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According to Irina Yazykova, the Reigning Icon, "remains one of the most revered both inside Russia and in Russian emigre circles. Copies of the Reigning Icon of the Mother of God can now be found all over the world." [1] Feasts day: 2 March. [2]
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov ForMemRS, [3] HFRSE (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Вави́лов, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ vɐˈvʲiləf] ⓘ; 25 November [O.S. 13 November] 1887 – 26 January 1943) was a Russian and Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist who identified the centers of origin of cultivated plants.
Inexhaustible Chalice (Russian: Неупиваемая чаша; also known in English as Inexhaustible Cup or Non-intoxicating Chalice) is a wonderworking icon of the Mother of God (Θεοτόκος or Богородица (Bogoroditsa)) which revealed itself in Serpukhov, Russia in 1878.
Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christianity, is known by many different titles (Blessed Mother, Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Our Lady, Holy Virgin, Madonna), epithets (Star of the Sea, Queen of Heaven, Cause of Our Joy), invocations (Panagia, Mother of Mercy, God-bearer Theotokos), and several names associated with places (Our Lady of Loreto, Our Lady of Fátima).
Our Lady of Vladimir, egg tempera on wood panel, 104 by 69 centimetres (41 in × 27 in), painted about 1131 in Constantinople The Virgin of Vladimir, also known as Vladimir Mother of God, Our Lady of Vladimir [1] (Russian: Владимирская икона Божией Матери [a]), is a 12th-century Byzantine icon depicting the Virgin and Child and an early example of the Eleusa ...
Nikolai Vavilov (Russian: Николай Вавилов) is a 1990 6-part biographical television film. Joint production of the USSR and East Germany. Joint production of the USSR and East Germany. Biopic devoted to the history of the life of Soviet biologist, academician Nikolai Vavilov .
Grigory Levitsky. Grigory Andreyevich Levitsky (19 November 1878 – 20 May 1942) was a Ukrainian and Soviet plant cytogeneticist. He worked along with Nikolai Vavilov who examined the role of mitochondria in plant heredity while also studying polyploidy and mutations.
Harry Harlan was a friend of the famous Russian plant breeding expert Nikolai Vavilov, and at the age of fifteen Jack Harlan met Vavilov when the latter stayed at the Harlan house during an international conference. This meeting inspired Jack to become a plant collector himself, and plans were made for him to travel to Russia after finishing ...