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Alexander Griboyedov satirized him in Woe from Wit, and his cousin Leo Tolstoy — who called him an " extraordinary, criminal, and attractive man " — fictionalized him as Dolokhov in War and Peace.
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* February 11 – Alexander Griboyedov, Russian playwright and diplomat ( b. 1795 )
Other important 19th-century developments included the fabulist Ivan Krylov ; non-fiction writers such as Vissarion Belinsky and Alexander Herzen ; playwrights such as Aleksandr Griboyedov, Aleksandr Ostrovsky and the satirist Kozma Prutkov ( a collective pen name ).
Well-known Russians who have visited or resided in Stavropol include: Generals Alexander Suvorov, Alexey Yermolov and Nikolay Raevsky, the poets Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov, who were in political disfavor, the surgeon Nikolay Pirogov, Alexander Griboyedov, Leo Tolstoy, and the national poet of Ossetia, Kosta Khetagurov.
Among those killed in the massacre was a newly appointed ambassador to Persia Alexander Griboyedov, the celebrated Russian playwright and personal friend of Alexander Pushkin.
Alexander Yuzhin as Famusov in Woe from Wit | Woe from Wit by Aleksandr Griboyedov, Malyi Theatre, 1915
He also made friends with the playwright Alexander Griboyedov and the philologist Nicholas Gretsch.
Alexander and satirized
He may also have printed Burlington Gate ( 1731 ), evoked by Alexander Pope's Epistle to Lord Burlington, and defending Lord Chandos, who is therein satirized.
In the next century, Alexander Pope satirized Dr Busby in the 1743 edition of The Dunciad.
In 1727, Alexander Pope satirized Theophilus Cibber in his Dunciad as a youth who " thrusts his person full into your face " ( III 132 ).
His poem, Namby Pamby ( 1725 ), satirized Ambrose Philips who was a frequent and famous target of Alexander Pope's wrath.
" Still, the debates Alexander had with Kilpatrick were so prominent in American culture that they were famously satirized on Saturday Night Live, with Jane Curtin taking Alexander's role on " Weekend Update " opposite Dan Aykroyd's version of Kilpatrick – " Jane, you ignorant slut.
( This would be satirized by Alexander Pope later, as Atticus acting as a petty tyrant to a " little senate " of sycophants.
Alexander and him
but Leger, Arp, Lipchitz and Alexander Calder, at the time, gave him their blessing.
Interestingly enough, the order transmitted to Morgan through Alexander Hamilton also informed him that `` A party of Indians will join the party to be sent from your command at Whitemarsh, and act with them ''.
He leaned closer to Alexander, squinting up at him from the deck.
Alexander knew Spencer too well to think him naive or thick-skulled.
`` I thought '', Midshipman Rogers had told Alexander, `` that Spencer was teaching him geometry ''.
As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.
Aristotle's influence over Alexander the Great is seen in the latter's bringing with him on his expedition a host of zoologists, botanists, and researchers.
The writer, whose name is revealed as F. Alexander, shelters Alex and questions him about the conditioning.
In 1260 Pope Alexander IV made him Bishop of Regensburg, an office from which he resigned after three years.
Philip, however, declined the contest, and formed a second alliance with Alexander by giving him his daughter ( Alexander I's niece ) Cleopatra in marriage ( 336 BC ).
Alexander governed tyrannically, and according to Diodorus, differently from the former rulers, but Polyphron, at least, seems to have set him the example.
The states of Thessaly, which had previously acknowledged the authority of Jason of Pherae, were not so willing to submit to Alexander the tyrant, ( especially the old family of the Aleuadae of Larissa, who had most reason to fear him ).
Alexander of Pherae, prepared to meet his enemy in Macedonia, but the king anticipated him, and, reaching Larissa, was admitted into the city.
Alexander withdrew to Pherae whilst the Macedonian King placed a garrison in Larissa, as well as in Crannon, which had also come over to him.
During the next three years, Alexander seemed to renew his attempts to subdue the states of Thessaly, especially Magnesia and Phthiotis, for upon the expiry of the truce, in 364 BC, they again applied to Thebes for protection from him.
Other accounts have it that Alexander had taken Thebe's youngest brother as his eromenos and tied him up.
Only the death of Stephen, the great hospodar of Moldavia, enabled Poland still to hold her own on the Danube River ; while the liberality of Pope Julius II, who issued no fewer than 29 bulls in favor of Poland and granted Alexander Peter's Pence and other financial help, enabled him to restrain somewhat the arrogance of the Teutonic Order.
Alexander died in April 1124 at his court at Stirling ; his brother David, probably the acknowledged heir since the death of Sybilla, succeeded him.
A threat of invasion by Henry in 1243 for a time interrupted the friendly relations between the two countries ; but the prompt action of Alexander in anticipating his attack, and the disinclination of the English barons for war, compelled him to make peace next year at Newcastle.
" John taunted King Alexander, and because he was red-headed, sent word to him,
When Ewen rejected these attempts, Alexander sailed forth to compel him, but on the way he suffered a fever at the Isle of Kerrera in the Inner Hebrides.
His only legitimate child and son, by his second wife, Alexander III succeeded him as King of Scots.
According to the Lanercost Chronicle, Alexander did not spend his decade as a widower alone: " he used never to forbear on account of season nor storm, nor for perils of flood or rocky cliffs, but would visit none too creditably nuns or matrons, virgins or widows as the fancy seized him, sometimes in disguise.
In 221, Alexander's grandmother, Maesa, persuaded the Emperor to adopt his cousin as successor and make him Caesar and Bassianus changed his name to Alexander.
Alexander and Woe
One of these heroes is Chatsky from Alexander Griboyedov's Woe from Wit, from whom Fandorin inherits his sense of duty: " To serve the cause, not the individuals ".
Woe from Wit ( Russian: Горе от ума, also translated as " The Woes of Wit ", " Wit Works Woe ", and so forth ) is Alexander Griboyedov's comedy in verse, satirizing the society of post-Napoleonic Moscow, or, as a high official in the play styled it, " a pasquinade on Moscow.
He befriended Alexander Pushkin and was a model for Chatsky, the chief protagonist of Alexander Griboyedov's play Woe from Wit ( 1824 ).
* Wit Works Woe 1962 by Alexander Griboedov
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Preliminary data from 1959 Eta give an average impact rate of Af for masses larger than Af for about 1000 events in a 22-day period ( LaGow and Alexander, 1960 ).
During this sequence, it is revealed that Mrs. Alexander died from the injuries inflicted during the gang-rape, and her husband has decided to continue living " where her fragrant memory persists " despite the horrid memories.
Alexander, a critic of the government, hopes to use Alex as a symbol of state brutality and thereby prevent the incumbent government from being re-elected.
Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.
Philippus claimed descent from Alexander the Great, and was elected consul in 56 BC.
Alexander () was tagus or despot of Pherae in Thessaly, and ruled from 369 BC to 358 BC.
Therefore they applied for help from Alexander II of Macedon.
The Thebans sent a large army into Thessaly to rescue Pelopidas, but they could not keep the field against the superior cavalry of Alexander, who, aided by auxiliaries from Athens, pursued them with great slaughter.
If the death of Epaminondas in 362 BC freed Athens from fear of Thebes, it appears at the same time to have exposed it to further aggression from Alexander of Pherae, who made a piratical raid on Tinos and other cities of the Cyclades, plundering them, and making slaves of the inhabitants.
" The Athenian admiral Leosthenes defeated Alexander and managed to relieve Peparethus, but Alexander escaped from being blockaded in Panormus, took several Attic triremes, and plundered the Piraeus.
For want of funds, Alexander was unable to resist the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights or prevent Grand Duke of Muscovy Ivan III from ravaging Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the Tatars.
Alexander Alexandrovich () ( 10 March 1845 – 1 November 1894 ), known historically as Alexander III or Alexander the Peacemaker reigned as Emperor of Russia from until his death on.
An account from the memoirs of the artist Alexander Benois gives one impression of Alexander III:
Alexander I ( c. 1078 – 23 April 1124 ), also called Alaxandair mac Maíl Coluim ( Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Mhaol Chaluim ) and nicknamed " The Fierce ", was King of the Scots from 1107 to his death.
A Gaelic poem laments: It's bad what Malcolm's son has done, dividing us from Alexander ; he causes, like each king's son before, the plunder of stable Alba.
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