Grigory
Proper noun
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Grigory
A Russian male given name from Russian
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"Cossaks of Azov fighting a Turk ship" by Grigory Gagarin As early as Byzantine times, the Maniots (one of Greece's toughest populations) were known as pirates.
Little Russian Philokalia, p. 153. Mission in Alaska Grigory Shelikhov, the founder of the Kodiak Island settlement, invited the first Russian Orthodox missionaries to the New World.
Bukharin and Rykov sided with Stalin while Krupskaya and Soviet Commissar of Finance Grigory Sokolnikov aligned with Zinoviev and Kamenev.
In February 1784, Catherine the Great ordered Grigory Potemkin to build a fortress there and call it Sevastopol.
Potemkin Catherine II and Potemkin on the Millennium Monument in Novgorod Grigory Potemkin was involved in the coup d'état of 1762.
Grigory Petrovsky All results of its activities, VCheKa had either to transfer to the Investigatory Commission of Revtribunal or to dismiss a case.