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Russian language

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
also called Great Russian, member of the East Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages ). The principal language of administration in the Soviet Union, Russian is spoken by about 170 million people as a first language. It is a second language for additional 100 million in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (the former Soviet Union) and of Eastern Europe. Closely related to Russian are the other East Slavic tongues, Ukrainian (also called Little Russian or Ruthenian) and Belarusian (or White Russian). The former is spoken by about 45 million people, mainly in Ukraine and Russia. The latter, which also uses a form of the Cyrillic alphabet, is the tongue of about 8 million persons, most of whom live in Belarus. Because of its large number of speakers and its leading position in the Soviet Union, Russian is one of the chief languages of the world; at the same time, a number of non-Russian former Soviet…
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Full text Article Russian language

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
also called Great Russian, member of the East Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages ). The principal language of administration in the Soviet Union, Russian is spoken by about 170 million people as a first language. It is a second…
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Full text Article Russian language

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Russian language
East Slavic language spoken by about 170 million people in Russia, former republics of the Soviet Union, and émigré communities. For many non-Russian ethnic groups both within and outside contemporary Russia, it is a common second language and lingua franca . Since the Middle Ages, Russian has…
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Full text Article Russian

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Member of the majority ethnic group living in Russia. Russians are also often the largest minority in neighbouring republics. The Russian language is a member of the East Slavonic branch of the Indo-European language family and was the official language of the USSR. It has 130–150 million speakers…
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Full text Article Jewish Daily Forward

From Encyclopedia of World Religions: Encyclopedia of Judaism
The Jewish Daily Forward was an American Jewish newspaper founded in 1897 as a Yiddish daily. The paper was a strong voice in New York's immigrant community, supporting the trade unions and moderate, democratic socialism. Abraham Cahan, its dynamic founding editor, is credited with its many years of…
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Full text Article Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilyevich

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born Nov. 19, 1711, near Kholmogory, Russia—died April 15, 1765, St. Petersburg) Russian scientist, poet, and grammarian, considered the first great Russian linguistic reformer. Educated in Russia and Germany, he established what became the standards for Russian verse in the Letter Concerning the…
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Full text Article Maximus the Greek

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born 1480, Árta, Greece—died 1556, near Moscow, Russia; feast day January 21) Greek scholar and linguist. Educated in Paris, Venice, and Florence, he became part of a circle of humanist scholars and was influenced by the Dominican reformer Girolamo Savonarola . He became a Greek Orthodox monk and…
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Full text Article Alexander III

From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
1845-94 Tsar of Russia Born in St Petersburg, he was the younger son and successor of Alexander II (1881). In 1866 he married Princess Marie Dagmar (1847-1928), daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and sister of Queen Alexandra of Great Britain. A massively impressive figure, with huge…
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Full text Article Harrison, Jane (Ellen)

From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
English classical scholar. Born in Yorkshire, she was educated at home, in Cheltenham, and at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she became a Fellow. She was Vice-President of the Hellenic Society from 1889 to 1896 and eventually became Director of the British School of Archaeology in Rome. She used…
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➤ ASPECT , AUFHEBEN , BOGOČELOVEČESTVO , GOOD/EVIL , GREEK , MIR , POSTUPOK , PRAVDA , SVOBODA Diglossic opposition characterizes philosophical discourse in Russian. Diglossia is the coexistence in a single society of two languages that have different values, as opposed to bilingualism, in which two…
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Full text Article Boleslavsky, Richard Valentinovich (1889–1937)

From The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance
Actor, teacher, and director. Born Boleslaw Ryszard Srzednicki in Poland, Boleslavsky was the vital link between *Stanislavsky and the United States. He moved with his family to Odessa, joined a professional Russian-language troupe in 1904, and was accepted by the *Moscow Art Theatre in 1908. …
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