Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (/ˈtoʊlstɔɪ, ˈtɒl-/; Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой, IPA: [ˈlʲef nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj] ; 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 –...
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Leo I of Galicia (Ukrainian: Лев Дани́лович, romanized: Lev Danýlovych; c. 1228 – c. 1301) was King of Ruthenia, Prince of Belz (1245–1264), Peremyshl...
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Lev Borisovich Kamenev (né Rozenfeld; 18 July [O.S. 6 July] 1883 – 25 August 1936) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. An Old Bolshevik...
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Leon Trotsky (redirect from Lev Trotsky)
Lev Davidovich Bronstein (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as "Leon Trotsky", was a Russian revolutionary, politician...
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Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (Russian: Лев Семёнович Выготский, [vɨˈɡotskʲɪj]; Belarusian: Леў Сямёнавіч Выгоцкі; November 17 [O.S. November 5] 1896 – June...
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Lev Nikolayevich Gumilev (also Gumilyov; Russian: Лев Никола́евич Гумилёв; 1 October [O.S. 18 September] 1912 – 15 June 1992) was a Soviet and Russian...
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The name Lev is a first name, or less commonly a surname. It may be of different origins. The first name Lev comes from Hebrew and means "heart" (לב)...
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Lev Mikhailovich Pulver (Yiddish pronunciation: Leib Pulver, Yiddish: לייב פּולווער, European spelling: Leo Pulver, Russian: Лев Михайлович Пульвер; 18...
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also Leo (or Lev) of Optina, was a venerable elder of Optina Monastery and a founder of Optina's eldership. The future St. Leonid was born Lev Danilovich...
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writer, and the fourth child and third son of Leo Tolstoy. Lev Lvovich, whom his father once called "Leo Tolstoy, Junior" was a fairly well known and respected...
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Lev Isaakovich Shestov (Russian: Лев Исаакович Шестов; 31 January [O.S. 13 February] 1866 – 19 November 1938; born Yeguda Lev Shvartsman) was a Jewish-Russian...
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Léon Bakst (redirect from Lev Nikolayevich Bakst)
(Grove Press, 1998) p.86 БАКСТ, ЛЕВ САМОЙЛОВИЧ Бакст Лев Самойлович "Bakst Lev Samoilovich", by V. A. Kulakov, Great Russian Encyclopedia online "Леон Бакст"...
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Leo of Galicia may refer to: Leo I of Galicia, king of Galicia–Volhynia (1269–1301), also known as Lev Danylovich Leo II of Galicia, the last Ruthenian...
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modelled after Pushkin's Boris Godunov. Count Lev Nikolaevich (1828–1910), more widely known abroad as Leo Tolstoy, is acclaimed as one of the greatest...
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Lev Samuilovich Kleyn (Russian: Лев Самуилович Клейн; 1 July 1927 – 7 November 2019), better known in English as Leo Klejn and Leo S. Klein, was a Russian...
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The lev (Bulgarian: лев, plural: лева, левове / leva, levove; ISO 4217 code: BGN; numeric code: 975) is the currency of Bulgaria. In old Bulgarian, the...
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Leo II of Galicia, also known as Lev Yurevich (unknown – 1323) was Prince of Lutsk and Galicia, one of the last two Romanovichi kings of Rus` (r. 1308–1323;...
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Lev Semyonovich Berg, also known as Leo S. Berg (Russian: Лев Семёнович Берг; 14 March 1876 – 24 December 1950) was a leading Russian geographer, biologist...
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Ezechiel, Ivar, Ivor, Radomil, Igora, Radomila Július, Antip, Ariel, Leo, Lev, Ariela, Arleta Estera, Aster, Davorín, Zenon, Astéria Aleš, Artem, Artemon...
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Lev Aleksandrovich Chugaev (Russian: Лев Алекса́ндрович Чуга́ев; 16 October 1873 – 26 September 1922) was a chemist from the Russian Empire. At the height...
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Leopold, Count von Thun und Hohenstein (redirect from Lev Thun)
part of family names since 1919. Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Count Leo Thun-Hohenstein" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company...
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Lev Eduardovich Conus (Russian: Лев Эдуа́рдович Коню́с, Lev Eduárdovich Konyús), known in Western Europe and the US as Leon Conus (1871–1944), was a Russian...
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Metropolitan Leo (or Lev, Russian: Лев, secular name Nikolay Lvovich Tserpitsky, Николай Львович Церпицкий; born April 13, 1946) is the current Metropolitan...
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Leon Pinsker (redirect from Lev Pinsker)
Yiddish: לעאָן פינסקער; Russian: Лев (Леон) Семёнович Пинскер, romanized: Lev (Leon) Semyonovich Pinsker The Jewish Question: Biography of a World Problem...
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Lev Grigorievich Deutsch, also known as Leo Deutsch (Russian: Лев Григорьевич Дейч) (September 26, 1855 – August 5, 1941) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary...
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Lev (Leo) Platonovich Karsavin (Russian: Лев Платонович Карсавин; Lithuanian: Levas Karsavinas; 13 December 1882 – 17 or 20 July 1952) was a Russian religious...
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Leon Benois (redirect from Lev Benois)
Leon or Leonty Nikolayevich Benois (Russian: Леонтий Николаевич Бенуа, romanized: Leonty Nikolayevich Benua; 23 August [O.S. 11 August] 1856 – 8 February...
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Lev Samiylovych Palatnik (Ukrainian: Лев Самійлович Палатник; 26 April 1909, Poltava – 4 June 1994, Kharkiv) was a Soviet and Ukrainian physicist known...
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Lew Kowarski (redirect from Lev Kowarski)
Lew Kowarski (10 February 1907 – 30 July 1979) was a Russian-French physicist. He was a lesser-known but important contributor to nuclear science. He participated...
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Thornton Tomasetti (redirect from Lev Zetlin & Associates)
Tomasetti (formerly the Thornton-Tomasetti Group, Thornton Tomasetti Engineers, Lev Zetlin & Associates, LZA Technology and Weidlinger Associates) is a global...
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