Masterpieces were written by Edward Elgar ( a violin concerto and a cello concerto ), Sergei Rachmaninoff and Nikolai Medtner ( four and three piano concertos, respectively ), Jean Sibelius ( a violin concerto ), Frederick Delius ( a violin concerto, a cello concerto, a piano concerto and a double concerto for violin and cello ), Karol Szymanowski ( two violin concertos and a " Symphonie Concertante " for piano ), and Richard Strauss ( two horn concertos, a violin concerto, Don Quixote — a tone poem which features the cello as a soloist — and among later works, an oboe concerto ).

Nikolai Rubinstein premiered the " oriental fantasy ," which Balakirev considered a sketch for his symphonic poem Tamara, that December.

Alexander Pushkin addressed poems to his Decembrist friends, Nikolai Nekrasov wrote a long poem about the Decembrist wives, and Leo Tolstoy started writing a novel on that liberal movement, which would later evolve into War and Peace.

Incidentally, this poem inspired an early-20th century composer, Georgi Catoire ( the setting of the poem in the song Silentium ), while another one of Tyutchev's poems, " O chem ty voesh ' vetr nochnoy ...", was the inspiration for Nikolai Medtner's Night Wind piano sonata (# 7 ) of 1911.

While the title of Nikolai Myaskovsky's 1910 tone poem, " Silence ", may have been borrowed from Tyutchev, the inspiration is credited to one of Edgar Allan Poe's tales.

His own compositions include a violin concerto, the American Rhapsody, a tone poem called Daphnis and Chloe, a Fantasy on themes from The Golden Cockerel by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and a piece called Sarasateana, for violin and piano.

The poem has inspired works in other genres: Reinhold Glière choreographed a ballet based on it, and Nikolai Myaskovsky's 10th Symphony ( 1926 – 7 ) was inspired by the poem.

In 1912, Russian composer Nikolai Myaskovsky wrote his symphonic poem Alastor, Poème d ' après Shelley ( Op.

As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin ; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work ; and, at 18, he went to the United States for four years to study chemistry, collaborating for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.

During the heated debates in the Central Committee about a possible peace with the Germans, Lenin did not have a majority ; both Trotsky and Nikolai Bukharin had more support for their own position than Lenin.

By August 1954 Malenkov's role as de facto head of government was over ; Nikolai Bulganin began signing Council of Ministers decrees ( a right beholden to the Chairman ) and the Presidium gave in to Khrushchev's wishes to replace Malenkov.

Malenkov spoke twice to the plenum, but it failed to alter his position, and on 8 March 1955 he was forced to resign from his post as Chairman of the Council of Ministers ; he was succeeded by Nikolai Bulganin, a protege of Khrushchev dating back to the 1930s.

Arkady Volsky, an aide to Andropov and other general secretaries, recounts an episode that occurred after a Politburo meeting on the day following Andropov's demise: As Politburo members filed out of the conference hall, either Andrei Gromyko or ( in later accounts ) Dmitriy Ustinov is said to have put his arm round Nikolai Tikhonov's shoulders and said: " It's okay, Kostya is an agreeable guy ( pokladisty muzhik ), one can do business with him ...." The Politburo failed to pass the decision for Gorbachev, who was nominally Chernenko's second in command, to run the meetings of the Politburo itself in the absence of Chernenko ; the latter due to his declining health, began to miss those meetings with increasing frequency.

Among the executed were Zhdanov's deputy, Aleksei Kuznetsov ; the economic chief, Nikolai Voznesensky ; the Party head in Leningrad, Pyotr Popkov ; and the Prime Minister of the Russian Republic, Mikhail Rodionov.

The concept of " mutual aerial observation " was initially proposed to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin at the Geneva Conference of 1955 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower ; however, the Soviets promptly rejected the concept and it lay dormant for several years.

Diaghilev commissioned ballet music from composers such as Nikolai Tcherepnin ( Narcisse et Echo, 1911 ), Claude Debussy ( Jeux, 1913 ), Maurice Ravel ( Daphnis et Chloé, 1912 ), Erik Satie ( Parade, 1917 ), Manuel de Falla ( El Sombrero de Tres Picos, 1917 ), Richard Strauss ( Josephslegende, 1914 ), Sergei Prokofiev ( Ala and Lolly, rejected by Diaghilev and turned into the Scythian Suite ; Chout, 1915 revised 1920 ; Le pas d ' acier, 1926 ; and The Prodigal Son, 1929 ), Ottorino Respighi ( La Boutique fantasque, 1918 ), Francis Poulenc ( Les biches, 1923 ) and others.

During World War I, using Vladimir Lenin's idea that Czarism was taking a " Prussian path " to capitalism, the Bolshevik Nikolai Bukharin identified a new stage in the development of capitalism, in which all sectors of national production and all important social institutions had become managed by the state ; he termed this new stage ' state capitalism.

Prince Nikolai Sergeyevich Troubetzkoy ( also Trubetskoy ; Russian: ; Moscow, April 16, 1890 – Vienna, June 25, 1938 ) was a Russian linguist and historian whose teachings formed a nucleus of the Prague School of structural linguistics.

* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — Antar ; Scheherezade.

Nicholas I (, Nikolai I Pavlovich ; – ) was the Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855, known as one of the most reactionary of the Russian monarchs.

* Russian — Blok, Alexander: The Fairground Booth a. k. a. The Puppet Show ( 1906 ); Evreinov, Nikolai: A Merry Death ( 1908 ), Today's Columbine ( 1915 ), The Chief Thing ( 1921 ; turned into film, La Comédie du bonheur, in 1940 ).

; Nikolai Vasilevich Belov: accumulatively for works in crystallography.

; Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolyubov: for outstanding achievements in mathematics and theoretical physics.

; Nikolai Gennadievich Basov: for outstanding achievements in physics.

; Nikolai Konstantinovich Kochetkov: for outstanding achievements in the chemistry of carbohydrates and organic synthesis.

; Nikolai Nikolaevich Krasovsky: for outstanding achievements in the mathematical theory of control and the theory of differential games.

After much heated debate over several months about the selection of the crew between Nikolai Kamanin and Sergei Korolev, Komarov was named as prime crew commander on October 4, 1964, by the State Commission ; just eight days before its scheduled launch.

Russian historian Yury Zhukov stated that Nikolai Bukarin's portraits of Joseph Stalin were the only ones drawn from the original, not from a photograph.

The original members of the Politburo were Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Krestinsky.

Several composers, chief among them Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Dmitri Shostakovich, have created new editions of the opera to " correct " perceived technical weaknesses in the composer's original scores.

Count Nikolai Tolstoy proposes that Brân's original function was that of a psychopomp, guiding the souls of the dead to the Otherworld.

The original architect was either Laurids de Thurah or Nikolai Eigtved.

The only former original Jets still with an NHL contract for the season are Nikolai Khabibulin of the Edmonton Oilers, Teemu Selanne of the Anaheim Ducks, and current Coyotes captain Shane Doan.

* Some texts by Nikolai Nekrasov in the original Russian

The original theorizing was done by the Soviet Armed Forces in the 1970s and 1980s, particularly by Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov.

The Government Inspector, also known as The Inspector General ( original title:, Revizor, literally: " Inspector "), is a satirical play by the Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol.

Nikolai Sheremetev managed construction himself, hiring architects at will ; in addition to original architectural work, he reused drafts of Saint-Petersburg architects.

The original actor playing Rezanov from 1979 – 2005, Nikolai Karachentsov, was seriously injured in a car crash in 2005, and has been replaced in the production by Dmitry Pevtsov and Viktor Rakov.

The collection consists of choreographic notations documenting the compositions of Marius Petipa for his original ballets and revivals ( the collection also includes two notations for ballets by Lev Ivanov-his 1893 La Flûte magique and 1887 La Forêt enchantée ), and one by the brothers Nikolai and Sergai Legat ( their 1903 revival of The Fairy Doll ), as well as Petipa's choreography for dances from operas, along with various Pas, incidental dances, etc.

Borodin was the original composer, but the opera was left unfinished at his death and was subsequently completed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov.

* When Tchaikovsky and his friend Nikolai Kashkin wrote their separate versions of the events, both may have exaggerated some events and changed the chronology of other.