Preobrazhensky (russian: Преображенский) is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Preobrazhenskaya. It may refer to
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Alexander Preobrazhensky
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.
Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...
, Russian pedagogue
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Boris Preobrazhensky
Boris may refer to:
People
* Boris (given name), a male given name
*:''See'': List of people with given name Boris
* Boris (surname)
* Boris I of Bulgaria (died 907), the first Christian ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire, canonized after his d ...
, Soviet otolaryngologist and academician,
Hero of Socialist Labor
The Hero of Socialist Labour (russian: links=no, Герой Социалистического Труда, Geroy Sotsialisticheskogo Truda) was an honorific title in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries from 1938 to 1991. It repre ...
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Konstantin Preobrazhensky
Konstantin Georgiyevich Preobrazhenskiy ( rus, Константин Георгиевич Преображенский; born 1953 in Moscow) is a former KGB lieutenant colonel, an intelligence expert and the author of several books and numerous arti ...
, writer on KGB subjects
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Mikhail Preobrazhensky
Mikhail Timofeevich Preobrazhensky (russian: Михаил Тимофеевич Преображенский; 1854–1930) was a Russian architect, teacher, architectural historian, academic and restorer. He was an active member of both the Imperi ...
, architect
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Nikolay Preobrazhensky, Soviet otolaryngologist
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Olga Preobrajenska
Olga Iosifovna Preobrajenska (russian: О́льга Ио́сифовна Преображе́нская; born Preobrazhenskaya; – 27 December 1962) was a Russian ballerina of the Russian Imperial Ballet and a ballet instructor.
Biogra ...
(1871–1962), ballerina of the Russian Imperial Ballet
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Olga Preobrazhenskaya (director)
Olga Ivanovna Preobrazhenskaya (russian: Ольга Ивановна Преображенская, 24 July 1881 – 30 October 1971) was a Russian actress and film director, one of the first female film directors, and the first female film dire ...
(1881–1971), Russian and Soviet actress and film director
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Pavel Preobrazhensky
Pavel ( Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian and Macedonian: Павел, Czech, Slovene, Romanian: Pavel, Polish: Paweł, Ukrainian: Павло, Pavlo) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos). Pav ...
, Russian geologist
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Sofiya Preobrazhenskaya
Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and has ...
, Russian opera singer,
People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR ( rus, Народный артист СССР, Narodny artist SSSR), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to artists of the Soviet Union.
Nomenclature and significan ...
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Vasily Khrisanfovich Preobrazhensky
Vasili, Vasily, Vasilii or Vasiliy ( Russian: Василий) is a Russian masculine given name of Greek origin and corresponds to ''Basil''. It may refer to:
*Vasili I of Moscow Grand Prince from 1389–1425
*Vasili II of Moscow Grand Prince fr ...
, Russian writer
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Vasily Petrovich Preobrazhensky, Russian writer
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Yevgeni Preobrazhensky
Yevgeni Alekseyevich Preobrazhensky ( rus, Евге́ний Алексе́евич Преображе́нский, p=jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪt͡ɕ prʲɪəbrɐˈʐɛnskʲɪj; 1886–1937) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet economi ...
, (1886–1937) Bolshevik and economist
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Yevgeny Nikolayevich Preobrazhensky, Soviet military leader
;Fictional characters
*Professor Preobrazhensky, surgeon, from the novel ''
Heart of a Dog
''Heart of a Dog'' (russian: links=no, italic=yes, Собачье сердце, Sobachye serdtse) is a novella by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. A biting satire of Bolshevism, it was written in 1925 at the height of the NEP period, when commu ...
'' by Mikhail Bulgakov
Russian-language surnames
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