He had two known siblings, a sister called Maria and an older brother named Dmitri.

Rasputin married Praskovia Fyodorovna Dubrovina in 1889 and they had three children: Dmitri, Varvara and Maria.

* Princess Irina Felixovna Yussupova, ( March 21, 1915, Saint Petersburg, Russia-August 30, 1983, Cormeilles, France ), married Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Sheremetev ( October 28, 1904, Moscow, Russia – February 5, 1979, Paris, France ), son of Count Dmitri Sergeievich Sheremetev and wife Countess Irina Ilarionovna Vorontzova-Dachkova and a descendant of Boris Petrovich Sheremetev ; had issue:

These claims were based on the Testament of Dmitri Donskoi, Yuri's father and Vasily's grandfather, who had stated that if Vasily I died Yuri would succeed his appanage.

However, Dmitri had written the testament when Vasily I had no children of his own, and it might be argued that this provision had been made only for the case of Vasily's childless death.

The existence of gallium had been predicted during 1871 by Dmitri Mendeleev, who called it eka-aluminium, and its discovery was a boost for Mendeleev's theory of the periodic table.

In 1125, the Church in the south of Rus had to combat another heresiarch named Dmitri.

Benjamin Britten coached them in his own first and second string quartets ( they have recorded all three of his works in the genre ), and entrusted the first British performances of Dmitri Shostakovich's ninth and tenth quartets ( whose scores he had acquired from the composer ) to them.

In 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published his periodic table, which had empty spaces for elements directly above and under yttrium.

In early July 2008 it was announced that President Dmitri Medvedev had accepted Abramovich's latest request to resign as governor of Chukotka, although his various charitable activities in the region would continue.

The exposure of Yevno Azef ( who had organized many assassinations, including that of Plehve ) and Dmitri Bogrov ( who assassinated Stolypin in 1911 ) as Okhrana double agents put the agency's methods under great suspicion ; they were further compromised by the discovery of many similar double agents-provocateur.

In 1890, Prokudin-Gorsky married Anna Aleksandrovna Lavrova, and later the couple had two sons, Mikhail and Dmitri, and a daughter, Ekaterina.

Dmitri had been stabbed to death before his brother Feodor's death, allegedly by Godunov's order ; but the mysterious individual who was impersonating him was regarded as the rightful heir by many of the population.

Although the Polish Commonwealth had not officially declared war on Russia ( as its king, Sigismund III Vasa, was opposed to the intervention ), some powerful magnates decided to support False Dmitri with their own forces and money, in the expectation of rich rewards afterward.

Although doctors had no hope for Dmitri's survival, he lived, with the help of Grand Duke Sergei, who gave the premature Dmitri the baths prescribed by the doctors, wrapped him in cotton wool and kept him in a cradle filled with hot water bottles to keep his temperature regulated.

The bomber had refrained from an earlier attack because he saw that Grand Duchess Elizabeth, fifteen-year-old Maria and her younger brother Dmitri were in the carriage and he didn't want to kill women and children.

Dmitri Pavlovich's sister Marie had, like many aristocratic Russians in exile, found a niche for herself in the rising Paris fashion industry by founding a business called Kitmir that specialised in bead and sequin embroidery and did much work for Chanel.

) This way, Dmitri met Coco Chanel, eleven years his elder just like Natasha had been, with whom he conducted a brief affair in 1921.

Despite his athletic interests, Dmitri Pavlovich's health had always been somewhat frail, and in the 1930s his chronic tuberculosis became acute and necessitated extended stays at a sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, where he died in 1941 from acute uremia following complications after having been pronounced cured.

However, it should be noted that Volkov had a 15-year professional relationship with Dmitri Shostakovich.

Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky (; alternative transcriptions of names are Dmitri and Bortnyansky ; 28 October 1751 ) was a Russian composer of Ukrainian origin ; his father however had been born in the

Both fatalities affected Rasputin and he subsequently named two of his children Maria and Dmitri.

His creations include such masterpieces as Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto, Dmitri Shostakovich's two cello concertos, Benjamin Britten's Cello-Symphony ( which emphasizes, as its title suggests, the equal importance of soloist and orchestra ), Henri Dutilleux ' Tout un monde lointain, Witold Lutosławski's cello concerto, Dmitri Kabalevsky's two cello concertos, Aram Khachaturian's Concerto-Rhapsody, Arvo Pärt's Pro et Contra, Alfred Schnittke, André Jolivet and Krzysztof Penderecki second cello concertos, Sofia Gubaidulina's Canticles of the Sun, Luciano Berio's Ritorno degli Snovidenia, Leonard Bernstein's Three Meditations, James MacMillan's cello concerto and Olivier Messiaen's Concert à quatre ( a quadruple concerto for cello, piano, oboe, flute and orchestra ).

Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Sergei Leiferkus are two Russian baritones of the modern era who appear regularly in the West.

On a sort of drunken whim, two decadent young princes, Grand Duke Dmitri ( Richard Warwick ) and Prince Felix Yusupov ( Martin Potter ), invite Rasputin to an opium party and kill him in December, 1916.

Inside the clock live two mechanical bats, Dmitri and Sviatoslav, who punctuate each episode by coming out and delivering stale jokes to each other.

* September 14, 1911 – Dmitri Bogrov shoots Russian prime minister Pyotr Stolypin at the Kiev Opera House in the presence of Tsar Nicholas II and two of his daughters, Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana.

Some counterexamples are: Andrzej Panufnik ( 10 ; if one includes two early lost symphonies, 12 ), Hans Werner Henze ( 10 ; his ninth symphony was actually choral ), Eduard Tubin ( 10, died writing his eleventh symphony ), William Schuman ( 10 ; his first two were withdrawn ), Alun Hoddinott ( 10 ), David Diamond ( 11 ), Joachim Raff ( 11, as well as an early destroyed one ), Edmund Rubbra ( 11 ; his ninth symphony was choral ), Robert Simpson ( 11 ; his planned final 12th symphony was to be choral ), Heitor Villa-Lobos and Darius Milhaud ( 12 each ), Vagn Holmboe ( 13, as well as four additional symphonies for strings alone ), Roy Harris ( 13 ; he was more superstitious about the number 13 than the number 9, and so labelled his 13th as 14th ), Glenn Branca ( 14, although Branca's definition of " symphony " is somewhat untraditional ), Gloria Coates ( 15, although she only recognized and numbered her first six symphonies as " symphonies " after completing her 7th ), Dmitri Shostakovich ( 15 ), Rued Langgaard ( 16 plus an unnumbered choral symphony, Sinfonia Interna ), Henry Cowell ( 17 ), Allan Pettersson ( 17 ), Lev Knipper ( 20 ), Jānis Ivanovs ( 21 ), Mieczysław Weinberg ( 22 ), Nikolai Myaskovsky ( 27 ), Havergal Brian ( 32 ), Alan Hovhaness ( 67 ), Derek Bourgeois ( 72 ), and Leif Segerstam ( 253 ).

St. Sergius supported Dmitri Donskoi in his struggle against the Tatars and sent two of his monks, Peresvet and Oslyabya, to participate in the Battle of Kulikovo ( 1380 ).

Eight days after the invasion began, Yeryomenko was recalled to Moscow, where he was made the Acting Commander of the Soviet Western Front, two days after its original commander, General of the Army Dmitri Pavlov, was dismissed ( and later convicted and executed ) for incompetence.

On the morning of 17 May 1606, about two weeks after the marriage, conspirators opposed to Dmitri and his policy of close cooperation with Poland stormed the Kremlin.

In 1902, in an attempt at a chemical conception of the aether, the Russian chemist and chemical educator Dmitri Mendeleev hypothesized that there existed two inert chemical elements of lesser atomic weight than hydrogen.

The Flyers won the first two games of the series, and at Madison Square Garden, Hextall had a quiet game in which he even acted as a calming influence to team-mates Kevin Haller and Dmitri Yushkevich, a turnaround from the aggressiveness he had displayed earlier in his career.

The publisher's note to the first edition explains the reason for the two editions: a detailed " Introductory Note " by Dmitri Nabokov, the author's son, had arrived too late for inclusion in the first.

On, while he was attending a performance of the opera at the Kiev Opera House in the presence of the Tsar and his family, the Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin was shot twice, once in the arm and once in the chest, dying two days later ; his assassin, Dmitri Bogrov, was both a leftist radical and an agent of the Okhrana.

Prince Vladimir had two elder half-siblings of his father's marriage to Alexandra Georgievna of Greece, née Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark: Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia.

The troupe originally consisted of two members ; " Ivan " ( Howard Jay Patterson ) and " Dmitri " ( Paul David Magid ), " Alyosha " ( Randy Nelson ) joined some time after 1975.

He was helped by his two companions Deborah Dancer, a beautiful young woman who Bennett saved from Mary at Woodstock ( and was also his girlfriend ) and Dmitri Mishkin, a Russian man whom Bennett had rescued from Mary when Mishkin was a child.

One of Kobyla's sons, Feodor, a boyar in the boyar duma of Dmitri Donskoi, was nicknamed Koshka ( cat ).

Four of these latter rulers-Mikhail of Tver, his sons Dmitry ( or Dmitri ; nicknamed The Terrible Eyes ) and Alexander Mikhailovich, ( or Aleksandr ) and his grandson Theodor ( or Fyodor )-were all killed in Sarai at Öz Beg's behest.

All in all, prince Ivan Vasilievich had five sons: Dmitri, Ivan, Leo, Michael and Andrew, according to Ptashitski.

His ties with the ruling elite were still close, however, as his letters to sons of Dmitri Donskoi clearly demonstrate.