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Grigori Rasputin. Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin ( / ræˈspjuːtɪn /; Russian: Григорий Ефимович Распутин [ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲɪj jɪˈfʲiməvʲɪtɕ rɐˈsputʲɪn]; 21 January [ O.S. 9 January] 1869 – 30 December [ O.S. 17 December] 1916) was a Russian mystic and faith healer.
Kalashov fled to the United Arab Emirates, where he was arrested in 2006. He is the most senior member of the Russian mafia to have been arrested outside of Russia. [4] He was subsequently extradited to Spain and found guilty of money laundering and racketeering in 2009. [5]
Iontophoresis is a process of transdermal drug delivery by use of a voltage gradient on the skin. [1] [2] Molecules are transported across the stratum corneum by electrophoresis and electroosmosis and the electric field can also increase the permeability of the skin.
Ordîxanê Celîl [1] ( Ordikhan Dzhasimovich Dzhalilov or Ordikhan-e Jalil or Ordikhane Dzhalil ) (1932–2007) was a Kurdish scholar. Born in Yerevan to a Yazidi family, he entered the philology department of the University of Yerevan in 1951 and graduated in 1956. He was appointed as the Kurdish studies chair of the University of Leningrad ...
Thales of Miletus ( / ˈθeɪliːz / THAY-leez; Greek: Θαλῆς; c. 626/623 – c. 548/545 BC) was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor. Thales was one of the Seven Sages, founding figures of Ancient Greece .
Mikhail Gnessin. Mikhail Fabianovich Gnessin ( Russian: Михаил Фабианович Гнесин; sometimes transcribed Gnesin; 2 February [O.S. 21 January] 1883 – 5 May 1957) [1] was a Russian Jewish composer and teacher. [1] Gnessin's works The Maccabeans and The Youth of Abraham earned him the nickname the "Jewish Glinka". [1]
Paul I of Russia, also known as Tsar Paul, reigned as Emperor of Russia from 1796 to 1801. He succeeded his mother, Catherine the Great, and immediately began a mission to undo her legacy. Paul had deep animosity towards his mother and her actions as empress.
He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia but resided in Belgium . After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kancheli lived first in Berlin, and from 1995 in Antwerp, where he became composer-in-residence for the Royal Flemish Philharmonic. [3] He died in his home city of Tbilisi, aged 84.
Ivan Isayevich Bolotnikov [a] ( Russian: Ива́н Иса́евич Боло́тников; 1565–1608) headed a popular uprising in Russia in 1606–1607 known as the Bolotnikov Rebellion ( Восстание Ивана Болотникова ). The uprising formed part of the Time of Troubles in Russia.
Princess Nino Chavchavadze ( Georgian: ნინო ჭავჭავაძე; also known as Nina Alexandrovna Griboyedova in a Russian manner) (November 4, 1812 – June 28, 1857) was a daughter of the famous Georgian knyaz ( prince) and poet Alexander Chavchavadze and wife of Russian diplomat and playwright Alexander Griboyedov .