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Feodor
Fyodor, Fedor () or Feodor is the Russian-language form of the originally Greek-language name "Theodore" () meaning "God's gift" or "god-given". Fedora () is the feminine form. "Fyodor" and "Fedor" are two English transliterations of the same Russian name. It may refer to: Given names ;Fedor * Fedor Andreev (born 1982), Russian / Canadian figure skater *Fedor von Bock (1880–1945), German field marshal of World War II *Fedor Bondarchuk (born 1967), Russian film director, actor, producer, clipmaker, TV host *Fedor Emelianenko (born 1976), Russian mixed martial arts fighter * Fedor Flašík (1958–2024), Slovak political marketer * Fedor Flinzer (1832–1911), German illustrator * Fedor den Hertog (1946–2011), Dutch cyclist * Fedor Klimov (born 1990), Russian skater *Fedor Tyutin (born 1983), Russian ice hockey player ;Feodor *Feodor Chaliapin (1873–1938), Russian opera singer *Feodor Machnow (1878–1912), "The Russian Giant" * Feodor Vassilyev (1707–1782), whose first w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fyodor I Of Russia
Feodor I Ioannovich () or Fyodor I Ivanovich (; 31 May 1557 – 17 January 1598), nicknamed the Blessed (), was Tsar of all Russia from 1584 until his death in 1598. Feodor's mother died when he was three, and he grew up in the shadow of his father, Ivan the Terrible. He was a pious man of retiring disposition and possibly suffered from mental disability. He took little interest in politics, and the country was effectively administered in his name by Boris Godunov, the brother of his beloved wife Irina. He died childless and was succeeded by Godunov as tsar, marking the end of the rule of the Rurik dynasty and spurring Russia's descent into the catastrophic Time of Troubles. He is listed in the Great Synaxaristes of the Eastern Orthodox Church, with his feast day on 7 January (O.S.). Early life Feodor was born on 31 May 1557 in Moscow, the third son of Ivan the Terrible by his first wife Anastasia Romanovna. He was baptized at the Chudov Monastery and his godfather was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feodor Chaliapin
Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin ( rus, Фёдор Ива́нович Шаля́пин, Fyodor Ivanovich Shalyapin, ˈfʲɵdər ɨˈvanəvʲɪtɕ ʂɐˈlʲapʲɪn}; 12 April 1938) was a Russian opera singer. Possessing a deep and expressive bass voice, he enjoyed an important international career at major opera houses and is often credited with establishing the tradition of naturalistic acting in his chosen art form. During the first phase of his career, Chaliapin endured direct competition from three other great basses: the powerful (1869–1942), the more lyrical Vladimir Kastorsky (1871–1948), and Dmitri Buchtoyarov (1866–1918), whose voice was intermediate between those of Sibiriakov and Kastorsky. The fact that Chaliapin is far and away the best remembered of this magnificent quartet of rival basses is a testament to the power of his personality, the acuteness of his musical interpretations, and the vividness of his performances. Spelling note He himself spelled his surna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fyodor III Of Russia
Feodor or Fyodor III Alekseyevich (; 9 June 1661 – 7 May 1682) was Tsar of all Russia from 1676 until his death in 1682. Despite poor health from childhood, he managed to pass reforms on improving meritocracy within the civil and military state administration as well as founding the Slavic Greek Latin Academy. Life Born in Moscow, Fyodor, as the eldest surviving son of Tsar Alexis and Maria Miloslavskaya, succeeded his father on the throne in 1676 at the age of fifteen. He had a fine intellect and a noble disposition; he had received an excellent education at the hands of Simeon Polotsky, the most learned Slavonic monk of the day. He knew Polish and even possessed the unusual accomplishment of Latin. He had been disabled from birth, however, horribly disfigured and half paralysed by a mysterious disease, supposedly scurvy. He spent most of his time with young nobles, and . On 28 July 1680 he married a noblewoman, Agaphia Simeonovna Grushevskaya (1663–1681), daughter o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fyodor II Of Russia
Feodor II Borisovich Godunov (; 1589 – ) was Tsar of all Russia from April to June 1605, at the beginning of the Time of Troubles. Life Fyodor II was born in Moscow, the son and successor to Boris Godunov. His mother Maria Grigorievna Skuratova-Belskaya was one of the daughters of Malyuta Skuratov, the infamous favourite of Ivan the Terrible. Physically robust and passionately beloved by his father, he received the best education available at that time, and from childhood was initiated into all the minutiae of government, besides sitting regularly in the council and receiving the foreign envoys. He seems also to have been remarkably and precociously intelligent, creating a map of Russia, which is still preserved. It was edited with some additions by Hessel Gerritsz in Amsterdam, in 1613, and had been reedited until 1665. On the sudden death of Boris the sixteen-year-old was proclaimed tsar (13 April 1605). Though his father had taken the precaution to surround him with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feodor Vassilyev
Feodor Vassilyev (, older spelling: ; 1782) was a peasant from Shuya, Russia. His first wife, Valentina Vassilyev, is said to have lived to be 76, and between 1725 and 1765, had 69 children (16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets); 67 of them survived infancy (with the loss of one set of twins). This is the world record for the most children born to a single woman. However, their names, dates of birth, and dates of death are all unknown. Vassilyev said he also had 18 children with his second wife (6 pairs of twins and 2 sets of triplets), making him allegedly a father of 87 children in total. The data about Vassilyev's children are included in the ''Guinness Book of World Records''. Sources The first published account about Feodor Vassilyev's children appeared in a 1783 issue of ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' (Vol. 53 p. 753, London, 1783) and states that the information "however astonishing, may be depended upon, as it came directly from an Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feodor Machnow
Fyodor Andreevich Makhnov (, also written as Feodor Machnow in contemporary sources) claimed to be the tallest person in the world, although his exact height and weight is unconfirmed. Biography Fyodor Makhnov was born in 1878 at a ''khutor'' near the village of Kostyuki Vitebsky Uyezd, then part of the Russian Empire (now in Belarus) to a poor peasant family. July 23, 2018 As a young man in his twenties he toured ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodore (given Name)
Theodore is a masculine given name. It comes from the Ancient Greek personal names, Ancient Greek name Θεόδωρος (''Theódoros''), meaning "gift of God(s)" (Etymology, from the Ancient Greek words :wikt:θεός#Greek, θεός, (''theós'') "God/Gods" and :wikt:δῶρον#Ancient Greek, δῶρον (''dṓron'') "gift". The name was borne by several figures in ancient Greece, such as Theodorus of Samos and Theodorus of Byzantium, but gained popularity due to the rise of Christendom. In any form, it means "God(s)-given", or "gift of God/Gods", as do the given names Jonathan (name), Jonathan, Nathaniel, Matthew (name), Matthew, Hibatullah (name), Hibatullah, Devadatta, Dosetai, Bogdan, Божидар, Diosdado, Dieudonné (other), Dieudonné, and Adeodatus (other), Adeodatus. The name has risen in popularity across the Anglosphere during the 2010s and 2020s. The character Ted Mosby on the popular American sitcom ''How I Met Your Mother'', which aired fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian literature, Russian and world literature, and many of his works are considered highly influential Masterpiece, masterpieces. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social and spiritual atmospheres of Russian Empire, 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include ''Crime and Punishment'' (1866), ''The Idiot'' (1869), Demons (Dostoevsky novel), ''Demons'' (1872), ''The Adolescent'' (1875) and ''The Brothers Karamazov'' (1880). His ''Notes from Underground'', a novella published in 1864, is considered one of the first works of existentialism, existentialist literature. Born in Moscow in 1821, Dostoevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends and through books by Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fyodor Khitruk
Fyodor Savelyevich Khitruk (3 December 2012) was a Soviet and Russian animator, animation director, screenwriter and pedagogue. Biography Khitruk was born in Tver into a Jewish family. He came to Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ... to study graphic design at the OGIS College for Applied Arts. He graduated in 1936 and started to work with Soyuzmultfilm in 1938 as an animator. From 1962 onward, he worked as a director. His first film '' The Story of a Crime'' was an immense success. Today, this film is seen as the beginning of a renaissance of History of Russian animation, Soviet animation after a two-decade-long life in the shadows of socialist realism. Diverging from the “naturalistic” Disney-like canons that were reigning in the 1950-60s in Soviet anim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fyodor Ushakov
Admiral Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov ( rus, Фёдор Фёдорович Ушаков, Fëdor Fëdorovič Ušakov, p=ʊʂɐˈkof; – ) was an Imperial Russian Navy officer best known for his service in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He won every engagement he participated in as the admiral of the Russian fleet. Life and naval career Ushakov was born in the village of Burnakovo in the Yaroslavl province, Moscow Gubernia, to a modest family of the minor nobility. His father, Fyodor Ignatyevich Ushakov, was a retired sergeant of the Preobrazhensky Regiment of the Russian Imperial guards. By the time Fyodor Ushakov submitted his statement of background (''skaska'') to the military, his family had not been officially confirmed in the so-called ' dvoryanstvo', yet they surely belonged to serving gentry. In the submission Ushakov stated that he neither had a coat-of-arms, nor a royal patent for a landed estate, and had no way to prove nobility. In 1798, Ushakov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fedor Bondarchuk
Fyodor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk ( ; born 9 May 1967) is a Russians, Russian film director, actor, producer and TV host. He is also the founder of Art Pictures Studio, a production company. He specializes in Action film, action movies, War film, war movies, and science fiction films. Some of his most notable films include ''The 9th Company'' (2005), ''Dark Planet (Russian film), Dark Planet'' (2008–2009), ''Stalingrad (2013 film), Stalingrad'' (2013) and ''Attraction (2017 film), Attraction'' (2017). As an actor, Bondarchuk is best known for starring in ''8 ½ $'' (1999), ''Down House (film), Down House'' (2001), ''Two Days'' (2011), ''The PyraMMMid'' (2011) and ''Ghost (2015 film), Ghost'' (2015). He is a winner of TEFI award in 2003 in nomination “The best host of the entertainment TV-show”. He is a two-time winner of the Golden Eagle Award (Russia), Golden Eagle Award: as the Best Actor in a movie ''Two Days'' by Avdotya Smirnova (2011) and as the Best Actor in the comedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebba Grön
Ebba Grön was a Swedish punk band formed in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1977. Ebba Grön consisted of Joakim Thåström (lead vocals, guitar), Gunnar Ljungstedt (drums) and Lennart Eriksson (bass guitar, backing vocals). Thåström, Ljungstedt and Eriksson were also known as Pimme, Gurra and Fjodor. After the release of their second album in 1981, they were joined by a fourth member, Anders Sjöholm, also known as Stry Terrarie, on keyboard. The group was disbanded on 21 February 1983. One of the most famous songs they recorded is a cover version of "Den ena handen vet vad den andra gör" by the Swedish progg band, '' Blå Tåget''. Renamed "Staten och kapitalet", the song expresses an anti-capitalist sentiment about how the state (''staten'') and the capitalist owned corporations (''kapitalet'') control and enslave the working classes. History During a December 1977 party in Rågsved, a working-class suburb of Stockholm, Thåström, Gurra, and Fjodor formed a band called ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
