Under the pseudonym Boris Akunin, he has written many works of fiction, mainly novels and stories in the series The Adventures of Erast Fandorin, The Adventures of Sister Pelagia, The Adventures of the Master ( following Nicholas Fandorin, Erast's grandson ), all published in Russia by Zakharov Books, and the Roman-Kino (" Novel-Film ") series set during World War I. Akunin's specialty is historical mysteries set in Imperial Russia.

* Nicholas Fandorin series ( about Erast Fandorin's grandson, a modern-day British historian ):

Erast Fandorin Jr. ( Nicholas ' ten-year-old son ) goes on a time-travelling adventure.

As Akunin has indicated in interviews, the Sister Pelagia series is finished ( only three books were ever planned ) and so, in all likelihood, is the Nicholas Fandorin series.

* Russian library site containing the full texts of most of Akunin's novels, including all three Pelagia novels, two Nicholas Fandorin novels, and all Erast Fandorin books except The Jade Rosary and All the World's a Stage

In The Coronation, Fandorin returns to Russia in time to prevent an international scandal from occurring during the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in 1896.

Alexander's son, Nicholas Fandorin, is born around 1960.

* Nicholas Fandorin in Boris Akunin's series of adventure novels.

Several of Ochino's Prediche were also translated into English by a lady, Anna Cooke ( or Anne Cooke ; b. 1533 ) afterwards second wife of Sir Nicholas Bacon ; and he published numerous controversial treatises on the Continent.

* 1769 – Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier ( b. 1685 )

* 1947 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian-born painter ( b. 1874 )

* 1789 – Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware ( b. 1738 )

* Grandchildren: Alexander ( b. March 1974 ), Kindra ( b. May 1976 ), Camberley ( b. June 1978 ), and Francis ( b. February 1981 ), Michael & Barbara Crick's children ; Mark & Nicholas, the late Jacqueline and Christopher Nichols ' children.

* 1918 – Nicholas II of Russia ( b. 1868 )

* 1654 – Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer ( b. 1616 )

* 1801 – Nicholas Repnin, Russian statesman ( b. 1734 )

* 1455 – Pope Nicholas V ( b. 1397 )

* 1969 – Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario ( b. 1881 )

* 1993 – Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, British politician and government minister ( b. 1929 )

His children are Elizabeth Sarah Gell-Mann ( b. 1956 ) and Nicholas Webster Gell-Mann ( b. 1963 ); and he has a stepson, Nicholas Southwick Levis ( b. 1978 ).

* 1606 – St. Nicholas Owen, English Jesuit and martyr ( b. c. 1550 )

** Tsar Nicholas II of Russia ( b. 1868 )

* April 9 – Nicholas Longworth, American politician, Speaker of the House ( b. 1869 )

* March 4 – Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario ( b. 1881 )

* April 24 – Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrovich of Russia ( b. 1843 )

`` Blessed Saint Nicholas, I thank thee for getting me out of that mess and sending me up instead of down when I was bewildered.

The critical, rigorous examinations of Nicholas of Cusa and Nicholas of Oresme provided the context ( a late medieval context ) for Nicholas Copernicus' own work.

Loneliness tore through him like a physical pain whenever he thought of Peter Robert, Nerien, Nicholas Cop, Martin Bucer, and even the compromising Louis Du Tillet.

Letters came regularly from Nerien, Nicholas, and Martin.

Among them will be Marc Shoettle, Ben Shahn, Nicholas Marsicano, Alfred Van Loen and Milton Avery.

In 1960, Nicholas Poppe presented what was in effect a heavily revised version of Ramstedt ’ s volume on phonology that has since set the standard in Altaic studies.

* Shoumatoff, Nicholas and Nina.

* 1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.

Of these the precedence was originally yielded to the abbot of Glastonbury, until in AD 1154 Adrian IV ( Nicholas Breakspear ) granted it to the abbot of St Alban's, in which monastery he had been brought up.

* Gevers, Nicholas.

The last Lord of Abensberg, Nicholas, supposedly named after his godfather, Nicholas of Kues, a Catholic cardinal, was murdered in 1485 by Christopher, a Duke of Bavaria-Munich.

The year before, Nicholas had unchivalrously taken Christopher captive as he bathed before a tournament in Munich.

Although Christopher renounced his claim for revenge, he lay in wait for Nicholas in Friesling.

With the death of the last Count, Nicholas of Abensberg, in 1485, the estates fell to the Duchy of Bavaria-Munich, meaning that henceforth only the Bavarian coat of arms was ever used.

In the nineteenth century, Nicholas Stark und Peter Paul Dollinger began a collection based on local history.

* On Saint Nicholas Day ( 6 December ), the Niklasmarkt ( Nicholas Market ) commemorates the Niklasspende, a medieval foundation for the poor.