Alexander Samoylov (Fig. 1) was born on 27 March, 1867, in Odessa. After completing gymnasium school, he began at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics in Novorossiisk University, but before graduating changed his mind in favor of medicine. He enrolled in the medical faculty at the University of Derpt (now Tartu) and graduated in 1892 as a Doctor of Medicine. In the same year, in St. Petersbur...

The authors consider the period of stay Count Sava Lukich Vladislavich-Raguzinsky, from 1725 until 1728, in Eastern Siberia during and after his diplomatic mission to Qing Empire. His role expansion strengthening Russia’s influence on eastern borders is established. Particular attention paid issue streamlining relations between local administration indigenous population, restoration bilateral t...

In languages such as French, it is possible to derive from common or proper nouns unergative verbs that intuitively describe ways of behaving, for example, diplomatiser ‘behave like a diplomat’. This paper focuses on the semantics of these verbs, in particular, on the semantic contribution of the incorporated noun, by looking at the entailment patterns between the verb (e.g. diplomatiser ‘behav...

The author of the article aims to explain world literature through such concepts as the concept of Hamletism and the character of Hamlet in relation to selected works of Russian Romanticism, in particular, the beginning of realism and symbolism as an outstanding current of the Silver Age. Subject of a careful comparative analysis is the works of Mikhail Lermontov ("Demon" and "Ma...

3 Alexander Y. Merkel#, Julie A. Huber , Nikolay A. Chernyh, 4 Elizaveta A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Alexander V. Lebedinsky 5 6 Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt 60-Letiya 7 Oktyabrya 7/2, 117312 Moscow, Russia, and Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological 8 Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA 9 10 Running title: Thermophilic ANMEs in d...

No evidence, literary or pictorial, exists from antiquity to indicate that Alexander the Great was left-handed. Instead classical representations of Alexander show him as right-handed.

The physical and biological aspects of polonium-210, one of the most hazardous radioisotopes, are summarized. Although this radioisotope is naturally occurring and rare, it received quite a bit of attention after it was used in the 2006 assassination of former Russian Intelligence member Alexander Litvinenko in London. Recent reports on the suspected murder of Yasser Arafat with polonium-210 ar...

Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (Figure 1) was born on November 12, 1833, in the capital of the Imperial Russia St. Petersburg, as a rejected and illegitimate son of 62-year-old Georgian prince Luka Gedevanishvili (according to one historical source) or prince Luka Stepanovich Gedeonov (second historical source) and a 37 years younger Russian peasant Evdokia Konstantinovna Antonovna. The father ...

Introduction: Alexander disease is a heterogenous group of diseases with various manifestations based on age of disease onset. This rare leukodystrophy syndrome with mutations in GFAP Gene could present with developmental delay and seizure in infantile form to ataxia and bulbar palsy in adulthood. However psychiatric symptoms are not well-defined and usually evaluate after disease diagnosis not...