The city was founded in 1723 by Vasily Tatischev and Georg Wilhelm de Gennin and named after Tsar Peter the Great's wife Catherine I ( Yekaterina ).

This code was discovered by the historian Vasily Tatischev in the text of one of the Novgorod chronicles and brought to the attention of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1738.

* Deutch G. M .: Vasily Nikitich Tatischev.

According to Vasily Tatischev, Svyatoslav's governor Volk managed to escape.

Vasily Tatischev, the first to record such interpretation, disapproved of it emphatically.

Photographed by the statue of the city founders, Vasily Tatishchev | Tatischev and Georg Wilhelm de Gennin | de Gennin.

Polgár is the only woman to have won a game from a current world number one player, and has defeated nine current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Anatoli Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.

Nizhny Novgorod has a great and extraordinary art gallery with more than 12, 000 exhibits, an enormous collection of works by Russian artists such as Viktor Vasnetsov, Karl Briullov, Ivan Shishkin, Ivan Kramskoi, Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Isaak Iljitsch Lewitan, Vasily Surikov, Ivan Aivazovsky, there are also greater collections of works by Boris Kustodiev and Nicholas Roerich, not only Russian art is part of the exhibition it include also a vast accumulation of Western European art like works by David Teniers the Younger, Bernardo Bellotto, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Pieter de Grebber, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and lot more.

Brodsky invited distinguished painters and pedagogues to teach at the Academy, namely Konstantin Yuon, Pavel Naumov, Boris Ioganson, Semion Abugov, Pavel Shillingovsky, Dmitry Kardovsky, Alexander Osmerkin, Nikolai Radlov, Yevgeny Lansere, Alexander Lubimov, Rudolf Frentz, Nikolai Petrov, Victor Sinaisky, Vasily Shukhaev, Dmitry Kiplik, Nikolai Punin, Vasily Meshkov, Mikhail Bernshtein, Efim Cheptsov, Ivan Bilibin, Matvey Manizer, Piotr Buchkin, Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Alexander Karev, Leonid Ovsyannikov, Sergei Priselkov, Ivan Stepashkin, Konstantin Rudakov and others.

Their time and contemporaries, with all its images, ideas and dispositions found it full expression in portraits by Lev Russov, Victor Oreshnikov, Boris Korneev, Leonid Steele, Oleg Lomakin, Semion Rotnitsky, Vladimir Gorb, Samuil Nevelshtein, Engels Kozlov, in landscapes by Nikolai Timkov, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Sergei Osipov, Alexander Semionov, Arseny Semionov, Vasily Golubev, Nikolai Galakhov, Dmitry Maevsky, in genre paintings by Nikolai Pozdneev, Yuri Neprintsev, Yevsey Moiseenko, Andrey Milnikov, Nina Veselova, Mikhail Trufanov, Yuri Tulin, Mikhail Natarevich, and others.

The opening has never been popular at the top level, though a number of prominent players have employed it on occasion ( for example, Richard Réti against Abraham Speijer in Scheveningen 1923 and Boris Spassky against Vasily Smyslov in the 1960 Moscow – Leningrad match ).

The statues were made by Boris Orlovsky, and the bases by Vasily Stasov.

Miles had meanwhile matured into a world class player and he won games against high calibre opponents, such as former World Chess Champions Vasily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, and Boris Spassky.

* Vasily Smyslov vs Boris Spassky, Moscow vs Leningrad team match 1960, Alekhine's Defence ( B05 ), 1 – 0 Spassky tries the unusual Alekhine's Defence and is beaten in fairly short order.

* The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, a series of television films made by Soviet television, featured Boris Klyuyev as Mycroft Holmes, despite Klyuyev being nine years younger than Vasily Livanov, who played Sherlock Holmes.

He had multiple wins over all seven World Champions who held the title from 1948 to 1985: Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian, Boris Spassky, Bobby Fischer, and Anatoly Karpov., but lifetime minus scores against them.

Larsen's unusual openings were on full display at the 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal, where he shared the 1st – 4th places on 17 / 23 with Boris Spassky, Mikhail Tal, and Vasily Smyslov, advancing as a Candidate.

Yiddish theaters and newspapers were promptly shut down, books by some Jewish authors ( including Eduard Bagritsky, Vasily Grossman, Mikhail Svetlov, Iosif Utkin, Boris Pasternak and others ) were seized from libraries.

* Soviet Orientalist Vasily Vasilievich Struve, with Boris Turaev, provides solutions to the problems in the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus.

Players such as Vasily Smyslov, David Bronstein, Isaac Boleslavsky, Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov, Tigran Petrosian, Efim Geller, Mark Taimanov, Yuri Averbakh, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Tal, Viktor Korchnoi, and Leonid Stein dominated the landscape with their sharper styles and innovative openings.

In 1996 he beat Vasily Smyslov 5-1, in 1997 lost to Viktor Korchnoi 4-2, in 1998 defeated Robert Hübner 3. 5-2. 5, in 1999 lost to Alexander Beliavsky 3. 5-2. 5, in 2000 lost to Nigel Short 4-2, in 2001 tied 3-3 with Emil Sutovsky, in 2002 beat Boris Gelfand 3. 5-2. 5, and in 2004 won against Ivan Sokolov 3. 5-2. 5 ( there was no match in 2003 ).

Flames of Paris ( original Russian title Plamya Parizha ) is a classical ballet with music by musicologist and composer Boris Asafiev based on songs of the French Revolution, and originally choreographed by Vasily Vainonen, with design by Vladimir Dmitriev.

In composing the choreography for this rich four-act ballet, Vasily Vainonen drew upon many different sources, as did the composer Boris Asafiev: The Flames of Paris blends classical and character dancing, court music and popular songs, solo performances and huge group scenes.

According to criminal case 16440, three Soviet combatants: Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Vasily Klubkov, and their commander Boris Krainov had to perform acts of sabotage in Reichskommissariat Ostland.

The first theory is that Dmitry was killed by the order of Boris Godunov ; the assassins made it look like an accident ( this version was supported by the prominent 19th century historians Nikolai Karamzin, Sergei Soloviev, Vasily Klyuchevsky and others ).

The Red Army Choir became known as a propagator of Soviet songs, performing original compositions by composers such as Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy, Anatoli Novikov, Matvey Blanter and Boris Mokrousov.

Polozkov | Vladimir V. Puchkov | Oleg N. Razumovsky | Mark Reizen | Vadim L. Ruslanov | Victor Sanin | Ivan Ivanovich Savchuk | Alexei Tikhonovich Sergeev | Boris G. Shapenko | Boris Shemyakov | Vladimir Shkaptsov | Vasily Ivanovich Shtefutsa | Alexander Sergeievich Sibirtsev | B. Slastnoi | Anatoly Solovyanenko | A. Syrovatko-Zolotarev | Barseg Tumanyan | Alexei Usmanov | Georgi Pavlovich Vinogradov | Igor F. Volkov | Leonid V. Wheat | Boris G. Zhayvoronok.

Okhotsk was of some military importance during the Russian Civil War, when the White army generals Vasily Rakitin and Anatoly Pepelyayev used it as their place of arms in the Far East.

The Russians were forced to gather an enormous ransom for their prince, so that Vasily could be released some five months later.

The painting were overseen by Evgraf Sorokin and thereafter some of the best Russian painters ( Ivan Kramskoi, Vasily Surikov, Vasily Vereshchagin ) continued to embellish the interior for another twenty years.

In 1817, Alexander I engaged Vasily Stasov to refurbish some interiors of his grandmother's residence in the Empire style.

He beat some world champions: Vasily Smyslov at the Moscow Spartakiad 1974, Tal at Sochi 1970, and a young Garry Kasparov at the 1978 Soviet Championship.

Born in Saint Petersburg, Prince Repnin served in the Imperial Army under his father, Prince Vasily Anikitovich Repnin, during the Rhenish campaign of 1748, and subsequently resided for some time abroad, where he acquired " a thoroughly sound German education.

The home of the famous Cossack Vasily Kochubey, which was constructed some 50 years earlier, is surrounded today by a park in his name ( although this building was devastated during World War II, it was restored during Soviet times ).

However, scholars such as Jason Burke, Steve Coll, Peter Bergen, Christopher Andrew, and Vasily Mitrokhin have argued that Osama Bin Laden was " outside of CIA eyesight " and that there is " no support " in any " reliable source " for " the claim that the CIA funded bin Laden or any of the other Arab volunteers who came to support the mujahideen.

However, scholars such as Jason Burke, Steve Coll, Peter Bergen, Christopher Andrew, and Vasily Mitrokhin have argued that Osama Bin Laden was " outside of CIA eyesight " and that there is " no support " in any " reliable source " for " the claim that the CIA funded bin Laden or any of the other Arab volunteers who came to support the mujahideen.

However, scholars such as Jason Burke, Steve Coll, Peter Bergen, Christopher Andrew, and Vasily Mitrokhin have argued that Bin Laden was " outside of CIA eyesight " and that there is " no support " in any " reliable source " for " the claim that the CIA funded bin Laden or any of the other Arab volunteers who came to support the mujahideen.

Kadet leaders on the Right like Central Committee members Vasily Maklakov, Mikhail Chelnokov, Nikolai Gredeskul and Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, on the other hand, argued for a shift to the Right.

One of the most popular programmes on air in the 1980s, due to its informal presentation that contrasted with most other shows, was the ' Listeners ’ Request Club ' hosted by prominent radio presenter Vasily Strelnikov.

The board of trustees, composed of Sergey Solovyov, Vasily Klyuchevsky, Uvarov and other leading historians, presided over the construction of the museum building.

Vasili IV of Russia (, Vasíliy Ivánovich Shúyskiy, other transliterations: Vasiliy, Vasily, Vasilii ) ( 22 September 155212 September 1612 ) was Tsar of Russia between 1606 and 1610 after the murder of False Dmitriy I.

Since then, the orchestra has made over 75 recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, PentaTone Classics, Ondine, Warner Classics and other labels, and with conductors that include RNO Founder and Artistic Director Mikhail Pletnev, Vladimir Jurowski, Kent Nagano, Alexander Vedernikov, Carlo Ponti Jr., José Serebrier and Vasily Petrenko.

His second place was shared with Milko Bobotsov and two World Champions, Vasily Smyslov and Mikhail Tal, ahead of two others, Boris Spassky and Tigran Petrosian, among a host of other strong players.

Vasily Polenov's museum is located not far from Tarusa, across from it on the other bank of Oka, in the village of Polenovo.

Negotiations began in January 1654 in Pereiaslav between Khmelnytsky, numerous cossacks and on the Muscovite side led Vasily Buturlin, and concluded in April in Moscow by the Ruthenians Samiilo Bohdanovych-Zarudny, and Pavlo Teteria and by Aleksey Trubetskoy, Vasilii Buturlin, and other Muscovite boyars.

Savon, though then only an International Master, finished well ahead of former world champions Mikhail Tal and Vasily Smyslov ( both scoring 13. 5 ), future world champion Anatoly Karpov ( 13 ), and a host of other strong grandmasters, including Leonid Stein ( 12 ); David Bronstein and Lev Polugaevsky ( both 11. 5 ); Mark Taimanov ( 11 ); and Efim Geller ( 9. 5 ).

Like his other brothers, he was forbidden to marry until Vasily could produce an heir.

Lara finds the final Obscura Engraving ( which Vasily kept for himself before giving away the other four ), which shows where the final painting is under the Strahov, but returns to find that Eckhardt has killed Bouchard.

He defeated Mikhail Tal, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Viktor Korchnoi, David Bronstein, and just about every other strong Soviet player.