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Varvara (other)
Varvara (Cyrillic The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Ea ...: Варвара; ), a variant of " Barbara", may refer to: Places * Varvara, Azerbaijan * Varvara, Prozor, on the Rama river, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Varvara, Burgas Province, Bulgaria * Varvara, Pazardzhik Province, Septemvri Municipality, Bulgaria * Varvara, Chalkidiki, Greece * Varvara, Tearce, Tearce Municipality, Republic of North Macedonia Books *''Varvara'', US title of 1956 novel ''Sea of Glass'' by Dennis Parry People * Varvara (singer) (born 1973) * Varvara Annenkova (1795–1866), Russian poet * Varvara Bakhmeteva (1815–1851), Mikhail Lermontov's muse * Varvara Baruzdina (1862–1941), Russian painter * Varvara Barysheva (born 1977), Russian speed skater * Varvara Brilliant-Lerman (188 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyrillic Script
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, Caucasian languages, Caucasian and Iranian languages, Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, North Asia, and East Asia, and used by many other minority languages. , around 250 million people in Eurasia use Cyrillic as the official script for their national languages, with Russia accounting for about half of them. With the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union on 1 January 2007, Cyrillic became the third official script of the Languages of the European Union#Writing systems, European Union, following the Latin script, Latin and Greek alphabet, Greek alphabets. The Early Cyrillic alphabet was developed during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School in the First Bulga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Barysheva
Varvara Borisovna Barysheva (born 24 March 1977) is a Russian speed skater who won a bronze medal in the women's team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics. References External links * 1977 births Russian female speed skaters Speed skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics Olympic speed skaters for Russia Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in speed skating Olympic bronze medalists for Russia Living people {{Russia-speed-skating-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Yakovleva
Varvara Alexeyevna Yakovleva (; c. 1880 – July 18, 1918), called Nun Barbara (), was a Russian Orthodox nun in the convent of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna. She was killed by the Bolsheviks along with the grand duchess and Prince Ioann Konstantinovich of Russia, Prince Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, Prince Igor Konstantinovich of Russia, Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia, Fyodor Remez, Grand Duke Sergei's secretary, and Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley at Alapaevsk. She was later canonized as a martyr by both the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church within Russia. Life There is very little reliable information about her life before entering the Martha and Mary Convent. According to documentary evidence, she came from Tver. She arrived at the Convent from Yalta on August 20, 1910. In 1911, she was 31 years old.Додонов Б. Ф., Копылова О. Н., Крячкова Л. В«Новые свидетельств ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Subbotina
Varvara Maksimovna Subbotina (; born 21 March 2001) is a Russian synchronized swimmer. In 2018, Subbotina and Svetlana Kolesnichenko won the gold medal in both the duet technical routine and duet free routine at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Subbotina, Varvara 2001 births Living people Russian synchronized swimmers World Aquatics Championships medalists in synchronised swimming Artistic swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships European Aquatics Championships medalists in synchronised swimming Swimmers from Moscow 21st-century Russian sportswomen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Stepanova
Varvara Fyodorovna Stepanova (; – May 20, 1958) was a Russian artist. With her husband Alexander Rodchenko, she was associated with the Constructivist branch of the Russian avant-garde, which rejected aesthetic values in favour of revolutionary ones. Her activities extended into propaganda, poetry, stage scenery and textile designs. Biography Varvara Stepanova who was born in Kaunas (in modern-day Lithuania) came from peasant origins but was able to get an education at Kazan Art School, Kazan. There she met her later husband and collaborator Alexander Rodchenko. In the years before the Russian Revolution of 1917 they leased an apartment in Moscow, owned by Wassily Kandinsky. These artists became some of the main figures in the Russian avant-garde. The new abstract art in Russia which began around 1915 was a culmination of influences from Cubism, Italian Futurism and traditional peasant art. She designed Cubo-Futurist work for several artists' books, and studied under Jean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Saulina
Varvara Saulina (; née Repina, born 31 March 1992) is a Russian Woman FIDE Master (WFM) (2005). Biography Varvara Saulina two times won Russian Youth Chess Championships: in 2008, at the U16 girls age group, and in 2010, at the U18 girls age group. She repeatedly represented Russia at the European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in different age groups, where she won three medals: two gold (in 2005 and 2006, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U14 girls age group) and silver (in 2008, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U16 girls age group). In 2011, she won Moscow chess festival ''Moscow Open'' tournament "D". In this same year in Magnitogorsk she successfully participated in the Russian Women's Chess Cup, where she won second place only in the final lost Anastasia Bodnaruk. In 2014, in Kazan Kazan; , IPA: Help:IPA/Tatar, ɑzanis the largest city and capital city, capital of Tatarstan, Russia. The city lies at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Rudneva
Varvara Aleksandrova Kashevarova-Rudneva (c. 1841 – 1899) was a Russian medical doctor. Rudneva was the second woman in Russia to become a doctor, after Nadezhda Suslova. She was the first woman in Russia to become a doctor and to have completed her education at a Russian medical school, an event which occurred at a time when women were barred from receiving training at such universities. Despite the ban, she was given a unique permission to study for her desire to treat women patients who refused to be treated by male doctors due to their religious beliefs. Her attendance at St. Petersburg Medical Surgical Academy, and later medical practice, were thereby unique in Russia, thus garnering attention from both the medical field and general public, making her a notoriously controversial figure. Early life Varvara Rudneva was born in the town Chavusy of Mogilev Governorate. After the death of her mother, Rudneva briefly moved to Velizh Vitebsk province with her father until his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Mestnikova
Varvara Mestnikova (; born 6 May 1995) is a Russian chess player who holds the title of Women FIDE Master (WFM) (2005). Biography Varvara Mestnikova was student of Sakhalin chess school, later moved to Voronezh. In 2005, in Herceg Novi Varvara Mestnikova won European Youth Chess Championship in the U10 girl's age group. About this success she became Women FIDE Master (WFM) title. Since 2008, she rarely participate in chess tournaments. In 2016 Varvara Mestnikova graduated from Saint Petersburg Herzen University Herzen University, or formally the Russian State Pedagogical University in the name of A. I. Herzen () is a university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was formerly known as the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute. It is one of the largest .... References External links *Varvara Mestnikovachess games at 365chess.com 1995 births Living people Russian female chess players Russian chess players Chess Woman FIDE Masters Herzen University alumni 21st-cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Massalitinova
Varvara Osipovna Massalitinova (; July 29, 1878 – October 20, 1945) was a Russian and Soviet stage and film actress. Life and career Born at Yelets in Oryol Governorate, she began acting at an amateur theatre club in the Siberia, Siberian city of Tomsk. She then moved to Moscow and studied acting under Aleksandr Lensky at the Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School, Moscow Theatrical school, from which she graduated in 1901 as an actress. From 1901 to 1945 Varvara Massalitinova was a permanent member of the troupe at Maly Theatre (Moscow), Maly Academic Theatre in Moscow. There she worked on stage with such actors as Maria Yermolova, Elena Gogoleva, Aleksandra Yablochkina, Vera Pashennaya, Alexander Yuzhin, Alexander Ostuzhev, Vladimir Davydov, Konstantin Zubov, Stepan Kuznetsov, Nikolay Annenkov, Mikhail Tsaryov, Igor Ilyinsky and many other notable Russian actors. She became famous in 1902 after her powerful stage performances as Korobochka in Nikolai Gogol's classic drama ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Lepchenko
Varvara Petrivna Lepchenko (born May 21, 1986) is an Uzbekistani-born American professional tennis player. She is of Ukrainian descent and played for Uzbekistan before relocating to the United States. Lepchenko won a singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour and 13 singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Women's Circuit. She won all her 14 ITF titles in the United States. Lepchenko has a career-high WTA singles ranking of 19, achieved October 2012. She was provisionally suspended from the WTA Tour in 2016 after testing positive for the heart medication meldonium, although she was found to "bear no fault or negligence" by the International Tennis Federation. In 2022, Lepchenko was suspended from tennis for four years (backdated to August 2021), after testing positive for the stimulant adrafinil, and its metabolite, modafinil. In February 2023, her suspension was reduced to 21 months, and she started playing again in May of that year. Early life and junior career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Ivanova
Varvara Ivanova (; born 1987) is a Russian virtuoso harpist and winner of major prizes in many international harp competitions. Biography She was born in Moscow in 1987 and grew up in a family of musicians, with her father baritone Vladimir Ivanov, her mother harpist Zoya Slootskovskaya, and her brothers pianist Gleb Ivanov and cellist Danila Ivanov. From the age of five she studied at the Preparatory of Moscow Conservatory under M. F. Maslennikova. Her first major public performance was in the Conservatory Concert Hall in 1993 when, at the age of seven, she played the ''Concerto for Harp and Orchestra in B♭ major'' by Handel with the Kremlin Chamber Orchestra under conductor Misha Rachlevsky. She has been awarded numerous prizes, the first being at the age of only five at the International Competition ''Junior Ensembles in Art'' in Moscow. In 1997 she won the International Competition ''Piccoli Mozart'' in Monte Carlo, and the Prize of the President of Russia. Then in 1999, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Golitsyna
Varvara Vasilievna Golitsyna (née von Engelhardt; 1757–1815), was a Russian Empire lady-in-waiting and noble. She was the niece and lover of Grigory Potyomkin, and the favored lady-in-waiting of Catherine the Great Catherine II. (born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 172917 November 1796), most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She came to power after overthrowing her husband, Peter I .... Alongside her sisters, she was given a favored position at the Russian Imperial court during the reign of Catherine, where they were described as "Almost Grand Duchesses", the jewels of the court and honorary members of the Imperial family. Biography She was the daughter of Vasily von Engelhardt and his spouse Yelena Marfa Potemkina, and thus the niece of Grigory Potyomkin. She was introduced to the Russian court with her five sisters (and her brother) in 1775. They were initially uneducated and ignorant, but was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
