Bá. The first six-issue limited series, '' The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite,'' was released by Dark Horse Comics between September 14, 2007, and February 20, 2008. It won the 2008 Eisner Award for Best Finite Series/Limited Series. A second series, '' The Umbrella Academy: Dallas'', followed in 2008. After a hiatus the series returned in 2018 with '' The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion'' released between October 3, 2018, and June 12, 2019. A television adaptation premiered on Netflix in February 2019. In 2019, Dark Horse Comics signed a collaboration with Studio71 to make a card game based on ''The Umbrella Academy''. Synopsis Plot summary The titular team of ''The Umbrella Academy'' is described as a "dysfunctional family of superheroes". In the mid-20th century, at the instant of the finishing blow in a cosmic wrestling match, 43 superpowered infants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanya Kewley
Vanya Sarah Kewley (8 November 1937 – 17 July 2012) was an Anglo-French journalist, documentary maker and nurse noted for her 1988 documentary film ''Tibet: A Case to Answer'' about the human rights situation in Tibet under Chinese rule. Born in Calcutta to a French mother and a British father, she moved to London to train as a nurse but did not have much enthusiasm about her career and began working as a researcher for Granada Television in 1965. Kewley had her first foreign assignment in 1969 and continued to be sent abroad for assignments and interviewed major world figures of the period. She moved to working on the ITV current affairs series ''This Week'' in 1972 and made several documentaries for the programme. Kewley won her first award for a documentary about the South Korean human rights situations in 1977. She began planning ''Tibet: A Case to Answer'' in 1985 and the project was approved by Channel 4's commissioning editor David Lloyd. Kewley entered the country via a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanya Voynova
Vanya Voynova ( bg, Ваня Войнова); December 27, 1934 – March 9, 1993) was a Bulgarian basketball player. She has played for Slavia Sofia from 1950 to 1968, winning the European Champions' Cup in 1959 and 1963 and Bulgarian league 12 times from 1953 to 1965. With the Bulgaria women's national basketball team, she has won silver in the 1959 World Championship, bronze in the 1964 World Championship, gold in the 1958 European Championship, silver in the 1960 European Championship and 1964 European Championship and bronze in the 1954 European Championship and 1962 European Championship. She has been inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001 and FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007. Club career National team Vanya Voynova played for the Bulgarian national women's team for 15 years. Her generation remains a lasting trace in the history of this sport in the country. Many experts believe that this is the most successful generation of the 20th century. With ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanyar
In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the Elves or Quendi are a sundered (divided) people. They awoke at Cuiviénen on the continent of Middle-earth, where they were divided into three tribes: Minyar (the Firsts), Tatyar (the Seconds) and Nelyar (the Thirds). After some time, they were summoned by Oromë to live with the Valar in Valinor, on Aman. That summoning and the Great Journey that followed split the Elves into two main groups (and many minor ones), which were never fully reunited. Tolkien stated that the stories were made to create a world for his elvish languages, not the reverse. The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey writes that ''The Silmarillion'' derived from the linguistic relationship between the two languages, Quenya and Sindarin, of the divided Elves. The Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger states that Tolkien used the Indo-European type of proto-language as his model. In her view, the sundering of the Elves reflects the progressive decline and fall in Middle-earth from it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanya Cullen
Cullen Wines is an Australian winery based in Wilyabrup, within the Margaret River wine region of Western Australia. History Trial vines were planted on one acre of land by Diana and Kevin Cullen on a Wilyabrup property in 1966 after having read advice and received encouragement from Dr John Gladstones, who believed the Margaret River was ideal for planting vines due to a similarity he saw with the climate and soils of Bordeaux. The trials were promising, and 17 acres of vineyards were planted, this time on their own property, in 1971, with the business founded under the name "Wilyabrup Wines". The first grape vines planted were Cabernet Sauvignon, Riesling and Gewürztraminer. Kevin Cullen was given the Western Australian "Citizen of the year" for "The Professions" in 1993, and was inducted as a Member of the Order of Australia in 1994 for "service to medicine" and service "to the wine industry". He died in 1994. Diana Cullen was inducted as a Member of the Order of Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanya Milanova
Vanya Milanova (born January 12, 1954; also Vania) is a Bulgarian-born solo violinist, recording artist and professor of music. Early life and education Milanova was born in Razgrad, Bulgaria. She was a child prodigy, having performed her first paid concert under the tutelage of Yordan Yordanov at the age of six. She studied at the Music School in Sofia and the State Music Academy in Sofia in the class of Peter Arnaudov, and later at the Guildhall School of Music in London, where she studied with pedagogue Yfrah Neaman. Career At an early stage in her career, Milanova won prizes at several of the major international violin competitions: Kocian Violin Competition (Grand Prix for the overall winner), Queen Elisabeth (10th prize; 1971), Paganini (3rd prize; 1973) and Tchaikovsky (joint 3rd prize; 1974). She has played with orchestras in England, France, Italy, Turkey, Israel, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, South America and South Africa. She has made frequent recordings wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanya Shtereva
Vanya Shtereva ( bg, Ваня Щерева) is a popular Bulgarian singer and writer. She's known for her eccentric attitude and image. She has written songs for a lot of Bulgarian artists such as Stenli, Antibiotika, Aksiniya, etc. Her first, and to date only, album is called "In Vitro" and was released in 2003. It gained little success due to poor promotion. Today, Vanya is the vocalist of the group MatchPoint. They released their first single in July 2007 charting #1 on MAD TV Bulgaria Top 10. Her first book "Obraztsov dom" was published in 2005 and since then has become one of the best selling books in Bulgaria by a contemporary author. Her daughter is the bulgarian singer Mila Robert Mila Robert Gergova ( Bulgarian: Мила Роберт Гергова; born September 6, 1996), known professionally as Mila Robert, is a Bulgarian singer, songwriter, painter and actress. She is the daughter of Vanya Shtereva. Early life and ca .... Albums * In Vitro (2003) Singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanya Mirzoyan
Vanya Mirzoyan ( hy, Վանյա Միրզոյան, born 5 July 1948) Armenian scientist-mathematician. Biography V.A. Mirzoyan was born in Mountainous Jagir, an Armenian Village located in Shamkhor District of Artsakh. His father, Aleksandr Ghazar Mirzoyan, was a teacher of Geography and Astronomy at the Secondary School of Mountainous Jagir, mother - Arshaluys Sergey Harutyunyan was an employee. From 1964 to 1968 he studied at Yerevan Technical College of Electronic Computers. In 1967 graduated from Yerevan Secondary Correspondence School 3 and was admitted to Yerevan State University, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics, which he graduated in 1972. From 1972 to 1974 he served in the Soviet Army as an officer. From October 1975 to October 1978 he pursued his targeted postgraduate studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia, with a degree in “Geometry and Topology” under scientific supervision of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical sciences, member of the Estonian Acad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
