• Day of the Oprichnik (Russian: День опричника, Den' oprichnika) is a 2006 novel by the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin. The narrative is set in the near...
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    Oprichniks (Russian: опри́чники, IPA: [ɐˈprʲitɕnʲɪk], oprichniki, meaning "men of oprichina"; singular: oprichnik) were a corps that served as bodyguards...
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    Vladimir Sorokin (category Russian counterculture of the 1990s)
    investigated for pornography. His 2006 novel, Day of the Oprichnik, describes a dystopian Russia in 2027, with a Tsar in the Kremlin, a Russian language with numerous...
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    even the use of brooms from the historic original. Vladimir Sorokin's 2006 novel Day of the Oprichnik envisions a dystopian near future in which the Russian...
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    A Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich, the Young Oprichnik, and the Valorous Merchant Kalashnikov (Russian: Песня про царя Ивана Васильевича, молодого опричника...
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  • (Del Rey Books, 2006) The Book of Dave (2006) by Will Self (Viking Press, 2006)[not specific enough to verify] Day of the Oprichnik (2006) by Vladimir Sorokin...
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    Bergerac (1991) – Christian & De Valvert Mr. Bojangles (1992) – Joe Day of the Oprichnik (2013) – Andrej Danilovič (Studio Hrdinů), Alfréd Radok Awards for...
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  • (The Vorrh Trilogy); novelist, biographer, and critic Margaret Drabble (The Millstone); novelist and dramatist Vladimir Sorokin (Day of the Oprichnik);...
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  • 2, Corpul ("The Body") (2002) 2015 - Vladimir Sorokin (Russia)- Day of the Oprichnik (2006) 2014 - Maylis de Kerangal (France) - Birth of a Bridge (2010)...
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  • Jamey Gambrell (category University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni)
    Sorokin (2011). The Day of the Oprichnik. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374134754. Leonid Tsypkin (2013). The Bridge Over the Neroch: And Other Works...
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    Pavel Basinsky (category State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates)
    Vladimir Sorokin “Day of the Oprichnik”. In turn, Basinsky portrayed Pelevin in Russian Novel as a fashion writer Viktor Sornyakov, author of the book Denikin...
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  • 2006 in literature (category Years of the 21st century in literature)
    14) Vladimir Sorokin – Day of the Oprichnik Mystery and crime Gilbert Adair – The Act of Roger Murgatroyd Robert Baer – Blow the House Down a novel (May...
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  • Čelnik Chetnik Druzhinnik Gopnik Kolkhoznik Kukuruznik Narodnik Namestnik Oprichnik Patatnik Peredvizhnik Podkulachnik Poglavnik Polkovnik Raskolnik Sotnik...
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    campaign as an archer of the guard. The following year he became an oprichnik – a member of Ivan's personal guard and secret police. In 1570–1571, Godunov...
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    entering the city, in the trading quarter of Gorodische, to set up his camp and royal court, issuing his initial orders from there. On the second day (7 January)...
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    guard known as the oprichniki. Originally, it numbered 1000. The oprichniki were headed by Malyuta Skuratov. One known oprichnik was the German adventurer...
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    Undina, TH 2 (Ундина or Undine, 1869, not completed) The Oprichnik, TH 3 (Опричник) 1870–1872 Vakula the Smith, Op. 14/TH 4 (Кузнец Вакула or Kuznets Vakula)...
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    Bogdan Belsky (category Year of birth unknown)
    died 1611) was a Russian statesman, oprichnik, and a close associate of Ivan the Terrible. Bogdan was not related to the great Gediminid princely Belsky family...
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  • oprichnik, in order to raise his status in the eyes of Emperor Rudolph, his patron and addressee of notes on Muscovy. According to Alshits, many of Staden's...
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    Godunov, Rimsky-Korsakov's Maid of Pskov, Tchaikovsky's The Oprichnik or Mazeppa, and Borodin's Prince Igor. As popular as the opera was, its monarchist libretto...
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  • Malyuta Skuratov, Ivan's right-hand man and an oprichnik Amvrosy Buchma as Alexei Basmanov [ru], an oprichnik Mikhail Kuznetsov as Fyodor Basmanov, Alexei...
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    named Rothbart. By day they are turned into swans and only at night, by the side of the enchanted lake – created from the tears of Odette's mother – do...
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    Appleford, David (19 December 2008). "The KEZ Christmas Countdown: Day 19 – The Nutcracker". Kfyi.com. Archived from the original on 12 January 2012. Retrieved...
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    Will the founder of the PMC Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, become the main Russian oprichnik or will he be responsible for political control over the front-line...
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  • 11 was the first of his three completed string quartets that were published during his lifetime. An earlier attempt had been abandoned after the first...
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  • sketches on 20 January 1882, and completed the scoring by 25 January. On that day he wrote to von Meck again: "The Trio is finished ... now I can say with...
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    disapproved of the opera as pandering to the public. Nevertheless, The Oprichnik continues to be performed from time to time in Russia. The last of the early...
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    His Young Oprichnik and the Stouthearted Merchant Kalashnikov; and Leo Tolstoy's How the Devil Stole the Peasants Hunk of Bread and The Candle. In 1909...
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    Antonina Miliukova (category 19th-century people from the Russian Empire)
    to the railway station on the last day of their union. "One day, he told me he needed to go away on business for three days. I accompanied him to the mail...
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    Voina (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    restaurant Oprichnik, using an acetylene torch and metal sheets. A message was left at the scene: "For the security of our citizens, the doors of the elite...
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