Proper noun
Grigory
A Russian male given name from Russian
"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. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
Bukharin and Rykov sided with Stalin while Krupskaya and Soviet Commissar of Finance Grigory Sokolnikov aligned with Zinoviev and Kamenev. Source: Internet
In February 1784, Catherine the Great ordered Grigory Potemkin to build a fortress there and call it Sevastopol. Source: Internet
Potemkin Catherine II and Potemkin on the Millennium Monument in Novgorod Grigory Potemkin was involved in the coup d'état of 1762. Source: Internet
Grigory Petrovsky All results of its activities, VCheKa had either to transfer to the Investigatory Commission of Revtribunal or to dismiss a case. Source: Internet