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Varvara Merras-Häyrynen
Varvara (Cyrillic: Варвара; el, Βαρβάρα, ''Varvára''), a variant of "Barbara", may refer to: Places *Varvara, Azerbaijan * Varvara, Prozor, on the Rama river, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Varvara, Burgas Province, Bulgaria * Varvara, Pazardzhik Province, Septemvri Municipality, Bulgaria * Varvara, Chalkidiki, Greece * Varvara, Tearce, Tearce Municipality, Republic of North Macedonia Books *''Varvara'', US title of 1956 novel ''Sea of Glass'' by Dennis Parry People * Varvara (singer) *Varvara Annenkova (1795–1866), Russian poet *Varvara Bakhmeteva, Mikhail Lermontov's muse *Varvara Baruzdina (1862–1941), Russian painter *Varvara Barysheva (born 1977), Russian speed skater *Varvara Bubnova (1886–1983), Russian painter and pedagogue *Varvara Flink, Russian tennis player *Varvara Golitsyna ( Engelhardt (1752–1815), Russian lady in waiting and noble *Varvara Ivanova (born 1987), Russian virtuoso harpist *Varvara Lepchenko (born 1986), former Uzbekistan and now Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyrillic Script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, Caucasian languages, Caucasian and Iranian languages, Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, North Asia, and East Asia. , around 250 million people in Eurasia use Cyrillic as the official script for their national languages, with Russia accounting for about half of them. With the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union on 1 January 2007, Cyrillic became the third official script of the European Union, following the Latin script, Latin and Greek alphabet, Greek alphabets. The Early Cyrillic alphabet was developed during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School in the First Bulgarian Empire during the reign of tsar Simeon I of Bulgar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Bubnova
Varvara Bubnova (17 May 1886 – 28 March 1983) was a painter, graphic artist (master of lithography) and pedagogue. Biography She was born in St. Petersburg into the family of Dmitry Kapitonovich Bubnov (?–1914), a bank clerk of lower rank. Her mother Anna Nikolaevna (maiden name Wolfe) (1854–1940) descended from an old noble Russian family and was distantly related to Alexander Pushkin. From 1903 to 1905, Bubnova studied in the studio of Art Promotion Society. From 1907 until 1914 she studied in the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. She attended school with the soon-to-be famous Pavel Filonov and her future husband Voldemārs Matvejs, who was the first Russian researcher of African Art. In 1910 she became a member of the Youth Union and participated in art exhibitions with Vladimir Mayakovsky, Mayakovsky, David Burliuk, Burlyuk, Larionov, Natalia Goncharova, Goncharova, and Kazimir Malevich, Malevich. From 1917 until 1922. Bubnova lived in Moscow and worked for the Insti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Zelenskaya
Varvara Vladimirovna Zelenskaya ( rus, Варвара Владимировна Зеленская, often transliterated as Warwara Zelenskaja; born 5 October 1972 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky) is a retired Russian alpine ski racer. She is the most successful Russian female World Cup ski racer, winning a total of four races ( Svetlana Gladishiva is the only other Russian woman to win a World Cup race). Career Zelenskaya began skiing at the age of six in her native Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, on the Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia. Zelenskaya made her debut on the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup circuit in February 1989 at the age of 16 and competed for 14 seasons through 2002. She won four World Cup races in 1996 and 1997, all in downhill. She also placed on the World Cup podium (top three) in 12 downhill races and one Super G from 1990 to 1997, with her first podium at the age of 18 on 21 December 1990, in Morzine, France. She placed third in the World Cup downhill standings and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Yakovleva (politician)
Varvara Nikolaevna Yakovleva (russian: Варвара Николаевна Яковлева; 19 December 1885 – 11 September 1941) was a prominent Bolshevik party member and Soviet government official who later supported Leon Trotsky's attempt to democratize the party. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 1938 for membership in a "diversionary terrorist organization." She was later shot in the Oryol Central Prison. Early life Yakovleva was born to the middle-class family of a tradesman of Jewish descent 1885 in Moscow. Her father was a convert to Orthodox Christianity. She joined the Bolsheviks in January 1904, aged 18, as a student at a women's college in Moscow, where she was studying mathematics and physics, and was immediately involved in the illegal distribution of party literature. During the 1905 Revolution, she was violently assaulted on the breasts, which damaged her health, and was a cause of the tuberculosis that she later contracted in exile in Siberia. She wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Yakovleva
Varvara Alexeyevna Yakovleva (russian: Варвара Алексеевна Яковлева; c. 1880 - July 18, 1918), called Nun Barbara (russian: Инокиня Варвара), was a Russian Orthodox nun in the convent of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna. She was killed by the Bolsheviks along with the grand duchess and Prince Ioann Konstantinovich of Russia, Prince Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, Prince Igor Konstantinovich of Russia, Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia, Fyodor Remez, Grand Duke Sergei's secretary, and Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley at Alapaevsk. She was later canonized as a martyr by both the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church within Russia. Life There is very little reliable information about her life before entering the Martha and Mary Convent. According to documentary evidence, she came from Tver. She arrived at the Convent from Yalta on August 20, 1910. In 1911, she was 31 years old.Додонов Б. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Subbotina
Varvara Maksimovna Subbotina (russian: Варвара Максимовна Субботина; born 21 March 2001) is a Russian synchronised swimmer. In 2018, Subbotina and Svetlana Kolesnichenko won the gold medal in both the duet technical routine and duet free routine at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships The 2018 European Aquatics Championships took place in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Luss in the central belt of Scotland, from 3 to 12 August 2018. The championships were part of the first European Championships with other events happening in Scot .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Subbotina, Varvara 2001 births Living people Russian synchronized swimmers World Aquatics Championships medalists in synchronised swimming Artistic swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships European Aquatics Championships medalists in synchronised swimming Swimmers from Moscow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Stepanova
Varvara Fyodorovna Stepanova (russian: Варва́ра Фёдоровна Степа́нова; – May 20, 1958) was a Russian artist. With her husband Alexander Rodchenko, she was associated with the Constructivist branch of the Russian avant-garde, which rejected aesthetic values in favour of revolutionary ones. Her activities extended into propaganda, poetry, stage scenery and textile designs. Biography Varvara Stepanova who was born in Kaunas (in modern-day Lithuania) came from peasant origins but was able to get an education at Kazan Art School, Kazan. There she met her later husband and collaborator Alexander Rodchenko. In the years before the Russian Revolution of 1917 they leased an apartment in Moscow, owned by Wassily Kandinsky. These artists became some of the main figures in the Russian avant-garde. The new abstract art in Russia which began around 1915 was a culmination of influences from Cubism, Italian Futurism and traditional peasant art. She designed Cubo-Futu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Saulina
Varvara Saulina (russian: Варвара Алексеевна Саулина; née Repina, born 31 March 1992) is a Russian Woman FIDE Master (WFM) (2005). Biography Varvara Saulina two times won Russian Youth Chess Championships: in 2008, at the U16 girls age group, and in 2010, at the U18 girls age group. She repeatedly represented Russia at the European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in different age groups, where she won three medals: two gold (in 2005 and 2006, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U14 girls age group) and silver (in 2008, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U16 girls age group). In 2011, she won Moscow chess festival ''Moscow Open'' tournament "D". In this same year in Magnitogorsk she successfully participated in the Russian Women's Chess Cup, where she won second place only in the final lost Anastasia Bodnaruk. In 2014, in Kazan she won the Russian Chess Universiada Women's Tournament. In 2014, she gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Rudneva
Varvara Aleksandrova Kashevarova-Rudneva (1842–1899), was a Russian Empire medical doctor. Rudneva was the second woman in Russia to become a doctor, after Nadezhda Suslova. She was the first woman in Russia to become a doctor and to have completed their education at a Russian medical school, an event which occurred at a time when women were barred receiving training at such universities. Despite the ban against women studying at medical universities, she was given a unique permission to study for her desire to treat women patients who refused to be treated by male doctors due to their religious beliefs. Her attendance at St. Petersburg Medical Surgical Academy, and later medical practice, were thereby unique in Russia thus garnering attention from both the medical field and general public making her a notoriously controversial figure. Early life Varvara Rudneva was born in the town Chavusy of the Eastern Belarusian Region of Mogilev Province. After the death of her mother, R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Mestnikova
Varvara Mestnikova (russian: Варвара Кимовна Местникова; born 6 May 1995) is a Russian chess player who holds the title of Women FIDE Master (WFM) (2005). Biography Varvara Mestnikova was student of Sakhalin chess school, later moved to Voronezh. In 2005, in Herceg Novi Varvara Mestnikova won European Youth Chess Championship in the U10 girl's age group. About this success she became Women FIDE Master (WFM) title. Since 2008, she rarely participate in chess tournaments. In 2016 Varvara Mestnikova graduated from Saint Petersburg Herzen University Herzen University, or formally the Russian State Pedagogical University in the name of A. I. Herzen (russian: Российский государственный педагогический университет имени А. И. Герце .... References External linksVarvara Mestnikovachess games at 365chess.com 1995 births Living people Russian female chess players Chess Woman FIDE Masters [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Massalitinova
Varvara Osipovna Massalitinova (russian: Варва́ра О́сиповна Массалитинова; July 29, 1878 – October 20, 1945) was a Russian and Soviet theatre and film actress. Life and career Born at Yelets in Oryol Governorate, she began acting at an amateur theatre club in the Siberian city of Tomsk. She then moved to Moscow and studied acting under Alexander Lensky at the Moscow Theatrical school, from which she graduated in 1901 as an actress. From 1901 to 1945 Varvara Massalitinova was a permanent member of the troupe at Maly Academic Theatre in Moscow. There she worked on stage with such actors as Maria Yermolova, Yelena Gogoleva, Aleksandra Yablochkina, Vera Pashennaya, Aleksandr Yuzhin, Aleksandr Ostuzhev, Vladimir Davydov, Konstantin Zubov, Stepan Kuznetsov, Nikolai Annenkov, Mikhail Tsaryov, Igor Ilyinsky and many other notable Russian actors. She became famous in 1902 after her powerful stage performances as Korobochka in Nikolai Gogol's class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Lepchenko
Varvara (Cyrillic: Варвара; el, Βαρβάρα, ''Varvára''), a variant of " Barbara", may refer to: Places * Varvara, Azerbaijan * Varvara, Prozor, on the Rama river, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Varvara, Burgas Province, Bulgaria * Varvara, Pazardzhik Province, Septemvri Municipality, Bulgaria * Varvara, Chalkidiki, Greece * Varvara, Tearce, Tearce Municipality, Republic of North Macedonia Books *''Varvara'', US title of 1956 novel ''Sea of Glass'' by Dennis Parry People * Varvara (singer) *Varvara Annenkova (1795–1866), Russian poet * Varvara Bakhmeteva, Mikhail Lermontov's muse * Varvara Baruzdina (1862–1941), Russian painter * Varvara Barysheva (born 1977), Russian speed skater *Varvara Bubnova (1886–1983), Russian painter and pedagogue *Varvara Flink, Russian tennis player *Varvara Golitsyna ( Engelhardt (1752–1815), Russian lady in waiting and noble *Varvara Ivanova (born 1987), Russian virtuoso harpist *Varvara Lepchenko (born 1986), former Uzbekistan an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
