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Poliakoff Family
Poliakoff is a surname, a variant of Polyakov. It may refer to: *Alexander Poliakoff, Russian-born British electronics engineer, inventor and businessman, father of Martyn and Stephen * Élie de Poliakoff, Russian-born equestrian *Joseph Poliakoff, Russian-born British telephone and sound engineer and inventor, father of Alexander *Martyn Poliakoff, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham, brother of Stephen * Nicolai Poliakoff, British clown, born in Latvia *Serge Poliakoff, Russian-born French modernist painter *Stephen Poliakoff, British playwright, director and scriptwriter, brother of Martyn *Marina Catherine de Poliakoff-Baydaroff, birth name of Marina Vlady, French actress, sister of Odile *Étiennette de Poliakoff-Baydaroff, birth name of Odile Versois Odile Versois (born Étiennette de Poliakoff-Baydaroff; 15 June 1930 – 23 June 1980) was a French actress who appeared in 47 film and television productions between 1948 and 1980. Versois was the sister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polyakov
Polyakov or Poliakov, (, , , ), or Polyakova, Paliakova (feminine; ) is a Slavic surname. It may be transliterated as '' Poliakoff''. Notable people with the surname include: * Aleksei Poliakov (born 1974), Russian/Uzbek goalkeeper * Alexander Polyakov (other), multiple individuals * Alla Polyakova (born 1970), Russian politician * Anatoly Polyakov (born 1980), Russian swimmer * Andrei Polyakov (1950–2021), Russian diplomat * Dmitri Polyakov (1921–1988), Soviet General and a spy for the CIA * Boris Poliakov, Russian scientist and mechanical engineer * Dzyanis Palyakow (born 1991), Belarusian footballer * Elena Polyakova (born 1981), Russian ultramarathon runner * Ella Polyakova (born 1941), Russian human rights activist * Georgi Polyakov, Bulgarian sports shooter * Germaine Poliakov, Ottoman-born French music teacher and Holocaust survivor * Grigory Polyakov (1876–1939), Russian ornithologist * Igor Polyakov (1912–2008), Soviet rower * Ivan Alexeyevi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Poliakoff
Alexander Poliakoff (; 20 August 1910 – 26 July 1996) was a Russian-born British electronics engineer, inventor and businessman, and the chairman of Multitone Electronics for over 40 years. Poliakoff was born in 1910 at his parents' country house at Losino-Ostrovskaya, near Moscow, the only son of Joseph Poliakoff, a Russian-Jewish telephone and sound engineer and inventor, and Flora Shabbat, the granddaughter of a textile millionaire. He was of Jewish descent. In 1937, Poliakoff married Ina Montagu (died 1992), granddaughter of the British-Jewish banker Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling. Their elder son is the chemist Sir Martyn Poliakoff, and their younger son is the playwright Stephen Poliakoff. He was appointed OBE in the 1982 New Year Honours. His reminiscences were published in ''The Silver Samovar'' - Atlantida Press 1996 (ISBN 5-88011-013-3) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Poliakoff, Alexander 1910 births 1996 deaths Officers of the Order of the British Empir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Élie De Poliakoff
Élie is the French equivalent of " Elie", "Elias" or "Elijah."''The Complete Baby Name Book'' 1989 Page 92 "It was revived in the seventeenth century by the Puritans, and is still used, especially by religious Protestant families. Famous name: Elie Wiesel (novelist) Variations include Elia (Italian), Elias (English), Élie (French), ..." Related spellings include Elia, Elias, Élias, Hélie and Hélias. People with the given name include: * Élie, duc Decazes (1780–1860), French politician * Élie Aboud (born 1959), Lebanese-French politician * Élie Allégret (1865–1940), French Protestant pastor and missionary * Élie Barnavi (born 1946), Israeli ambassador to France between 2000 and 2002 * Élie Baup (1955) French football manager and former goalkeeper * Élie Bayol (1914–1995), French racing driver * Élie Benoist (1640–1728), French Protestant minister and historian of the Edict of Nantes * Élie Berthet (1815–1891), French novelist * Élie Bertrand (1713–1797 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Poliakoff
Joseph Lazarevich Poliakoff (; 24 April 1873 – 24 November 1959) was a Ukrainian-born British telephone and sound engineer and inventor, particularly of hearing aids. Poliakoff was a Ukrainian who experienced first-hand the communist revolution in Russia from the family's Moscow flat across from the Kremlin. Near starvation after the revolution, he was given a government job as a district telephone inspector from an admiring commissar and he helped build Moscow's first automatic telephone exchange. He then fled with his family from the Soviet Union to the UK in 1924. Poliakoff was a renowned inventor of electrical devices whose many inventions included a selenium photograph telephony shutter in 1899 (US patent 700,083, 13 May 1902), which, along with electrical sound amplification, allowed for synchronized audio on film, the radio volume control, a magnetic induction loop that allowed hearing-impaired people to hear in auditoriums or theatres, and the paging beeper. He also f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martyn Poliakoff
Sir Martyn Poliakoff (born 16 December 1947) is a British chemist known for his work on green chemistry and for being the main presenter on the popular YouTube channel '' Periodic Videos''. The core subjects of his academic work are supercritical fluids, infrared spectroscopy and lasers. He is a research professor in chemistry at the University of Nottingham. As well as carrying out research at the University of Nottingham, he is a lecturer, teaching a number of modules including green chemistry. Early life and education Poliakoff was born to a British-Jewish mother, Ina (''née'' Montagu), and a Russian-Jewish father, Alexander Poliakoff. He has a younger brother, the screenwriter and director Stephen Poliakoff. His paternal grandfather, Joseph Poliakoff, was a prolific inventor of electrical devices who experienced the communist revolution in Russia first-hand, and emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1924. Poliakoff was educated at Westminster School. He then studied chemist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolai Poliakoff
Nicolai Poliakoff OBE (2 October 1900 – 25 September 1974; ; ) was the creator of Coco the Clown, arguably the most famous clown in the United Kingdom in the mid-20th century. Biography Nicolai Poliakoff was born in 1900 to a Jewish family in Dvinsk (today Daugavpils), Latvia which was then part of the Russian Empire. His family were poor and worked at the local theatre to supplement the money his father earned as a cobbler. When his father was conscripted to the army in the Russo-Japanese War the five year-old Nicolai started singing for food to avoid starvation. * 1908—Nicolai “ran away and joined the circus,” as the saying goes. He travelled 300 miles by train to Vitebsk, in Belorussia (today Belarus), where he persuaded a circus owner to give him a job, telling him that he was an orphan with no one to look after him. The director bought his story and placed him under the charge of Vitaly Lazarenko, a clown and acrobat who would become a major circus star in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serge Poliakoff
Serge Poliakoff (January 8, 1900 – October 12, 1969) was a Russian-born French modernist painter belonging to the 'New' École de Paris ( Tachisme). Biography Serge Poliakoff was born in Moscow in 1900, the thirteenth of fourteen children. His father, a Kyrgyz, supplied the army with horses that he bred himself and also owned a racing stable. His mother was heavily involved with the church, and its religious icons fascinated him. He enrolled at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, but fled Russia in 1918. He arrived in Constantinople in 1920, living off the profits from his talent as a guitarist. He went on to pass through Sofia, Belgrade, Vienna, and Berlin before settling in Paris in 1923, all the while continuing to play in Russian cabarets. In 1929 he enrolled at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. His paintings remained purely academic until he discovered, during his stay in London from 1935 to 1937, the abstract art and luminous colours of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Poliakoff
Stephen Poliakoff (born 1 December 1952) is a British playwright, Film director, director and screenwriter. In 2006 Gerard Gilbert of ''The Independent'' described him as the UK's "pre-eminent TV dramatist" and that he had "inherited Dennis Potter's crown". Early life Poliakoff was born in Holland Park, West London, to Ina (née Montagu) and Alexander Poliakoff. His father was a Russian-Jewish immigrant and his mother was a British Jews, British Jew. His maternal grandfather had bought 16th-century mansion Great Fosters, and his maternal great-grandfather was Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling. Poliakoff's paternal grandfather, Joseph Poliakoff, Joseph, was a Russian Jew who experienced first-hand the effects of the communist revolution in Russia from the family's Moscow flat across from the Kremlin. Near starvation after the revolution, he was given a government job as a district telephone inspector from an admiring commissar and he helped build Moscow's first automatic tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Vlady
Marina Vlady (born 10 May 1938) is a French actress. Biography Vlady was born in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine to White Russian immigrant parents. Her father was an opera singer and her mother was a dancer. Her sisters, now all deceased, were the actresses Odile Versois, Hélène Vallier and Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff. The sisters began acting as children and, for a while, pursued a ballet career. From 1955 to 1959, she was married to actor/director Robert Hossein. From 1963 to 1966, she was married to Jean-Claude Brouillet, a French entrepreneur, owner of two airlines and member of French Resistance. Vlady was married to Soviet poet/songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky from 1969 until his death in 1980. She lived with French oncologist Léon Schwartzenberg from the 1980s until his death in 2003. Vlady won the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival for '' The Conjugal Bed''. In 1965, she was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. Vlady starred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odile Versois
Odile Versois (born Étiennette de Poliakoff-Baydaroff; 15 June 1930 – 23 June 1980) was a French actress who appeared in 47 film and television productions between 1948 and 1980. Versois was the sister of actresses Marina Vlady, Hélène Vallier Hélène Vallier (2 February 1932 – 1 August 1988) was a French film, stage and television actress.Marill p.294 She was born Militza de Poliakoff-Baïdaroff in Paris to an exiled White Russian family, and was the sister of actresses Odile Vers ... and Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff. Their father, Vladimir, was a noted opera singer of Russian descent, and their mother, Militza Envald Voropanoff, was a dancer. Born in Paris, she began acting as a child and for a while pursued a ballet career. She made a number of films for the Rank Organisation in Britain. Personal life Versois married actor Jacques René Dacqmine (1923–2010; '' The Queen's Necklace'') in 1951 but the couple divorced a year later. She had four children by her second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian-language Surnames
Russian is an East Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, and is the native language of the Russians. It was the ''de facto'' and ''de jure'' official language of the former Soviet Union. Constitution and Fundamental Law of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1977: Section II, Chapter 6, Article 36 Russian has remained an official language of the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, and is still commonly used as a lingua franca in Ukraine, Moldova, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and to a lesser extent in the Baltic states and Israel. Russian has over 253 million total speakers worldwide. It is the most spoken native language in Europe, the most spoken Slavic language, as well as the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia. It is the world's seventh-most spoken language by number of native speakers, and the world's ninth-most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethnonymic Surnames
An ethnonym () is a name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms (whose name of the ethnic group has been created by another group of people) and autonyms, or endonyms (whose name is created and used by the ethnic group itself). For example, the dominant ethnic group of Germany is the Germans. The ethnonym ''Germans'' is a Latin-derived exonym used in the English language, but the Germans call themselves , an endonym. The German people are identified by a variety of exonyms across Europe, such as (French), (Italian), ( Swedish) and (Polish). As a sub-field of anthroponymy, the study of ethnonyms is called ethnonymy or ethnonymics. Ethnonyms should not be confused with demonyms, which designate all the people of a geographic territory, regardless of ethnic or linguistic divisions within its population. Variations Numerous ethnonyms can apply to the same ethnic or racial group, with various levels of recognition, acceptance and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
