Tolstoy, or Tolstoi () is a prominent family of Russian nobility, descending from Andrey Kharitonovich Tolstoy (" the Fat ") who served under Vasily II of Moscow.

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These " Six Supreme dignataries " constituting the initial Supreme Privy Council, namely Alexander Menshikov, Fyodor Apraksin, Gavrila Golovkin, Andrey Osterman, Peter Tolstoy, and Dmitry Galitzine brought about the recognition of Russian Empress Anna Ivanovna for the succession of unfortunate young Tsar-Boy Peter II deceased in 1730 aged 15 and 3 years only as a Tsar, apparently dead from small-pox provided Anna agreed about the Counselling Powers of this so called Supreme Privy Council.

Tolstoy reported some improvement afterwards: some nobles paid more attention to estate management, and some, like Andrey Bolkonsky, freed their serfs even before the tsar did so in 1861.

Ivan Andreevich was a member of prominent Tolstoy family, son of Andrey Vasiliyevich Tolstoy and Solomonida Miloslavskaya, older brother of Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy, distant relation of Maria Miloslavskaya ( first wife of tzar Aleksey Mikhailovich ).

A distant cousin, Solomonida Mikhailovna Miloslavskaya, however, married Andrey Vasiliyevich Tolstoy, becoming the ancestor of the later Tolstoys.

An axiomatic approach to Kolmogorov complexity based on Blum axioms ( Blum 1967 ) was introduced by Mark Burgin in the paper presented for publication by Andrey Kolmogorov ( Burgin 1982 ).

" In the same vein, Gorbachev's adviser Andrey Grachev, noted that he was a " genetic error of the system.

Both the form of the Kolmogorov – Smirnov test statistic and its asymptotic distribution under the null hypothesis were published by Andrey Kolmogorov, while a table of the distribution was published by Nikolai Vasilyevich Smirnov.

The original breakthrough to this problem was given by Andrey Kolmogorov in 1954.

The modern theory of probability based on the measure theory was developed by Andrey Kolmogorov ( 1931 ).

It has its origins in correspondence discussing the mathematics of games of chance between Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat in the seventeenth century, and was formalized and rendered axiomatic as a distinct branch of mathematics by Andrey Kolmogorov in the twentieth century.

Andrey Gromyko retired from the Politburo, Yegor Ligachev was relieved of the ideology portfolio within the Politburo's Secretariat, and Boris Pugo replaced Politburo member Mikhail Solomentsev as chairman of the powerful CPSU Party Control Committee.

It was cast in 1586 by Andrey Chokhov, and is notable also by its rich relief decoration.

This trend reached its zenith under Joseph Stalin with the ascendancy of Andrey Vyshinsky, when the administration of justice was carried out mainly by the security police in special tribunals.

In 1926, after the brief War of the Stray Dog, the Tsar persuaded Tsankov to resign, a more moderate government under Andrey Lyapchev took office and an amnesty was proclaimed

Biron was sufficiently prudent not to meddle with foreign affairs or with the army, and these departments were in the able hands of two other foreigners, who thoroughly identified themselves with Russia, Andrey Osterman and Burkhardt Munnich.

Because the name Diceratops was already in use for a hymenopteran ( Foerster, 1868 ), Andrey Sergeyevich Ukrainsky gave the animal its current name Nedoceratops in 2007.

" In 1949, Molotov was replaced as Foreign Minister by Andrey Vyshinsky, although retaining his position as First Deputy Premier and membership of the Politburo.

The city was founded on August 19, 1628 as a Russian border fort when a group of service class people from Yeniseysk led by Andrey Dubenskoy arrived at the confluence of the Kacha and Yenisei Rivers and constructed fortifications intended to protect the frontier from attacks of native peoples who lived along Yenisei and its tributaries.

The theorem is named after Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, who proved it first in 1930 for powers of the closed unit interval and in 1935 stated the full theorem along with the remark that its proof was the same as for the special case.

* In the Russian 2012 TV series of Sherlock Holmes by Andrey Kavun, Professor Moriarty was played by Ukrainian actor, Alexey Gorbunov.

Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov () ( 25 April 1903 – 20 October 1987 ) was a Soviet mathematician, preeminent in the 20th century, who advanced various scientific fields, among them probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics and computational complexity.

The existence of a subglacial lake in the Vostok region was first suggested by Russian geographer Andrey Kapitsa based on seismic soundings made during the Soviet Antarctic Expeditions in 1959 and 1964 to measure the thickness of the ice sheet.

Academician Andrey Petrovych Ershov (; 19 April 1931, Moscow – 8 December 1988, Moscow ) was a Soviet computer scientist, notable as a pioneer in systems programming and programming language research.

The Cathedral was built in 1801 – 1811 by Andrey Voronikhin with temporary fittings.

EPSILON ( a macro language with high level features including strings and lists, developed by Andrey Ershov at Novosibirsk in 1967 ) was used to implement ALGOL 68 on the M-220.

In 1256 Andrey traveled to Sarai to ask pardon for his former infidelity and was shown mercy.

Andrey Batalov wrote that, judging by the number of novel elements introduced with Trinity Church, it was most likely built by German craftsmen.

The hyperbolic growth of the world population and quadratic-hyperbolic growth of the world GDP observed till the 1970s have been correlated by Andrey Korotayev and his colleagues to a non-linear second order positive feedback between the demographic growth and technological development, described by a chain of causation: technological growth leads to more carrying capacity of land for people, which leads to more people, which leads to more inventors, which in turn leads to yet more technological growth, and on and on.

In probability theory, the probability P of some event E, denoted, is usually defined in such a way that P satisfies the Kolmogorov axioms, named after the famous Russian mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov, which are described below.

Backed by him, some of Rus ' princes, such as Dmitry of Pereslavl, refused to come to the court of the Khan in Sarai while Dmitry's brother Andrey of Gorodets sought assistance from Töde Möngke.

His doctoral students included some of the most famous Soviet mathematicians: Pavel Aleksandrov, Nina Bari, Aleksandr Khinchin, Andrey Kolmogorov, Alexander Kronrod, Mikhail Lavrentyev, Alexey Lyapunov, Lazar Lyusternik, Pyotr Novikov, Lev Schnirelmann and Pavel Urysohn.

* Portrait of Andrey Kyrillovich Razumovsky, aged 24, in the National Gallery of Victoria ( Melbourne, Australia ) The evolution of the three Partitions of Poland during the end of the 18th century, leading to some 125 years of polish political eclipse of the formerly secular powerful Lithuanian-Polish Kingdom until 1918 can be seen in the well informed page:

Full form is used for some, usually one-or two-syllable, names like Andrey, Gleb, Igor, Oleg, Vera, Inna, Nina ; for most names, short form is used.

Upon ascending the golden throne of his fathers, Andrey resolved to assert some independence from the Horde.

After some feasting with Mongols in Vladimir, Andrey went to Novgorod, where he was heartily welcomed by populace.

For some time, the church existed off of private and voluntary funds, from people such as Andrey Muraviov.

It is the story of a young artist, Andrey Petrovich Chartkov, who stumbles upon a terrifyingly lifelike portrait in an art shop and is one of Gogols ’ most demonic of tales, hinting at some of his earlier works such as " St. John's Eve ".

Having added a new (" thought-driven ") dimension to a historical novel genre and turning it into a modern, intriguing art form, Merezhkovsky influenced some prominent masters of Russian and European experimental novel: Andrey Bely, Aleksey Remizov, Thomas Mann, James Joyce.

It is named after the Andrey Kolmogorov who first published on the subject in 1963.

Some were Nazi collaborators who had fought under General Andrey Vlasov, but most were ordinary Soviet officers and men.

Lyapunov completed his university course in 1880, two years after Andrey Markov who had also graduated at Saint Petersburg University.

In the late 2000s ( decade ) a new generation of young poets came, who prefer the classic style of writing, which inherits the traditions of the Silver Age: Maria Markova ( owner of the Russian presidential award ), Andrey Nitchenko ( winner of many authoritative literary contests ) and many others.

* Andrey Semyenovich Lebezyatnikov ( Андрей Семёнович Лебезятников ) – Luzhin's utopian socialist and feminist roommate who witnesses his attempt to frame Sonya and subsequently exposes him

In 1353 plague arrived in Moscow, killing Theognostus, Simeon, his two sons and his brother Andrey who survived Simeon for six weeks.

Count Andrey Ivanovich Osterman () ( June 9, 1686 – May 31, 1747 ) was a German-born Russian statesman who came to prominence under Tsar Peter I of Russia ( Peter the Great ) and served until the accession of the Tsesarevna Elizabeth.

The ROA was organized by former Red Army general Andrey Vlasov, who tried to unite anti-communist Russians opposed to the communist regime.

He was even more impressed by his Russian literature teacher Andrey Sinyavsky who along with his wife often invited students to his home to stage improvised disputes and concerts.

In 1481, after the death of Andrey who had no successors, Vologda passed to Ivan III, the Grand Duke of Moscow, and was included to the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

In October 1990, Andrey Kozyrev, who led the control of the international organizations at the time, was named Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation.

The caption reads " Orthodox Russian people, commemorate the name of the youth Andrey Yushchinsky who was martyred by kikes!

The political offensive against Luzin was launched not only by Joseph Stalin's repressive ideological authorities, but also by a group of Luzin's students headed by Pavel Alexandrov, who may have been pressured to it by threats to reveal his homosexual relationship with Andrey Kolmogorov.

Count ( later Prince ) Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky (; ; 2 November 1752 – 23 September 1836 ) was a Russian diplomat who spent many years of his life in Vienna.

Upon Alexander's death in 1263, Yaroslav quarrelled with Andrey as to who should become Grand Duke next.

He was followed by Alexander Nevsky, who blamed Andrey for appropriating a portion of tribute due to the Horde.

It was one of the superiors of the Soviet secret police, Andrey Vyshinsky, who first ordered the use of psychiatry as a tool of repression.

This approach is criticized by linguists, notably Roman Jakobson and Andrey Zaliznyak who show that the language of the Igor's Tale is far more archaic, and that the passages in Zadonshchina allegedly borrowed from the Tale differ from the rest of the work by linguistic criteria ( whereas in the Tale no such distinction can be drawn ).