Black Widow ( Чёрная вдова, " Chernaya Vdova ") ( Natalia " Natasha " Alianovna Romanova, also known as Natasha Romanoff ) is a fictional character, appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Her friends often call her " Natasha ", the informal version of " Natalia ".

Natasha () is a Russian female given name, originally a dimunitive form of Natalia, which in turn derives from the Latin Dies Natalies, meaning " Natal Day " or " Birthday " in reference to the traditional birth of Jesus.

In Russian, she would be Natasha of Natalia Yastrova: i. e., Natasha Rostova, the heroine of Tolstoy's War and Peace ).

Other such short forms include Natasha for Natalia, Sasha for Alexander, Alyosha for Alexei, and Misha for Michael ( or Mikhail, which is the Russian spelling ).

Natalia Sedova sometimes signed her name " Sedova-Trotskaya ".

Prior to the tournament he meets Natalia Katkov ( Watson ) and he falls in love with her almost immediately.

The film then concludes in the competition hall where Natalia completes the competition using her fiance's notes.

Natalia Brasova, Countess Brasova (; born Natalia Sergeyevna Sheremetyevskaya ; 27 June 1880 – 26 January 1952 ) was a Russian noblewoman who married, as her third husband, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia.

In the first year of her life, Natalia and her family lived in a rented apartment near the Moscow Kremlin on Ilinka.

From 1893, the family lived in a succession of rented apartments until Natalia left home on her marriage.

Natalia was a commoner, who had a daughter from her first marriage.

By August 1909, they were lovers, and by November 1909, Natalia was living apart from her second husband in an apartment in Moscow paid for by Michael.

In May 1911, Nicholas permitted Natalia to move from Moscow to Brasovo and granted her the surname " Brasova ".

He took Natalia to the capital with him, and set her up in an apartment, but she was shunned by society, and within a few months he had moved her to a villa in Gatchina.

By marrying her now, he would be removed from the line of succession early, and preclude the prospect of losing Natalia.

Natalia Naryshkina is said to have consumed a large quantity of pickled mushrooms prior to her death.

Filmmaker Natalia Almada works from audio recordings made by her grandmother about Calles, Almada's great-grandfather, relating history to present in Mexico.

After her husband's assassination in 1940, Natalia Sedova remained in Mexico and maintained contact with many exiled revolutionaries.

Former Russian rhythmic gymnasts, Olympic champion, world champion and European champion Natalia Lavrova of the National Team was born and lived in Penza, she died with her sister in a car accident at the Penza Oblast in April 2010.

Sarraute was born Natalia Ilinichna Tcherniak ( Russian Ната ́ лья Ильи ́ нична Черня ́ к, Natalya Chernyak ) in Ivanovo ( then known as Ivanovo-Voznesensk ), 300 km north-east of Moscow in 1900 ( although she frequently referred to the year of her birth as 1902, a date still cited in select reference works ).

In 2009, her character Olivia Spencer and Jessica Leccia's character Natalia Rivera were involved in the hugely popular same sex paring, Otalia, which saw two presumably heterosexual women move from sworn enemies to a close friendship, to eventually, after a long period of dramatic angst, admitting their feelings towards each other and becoming a couple.

He is married to the Spanish-born Maruja and has three adult children with her ; Shane, Ian and Natalia.

On February 15, 2011, Soap Opera Digest announced Braun would return to Days of our Lives and take over the role of Taylor Walker from her former General Hospital co-star Natalia Livingston.

His elder sister is Ekaterina, Natalia Konchalovskaya's daughter from her first marriage.

In an April 2005 episode of Veronica Mars, Clark played an openly gay teenager recruited by the title character ( Kristen Bell ) to publicly humiliate the prejudiced ex-boyfriend ( Jeff D ' Agostino ) of one of her friends ( Natalia Baron ).

Several other factors have spurred his decision to defect, in particular his disillusionment by the death of his wife, Natalia, at the hands of an incompetent doctor who went unpunished because he was the son of a Politburo member.

The Natalia Republic was set up in 1839 but was annexed by Britain in 1843 whereupon most of the local Boers trekked further north joining other Voortrekkers who had established themselves in the region.

At the time of the formation of the Union of South Africa, the entire region now called South Africa was only four provinces: Transvaal ( South African Republic ), Natal ( Natalia Republic ), Orange Free State and the Cape Province.

La Péri was written for the Russian-French dancer Natalia Trouhanova, who starred in the first performance at the Châtelet in 1912.

As he was an eye-sore and infirm, his capacity for supreme power was challenged by the party of the Naryshkin family, who aspired to bring Natalia Naryshkina's son, Peter I, to the throne.

Much of the material contained in the third volume was previously unknown, since Trotsky's widow, Natalia Sedova, gave him access to the closed section of the Archives.

The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa that had been proclaimed a British colony on May 4, 1843 after the British government had annexed the Boer Republic of Natalia.

In early December 1907, Michael was introduced to the wife of a fellow officer, Natalia Sergeyevna Wulfert, and from 1908 they began a deep friendship.

Nicholas was particularly upset because his heir, Alexei, was gravely ill with haemophilia, which Michael cited as one of his reasons for marrying Natalia.

Society in Russia was shocked at the severity of Nicholas's reprisal, but there was little sympathy for Natalia.

Natalia was not permitted to live at any of the imperial palaces.

Natalia chided him for his absence, and Michael retorted that it was simply wrong for his relatives to abandon their units to attend Constantine's funeral at such a time.

Natalia was appalled that Michael eschewed fancy uniforms and decorations for life at the front, but he was convinced " that at such a difficult time I must serve Russia and serve here at the front ".

On 21 August 1917, guards surrounded the villa on Nikolaevskaya street where Michael was living with Natalia.

In September 2004 at only sixteen, Ward became the youngest model to appear on American Vogue photographed by Steven Meisel as one of the nine " Models of the Moment " with Daria Werbowy, Natalia Vodianova, Gisele Bündchen, Isabeli Fontana, Karolina Kurkova, Liya Kebede, Hana Soukupova and Karen Elson.