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Russian transcription of French vowels French Russian transcription Examples Comments phoneme(s) grapheme(s) [a], [ɑ] a, â а: Charles – Шарль [e], [ɛ] é, è, ê, ai, e е: René – Рене э: Edmond – Эдмон Citroën – Ситроэн at the beginning of a word, following a vowel, or rarely for [ɛ] at the end of a word ...
August von Gneisenau (1760–1831), Prussian field marshal; Bruno Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1811–1889), Prussian general; One of the German naval ships named after August von Gneisenau: SMS Gneisenau (1879), iron-hulled three-masted frigate, wrecked in 1900; SMS Gneisenau, World War I armoured cruiser, launched in 1906 and sunk in 1914
Gneisenau (German pronunciation: [ˈɡnaɪ̯zənaʊ̯]) was a German capital ship, alternatively described as a battleship and battlecruiser, in Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. She was the second vessel of her class , which included her sister ship, Scharnhorst .
In 1816 Gneisenau was appointed to command the VIII Prussian Corps, but soon retired from the service, both because of ill health and for political reasons. [5]For two years Gneisenau lived in retirement at his estate, Erdmannsdorf in Silesia, but in 1818 he became governor of Berlin, as successor to Kalckreuth, and member of the Staatsrath (Council of State).
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, -off was a common transliteration of -ov for Russian family names in foreign languages such as French and German (like for the Smirnoff and the Davidoff brands). Surnames of Ukrainian and Belarusian origin use the suffixes -ко (-ko), -ук (-uk), and -ич (-ych).
They may be simplified, more familiar-looking, or easier to pronounce for English-speakers, e.g., Gorbachyov→Gorbachev, Iuliya→Yulia, Khrushchyov→Khruschev, Yuriy→Yuri. They may be names or loanwords from a third language, e.g., Petergof→Peterhof. Diacritics may be used in the romanization of Cyrillic languages:
Some prominent Russian-American women with Russian girl names include "Mad Men" actress Larisa Oleynik, writer and philosopher Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum), "RuPaul’s Drag Race ...
What's more, many of those books do not even mention the Nazi name (NB the traditional German name of the town is Gdingen, Gotenhafen was used only by the Nazi administration). Robert Jackson's 101 Great Warships (2010), German Capital Ships and Raiders in World War II by Eric Grove (2002), War at Sea by Nathan Miller (1995) and so on.