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31Aleksei Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin — Count Aleksei Petrovich Bestuzhev Ryumin (Алексей Петрович Бестужев Рюмин) (June 1, 1693 – April 21, 1768), Grand Chancellor of Russia, was one of the most influential and successful European diplomats of the 18th century. He was chiefly… …
32Nezami — Infobox Writer name = Nezami imagesize = 180px caption = 20th century Artistic rendition of Nezami pseudonym = birthdate = 1141 birthplace = Ganja deathdate = 1209 deathplace = occupation = Persian Poetry nationality = period = genre = Romantic… …
33Ğabdulla Tuqay — Infobox Writer name = Ğabdulla Tuqay عبدالله توقاي Габдулла Тукай imagesize = 250px caption = pseudonym = Şüräle birthdate = April 26, 1886 birthplace = Quşlawıç, Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire deathdate = April 15, 1913 deathplace = Kazan,… …
34George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith — George Keith Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith (7 January 1746 10 March 1823) was a British admiral active throughout the Napoleonic Wars.Fifth son of the 10th Lord Elphinstone, he was born in Elphinstone Tower, near Stirling, Scotland. Two of his… …
35Battle of Orsha — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Orsha caption=Battle of Orsha partof=the fourth Russian Lithuanian War (1512 1522) date=September 8, 1514 place=Orsha, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, present day Belarus result=Polish Lithuanian victory… …
36Martin Chemnitz — (November 9, 1522 – April 8, 1586) was an eminent second generation Lutheran theologian, reformer, churchman, and confessor. In the Lutheran tradition he is known as Alter Martinus, the Second Martin : Si Martinus non fuisset, Martinus vix… …
37Karion Istomin — ( ru. Карион Истомин) (Late 1640s, Kursk no earlier than 1718, Moscow) was a Russian poet, translator, and one of the first Muscovite enlighteners (student of Simeon Polotsky). Karion Istomin was a celibate priest and then a hegumen at the Chudov …
38Symeon of Polotsk — Simeon of Polotsk or Simeon Polotsky (Симеон Полоцкий) (born Samuil Gavrilovich Sitnianovich Petrovsky , Russian: Самуил Гаврилович Ситнянович Петровский), December 12, 1629, Polotsk August 25, 1680, Moscow) was an academically trained Baroque… …
39Frankish mythology — comprises the mythology of the Franks, from its roots in polytheistic Germanic paganism through the inclusion of Greco Roman components in the Early Middle Ages. This mythology flourished among the Franks until the conversion of the Merovingian… …
40Fernán Pérez de Guzmán — Fernan (or Fernando) Perez de Guzman (1376 1458) was a Spanish historian and poet. He belonged to a family distinguished both for its patrician standing and its literary connections, for his uncle was Pero López de Ayala, Grand Chancellor of… …
