- Ivan IV
Vasilyevich (Russian: Иван IV Васильевич; 25
August 1530 – 28 March [O.S. 18 March] 1584),
commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, was
Grand Prince...
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Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1873 – 28
March 1943) was a
Russian composer,
virtuoso pianist, and conductor.
Rachmaninoff is...
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Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (13 April [O.S. 1 April] 1883 – 8 July 1946, born
Koptelov or Koptelev) was a
Soviet and
Russian composer and founder...
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Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1809 – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a
Russian novelist,
short story writer, and playwright...
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Isakovsky (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Исако́вский; 19 January [O.S. 7 January] 1900 – 20 July 1973) was a
Soviet and
Russian poet...
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Count Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov-Rymniksky,
Prince of
Italy (24 November [O.S. 13 November] 1729 or 1730 – 18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1800) was a Russian...
- 1773. In 1776,
dancers from the
school were emplo**** by
Prince Pyotr Vasilyevich Urusov and
English theatrical entrepreneur Michael Maddox to form part...
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Lyapunov (12 October [O.S. 30 September] 1820 – 2 December [O.S. 20 November] 1868) was a
Russian astronomer and a head of the Demidov...
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Anatole Vasilyevich Kuragin (Russian: Анатолий (Анатоль) Васильевич Курагин) is a
fictional character in Leo Tolstoy's 1869
novel War and Peace, its various...
- W****ily W****ilyevich
Kandinsky (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13
December 1944) was a
Russian painter and art theorist.
Kandinsky is
generally credited...
