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    Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (Russian: Яков Петрович Полонский; 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1819 – 30 October [O.S. 18 October] 1898) was a leading Pushkinist...
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  • explorer Yakov Peters (1886–1938), Soviet official Yakov Polonsky (1819–1898), Russian poet Yakov Popok (1892–1938), Soviet official Yakov Protazanov...
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  • Vyacheslav Polonsky (1886–1932), Russian critic, journalist and historian. Yakov Polonsky (1819–1898), Russian Pushkinist poet Yevgeny Polonsky (died 1919)...
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    small room on the upper floor, often visited by two other friends, Yakov Polonsky and Sergey Solovyov. Apollon Grigoriev's ideas concerning poetry writing...
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    version under the title Vakula the Smith (with Russian libretto by Yakov Polonsky) and revised it in 1885 as Cherevichki (The Tsarina's Slippers). In...
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    8 scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto was written by Yakov Polonsky and is based on Nikolai Gogol's 1832 story "Christmas Eve" (Russian:...
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  • firing squad. Makhno even accused Polonsky of treason, for having allegedly handed passwords to the units of Yakov Slashchov. On 5 December 1919, the...
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    working on the painting to see the work. These included Ivan Turgenev, Yakov Polonsky, Ivan Kramskoi, and Dmitri Mendeleev. When the painting was put on exhibition...
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    Himself, and the unfinished Night before the Trial. In a letter to Yakov Polonsky on February 22, 1888 Chekhov wrote: Just to while away the time, I wrote...
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    Petersburg and met many famous people, including Countess Sophia Tolstaya, Yakov Polonsky, Sergei Witte, Alexey Suvorin, Anton Rubinstein and Ilya Repin. Dostoevsky's...
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