She did not go so far as to say, as was done on other occasions, that Abstraction as well as Impressionism were a Russian invention that had been discarded as unwanted by the people of the U.S.S.R.

She claims to have been a member of the Russian aristocracy before the Russian Revolution and suffered greatly as a result, but how much of that story is true is an open question.

She contributed to the resurgence of the Russian nobility that began after the death of Peter the Great.

She noted that they produced an extraordinary wealth of information on German war plans but next to nothing on the repeated question of British penetration of Russian intelligence in either London or Moscow.

She extended Russian political control over the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and incorporated most of its territories into Russia during the Partitions of Poland, pushing the Russian frontier westward into Central Europe.

She explored the commercial potential of Russian, African, and Baltic markets, revised the customs system, worked to counter the currency debasements of her predecessors, amalgamated several revenue courts, and strengthened the governing authority of the middling and larger towns.

She was a Russian immigrant ten years his senior, who at that time was married to surrealist poet Paul Éluard.

She remains one of the most popular Russian monarchs due to her strong opposition to Prussian policies and her abstinence from executing a single person during her reign.

She was commonly known as the leading beauty of the Russian Empire.

She hated bloodshed and conflict and went to great lengths to alter the Russian system of punishment, even outlawing capital punishment.

She is widely regarded as one of the finest classical ballet dancers in history and was most noted as a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev.

She explained that she forgot her mother had been born in Germany because she thought of Alexandra as only Russian.

" She was occasionally called by the French version of her name, " Anastasie ," or by the Russian nicknames " Nastya ," " Nastas ," or " Nastenka.

She is commemorated on 3 October in the Catholic Church ( although this has been transferred from Saint Candidus of Rome ), and on 18 July ( NS ) by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in Australia.

In 2002, the video for " All the Things She Said " by Russian duo t. A. T. u.

She earned a certificate in Russian, a Masters of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy, writing her Master's thesis on the Soviet diplomatic corps, and her doctoral dissertation on the role of journalists in the Prague Spring of 1968.

She was one of the first Latina celebrities to adopt a child from an orphanage in Eastern Europe, when she and Manny Arvesu adopted a one-year old Russian boy in 2000.

She raised funds for the preservation of Russian cultural heritage, for the fostering of new talent, and for treatment programs for children's blood cancer.

Among the major writers of the period were Guo Moruo ( 郭沫若 ) ( 1892 – 1978 ), a poet, historian, essayist, and critic ; Mao Dun ( 茅盾 ) ( 1896 – 1981 ), the first of the novelists to emerge from the " League of Left-Wing Writers " and one whose work reflected the revolutionary struggle and disillusionment of the late 1920s ; satirist and novelist Lao She ( 老舍 ) ( 1899 – 1966 ); and Ba Jin ( 巴金 ) ( 1904 – 2005 ), a novelist whose work was influenced by Ivan Turgenev and other Russian writers.

She married a rich Russian tycoon, Anatole Demidov, on November 1, 1840 in Rome.

She was raised in the Russian Orthodox religion.

She became fluent in French, English, and Romanian in addition to her native German ( to these she later added Spanish, Russian and Chinese ).

She holds the title of International Master ( IM ), and has one of three tournament results ( norms ) necessary to qualify for the International Grandmaster ( GM ) title.

She shared the tournament victory with GM Boris Gulko as each scored 8 – 1.

She joined the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2001 as assistant GM.

She has also campaigned against the treatment of toxic waste in South East Glasgow, against water fluoridation and against GM crops.

She is now a full Grandmaster ( GM ).

She later married William C. Tate, GM of Garrett Manufacturing Limited, a leading aerospace manufacturer.

She first defeated an International Master, Dolfi Drimer, at age 10, and a Grandmaster, Vladimir Kovacevic, at age 11.

She was subsequently awarded the Order of Courage on 21 June 2002 by President Vladimir Putin, to which she replied, " The news was entirely surprising ".

She disagreed with Vladimir Lenin on important points of Communist theory and strategy and was supportive of " left communists " such as Anton Pannekoek.

She returned to Russia in 1899, at which time she met Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov, a. k. a. Vladimir Lenin.

She invited 3000 guests to the opening, including Russian President Vladimir Putin.

She had direct connection to Vladimir Lenin through her mother — one of " Nevzorov sisters " who were apprentices of Lenin and studied together with him for years, long before the Russian revolution of 1917.

She returned to the United States as a young woman to study music, first at Bennington College, in Vermont, and then at Columbia University where she studied under Otto Luening, Jack Beeson, and Vladimir Ussachevsky and was awarded her doctorate in composition in 1968.

She has worked with pianists such as Paul Badura-Skoda, Alicia de Larrocha, Vladimir Viardo, Jacques Rouvier, Russell Sherman, Claude Frank, and John Perry.

She married the Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin in 1898.

She is currently coached by Vladimir Platenik.

She wrote " Vladimir, or the Aborted Flight " a memoir of her great and tragic relationship with Vladimir Vysotsky, translated into Russian, German, Armenian and many other languages.

She realises that she has been duped, and writes to General Vladimir, an old friend of her late husband, also a former Soviet general and covert British agent, for help.

She was also patron to many others, including Nadia Boulanger, Clara Haskil, Arthur Rubinstein, Vladimir Horowitz, Armande de Polignac, Ethel Smyth, Adela Maddison, the Ballets Russes, l ' Opéra de Paris, and l ' Orchestre Symphonique de Paris.

She is coached by Vladimir Lekveshivili and is currently a member of Antalya Specialization Club.

She is openly critical of Russian government policies, including Chechen Wars, domestic policies of Vladimir Putin, and the alleged rebirth of Soviet propaganda in Russia

She wrote very slowly and suffered actual tortures of creation ... " Vera Ivanovna does not write, she puts mosaic together, Vladimir Ilyich said to me at that time ", And in fact she put down each sentence separately, walked up and down the room slowly, shuffled about in her slippers, smoked constantly hand-made cigarettes and threw the stubs and half-smoked cigarettes in every direction on all the window seats and tables, and scattered ashes over her jacket, hands, manuscripts, tea in the glass, and incidentally her visitor.

She is seeking to reappoint Vladimir Sheitanov as a replacement for defense attorneys Yalnyzov and Byzanti after the 2006 death sentence.

She is seeking to reappoint Vladimir Sheitanov as a replacement for defense attorneys Yalnyzov and Byzanti after the 2006 death sentence.

She was the wife of Vladimir Krainev ( 1944-2011 ).

She went abroad twice to meet with Vladimir Lenin ( to France in the summer of 1902 and Stockholm in the fall of 1910 ).

She married Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin on July 28, 1983 ; they have two daughters, Maria, born 1985 and Yekaterina ( Katja ) ( born 1986 in Dresden, East Germany ).

She also read works by philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Russian idealist Vladimir Solovyov.