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Demidova By Albert Edelfelt
Demidov (russian: Демидов) or Demidova (feminine; Демидова) is a Russian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * The Demidovs, a family of rich Russian entrepreneurs in the 18th–19th centuries, including: ** Elim Demidov, 3rd prince of San Donato *Alla Demidova (born 1936), Soviet/Russian actress * Anna Demidova (1878–1918), Russian chambermaid * Anna Demidova (dancer) (born 1988), Russian-American dancer, actress and model * Georgy Demidov (1908–1987), Russian writer and political prisoner * Igor Demidov (1873–1946), Russian politician *Ivan Demidov Ivan Demidov (russian: Ива́н Деми́дов, ; born 1981) is a professional poker player from Moscow, Russia. Demidov is one of the original " November Nine", having made the final table of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event in ... (born 1981), Russian poker player * Nikolay Ivanovich Demidov (1773–1833), Russian general and politician * Pavel Evgenjevič Demidov (1971&n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demidov
The House of Demidov (russian: Деми́довы) also Demidoff, was a prominent Russian noble family during the 18th and 19th centuries. Originating in the city of Tula in the 17th century, the Demidovs found success through metal products, and were entered into the European nobility by Peter the Great. Their descendants became among the most influential merchants and earliest industrialists in the Russian Empire, and at their peak were predicted to be the second-richest family in Russia, behind only the Russian Imperial Family. The Demidov family lost its fortune after the February Revolution of 1917, but continues to exist under the rendering Demidoff. History Their progenitor, Demid Antufiev, was a free blacksmith from Tula, where their family necropolis is preserved as a museum. His son Nikita Demidov (March 26, 1656November 17, 1725) made his fortune by his skill in the manufacture of weapons, and established an iron foundry for the government. Peter the Great, with who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elim Demidov
Count Elim Pavlovich Demidov, 3rd Prince of San Donato (russian: Елим Павлович Демидов; 6 August (20 June, per Ferrand) 1868, in Hietzing suburb of Vienna – 28 March 1943, in Athens) of the Demidov industrial family, was the Russian Empire's last ambassador to Greece, where he and his wife remained in exile and him as White Russian ambassador. Life Elim Demidov was the only son of Princess Maria Meshcherskaya and Pavel Pavlovitch Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato. His mother, descended from indigenous princes of the Volga Finns of Meshchera and Mordovia, died two days after his birth, whilst Elim's paternal grandmother was the Finnish beauty and philanthropist Aurora Karamzin. Elim got close with his grandmother Aurora, who took care of him as an infant. His father died when Elim was just 18 years old. He had six half-brothers and half-sisters from his father's second marriage with Princess Elena (Hélène) Petrovna Trubetskaya. He married Countess Soph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Demidova
Alla Sergeyevna Demidova (russian: link=no, А́лла Серге́евна Деми́дова; born 29 September 1936, Moscow) is a Russian actress internationally acclaimed for the tragic parts in innovative plays staged by Yuri Lyubimov in the Taganka Theatre. She was awarded the USSR State Prize (1977) and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland (twice, 2007, 2001). Biography Alla Demidova was born on 29 September 1936 in Zamoskvorechye, Moscow, and spent her early years at the Osipenko (now Sadovnicheskaya) Street. Her father Sergey Alekseyevich Demidov, an heir to the Russian industrialists' family, was jailed in 1932 in the course of the Great Purge, but soon got acquitted. In 1941 he joined the Red Army as a volunteer and was killed in action 1944, near Warsaw. Alla's mother, Aleksandra Dmitriyevna Demidova (née Kharchenko) was working at the Economy department of the Moscow University (later at its Cybernetics and economic programming section).Rasskazova, TatyanaAlla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Demidova
Anna Stepanovna Demidova (26 January 1878 – 17 July 1918) was a lady-in-waiting in the service of Empress Alexandra of Russia. She stayed with the Romanov family when they were arrested, and was executed together with Alexandra and the Romanov family on 17 July 1918. She had shared the Romanov family's exile at Tobolsk and Ekaterinburg following the Russian Revolution of 1917 before their execution. She is remembered for staying with the Romanovs to the end. In 1981 she was canonized as an Orthodox martyr by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) but not by the Russian Orthodox Church. Life Anna Demidova, whose nickname was "''Nyuta''," was described in adulthood as a "tall, statuesque blonde."King, Greg, and Wilson, Penny, ''The Fate of the Romanovs,'' John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2003, , pp. 63–64 She was the daughter of Stepan Demidov and his wife. Her father was a well-off merchant in Cherepovets, where he also served on the Cherepovets City Duma, and was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Demidova (dancer)
Anna Demidova (russian: Анна Демидова) (born April 23, 1988) is a Russian-American professional ballroom dancer, actress and model. She is the winner of the professional dancer competition of ''Dancing with the Stars'', Season 8, which guaranteed her a spot as a professional dancer in Season 9 and has been featured in many popular magazines worldwide. Anna is the sister of World Ballroom Dance Champion Katusha Demidova. Early life Demidova was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. She started dancing when she was just 6 years old in an after school program at the local community center, following in the footsteps of her older sister, world champion Katusha Demidova. At the age of fifteen Demidova won the British Open Junior Ballroom Championship and the Ireland Open Championship. Career After finishing high school in Moscow, Demidova moved to New York to live with her sister and pursue her dancing career. She began dancing with Andrei Begunov. After becoming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgy Demidov
Georgy Demidov (russian: link=no, Гео́ргий Гео́ргиевич Деми́дов) (November 29, 1908 – February 19, 1987) was a Russian political prisoner and writer. Born in Saint Petersburg to a working-class family, Demidov showed technical and engineering gifts at an early age and was thought to be a future physicist. From 1929 to 1931 he was imprisoned for political crimes. In the winter of 1938, he was arrested in Kharkiv, where he was working and studying at the Kharkov Electrotechnical Institute, after being served a summons for an internal passport check. It was a check that was to last eighteen years. His interrogator threatened to arrest Demidov's wife, and orphan his five-month-old daughter. Demidov confessed and was sentenced as a Trotskyist, but did not accuse anyone else, and was sent to corrective labor camps. For fourteen years he served in the Kolyma region of Siberia, ten in the most brutal of conditions. In 1946, he received a second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Demidov
Igor Platonovich Demidov (russian: Игорь Платонович Демидов; 5 June 1873 – October 20, 1946) was a Russian politician. A cadet then a member of the State Duma, he went into exile in Paris after the Bolshevik Revolution. He was a member of the editorial staff of the newspaper "Последние новости" ("News"), then its assistant chief editor, and in the early 1920s was also a member of the parish council of St Alexander Nevsky in Paris. Sources * State Duma of the Russian Empire, 1906-1917: The Encyclopedia. Moscow: Russian Political Encyclopedia, 2008. С. 158–159. . S. 158–159. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Demidov 1873 births 1946 deaths Politicians from the Russian Empire Journalists from the Russian Empire Place of birth missing Igor Igor may refer to: People * Igor (given name), an East Slavic given name and a list of people with the name * Mighty Igor (1931–2002), former American professional wrestler * Igor Volkoff, a professional wre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Demidov
Ivan Demidov (russian: Ива́н Деми́дов, ; born 1981) is a professional poker player from Moscow, Russia. Demidov is one of the original " November Nine", having made the final table of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event in 2008. He reached the heads-up stage along with Peter Eastgate. He lost to Eastgate and took second place for $5,809,595. Demidov stated that he would share his winnings with a Russian financial supporter who took him to some previous tournaments, with the backer getting more than Demidov. In October 2008, he reached the final table of the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event in London, finishing in third place. In doing so, he became the first player in history to reach the final table of both WSOP Main Events in the same year. This feat was matched in 2009 by James Akenhead and Antoine Saout. Earlier in 2008, he finished in 11th place in a $1,000 no limit Texas hold 'em with rebuys event. As of 2009, Demidov's live poker tournamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolay Ivanovich Demidov
Nikolay Ivanovich Demidov (19 August 1773 – 4 June 1833) was a Russian General of Infantry, Adjutant-General and senator. Life From a noble family in Ryazan province, he was the son of Brigadier Ivan Ivanovich Demidov. As was the custom of the time his birth was recorded with the Preobrazhensky Lifeguard regiment and three years later promoted to Sergeant. He entered active service on 1 January 1790, rising to captain in 1798 and colonel in 1799. In 1803 he was made a major general and placed in the Izmaylovsky Regiment before being made head of the Petrovsky Infantry Regiment on May 16, with which he marched into Prussia during the Franco-Russian War early in 1807, though he did not participate in hostilities. Also in 1807 he formed the Libavskogo Infantry Regiment. In 1808 he joined the Russian army sent to the Finnish War, where he was put in charge of 2 infantry battalions and 200 Cossacks to besiege Vaasa Vaasa (; sv, Vasa, , Sweden ), in the years 1855–1917 as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Evgenjevič Demidov
Pavel Evgenjevič Demidov (also spelled Pavel Yevgenyevich Demidov; Павел Евгеньевич Демидов; 13 August 1971 – 23 August 2020) was a Russian speleologist, most known for his work in extreme cave exploration, especially as the leader of the Perovo-speleo team expeditions to Verëvkina cave on Arabika massif in Abkhazia, from 2017 the deepest cave in the world. Early life, education and career He was born in Moscow to Evgenij Pavlovič Demidov, a land improvement engineer, and to Elvira Ivanovna Mazeina, an electric assembly technician in missile production. After the School No. 668 (1978–1988) in Moscow he graduated in navigation at Odesa State Maritime Academy (1988–1994). The study included a year and a half at sea, sailing the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea on school's training and trading vessels. As there was no suitable job in the Russian merchant fleet for him at the time, he returned to Moscow in 1994. After different jobs, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Demidov
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Demidov (russian: Владимир Александрович Демидов; born 19 January 1964) is a former Russian professional footballer. Club career He made his professional debut in the Soviet Top League in 1984 for FC Dynamo Moscow. He played 1 game in the UEFA Cup 1987–88 for FC Dynamo Moscow. Honours * Soviet Top League runner-up: 1986. * Soviet Cup The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup (russian: Кубок СССР),, be, Кубак СССР, uz, СССР Кубоги, kk, КСРО Кубогы, ka, სსრკ თასი, az, ССРИ кубоку, lt, TSRS taurė, ro, Cupa URSS ( Moldov ... winner: 1984. References 1964 births Footballers from Moscow Living people Soviet men's footballers Russian men's footballers Men's association football defenders Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden Russian expatriate men's footballers Soviet Top League players FC Dynamo Moscow players FC Dinamo Minsk players Vladimir {{Rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vadim Demidov
Vadim Sergeievich Demidov (; born 10 October 1986) is a Norwegian retired international footballer who played as a central defender. Early life Demidov was born in Riga, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, and is of Russian ethnicity. His father is handball player Sergei Demidov (1961–2020), who played internationally for the Soviet Union and later became a coach in Norway; the family moved to Sandefjord in 1989. As a youngster, Demidov played both football and handball for Runar and was a big talent in both sports. When he was 15 his father told him that he had to choose between the two sports, and Demidov decided to quit handball; in an interview with ''FHM'' in 2011, he claimed that he could have been one of the top three handballers in the world if he had continued playing handball, but that he did not want to walk in his father's footsteps. Club career Demidov turned professional in 2004 when he joined Sandefjord Fotball, and made his debut for the club ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
