Nobel's first love was in Russia with a girl named Alexandra, who rejected his proposal.

Dubnium ( ), is a chemical element with the symbol Db and atomic number 105, named after the town of Dubna in Russia, where it was first produced.

Dąbrowski, for whom the anthem is named, was a commander in the failed 1794 Kościuszko Uprising against Russia.

Russian, Finnish and Estonian also have a number of Norse loanwords ; the words Rus and Russia, according to one theory, may be named after the Rus ' people, a Norse tribe ; see Rus ( name ).

It was first introduced in 1841 by geologist Sir Roderick Murchison, and is named after the Perm Krai in Russia, where strata from the period were originally found.

The Russian scientist Karl Ernst Claus discovered the element in 1844 and named it after Ruthenia, the Latin word for Rus ' ( ancient Russia ).

In the third volume of The Baroque Cycle, The System of the World, a mysterious member of the entourage of Czar Peter I of Russia, named " Solomon Kohan " appears in early 18th century London.

Several places in Russia are named to commemorate Leo Tolstoy, e. g., Tolstoy-Yurt, village in Chechnya.

* February 17 – A woman named Anna Anderson tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to a mental hospital, where she claims she is Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia.

* February 8 – Catherine I is officially named czarina by her husband, Peter the Great, in Russia.

In Russia there is a city of Dzerzhinsk, a village of Dzerzhinsk and three other cities called Dzerzhinskiy ; in former Soviet republics, there are cities named Dzerzhinski ( Armenia ), Dzyarzhynsk ( Belarus ), and Dzerzhinsk ( Ukraine ).

Through the Polish nobles whom Russia controlled and the Russian Minister to Warsaw, ambassador and Prince Nicholas Repnin, Empress Catherine the Great forced a constitution on the Commonwealth at the so-called Repnin Sejm of 1767, named after ambassador Repnin, who de facto dictated the terms of that Sejm ( and who ordered the capture and exile of some vocal opponents of his policies to Kaluga in Russian Empire., including bishop Józef Andrzej Załuski and others ).

After the Treaty of Tilsit, which Frederick William III of Prussia and Czar Alexander I of Russia concluded with Napoleon in July 1807, Frederick Augustus was also named duke of Warsaw.

* Streets were also named after him in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, in Budapest, Hungary ( between 1961 and 1990 ); Jakarta ( between 1945 to 1967 ); Belgrade, Serbia ; Sofia, Bulgaria ( until 1991-2 ) Skopje, Republic of Macedonia ; Bata and Malabo, Equatorial Guinea ; Tehran, Iran ; Algiers, Algeria ( Rue Patrice Lumumba ); Santiago de Cuba, Cuba ( since 1960, formerly Avenida de Bélgica ); Łódź, Warsaw, Poland ; Kiev, Ukraine ; Perm, Russia ; Rabat, Morocco ; Maputo, Mozambique ; Leipzig, Germany ; Lusaka, Zambia (" Lumumba Street "); Kampala, Uganda (" Lumumba Avenue "); Tunis, Tunisia ; Fort-de-France, Martinique ; Montpellier, France ; Accra, Ghana ; Antananarivo, Madagascar ; Rotterdam, Netherlands ; Alexandria, Egypt and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

This makes Darmstadt one of only eight cities with an element named after it ( the other cities being Ytterby in Sweden ( four elements ); Stockholm in Sweden ( Holmium ); Strontian in Scotland ; Copenhagen in Denmark ( whose Latin name gives Hafnium ); Paris ( whose Latin name gives Lutetium ); Berkeley, California ; and Dubna in Russia ).

One part of the troops came under command of a Spaniard in Russian service, Major General José de Ribas ( known in Russia as Osip Mikhailovich Deribas ), and the main street in Odessa today, Derybasivska Street, is named after him.

It is known also as Jugendstil,, German for " youth style ", named after the magazine Jugend, which promoted it, as Modern ( Модерн ) in Russia, perhaps named after Parisian gallery " La Maison Moderne ", as Secession in Austria-Hungary and its successor states after the Viennese group of artists, and, in Italy, as Stile Liberty from the department store in London, Liberty & Co., which popularised the style.

The name derives from the French sauce tartare, named after the Tatars from the Eurasian Steppe, who once occupied Ukraine, the Czech Republic and Russia.

He also stated that although the element was discovered as an American collaboration, who provided the californium target, the element should rightly be named in honor of Russia since the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions at JINR was the only facility in the world which could achieve this result.

The element is named after Russian physicist Georgy Flyorov, the founder of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, where the element was discovered.

It was named after Saint Petersburg, Russia, where Peter Demens had spent half of his youth.

One of the first Roman Catholic churches to be built in Russia, the Catholic Church of St. Catherine, was named after Catherine of Alexandria because she was Catherine the Great's patron.

Minimum wage rates vary greatly across many different jurisdictions, not only in setting a particular amount of money ( e. g. US $ 7. 25 per hour under U. S. Federal law ( or 2. 13 for employees who receive tips, known as the tipped minimum wage ), $ 9. 04 in the U. S. state of Washington, and £ 6. 08 ( for those aged 21 +) in the United Kingdom ), but also in terms of which pay period ( e. g. Russia and China set monthly minimums ) or the scope of coverage.

The Crimean Khanate continued to invade Eastern Europe in a series of slave raids, and remained a significant power in Eastern Europe and a threat to Muscovite Russia in particular until the end of the 17th century.

In particular, such organisations as the Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch consider Russia to have not enough democratic attributes and to allow few political rights and civil liberties to its citizens.

When the film was premiered in Russia in October 2002, 52 veterans of the K-19 submarine accepted flights to the Saint Petersburg premiere ; despite what they saw as technical as well as historical compromises, they praised the film and in particular the performance of Harrison Ford.

In particular, towards the end of his life, he made a lot of money by touring Russia twice, the final visit proving extremely lucrative and also being the final conducting tour before his death.

St Antony's is the most international of the seven all-graduate colleges of the University of Oxford, specialising in international relations, economics, politics, and history of particular parts of the world — Europe, Russia and the former Soviet states, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, China, South and South East Asia.

In particular, three permanent members ( with veto power ) of the Council were known to have misgivings about an invasion of Iraq: Russia, China, and France.

To bridge the gap between guns and missiles, Russia in particular produces the Kashtan CIWS, which uses both guns and missiles for final defense.

Only the misplacement of Russian forces by Kutuzov over both Bagration's and Barclay's protest prevented the ruin of the French army that day, both the Prussian Staff Officer Karl von Clausewitz, the historian and future author of On War, and Alexander I of Russia noting that the poor positioning of troops in particular had hobbled the defense.

His fables are the first attempt in a genre that was destined to flourish in Russia with particular vigor.

" The study examined in particular the case of Russia which has comparatively high rates of tax evasion.

Since the villages in Russia often were populated by settlers from a particular region and were isolated from Germany, they maintained their regional dialects long after Germany standardized the language.

In particular, his persistence with several players and tactics that some perceived to be inadequate did him damage, as did a 4 – 2 away defeat to Russia and a 2 – 1 home defeat to Switzerland.

Linguistically, the Oghuz are listed together with the old Kimaks of the middle Yenisei of the Ob, the old Kipchaks who later emigrated to southern Russia, and the modern Kirghiz in one particular Turkic group, distinguished from the rest by the mutation of the initial y sound to j ( dj ).

Since his appointment to the OPIC board, Connelly has traveled to Afghanistan, Russia, Azerbaijan, Serbia, Peru, and the Middle East to promote U. S. overseas investments, in particular the investments of U. S. companies ( including Bechtel ) in the privatization of foreign oil, power, water, and transportation infrastructures.

The events at Fátima gained particular fame due to their elements of prophecy and eschatology, particularly with regard to possible world war and the conversion of Soviet Russia.

The rivalry between Sweden and Russia in particular lead to an intense expansion of gunboat fleets and development of new gunboat types.

This practice began in Jerusalem, and from there it was carried to Russia, where it was followed in various Dormition Cathedrals, in particular that of Moscow.

In this period few Communists doubted, least of all Lenin and Trotsky, that successful socialist revolutions carried out by the working classes of the most developed capitalist counties were essential to the success of the socialism, and therefore to the success of socialism in Russia in particular.

Although she gave Shevardnadze strong support in his dealings with foreign countries ( in particular with Russia ), she spoke out forcefully against the corruption and inefficiency of his government's domestic policy, declaring it to be " absolutely incompetent.

In countries of the former Soviet Union, Georgian food is popular due to the immigration of Georgians to other Soviet republics, in particular Russia.

* January 11 – April 21-Tsar Peter the Great of Russia ( incognito as ' Peter Mikhailov ') visits England as part of his Grand Embassy, making a particular study of shipbuilding.

Astolphe-Louis-Léonor, Marquis de Custine ( March 18, 1790 – October 18, 1857 ) was a French aristocrat and writer who is best known for his travel writing, in particular his account of his visit to Russia in 1839 Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia.