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Timeline Ukraine  He recognized the site's potential for a military base to control the mouths of the Danube, Dniester, Dnieper and Bug rivers. .... 1890 Feb 28, Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer (3/12 NS), was born in Kiev, Ukraine. ... Nijinsky died in 1950 in London. .... transferred here and many thousands were murdered from 1941-1944 by the...
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Vaslav Nijinsky - Wikipedia  Vaslav Nijinsky was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent, cited as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century. He was celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his ... "Nijinsky" redirects here. .... In 1868 her talent was spotted and she moved to Kiev as a solo dancer.
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Kiev - Wikipedia  Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the .... In the book Travels, by Joseph Marshall (London, 1772), the city is referred to ... passed through the area and where he erected a cross, a church was built. .... More than 600,000 Soviet soldiers were killed or captured in the great...
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Vaslav Nijinsky | Russian dancer | Britannica.com  28, old style], 1890, Kievdied April 8, 1950, London) Russian-born ballet dancer of ... In 1909 he joined Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and the company's...
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J! Archive - Show #3824, aired 2001-03-29  Ukraine-born composer Prokofiev lost some headlines by dying March 4, 1953, the day ... Seen here, he was born in Kiev in 1890 & died in London in 1950...
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Formerly Gorky - Russian Life  The famous Russian writer Maxim Gorky was born in Nizhny Novgorod. The city was renamed after him in 1932. In 1990, however, the name Nizhny Novgorod...
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Nikita Khrushchev - Cold War - HISTORY.com  In 1929 Khrushchev moved to Moscow, where he steadily rose through the Communist ... After the war, he helped to rebuild the devastated countryside while ... By the time Stalin died in March 1953, Khrushchev had positioned himself as a ... in Khrushchev's side was fellow communist Mao Zedong, the leader of China.
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'Big Three' meet at Yalta > Eastern Front > Key Moments ...  On 3 February 1945, Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt arrived at Yalta, a resort on the southern coast of the Crimea on the Black Sea. ... with the fate of Eastern Europe, with the exception of the fate of post-war Germany. ... had been defeated  and one 'visionary' measure  he wanted to get the Soviet Union to play...
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Royal Russia News: Living With Leo: Tolstoy's Impressive Dynasty  Nov 20, 2010 ... Portrait of Count Leo Tolstoy (1887) Artist: Ilya Efimovich Repin (1844-1930) ... also learnt things about themselves that they hadn't known before. ... Orwin adds that he could never have written Anna Karenina without his family experience. ... He died on 20 November, at the remote train station of Astapovo,...
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Josef Stalin - New World Encyclopedia  Sep 10, 2015 ... Date of Death, March 5, 1953 .... Joseph and most of his classmates were Georgian and spoke mostly Georgian .... Rosa was the sister of Lazar Kaganovich, a Soviet political leader. ... After Lenin's death in January 1924, Stalin, Lev Borisovich ... Stalin made considerable use of the Communist International...
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Taras Bulba - Vernon Johns Society  Cossack life in 16th century Ukraine where Taras Bulba and his two sons, ... journey to Zaporizhian Sich and fight against the Poles and each other. ... It is based on a short novel by Nikolai Gogol, a 19th century Russian writer (the ... General" with Danny Kaye is based on his comedy of the same name). ... Its capital is Kiev.
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Prokofiev: The Genius In Stalin's Shadow  Mar 5, 2013 ... His death happened to be on the same day Soviet media reported the ... He worked for a while with [Sergei] Diaghilev's Ballets Russes organization. ... So he moved his sphere of operations from Paris to Moscow at this point. .... RFE/RL: Prokofiev died on March 5, 1953, the same day that Stalin's death was...
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Vladimir Lenin - Wikipedia  Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin (22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870  21 ... After his exile, he moved to Western Europe, where he became a prominent party theorist ... Ilya married Maria Alexandrovna Blank in mid-1863. ... Ilya Ulyanov died of a brain haemorrhage in January 1886, when Lenin was 16.
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aleksandr nedir, ne demek, aleksandr anlam - Sesli Szlk  Aleksandr Count Izvolsky: born March 18, 1856, Moscow, Russia died Aug. ... Influenced by early 19th-century Romantic poetry, he wrote musical verse in which ..... family, Pushkin began his literary career while still a student at the Imperial Lyceum ... His first major work was the romantic poem Ruslan and Ludmila (1820).
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BBC - History - Kemal Atatrk (1881-1938)  Mustafa Kemal Atatrk was born in 1881 in Salonika (now Thessaloniki) in what was then the Ottoman Empire. His father was a minor official and later a timber...
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Free Flashcards about HISTORIC LEADERS - StudyStack  IN 1927 5-YEAR-OLD PRINCE MICHAEL WAS PROCLAIMED KING OF THIS ... THIS PRINCESS SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL BALLET FROM 1957 .... KING GUSTAV III OF THIS COUNTRY DIED AFTER BEING SHOT AT A .... THIS MONARCH WAS BORN IN 1895 IN BURGAYETI, ALBANIA, KING ZOG.
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This day in history in History Forum - What happened, what could or ...  Jan 5, 2003 ... Of these 55, he lost only his last race, a half-mile sprint against American Alan ... Broz Tito agrees to allow the creation of an Allied airbase near Zadar (Zara). ...... 1890 Birth of Karel Capek, Czechoslovak writer and playwright, best ... and founder of the General Electric Company's research laboratory, where...
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J! Archive - Show #2754, aired 1996-07-18  After 11 1/2 years in office, she resigned as British prime minister in 1990 ... This Russian playwright died in July, 1904, less than 6 months after his "The Cherry...
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Kemal Atatrk - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  But although the country was nominally democratic, Atatrk at times stifled ... Kemal Atatrk late in life, was born around 1881 in the city of Salonica (now...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky Apartment Museum - Passport magazine  Perpetuation of the memory of Fyodor Dostoevsky was started by his widow, Anna ... former Mariinsky hospital for poor people, in the house where Fyodor Dostoevsky ... an ex-military doctor, Mikhail Andreevich Dostoevsky, the writer's father, ... of the hospital in the doctor's family quarters, his second son, Fyodor was born.
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Vladimir Horowitz (new)  In his prime, he was considered one of the most brilliant pianists of his time. ... and is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th Century. Life and early career. Horowitz himself said that he was born in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of Russian .... Horowitz is best known for his performances of the Romantic piano...