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Fyodor

Proper noun

Meaning

Fyodor (plural Fyodors)

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Фёдор (Fjódor).

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

A mob killed the Christian Fyodor and his son Ioann (later, after the overall christening of Kievan Rus, people came to regard these two as the first Christian martyrs in Rus', and the Orthodox Church set a day to commemorate them, July 25). Source: Internet

Fyodor Dostoevsky saw the behavior of Russia's useless liberal class, which he satirized and excoriated at the end of the 19th century, as presaging a period of blood and terror. Source: Internet

Emerson (1988: p. 236) Boris Godunov did not return to the stage of the Mariinsky Theatre until 9 November 1904, when the Rimsky-Korsakov edition was presented under conductor Feliks Blumenfeld with bass Fyodor Shalyapin in the title role. Source: Internet

Important literary precursors of modernism were: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–81), who wrote the novels Crime and Punishment (1866) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880); David Denby, New Yorker, 11 June 2012 "Can Dostoevsky Still Kick You in the Gut?" Source: Internet

Boyars who have gone over to the Pretender murder Fyodor II and his mother. Source: Internet

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), Vernon Lee (1856-1935), "Another major influence for Lee is unmistakably E.T.A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann.. Source: Internet

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