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Jabotinsky, Vladimir

(Encyclopedia)Jabotinsky, Vladimir yăbˌətĭnˈskē [key], 1880–1940, Jewish Zionist leader, b. Russia. A fiery orator and an accomplished writer in several languages, he was a militant Zionist and a persistent...

Voronin, Vladimir

(Encyclopedia)Voronin, Vladimir vlädēˈmēr vōrōnˈyĭn [key], 1941–, Moldovan political leader. Voronin rose through the ranks of the Communist party in what was then the USSR's Moldavian SSR to become the r...

Pachmann, Vladimir de

(Encyclopedia)Pachmann, Vladimir de vlədyēˈmĭr də päkhˈmän [key], 1848–1933, Russian pianist, studied with his father, a violinist, and at the Vienna Conservatory. He devoted himself almost exclusively to...

Korolenko, Vladimir Galaktionovich

(Encyclopedia)Korolenko, Vladimir Galaktionovich vlədyēˈmĭr gələktyôˈnəvĭch kərəlyĕnˈkə [key], 1853–1921, Russian short-story writer and publicist. A member of a Populist circle, he was arrested in...

Kirshon, Vladimir Mikhailovich

(Encyclopedia)Kirshon, Vladimir Mikhailovich vlədyēˈmĭr mēkhīˈləvĭch kērshônˈ [key], 1902–38, Russian dramatist. He began his career with Red Dust (1927, tr. 1930), a play showing the degeneration of ...

Nabokov, Vladimir

(Encyclopedia)Nabokov, Vladimir vlädēˈmĭr näbôˈkŏf [key], 1899–1977, Russian-American author, b. St. Petersburg, Russia. He emigrated to England after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and graduated from Cam...

Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir

(Encyclopedia)Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir vlədyēˈmĭr nāmērōˈvĭch-dänˈchĕngkō [key], 1859–1943, Russian stage director, cofounder and director of the Moscow Art Theater. Prior to his historical mee...

Soloviev, Vladimir Sergeyevich

(Encyclopedia)Soloviev, Vladimir Sergeyevich vlədyēˈmĭr sĭrgāˈəvĭch sələvyôfˈ [key], 1853–1900, Russian religious philosopher and poet; son of Sergei Mikhailovich Soloviev. Soloviev believed in the i...

Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma

(Encyclopedia)Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma zwôˈrĭkĭn [key], 1889–1982, American physicist, b. Russia, educated in Russia, at the Collège de France, and at the Univ. of Pittsburgh (Ph.D., 1926). He became an Amer...

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