* Nikolai Nadezhdin

Nikolai Cherkasov, the Russian actor who has played such heroic roles as Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible, performs the lanky Don Quixote, and does so with a simple dignity that bridges the inner nobility and the surface absurdity of this poignant man.

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.

The movie, which is influenced by Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, centers around two Mexicans who are mistaken for government inspectors from Mexico City by the corrupt mayor of a small town.

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.

The one major personnel change Chernenko made was the dismissal of the chief of the General Staff, Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, who had advocated less spending on consumer goods in favor of greater expenditures on weapons research and development.

After Lenin ’ s death ( 21 January 1924 ), Trotsky ideologically battled the influence of Stalin, who formed ruling blocs within the Russian Communist Party ( with Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, then with Nikolai Bukharin, and then by himself ) and so determined soviet government policy from 1924 onwards.

She rendered financial support to the investigator Nikolai Sokolov who studied the circumstances of the death of the Tsar's family.

During this time, he became closely associated with N. Osinskii and Vladimir Smirnov, and also met his future first wife, Nadezhda Mikhailovna Lukina, his cousin and the sister of Nikolai Lukin, who was also a member of the party.

Nikolai Bukharin was a gifted cartoonist who left many cartoons on contemporary Soviet politicians.

The final decision of who would fly the mission relied heavily on the opinion of Nikolai Kamanin.

Stalin then turned on his former political ally, Nikolai Bukharin, who was the last real threat to his power.

* December 28 – Nikolai Bryukhanov, Soviet statesman and political figure who served as People's Commissar of Finances ( d. 1938 )

In addition, several important composers who were not directly influenced by Rostropovich wrote cello concertos: György Ligeti, Alexander Glazunov, Paul Hindemith, Toru Takemitsu, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Samuel Barber, Joaquín Rodrigo, Elliot Carter, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, William Walton, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Hans Werner Henze, Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Einojuhani Rautavaara for instance.

Kamov is a Russian rotor-winged aircraft manufacturing company that was founded by Nikolai Il ' yich Kamov, who started building his first rotor-winged aircraft in 1929, together with N. K. Skrzhinskii.

The work was closely studied by Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss and served as the foundation for a subsequent textbook by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, who, as a music student, attended the concerts Berlioz conducted in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

Russian composers who reached a high status in the world of music include Igor Stravinsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergei Prokofiev, and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

In 1926, Stalin allied with Nikolai Bukharin who then led the campaign against " Trotskyism ".

In the first round of the playoffs, the Lightning ousted the Alexei Yashin-led New York Islanders in five games, with solid play from goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin, who posted 3 shutouts in games 1, 3, and 4.

In 1934 The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association in Great Britain began operation, although their first permanent trainer was a Russian military officer, Captain Nikolai Liakhoff, who moved to the UK in 1933.

Nikolai Tolstoy describes Efnisien as " the gallant if peevish Briton who selflessly sacrifices himself for his comrades ", while he is characterised by Proinsias Mac Cana as a force of " irrational malice and hate ".

* Nikolai Dementiev ( Николай Дементьев ) – A self-sacrificial painter and sectarian who admits to the murder, since his sect holds it to be supremely virtuous to suffer for another person's crime

Romain Rolland and others wrote to Stalin seeking clemency for Nikolai Bukharin, but all the leading defendants were executed except Rakovsky and two others ( who were killed in NKVD prisoner massacres in 1941 ).

* Nikolai Vavilov ( 1887 – 1943 ) was a Russian geneticist and botanist who, through botanic-agronomic expeditions, collected seeds from all over the world.

Mussorgsky, for instance, called the Saint Petersburg Conservatory a place where Rubinstein and Nikolai Zaremba, who taught music theory there, dressed " in professional, antimusical togas, first pollute their students ' minds, then seal them with various abominations.

The conservative patron for the RMS, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, agreed — provided Nikolai Zaremba, who had taken over for Rubinstein at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory was also appointed, along with a distinguished foreign composer.

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.

Only one defendant, Nikolai Krestinsky, initially refused to admit his guilt.

During the congress of 1925, she initially supported Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, but eventually voted for the process against Nikolai Bukharin and the exclusion of Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev from the party.

The Smirnovs initially benefited from Nikolai Stepanovich ’ s successes — he reached the position of First Secretary of the Golopristanskiy Raion ( district ) committee in Soviet Ukraine.

Amongst these was Professor Nikolai Ustrialov, initially an anti-communist, who came to believe that Bolshevism could be modified to serve nationalistic purposes.

Nikolai Sheremetev initially assigned landscaping to his serf architect, Mironov, but soon deemed Mironov's plan inappropriate.

It was long thought that Tchaikovsky initially dedicated the work to Nikolai Rubinstein, and Michael Steinberg writes that Rubinstein's name is crossed off the autograph score.

Despite her protests, Nikolai initially remains with Diane as she tries to find her mother, but they eventually part ways.

* Quasar CTA 102, initially postulated by Dr. Nikolai S. Kardashev to be a potential signal from an extraterrestrial civilization.

The notion of the aggravation of class struggle under socialism stands in contrast to the ideas of other communists, such as Nikolai Bukharin or Leon Trotsky, who argued that there was no longer any bourgeoisie in the Soviet Union to have to struggle with, and that the very definition of " socialism " implies there are no longer antagonistic classes in struggle, something Stalin himself noted.

After Lenin's death in 1924, Trotsky and the internationalists were opposed by Joseph Stalin and Nikolai Bukharin, who developed the notion of Socialism in One Country.

However, in the course of his meetings with exiled dissidents during his travel, notably Nikolai Mikhailovich Yadrintsev ( 1842 – 1894 ), Kennan changed his mind about the Russian imperial system.

* 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.

On his return Nikolai Korotkov turned his mind from military to academic pursuits and translated Eduard Albert's monograph " Die Chirurgische Diagnostik " from German to Russian.

While V. I. Lenin was in favor of signing the German peace proposal immediately, a majority of the Bolshevik Central Committee under the leadership of Nikolai Bukharin and Karl Radek believed that Germany, Austro-Hungary Turkey and Bulgaria were all on the verge of a revolution within their borders.

He was opposed to the more moderate policy of Nikolai Bukharin who argued in favor of the " peaceful integration of kulaks into socialism.

He was demoted from the directorship of the NKVD in favor of Nikolai Yezhov in 1936, and arrested in 1937.