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Zavadovsky
Zavadovsky (feminine: Zavadovskaya) is a Russian-language surname, a Russianized for of the Polish surname Zawadowski, originate from one of the location named Zawadów. An An alternative spelling is Zavadovskiy. Notable people with this surname include: *Boris Zavadovsky (1895-1951), Russian physiologist *Gennady Zavadovsky, an alleged dead Soviet cosmonaut *, second in command of the sloop-of-war ''Vostok'' in the First Russian Antarctic Expedition, the namesake of two islands *Pyotr Zavadovsky (1739–1812), Russian favourite and the lover of Catherine the Grea *Vera Zavadovskaya, Russian courtier, maid of honour to empress Catherine the Great See also * Zavadovskiy Island *Zavodovski Island Zavodovski Island is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Traversay Islands subgroup of the South Sandwich Islands, which are located southeast of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean. Zavodovski is the northernmost of the South Sandwich ... {{surname Russian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Zavadovskaya
Vera Nikolaevna Zavadovskaya (; 2 November 1768 – 22 November 1845) was a Russian courtier. She served as maid of honour to Catherine the Great. She was married to Pyotr Zavadovsky and known for her love affair with Prince Ivan Baryatinsky and for being the mistress and muse of the poet Sergey Marin. Biography Vera was born the only daughter of Lieutenant of the Horse Guards, Count Nikolai Fedorovich Apraksin from his marriage to a maid of honour, Sofia Osipovna Zakrevskaya, daughter of the Cossack Osip Zakrevsky who was raised to nobility, and Anna Grigorievna Razumovskaya (1722–1758), the beloved sister of Kirill and Alexei Razumovsky. Both of her younger brothers died in childhood. Vera's mother, Sophia, had a great influence on her uncle Kirill Razumovsky, after the death of his wife in 1771, she moved with her family into his house where she became his mistress. Vera would live with her uncle from the age of two, until her marriage. Marriage By age 15, Vera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyotr Zavadovsky
Pyotr Zavadovsky (1739–1812) was a Russian Imperial statesman of Ukrainian origin. He was a favourite (lover) of Russian Empress Catherine the Great from 1776 to 1777. Count Zavadovsky was named official secretary to Catherine in 1775 and became her lover on 2 January 1776. He is described as serious and cultivated and he is regarded to have been genuinely in love with Catherine. Their relationship was tense because of the jealousy he felt toward Grigory Potemkin, who still had a relationship with Catherine, although Zavadovsky had replaced him in a sexual sense, and Potemkin was also said to have had difficulties accepting the situation. The relationship was ended because of the continuing pressure. In 1778, Catherine contemplated recalling him, but was then introduced to Ivan Rimsky-Korsakov. Zavadovsky became the highest official in the empire’s educational system. In 1780 he was appointed a privy councillor; in 1781, he became the director of the state bank. He l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Zavadovsky
Boris Mikhailovich Zavadovsky (Russian: Борис Михайлович Завадовский; 13 January 1895, Elisavetgrad – 31 March 1951, Moscow) was a Russian Soviet physiologist and who founded the in 1922. He is noted for his pioneering research into the function of the thyroid gland. He also studied the effects of sex hormones on the body. He developed a Marxist approach to museology which he described inMarxist Exhibition Methods for Natural Science Museums (1931) which he presented at the First All-Russian Museum Congress held in Moscow in 1930. He also attended the Second International Congress of the History of Science as part of the Soviet delegation contributingThe "Physical" and "Biological" in the Process of Organic Evolution" to the anthology of their contributions ''Science at the Crossroads''. At the time he was one of two non-party members of the delegation, but he joined the CPSU, Communist Party in 1932. Although Zavadovsky considered himself a Marxist bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Russian Antarctic Expedition
The First Russian Antarctic Expedition took place in 1819–1821 under the direction of Fabian Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev. The expedition aimed to reach the Southern Ocean in order to prove or disprove the existence of a suspected seventh continent, Antarctica. The sloop '' Vostok'' was under the command of Bellingshausen, while Lazarev commanded the sloop '' Mirny''. Overall, the consisted of 190 people. Due to extreme haste in equipping the voyage (the order was released on March 15, and the departure took place on July 4, 1819), it was impossible to assemble a science team. Thus, almost all scientific observations in the fields of geography, ethnography, and natural history were conducted by officers and the only scientist on board, associate professor Ivan Mikhailovich Simonov, who taught at the Imperial Kazan University. A novice painter, , was hired to depict the events, landscapes, and biological species encountered during the expedition. His paintings of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Cosmonauts
The Lost Cosmonauts or Phantom Cosmonauts are subjects of a conspiracy theory, which alleges that Soviet and Russian space authorities have concealed the deaths of some cosmonauts in outer space. Proponents of the Lost Cosmonauts theory argue that the Soviet Union attempted to launch human spaceflights before Yuri Gagarin's first spaceflight, and that cosmonauts onboard died in those attempts. Soviet military pilot Vladimir Ilyushin was alleged to have landed off course and been held by the Chinese government. The Government of the Soviet Union supposedly suppressed this information, to prevent bad publicity during the height of the Cold War. The evidence cited to support Lost Cosmonaut theories is generally regarded as inconclusive, and several cases have been confirmed as hoaxes. In the 1980s, American journalist James Oberg researched space-related disasters in the Soviet Union, but found no evidence of these Lost Cosmonauts. Since the fall of the Soviet Union in the ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zawadowski
Zawadowski (feminine: Zawadowska) is a Polish-language surname. It may be the surname of a noble family bearing the Rawa coat of arms. It may originate from one of the location named Zawadów. The Russianized form is Zavadovsky. Notable people with this surname include: * (born 1983), Polish writer, screenwriter and translator * Wacław Zawadowski Jan Wacław Zawadowski, pseudonym Zawado, (14April 1891– 15November 1982) was a Polish painter of Landscape painting, landscapes (mainly of Provence), still life, portraits, and figural scenes. Influenced mainly by Post-Impressionism, he was a p ... (1891–1982), Polish painter * Witold Zawadowski (1888–1980), Polish physician * (1899-1978), lawyer, consular officer and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Polish Government in Exile See also * {{surname category:Polish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zavadovskiy Island
Zavadovskiy Island, also known as Penguin Island, is an ice-covered island in the West Ice Shelf near Antarctica located at . It rises to 200 meters (656 feet) and is located 12 miles east of Mikhaylov Island. It was discovered by the Soviet expedition of 1956 which named it for , second in command of the Imperial Russian Navy sloop-of-war ''Vostok'' in the Bellingshausen expedition in 1819–21. A temporary field station named Druzhba was opened from May 20 to August 6 in 1960 on the island by the Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ... to study meteorological conditions. References Islands of Princess Elizabeth Land {{PrincessElizabethLand-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zavodovski Island
Zavodovski Island is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Traversay Islands subgroup of the South Sandwich Islands, which are located southeast of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean. Zavodovski is the northernmost of the South Sandwich Islands and consists of one major stratovolcano, Mount Curry, which is surrounded to the east by a plain formed by lava flows. Mount Curry has a fumarolically active crater on the southwestern side, which also bears traces of a sector collapse. An eruption occurred in 2016. The island was officially discovered in December 1819 by Thaddeus von Bellingshausen. The largest penguin colony on Earth with over a million breeding pairs is situated on Zavodovski. It consists mostly of chinstrap penguins, although other seabirds and penguin species breed on the island as well. Early explorers noted the bad smell of the island, which is reflected in numerous placenames. Geography and geomorphology Zavodovski is the northernmost of the South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
