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Fersen, Count Hans Axel

(Encyclopedia)Fersen, Count Hans Axel, 1755–1810, Swedish soldier and diplomat; son of Count Fredrik Axel Fersen. He entered (1779) the French service, was aide-de-camp of comte de Rochambeau in the American Revo...

Lützen

(Encyclopedia)Lützen lütˈsən [key], town, Saxony, S central Germany. There, in the Thirty Years War, Gustavus II of Sweden defeated (1632) General Albrecht Wallenstein, but was killed in the battle; Marshal Got...

Kalinin, Mikhail Ivanovich

(Encyclopedia)Kalinin, Mikhail Ivanovich mēkhəyēlˈ ēväˈnəvĭch kəlyēˈnyĭn [key], 1875–1946, Russian revolutionary. Of peasant origin, he was active in revolutionary affairs from his youth. He became t...

Annensky, Innokenty Feodorovich

(Encyclopedia)Annensky, Innokenty Feodorovich ēnəkĕnˈtyē fyôˈdərəvĭch ənyĕnˈskē [key], 1856–1909, Russian poet. A classical scholar, he translated Euripides before he began to publish verse in 1904....

Elman, Mischa

(Encyclopedia)Elman, Mischa mĭshˈə ĕlˈmən [key], 1891–1967, Russian-American violinist, b. Kiev. He studied in St. Petersburg with Leopold Auer, and first gained prominence in Berlin at the age of 13. After...

Sikhote-Alin

(Encyclopedia)Sikhote-Alin sēkhətĕ-əlyēnˈyə [key], mountain range, c.625 mi (990 km) long, S Russian Far East. It is composed of a series of ridges lying between the Sea of Japan and the Ussuri and Amur rive...

Salekhard

(Encyclopedia)Salekhard səlyĭkhärtˈ [key], city (1989 pop. 32,300), capital of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area, NW Siberian Russia, on the lower Ob River. It is a river port and has fish canneries, lumber mills, ...

Ukiah

(Encyclopedia)Ukiah yo͞okīˈə [key], city (1990 pop. 14,599), seat of Mendocino co., W Calif., on the Russian River; inc. 1876. Fruit is packed and shipped from Ukiah, and wine is made. Livestock is also raised,...

Staraya Russa

(Encyclopedia)Staraya Russa stäˈrīə ro͞oˈsə [key] [Rus.,=Old Russia], city (1989 pop. 41,500), W European Russia, near Lake Ilmen. It is a health resort with salt springs and mud baths. It is one of the olde...

Aleut

(Encyclopedia)Aleut əlo͞otˈ, ălˈēo͞otˌ [key], native inhabitant of the Aleutian Islands and W Alaska. Like the Eskimo, the Aleuts are racially similar to Siberian peoples. Their language is a member of the ...