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    Sophie as a member. It was then that she took the new name Catherine (Yekaterina or Ekaterina) and the (artificial) patronymic Алексеевна (Alekseyevna...
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    Yekaterina Gavrilovna Stravinsky (née Nosenko) (January 25, 1881 – March 2, 1939) was a Russian and French painter and amanuensis who was the cousin and...
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    Princess Yekaterina Romanovna Dashkova (born Countess Vorontsova; (Russian: Екатери́на Рома́новна Воронцо́ва; 28 March 1743 – 15 January 1810) was an influential...
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    she converted to Orthodoxy and took the new name Catherine Alexeyevna (Yekaterina Alexeyevna). She and Darya Menshikova accompanied Peter and Menshikov...
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  • Yekaterina Vasilyevna Budanova (Russian: Екатерина Васильевна Буданова), nicknamed Katya (Катя) (6 December 1916 – 19 July 1943), was a fighter pilot in...
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    Katyusha (song) (category Songs of World War II)
    "Katyusha" (Russian: Катюша [kɐˈtʲuʂə] – a diminutive form of Екатерина, Yekaterina — Katherine), also transliterated as "Katjuša", "Katioucha", or "Katiusza"...
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    Yekaterina Aleksandrovna Gamova (Russian: Екатерина Александровна Гамова; born 17 October 1980) is a retired Russian volleyball player. She was a member...
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    Dolgorukova (Russian: Екатери́на Миха́йловна Долгору́кова, romanized: Yekaterína Mikháyilovna Dolgorúkova; 14 November [O.S. 2 November] 1847 – 15 February...
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    served in front-line reconnaissance in the Soviet Marines during World War II. During the war she served as a marine medic, carried hundreds of men to safety...
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    Yekaterina Vasilevna Ryabova (Russian: Екатерина Васильевна Рябова; 14 July 1921 – 12 September 1974) was a Soviet World War II navigator awarded the...
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    family. It includes several pictures from Gordeeva's personal collection. Yekaterina Gordeeva and Sergey Grinkov at the Encyclopædia Britannica "Ekaterina...
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    Yekaterina Saltykov (1791-1863), was a Russian courtier. The daughter of Ekaterina Feodorovna Baryatinskaya-Dolgorukova, she served as lady in waiting...
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    Yekaterina Alexeyevna Sinyavina (1761–1784) was a Russian composer and pianist. In 1781, at the court of Catherine II she was the harpsichordist for what...
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  • Yekaterina Ivanovna Zelenko (Russian: Екатерина Ивановна Зеленко, Ukrainian: Катерина Іванівна Зеленко; 23 February [O.S. 10 February] 1916 – 12 September...
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    Yekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaya (née Verigo; born 25 January [O.S. 13 January] 1844 – 12 September 1934), better known as Catherine Breshkovsky...
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  • 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment (category Fighter aviation regiments of the Soviet Union in World War II)
    Union, flying ace and most successful female fighter pilot of World War II. Yekaterina Budanova – Hero of the Russian Federation, credited as flying ace Olga...
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    Sophie Yuri Vasiliev as English Ambassador Roman Macedonsky as Peter II Yekaterina Rednikova as Maria Karlovna Yuriy Nazarov as Yakov Petrovich Vladimir...
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    419 combat missions (125 air battles and 38 kills). Lydia Litvyak and Yekaterina Budanova were assigned to the unit before joining the 437th IAP in the...
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    However, relations between the couple and the Empress soured. Catherine II was dissatisfied with Razumovsky's hetmanship, and began to distrust not only...
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  • Katusha or Katyusha is a diminutive of the Russian name Ekaterina or Yekaterina, the Russian form of Katherine or Catherine. Katusha or Katyusha may refer...
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  • Lydia Litvyak (category Russian people of World War II)
    War: Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0-7006-1554-7. Polunina, Yekaterina (2004). Девчонки, подружки, летчицы...
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    King of Norway. His daughter Princess Yekaterina married Ruggero, Marchese Farace di Villaforesta. Yekaterina lived in Buenos Aires and later in Montevideo...
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  • Houses. Archived from the original on 12 February 2005. Sinelschikova, Yekaterina (2018). "Why did Russia pass up on two different chances to take Constantinople...
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    international youth music festival in Helsinki. His performance was noted by Yekaterina Furtseva, then Minister of Culture of the Soviet Union, who offered him...
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  • converted to Orthodoxy in 1703, and took the new name Catherine Alexeyevna (Yekaterina Alexeyevna). "Catherine I empress of Russia". Britannica. Encyclopædia...
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    of time with Alliluyeva. In 1950, Alliluyeva gave birth to a daughter, Yekaterina. The marriage was dissolved soon afterwards. In 1962, she married Ivan...
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    son illegitimate Semen Velikiy. Olga Zherebtsova — before coronation Yekaterina Nelidova — official favourite Anna Lopukhina — official favourite Madame...
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  • from the Soviet Army Vladimir Ilyin (disambiguation), several people Yekaterina Ilyina (born 1991), Russian handball player Yuriy (Yuri) Ilyin Yuriy Ilyin...
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  • Tsunami bomb (category Military history of New Zealand during World War II)
    Report". Novinite. 6 January 2005. Retrieved 20 July 2013. Sinelschikova, Yekaterina (31 July 2019). "The Soviets planned to wipe out the U.S. with a huge...
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    tradition". Anadolu Agency. Retrieved 17 November 2021. Sinelschikova, Yekaterina (8 August 2017). "The high life: How to get to Ostankino Tower and what...
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