SMYSLOV, VASILY VASILYEVICH

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born March 24, 1921, Moscow, Russia Russian chess master who won the world championship from Mikhail Botvinnik in 1957 and lost it to Botvinnik in a return match in 1958. Smyslov was noted for his patient positional style and his precise endgame technique.

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VASILYEVICH — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Chicherin Georgy Vasilyevich Frunze Mikhail Vasilyevich Gogol Nikolay Vasilyevich Golitsyn Vasily Vasilyevich Prince Ivan …
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VASILY — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Golitsyn Vasily Vasilyevich Prince Kandinsky Vasily Vasilievich Tikhomirov Vasily Dmitrievich Vasily II Vasily the …
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VASILYEVICH — Chicherin Georgy Vasilyevich Frunze Mikhail Vasilyevich Gogol Nikolay Vasilyevich Golitsyn Vasily Vasilyevich Prince Ivan Vasilyevich Kolchak Aleksandr Vasilyevich Lomonosov Mikhail …
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VASILY — Chuikov Vasily Ivanovich Golitsyn Vasily Vasilyevich Prince Kandinsky Vasily Vasilievich Tikhomirov Vasily Dmitrievich Vasily II Vasily the Blind Vasily Varilyevich …
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VASILY — Russian Vasily Dmitriyevich born 1371 died February 1425, Moscow Grand prince of Moscow (13891425). After helping the Tatar khan Tokhtamysh …
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VASILY — v. Russian Vasily Varilyevich known as Vasily the Blind born 1415 died March 27, 1462, Moscow Grand Prince of Moscow …
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VASILY — Василий
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VERESHCHAGIN — biographical name Vasily Vasilyevich 1842-1904 Russian painter
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IVAN IV VASILYEVICH — biographical name 1530-1584 the Terrible ruler of Russia (1533-84)
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VASILY II — Russian Vasily Varilyevich known as Vasily the Blind born 1415 died March 27, 1462, Moscow Grand Prince of Moscow (1425–62). …
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VASILY I — Russian Vasily Dmitriyevich born 1371 died February 1425, Moscow Grand prince of Moscow (1389–1425). After helping the Tatar khan Tokhtamysh …
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TIKHOMIROV, VASILY (DMITRIEVICH) — born March 30, 1876, Moscow, Russia died June 20, 1956, Moscow Russian ballet dancer and teacher. After training at the …
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SUVOROV, ALEKSANDR (VASILYEVICH), COUNT — born Nov. 24, 1729, Moscow, Russia died May 18, 1800, St. Petersburg Russian army commander. Joining the army at age …
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SPASSKY, BORIS (VASILYEVICH) — born Jan. 30, 1937, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. Russian chess master. Spassky attained the rank of international grand master in chess …
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NESSELRODE, KARL (ROBERT VASILYEVICH), COUNT — born Dec. 13, 1780, Lisbon, Port. died March 23, 1862, St. Petersburg, Russia Russian statesman. After serving in the Russian …
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LUNACHARSKY, ANATOLY (VASILYEVICH) — born Nov. 23, 1875, Poltava, Ukraine, Russian Empire died Dec. 26, 1933, Menton, France Russian politician and writer. Deported in …
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LOMONOSOV, MIKHAIL VASILYEVICH — born Nov. 19, 1711, near Kholmogory, Russia died April 15, 1765, St. Petersburg Russian scientist, poet, and grammarian, considered the …
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KOLCHAK, ALEKSANDR (VASILYEVICH) — born Nov. 16, 1874, St. Petersburg, Russia died Feb. 7, 1920, Irkutsk, Siberia, Soviet Russia Russian naval officer and political …
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GOLITSYN, VASILY (VASILYEVICH), PRINCE — born 1643, Russia died May 2, 1714, Kholmogory, Russia Russian statesman and chief adviser to Sophia Alekseyevna. After commanding in …
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GOGOL, NIKOLAY (VASILYEVICH) — born March 19, 1809, Sorochintsy, near Poltava, Ukraine, Russian Empire died Feb. 21, 1852, Moscow, Russia Russian writer. Gogol tried …
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VASILY III — born 1479 died Dec. 3, 1533, Moscow in full Vasily Ivanovich grand prince of Moscow from 1505 to 1533. Succeeding …
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VASILY II — born 1415 died March 27, 1462, Moscow in full Vasily Vasilyevich, byname Vasily the Blind, Russian Vasily Tyomny grand prince …
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VASILY I — in full Vasily Dmitriyevich born 1371 died February 1425, Moscow grand prince of Moscow from 1389 to 1425. While still …
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VASILY (IV) SHUYSKY — original name Vasily Ivanovich, Knyaz (Prince) Shuysky, or Shuisky born 1552 died Sept. 12, 1612, Gostynin, near Warsaw boyar who …
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NESSELRODE, KARL VASILYEVICH, COUNT — ( (Graf), ) born Dec. 13 [Dec. 2, Old Style], 1780, Lisbon, Port. died March 23 [March 11], 1862, St. …
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DOLGORUKY, VASILY VLADIMIROVICH, KNYAZ — (Prince) born January 1667, Russia died Feb. 11 [Feb. 22, New Style], 1746, St. Petersburg military officer who played a …
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BARTOLD, VASILY VLADIMIROVICH — born Nov. 15, [Nov. 3, Old Style] 1869, St. Petersburg, Russia died Aug. 19, 1930, Leningrad [St. Petersburg] also called …
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ALEKSEYEV, VASILY IVANOVICH — born Jan. 7, 1942, Pokrovo-Shishkino, Russia, U.S.S.R. Vasily Alekseyev executing a gold-medal-winning performance in the super-heavyweight weightlifting Soviet super-heavyweight weightlifter …
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KANDINSKY, VASILY — Kandinsky, Vasily BrE AmE (1866–1944) a Russian painter of ↑ abstract art
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TIKHOMIROV, VASILY — born March 30, 1876, Moscow, Russia died June 20, 1956, Moscow Russian ballet dancer and teacher. After training at the …
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KANDINSKY, VASILY
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GOLITSYN, VASILY , PRINCE — born 1643, Russia died May 2, 1714, Kholmogory, Russia Russian statesman and chief adviser to Sophia Alekseyevna. After commanding in …
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CHUIKOV, VASILY — born Feb. 12, 1900, Serebryannye Prudy, near Moscow, Russian Empire died March 18, 1982, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R. Soviet general. He …
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VASILY SMYSLOV — Смыслов, Василий Васильевич
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SUVOROV — biographical name Aleksandr Vasilyevich 1729-1800 Russian field marshal
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RACHMANINOFF — biographical name Sergey Vasilyevich 1873-1943 Russian composer, pianist, & conductor
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KOLTSOV — biographical name Aleksey Vasilyevich 1808-1842 Russian poet
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KOLCHAK — biographical name Aleksandr Vasilyevich 1873-1920 Russian admiral & counterrevolutionary
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GOGOL — biographical name Nikolay Vasilyevich 1809-1852 Russian writer, ~ian adjective
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TROUBLES, TIME OF — (1606–13) Period of political crisis in Russia. After the death of Fyodor I and the end of the Rurik dynasty …
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RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR — (1918–20) Conflict between the newly formed Bolshevik government and its Red Army against the anti-Bolshevik forces in Russia. The unfavourable …
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ROBERT — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Aldrich Robert Altman Robert B. Ashe Arthur Robert Jr. Baden Powell of Gilwell Robert …
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PRINCE — I European title of rank, usually denoting a person exercising complete or almost complete sovereignty or a member of a …
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NIKOLAY — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Nikolay Nikolayevich Bukharin Nikolay Ivanovich Bulganin Nikolay Aleksandrovich Chernyshevsky Nikolay Gavrilovich Danilevsky Nikolay Yakovlevich …
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MIKHAIL — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov Bakhtin Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakunin Mikhail Aleksandrovich Barclay de Tolly Mikhail Bogdanovich …
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KARL — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Karl Marx Stadt Abraham Karl Baedeker Karl Baer Karl Ernst knight von Barth Karl …
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IVAN IV — Russian Ivan Vasilyevich known as Ivan the Terrible born Aug. 25, 1530, Kolomenskoye, near Moscow died March 18, 1584, Moscow …
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IVAN — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Bunin Ivan Alekseyevich Ivan Asen II Ivan III Ivan the Great Ivan IV Ivan …
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COUNT — I or earl European title of nobility, ranking in modern times directly below a marquess or (in countries without marquesses) …
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ALEKSANDR — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandr Nikolayevich Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Borodin Aleksandr Porfiryevich Glazunov Aleksandr …
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TVER — formerly (193190) Kalinin, city and administrative centre of Tver oblast (province), western Russia. The city lies at the confluence of …
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TIKHON, SAINT — born Dec. 19 [Dec. 31, New Style], 1865, Toropets, near Pskov, Russia died April 7, 1925, Moscow; canonized Oct. 9, …
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SAINT BASIL THE BLESSED — Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed in Moscow, 155460. also called Pokrovsky Cathedral, Russian Svyatoy Vasily Blazhenny, or Pokrovsky Sobor, …
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PEREDVIZHNIKI — (Russian: The Wanderers), group of Russian painters who in the second half of the 19th century rejected the restrictive and …
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MOSCOW, GRAND PRINCIPALITY OF — also called Muscovy, Russian Moskovskoye Velikoye Knazhestvo, medieval principality that, under the leadership of a branch of the Rurik dynasty, …
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ISIDORE OF KIEV — born c. 1385, , southern Greece died April 27, 1463, Rome Greek Orthodox patriarch of Russia, Roman cardinal, Humanist, and …
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DOLGORUKY FAMILY — Dolgoruky also spelled Dolgorukov, a Russian princely family whose origins are believed by some to go back to Yury Dolgoruky …
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CHESS COMPOSITION — Chess composition Chess compositions are created positions in which one side, usually White, moves first and is required to perform …
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BOTVINNIK, MIKHAIL MOISEYEVICH — born Aug. 17 [Aug. 4, Old Style], 1911, St. Petersburg, Russia died May 5, 1995, Moscow Soviet chess master who …
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ALEXANDER NEVSKY, SAINT — born c. 1220, , Vladimir, Grand Principality of Vladimir died Nov. 14, 1263, Gorodets; canonized in Russian Church 1547; feast …
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PROP — I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB up ▪ There are no curtains to soften its edges and the pelmet …
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BANDAGE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES living bandage sterile equipment/water/bandages etc ▪ Rinse the eye with sterile water. COLLOCATIONS FROM …
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