Yelena Bonner (Russian: Елена Георгиевна Боннэр; born on 15 February 1923), was a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and wife of the noted physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov. During her decades as a dissident, Bonner was noted for her characteristic blunt honesty and courage.
Natalya Yevgenyevna Murashkevich (née Guseva) (Russian: Ната́лья Евге́ньевна Мурашке́вич (Гу́сева); born 15 February 1972) is a Soviet and Russian actress, who became well known in the Soviet Union for the leading role in Guest from the Future (1984) as Alisa Selezneva. Many Soviet schoolboys fell in love with her, leading to bags of letters from fans. This phenomenon was called "Alicemania" (Алисомания) and had a large scale. Natalya also starred as Alisa in the film Lilac Orb (Russian: Лиловый Шар), and as the spaceship captain in the 2009 animated film Alice's Birthday.
ReplyDeleteDeath of Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Гли́нка)on February 15 1857. He was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music. Glinka's compositions were an important influence on future Russian composers, notably the members of The Five, who took Glinka's lead and produced a distinctive Russian style of music.
ReplyDeleteThe 2013 Russian meteor event occurred on the morning of 15 February 2013 when a meteor estimated to be 15 metres (49 ft) in diameter entered Earth's atmosphere as a fireball with a speed of at least 54,000 kmh (33,000 mph), roughly 44 times the speed of sound, over the southern Ural region of Russia, at approximately 09:13 YEKT (03:13 UTC),and shattered over the city of Chelyabinsk. A large fragment seems to have hit Lake Chebarkul.
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Bonner was born Lusik Georgievna Alikhanova in Merv, Turkmen SSR, USSR (now Mary, Turkmenistan). Her father, Georgy Alikhanov (Armenian name Gevork Alikhanyan), [was an Armenian who founded the Soviet Armenian Communist Party, and was a highly placed member of the Comintern; her mother, Ruf, (Ruth Bonner), was a Jewish Communist activist. She had a younger brother, Igor, who became a career naval officer. Her family had a summer dacha in Sestroretsk and Bonner had fond memories there.
ReplyDeleteIvan Ivanovich (also known as Ioann Ioannovich and Ivan Molodoy) (Иван Иванович, Иоанн Иоаннович, Иван Молодой in Russian) (15 February 1458 – 6 March 1490) was the eldest son and heir of Ivan III from his first marriage to Maria of Tver.
ReplyDeleteIvan's father empowered him to deal with most administrative and military affairs of the state in order to make ordinary Russian people think of him as their future ruler. He bestowed upon Ivan the title of grand prince, so the Muscovite ambassadors and government officials used to speak on behalf of the two grand princes. Ambassadors from different Russian cities (e.g. Novgorod), as well ambassadors from foreign countries, could equally address both Ivan III and Ivan the Young with the same requests or problems.
Russian chronicles mention Ivan's participation in military campaigns against Ibrahim of Kazan in 1468 and Novgorod in 1471. In 1476 and 1478, Ivan III put Ivan in charge of Moscow during his absence from the Russian capital. In 1480, when Akhmat Khan moved towards the Russian borders, the grand prince sent Ivan Molodoy with numerous regiments to the Ugra River. The Great standing on the Ugra river started.