The yurodivy is a Holy Fool, one who acts intentionally foolish in the eyes of men.

* In the film Andrei Rublev, a yurodivy character, " Durochka ," is played by director Andrei Tarkovsky's wife Irma Raush.

Basil the Blessed ( known also as Basil, fool for Christ ; Basil, Wonderworker of Moscow ; or Blessed Basil of Moscow, fool for Christ, Vasily Blazhenny ) is a Russian Orthodox saint of the type known as yurodivy or " holy fool for Christ ".

Saint Francis of Assisi and other saints acted the part of Holy Fools, as have the yurodivy ( or iurodstvo ) of Eastern Orthodox asceticism.

Ivanov argued that, unlike in the past, modern yurodivy are generally aware that they look pathetic in others ’ eyes.

The madness of the yurodivy was ambiguous, and could be real or simulated.

After the 17th century the yurodivy existed more in the arts than in real life.

Alabama () is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.

Altruism () is the principle or practice of concern for the welfare of others.

Alaska () is the largest state in the United States by area.

Aquarius () is a constellation of the zodiac, situated between Capricornus and Pisces.

In the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, Aaron ( or ; Ahărōn, Hārūn, Greek ( Septuagint ): Ααρών ), who is often called "' Aaron the Priest "' () and once Aaron the Levite () ( Exodus 4: 14 ), was the older brother of Moses, ( Exodus 6: 16-20, 7: 7 ; Qur ' an 28: 34 ) and a prophet of God.

Achill Island () in County Mayo is the largest island off the coast of Ireland, and is situated off the west coast.

An abscess () is a collection of pus ( dead neutrophils ) that has accumulated in a cavity formed by the tissue in which the pus resides due to an infectious process ( usually caused by bacteria or parasites ) or other foreign materials ( e. g., splinters, bullet wounds, or injecting needles ).

Adelaide () is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia.

The name Rijndael () is a play on the names of the two inventors.

Anisotropy () is the property of being directionally dependent, as opposed to isotropy, which implies identical properties in all directions.

The word is originally Greek () and means " those hidden away ".

Abensberg () is a town in the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim, in Bavaria, Germany, lying around 30 km southwest of Regensburg, 40 km east of Ingolstadt, 50 northwest of Landshut and 100 km north of Munich.

The Annales School () is a group of historians associated with a style of historiography developed by French historians in the 20th century.

Casa Batlló () is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904 – 1906 ; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia ( passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue ), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia ( the " Block of Discord ") in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Spain.

Anadyr () is a river in the far northeast Siberia which flows into Anadyr Bay of the Bering Sea and drains much of the interior of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

In ancient Greek mythology, ambrosia () is sometimes the food or drink of the Greek gods ( or demigods ), often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whomever consumed it.

Agate () is a microcrystalline variety of silica, chiefly chalcedony, characterised by its fineness of grain and brightness of color.

Dau Miu () is a Chinese vegetable that has become popular since the early 1990s, and now not only appears on English-language menus, usually as " pea shoots ", but is often served by upscale non-Asian restaurants as well.

The ' far-away light ' () is a reference to St Elmo's Fire, an electrical discharge supposed by ancient Greek mariners to be an epiphany of the Dioscuri, but the meaning of the line was obscured by gaps in the papyrus until reconstructed by a modern scholar — such reconstructions are typical of the extant poetry ( see Scholars, fragments and sources below ).

Alexander () is a common male first name, and less common surname derived from the Greek " Αλέξανδρος " ( Aléxandros ).

An antipope () or anti-pope is a person who, in opposition to the one who is generally seen as the legitimately elected Pope, makes a significantly accepted competing claim to be the Pope, the Bishop of Rome and leader of the Catholic Church.

Alexei Petrovich Romanov () ( – ), was a Russian Tsarevich.

Vertov was born David Abelevich Kaufman () into a family of Jewish lineage in Białystok, Poland, then a part of the Russian Empire.

The word Gulag was not often used in Russian — either officially or colloquially ; the predominant terms were the camps () and the zone (), usually singular — for the labor camp system and for the individual camps.

Shakespeare experts Sir John Gielgud and Kenneth Branagh consider the definitive rendition of the Bard's tragic tale to be the 1964 Russian film Gamlet () based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with a score by Dmitri Shostakovich.

Kornilov () and Kornilova ( feminine ; ) is a common Russian surname derived from the baptismal name Kornil ().

Kuleshov () and Kuleshova (; feminine ) is a common Russian surname.

Karl Bernhardovic Radek () ( 31 October 1885 – 19 May 1939 ) was a socialist active in the Polish and German movements before World War I and an international Communist leader after the Russian Revolution.

Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein () on 7 November 1879, in Yanovka () or Yanivka (), in the Kherson guberniya of the Russian Empire ( today's Bereslavka (; ) in the Bobrynets Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine ), a small village from the nearest post office.

Roman Osipovich Jakobson () ( October 10, 1896, Moscow – July 18, 1982, Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was a Russian linguist and literary theorist.

Ruslan Imranovich Khasbulatov () ( born November 22, 1942 ) is a Russian economist and politician of Chechen descent who played a central role in the events leading to the 1993 constitutional crisis in the Russian Federation.

Tolstoy, or Tolstoi () is a prominent family of Russian nobility, descending from Andrey Kharitonovich Tolstoy (" the Fat ") who served under Vasily II of Moscow.

Bulgakov () is a common Russian family name and may refer to:

Zadkine was born as Yossel Aronovich Tsadkin () in Vitebsk ( now Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire ).

Open Joint Stock Company « Ilyushin Aviation Complex », operating as Ilyushin ( Ilyushin ) () or Ilyushin Design Bureau, is a Russian design bureau and aircraft manufacturer, founded by Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin.

Moskva () is Moscow, in the Russian language.

Born Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov () to a poor family in Urzhum ( then in Vyatka Governorate of the Russian Empire ), Kirov lost his parents when he was young.

There is a field base of Institute of Taxonomy and Ecology of Animals () by Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences () at northwest part of the lake, about 6 km from head water of Biya River.

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Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov () ( born November 10, 1935 in Moscow ) is a Russian ( and former Soviet ) theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist.

IMZ-Ural () is a Russian maker of heavy sidecar motorcycles.

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