In 1983, Estonian stage and film actress Ita Ever starred in the Russian language film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel A Pocket Full of Rye ( using the Russian edition's translated title, The Secret of the Blackbirds ) as the character of Miss Marple.

Deeply involved in the future of the Jews in the former Soviet Union, Steinsaltz serves as the region's Duchovny Ravin ( Spiritual Rabbi ), a historic Russian title which indicates that he is the spiritual mentor of Russian Jewry.

Russian dog tags contains the title « ВС РОССИИ » and the alphanumeric individual numbers.

The word Tsar derives from Latin Caesar, but this title was used in Russia as equivalent to King ; the error occurred when medieval Russian clerics referred to the biblical Jewish kings with the same title that was used to designate Roman and Byzantine rulers-Caesar.

Thus many Orthodox Churches adopt a national title ( e. g. Albanian Orthodox, Bulgarian Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, Georgian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Macedonian Orthodox, Montenegrin Orthodox, Romanian Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox, Ukrainian Orthodox etc.

By some accounts, in the St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament, the title " Grandmaster " was formally conferred by Russian Tsar Nicholas II, who had partially funded the tournament.

A major factor in the ascendancy of Moscow was the cooperation of its rulers with the Mongol overlords, who granted them the title of Grand Prince of Moscow and made them agents for collecting the Tatar tribute from the Russian principalities.

In celebration of his conquests, Peter assumed the title of emperor as well as tsar, and Russian Tsardom officially became the Russian Empire in 1721.

He left the movement in 1887, and in 1901 published a statement in Russian with the title Hillelism, in which he argued that the Zionist project could not solve the problems of the Jewish people.

It was based on the Russian classic by Ivan Goncharov, and gave Milligan the opportunity to play most of the title role in bed.

The group had top 10 hits in the 1960s with " I'll Never Find Another You ", " A World of Our Own ", " Morningtown Ride ", " The Carnival Is Over " ( Russian folk song which the Seekers have sung at various closing ceremonies in Australia, including World Expo 88 and the Paralympics and still stands as the 30th best selling song in the United Kingdom ), " Someday One Day ", and " Georgy Girl " ( the title song of the film of the same name ).

He was rector of the university from 1875 until 1878, when he retired as Emeritus Professor and received the title of verkligt statsråd ( Russian: действительный статский советник ; literally " state councillor ", a Russian honorary title ).

* December 31 – Russian Garry Kasparov holds his title by winning the World Chess Championship match against his countryman Anatoly Karpov.

The premiere established traditions that have influenced subsequent Russian productions ( and many abroad as well ): 1 ) Cuts made to shorten what is perceived as an overlong work ; 2 ) Declamatory and histrionic singing by the title character, often degenerating in climactic moments into shouting ( initiated by Ivan Melnikov, and later reinforced by Fyodor Shalyapin ); and 3 ) Realistic and historically accurate sets and costumes, employing very little stylization.

By doing so he eliminated his rival, allowed the Russian Orthodox Church to move its headquarters to Moscow, and was granted the title of Grand prince by the Mongols.

For this reason, some historical Slavic monarchs, such as Russian Emperors, included the title " autocrat " as part of their official styles, distinguishing them from the constitutional monarchs elsewhere in Europe.

Nicholas refused to grant the bride or their son, George Mikhailovich ( 1910 – 1931 ) a title initially, legitimising George and incorporated him into the Russian nobility under the name " Brassov " in 1915, although he used the title of count under the monarchy from 1915 and, along with his mother, was granted a princely prefix in exile by Cyril Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia in 1928.

The rock band from Pasadena, Ozma plays a balalaika on the song " Flight Of Yuri Gagarin "; it is derived from their partially Russian themed album Double Donkey Disc.

The Australian band VulgarGrad, fronted by actor Jacek Koman, which plays songs of the Russian criminal underground, uses a contrabass balalaika.

* SKA Neftyanik plays in the highest division of the Russian Bandy League.

Adaptations of classic foreign plays included Beethoven by Louis Parker, an adaptation of the play by Réné Fauchois ( 1909 ); A Russian Tragedy, an English version by Henry Hamilton of the play by Adolph Glass ( 1909 ); and The Perfect Gentleman by W. Somerset Maugham, an adaptation of the classic Molière play, Le bourgeois gentilhomme ( 1913 ).

The city's association football team, FC Sever Murmansk, plays in the Russian Second Division.

Bandy club Murman plays in the highest division of the Russian Bandy League.

The city is represented at football by FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod which plays in the Russian Premier League.

FC Nizhny Novgorod which plays in the Russian First Division.

The city bandy team Start plays in the highest division of the Russian Bandy League.

His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg.

The men's basketball club BC Krasnye Krylya Samara plays in the Russian Basketball Super League.

Newspapers in the United States, published prominent headlines and articles noting the failure including plays on the name of the Russian satellite, Sputnik, such as " Flopnik ", " Kaputnik ", " Oopsnik ", and " Stayputnik ".

The Izhvesk ice hockey team HC Izhstal plays in the Russian Major League.

The association football club Zenit-Izhevsk plays in the Russian Second Division.

Important precursors of Expressionism were: the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844-1900 ), especially his philosophical novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra ( 1883-92 ); the later plays of the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849-1912 ), including the trilogy To Damascus 1898-1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ); Frank Wedekind ( 1864-1918 ), especially the " Lulu " plays Erdgeist ( Earth Spirit ) ( 1895 ) and Die Büchse der Pandora ( Pandora's Box ) ( 1904 ); the American poet Walt Whitman ( 1819-92 ): Leaves of Grass ( 1855-91 ); the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky ( 1821-81 ); Norwegian painter Edvard Munch ( 1863-1944 ); Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh ( 1853-90 ); Belgian painter James Ensor ( 1860-1949 ); Sigmund Freud ( 1856-1939 ).

Kovalevskaya wrote several non-mathematical works as well, including a memoir, A Russian Childhood, plays ( in collaboration with Duchess Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler ) and a partly autobiographical novel, Nihilist Girl ( 1890 ).

A notable example is Arkady Gaydar, himself a Red Army soldier in Russian Civil War: his stories and plays about Timur describe a team of young pioneer volunteers who help the eldery and resist hooligans.

His principal importance rests in his plays, among which Khorev ( 1749 ) is regarded as the first regular Russian drama.

His plays were based on the subjects taken from Russian history ( Dmitry Samozvanets ), proto-Russian legends ( Khorev ) or on Shakespearean plots ( Makbet, Hamlet ).

His comedies are adaptations of French plays, with a feeble sprinkling of Russian traits.

The city association football club, FC Arsenal Tula, plays in the Russian Amateur League.

In 1992 Iveco purchased the Italian company, International Trucks Australia Limited, which still plays a very important role in the Pacific Rim, In the year 1994, and the framework of privatization of Soviet industrial conglomerate now in the hands of the Russian Federation, the factory " UralAZ " along with the Italian automotive giant Iveco would found a joint venture for the production of heavy trucks, a society it would be called later " Iveco / UralAZ " and would later be renamed " Iveco-AMT ".

Various adaptations of the tale have appeared since its first publication including a 1919 Russian film directed by Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky, a 1987 musical starring Sid Caesar, and numerous short stories, plays, spoofs, and animated films.

Agitprop (; from Russian: ) is derived from agitation and propaganda, and describes stage plays, pamphlets, motion pictures and other art forms with an explicitly political message.