Prominent examples are the fool in Boris Godunov, Pavel's mother and Father Zosima in The Brothers Karamazov, Sofia Semyonovna Marmeladova ( Sonya ) in Crime and Punishment and Prince Myshkin in The Idiot.

* 1850 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician ( d. 1891 )

* 1931 – Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer

** Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician ( d. 1891 )

Jogaila's Russian mother Uliana of Tver urged him to marry Sofia, daughter of Prince Dmitri of Moscow, who required him first to convert to Orthodoxy.

Sofia was taken by Russian forces on January 4, 1878, during the Russo-Turkish War, 1877 – 78, and became the capital of the autonomous Principality of Bulgaria in 1879, which became the Kingdom of Bulgaria in 1908.

Quite some time after 1878 there was a strong will, expressed by Bulgarian committees, to keep the name Sredets, but the Russian administration accepted Sofia.

* Sofia live webcam – the Russian monument

Before proceeding to Bulgaria, Prince Alexander paid visits to the Tsar at Livadia, to the courts of the great powers and to the sultan ; a Russian warship then conveyed him to Varna, and after taking the oath to the new constitution at Turnovo ( 8 July 1879 ) he went to Sofia.

A military plot formed, and on the night of 20 August 1886 the conspirators seized the prince in the palace at Sofia and compelled him to sign his abdication ; they then hurried him to the Danube at Rakhovo, transported him on his yacht to Reni, and handed him over to the Russian authorities, who allowed him to proceed to Lemberg.

However, he soon returned to Bulgaria as a result of the success of the counter-revolution led by Stefan Stambolov, which overthrew the provisional government set up by the Russian party at Sofia.

Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya () ( – ) was the first major Russian female mathematician, responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics, and the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe.

In 1995, the Bulgarian poet Kiril Kadiiski claimed to have found one of the Russian translations in Sofia, but the authenticity of the document remains contested.

In a bit of propagandist retaliations against Magnus, the Russians drew up an allegedly autobiographic account known as the Testament of Magnus ( Rukopisanie Magnusha ) which has been inserted into the Russian Sofia First Chronicle, composed in Novgorod, which claimed that Magnus in fact, did not drown at sea, but saw the errors of his ways and converted to Orthodoxy, becoming a monk in a Novgorodian monastery in Karelia.

*-( a ) n ( countries / continents: Africa → African, Albania → Albanian, Algeria → Algerian, America → American, Andorra → Andorran, Angola → Angolan, Antigua → Antiguan, Armenia → Armenian, Asia → Asian, Australia → Australian, Austria → Austrian, Barbados → Bajan, Bolivia → Bolivian, Bosnia → Bosnian, Brunei → Bruneian, Bulgaria → Bulgarian, Cambodia → Cambodian, Chile → Chilean, Colombia → Colombian, Costa Rica → Costa Rican, Croatia → Croatian ( also " Croat "), Cuba → Cuban, Dalmatia → Dalmatian, El Salvador → Salvadoran, Eritrea → Eritrean, Estonia → Estonian, Ethiopia → Ethiopian, Europe → European, Equestria → Equestrian, Fiji → Fijian, Gambia → Gambian, Georgia → Georgian, Germany → German, Guatemala → Guatemalan, Guinea → Guinean, Haiti → Haitian, Honduras → Honduran, Hungary → Hungarian, India → Indian, Indonesia → Indonesian, Italy → Italian, Jamaica → Jamaican, Kenya → Kenyan, / South Korea → / South Korean, Latvia → Latvian, Liberia → Liberian, Libya → Libyan, Lithuania → Lithuanian, Macedonia → Macedonian, Malawi → Malawian, Malaysia → Malaysian, Mali → Malian, Mauritania → Mauritanian, Mauritius → Mauritian, Mexico → Mexican, Micronesia → Micronesian, Moldova → Moldovan, Mongolia → Mongolian, Morocco → Moroccan, Mozambique → Mozambican, Namibia → Namibian, Nauru → Nauruan, Nicaragua → Nicaraguan, Nigeria → Nigerian, Palau → Palauan, Paraguay → Paraguayan, Puerto Rico → Puerto Rican, Romania → Romanian, Russia → Russian, Saint Lucia → Saint Lucian, Samoa → Samoan, Saudi Arabia → Saudi Arabian, Serbia → Serbian ( also " Serb "), Singapore → Singaporean, Slovakia → Slovakian, Slovenia → Slovenian ( also " Slovene "), South Africa → South African, Sri Lanka → Sri Lankan, Syria → Syrian, Tanzania → Tanzanian, Tonga → Tongan, Tunisia → Tunisian, Tuvalu → Tuvaluan, Uganda → Ugandan, United States of America → American, Uruguay → Uruguayan, Venezuela → Venezuelan, Zambia → Zambian, Zimbabwe → Zimbabwean ; cities / states: Alaska → Alaskan, Alexandria → Alexandrian, Andalusia → Andalusian, Arizona → Arizonan, Atlanta → Atlantan, Baltimore → Baltimorean, Bavaria → Bavarian, Bohemia → Bohemian, California → Californian, Catalonia → Catalan, Chicago → Chicagoan, Cincinnati → Cincinnatian, Corsica → Corsican, Crete → Cretan, El Paso → El Pasoan, Galicia → Galician, Hanoi ( Vietnam ) → Hanoian, Hawaii → Hawaiian, Iowa → Iowan, Karelia → Karelian, Kiev → Kievan, Madeira → Madeiran, Miami → Miamian, Minneapolis → Minneapolitan, Minnesota → Minnesotan, Moravia → Moravian, Nebraska → Nebraskan, Nova Scotia → Nova Scotian, Ottawa → Ottawan, Pennsylvania → Pennsylvanian, Philadelphia → Philadelphian, Pomerania → Pomeranian, Regina → Reginan, Riga → Rigan, Rome → Roman, San Antonio → San Antonian, San Diego → San Diegan, San Francisco → San Franciscan, San Jose → San Josean, Sardinia → Sardinian, Silesia → Silesian, Sicily → Sicilian, Sofia → Sofian, Sumatra → Sumatran, Tahiti → Tahitian, Tasmania → Tasmanian, Transylvania → Transylvanian, Tucson → Tucsonan, Tulsa → Tulsan, Utah → Utahn, Victoria → Victorian, Wallachia → Wallachian )

No provisions were made in case of a ( officially declared ) Romanian intervention or an Ottoman counterattack, strangely assuming that Russia would assure that no attack would come from those directions, even though on 9 June Russia had angrily repudiated its Bulgarian alliance and shifted its diplomacy towards Romania ( Russia already had named Romania's King Carol an honorary Russian Field Marshal, as a clear warning in shifting its policy towards Sofia in December 1912 ).

Sophia Alekseyevna ( anglicization of Russian Царевна Софья Алексеевна Sofia Alekseyevna ) () was a regent of Russian Tsardom ( 1682 – 1689 ) who allied herself with a singularly capable courtier and politician, Prince Vasily Galitzine, to install herself as a regent during the minority of her brothers, Peter the Great and Ivan V. Her reign was carried out with a firm and heavy fist, she did not hesitate to utilize violent tactics to promote her agenda.

* Sofia Dubnova-Erlikh, Zhizn i tvorchestvo S. M. Dubnova ( New York 1950 ), memoir and biography by his daughter, translated from the Russian as: The Life and Work of S. M. Dubnow.

He studied Russian at Sussex University and later in Sofia ( Bulgaria ) and at the Moscow State University ( MGU ).

Russian Orthodox Saint Sofia Church built in 1907, Harbin

Extradited in 1885 by the Russian government, Blagoev returned to Bulgaria, settled in Sofia and began to propagate socialist ideas.

Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina wrote a piece dedicated to cellist Mstislav Rostropovich for his seventieth birthday.

This feature was named after the Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya.

Millennium of Russia and the St. Sofia ’ s Cathedral on a Russian ruble | 5-ruble bill

Her mother, Sofia Gladkaya ( ru: Софья Николаевна Гладкая ) ( 1875 – 1965 ), was a singer at the Mariinsky Theatre.

Plants produce trains ( Burgas, Dryanovo ), trams ( Sofia ), trolleys ( Dupnitsa ), buses ( Botevgrad ), trucks ( Shumen ), motor truck

The Soviet military commander in Sofia assumed supreme authority, and the communists whom he instructed, including Kimon Georgiev ( who was not a communist himself, but a member of the elitarian political organization " Zveno ", working together with the communists ), took full control of domestic politics in the People's Republic of Bulgaria.

* Sofia Vembo ( 1910 – 1978 ), Greek singer and actress

In Sofia Coppola's independent film The Virgin Suicides ( 1999 ), Dunst played the role of troubled adolescent Lux Lisbon.

400 AD ), Ada Lovelace ( 1815 – 1852 ), Maria Gaetana Agnesi ( 1718 – 1799 ), Emmy Noether ( 1882 – 1935 ), Sophie Germain ( 1776 – 1831 ), Sofia Kovalevskaya ( 1850 – 1891 ), Alicia Boole Stott ( 1860 – 1940 ), Rózsa Péter ( 1905 – 1977 ), Julia Robinson ( 1919 – 1985 ), Olga Taussky-Todd ( 1906 – 1995 ), Émilie du Châtelet ( 1706 – 1749 ), Mary Cartwright ( 1900 – 1998 ), Olga Ladyzhenskaya ( 1922 – 2004 ), and Olga Oleinik ( 1925 – 2001 ).

Several foreign airlines also serve Rinas Airport: Alitalia ( from Rome and Milan ), British Airways ( from London Gatwick Airport ), Austrian Airlines ( from Vienna ), Adria Airways ( Ljubljana ), Jat Airways ( Belgrade ), Lufthansa ( Munich ), Malev ( Budapest ), Olympic Air ( Athens ), Hemus Air ( Sofia ) and Turkish Airlines ( Istanbul ).

Aurelian was born in Serdica ( today Sofia in Bulgaria ) in Moesia or what was later called Dacia Ripensis to an obscure provincial family ; his father was tenant to a senator named Aurelius, who gave his name to the family.

Sofia was originally a Thracian settlement called Serdica, or Sardica, possibly named after the Celtic tribe Serdi.

It is possible that it had been called by the common population Sofia ( meaning " wisdom " in Ancient Greek ) about 1376 after the church of Saint Sophia.

However, in different testimonies it was called both " Sofia " and " Sredets " until the end of the 19th century.

During this time their daughter, Sofia ( called “ Fufa ”), was born.

Georgi Lozanov ( July 22, 1926, Sofia, Bulgaria – May 6, 2012 ) was a Bulgarian educator and psychiatrist who developed suggestopedia / suggestopaedia, a learning / teaching theory based on his early-1960s study of suggestion which is called as " suggestology ".

During the 1890s, when it was performed at the Metropolitan Opera, it was often called ' the night of the seven stars ', as the cast would include Lillian Nordica, Nellie Melba, Sofia Scalchi, Jean de Reszke, Édouard de Reszke, Victor Maurel and Pol Plançon.

The main force went to defend Sofia and the reserves had to be called to Anatolia.

In November that same year, Lombard began a recurring role on the hit CBS television series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in seasons five and six and made her first appearance in season 5: episode 7 called " Formalities ", playing Sofia Curtis, a crime scene investigator who goes on a career path to become a homicide detective.

Serdica is now called Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.

Another large wave of Italian immigrants began coming around 1872, when a ship called Sofia arrived bringing 386 Italians from the region of Trento.

Sofia Airport (), sometimes also called Letishte Sofia-Vrazhdebna (), is the main airport in Sofia, Bulgaria.

US President Ronald Reagan said that peace demonstrations in Europe in 1981 were " all sponsored by a thing called the World Peace Council, which is bought and paid for by the Soviet Union ", and Soviet defector Vladimir Bukovsky claimed that they were co-ordinated at the WPC's 1980 World Parliament of Peoples for Peace in Sofia.

Katarina-Sofia was a so called borough ( stadsdelsområde ) in central Stockholm, named after the two parishes of Katarina and Sofia.

The biggest successes for Marek came in the late 1970s and the early 1980s when the team finished third in its domestic league in 1977 and won National Cup ( The Cup of the Soviet Army, as it was called at the time ) in 1978, by defeating the overwhelming favorites of CSKA Sofia by the score of 1: 0 in front of 75. 000 spectators at Vasil Levski Stadium in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov () ( born August 12, 1941 ), is one of the players of the Bulgarian football team CSKA Sofia, sometimes called " the poet of football " for his dribbling skills.

On March 3, 2006, party leader Siderov called for a meeting to be held in Sofia, and around 30, 000 people came to hear speeches by him and other members of the party.

The present stadium of Levski Sofia is called Georgi Asparuhov Stadium in honour of the famous striker.