Top Celebrity Names Starting With Grigory

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   Grigory Potemkin

   1739 - 1791 Male
   

   Statesman, Military Commander and Lover of Catherine Ii

   
   

   Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tavricheski was a Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman and favorite of Catherine the Great. He died during negotiations over the Treaty of Jassy, which ended a war with the Ottoman Empire that he had overseen. Potemkin was born into a family of middle-income noble landowners. He first attracted Catherine's favor for helping in her 1762 coup, then distinguished himself as a military commander in the Russo-Turkish War.… read more

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   Grigory Yavlinsky

   Age 60 Male
   

   Politician

   
   

   Grigory Alexeyevich Yavlinsky is a Russian economist and politician of Ukrainian origin. He is best known as the author of the 500 Days Programme, a plan for the transition of the USSR to a free-market economy, and for his leadership of the liberal Yabloko party. He ran twice for Russia's presidency – in 1996, against Boris Yeltsin, finishing fourth with 7.3% of the vote; and in 2000, against Vladimir Putin, finishing third with 5.8%.… read more

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   Grigory Sarkisovich Grigoryants

   1919 - 1982 Male
   

   Surgeon, Pioneer, Doctor

   
   

   Grigory Sarkisovich Grigoryants was a Soviet surgeon, an innovator and State recognized Doctor Emeritus of the Uzbek SSR He is best known for revolutionizing and developing medical surgical services in the Namangan Region.… read more

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   Grigory Zinoviev

   1883 - 1936 Male
   

   Soviet Communist

   
   

   Grigory Yevseevich Zinoviev, born Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky Apfelbaum, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician. Zinoviev is best remembered as the longtime head of the Communist International and as the chief defendant in a 1936 show trial, the Trial of the Sixteen that marked the start of the so-called Great Terror in the USSR and resulted in his execution the day after his conviction.… read more

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   Grigory Butakov

   1820 - 1882 Male
   

   Admiral of the Russian Empire Navy

   
   

   Grigory Ivanovich Butakov was a Russian admiral who fought in the Crimean War. Butakov is widely credited as being the father of steam-powered ship tactics during the 19th century. He was involved in the first battles of the Crimean War, which includes the first sea battles involving steam-powered ships. Butakov wrote of his experiences in his book: New Principles of Steamboat Tactics (1863), which won him the Demidov Prize.… read more

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   Grigory Leps

   Age 49 Male
   

   Singer, Songwriter, Musician

   
   

   Grigory Victorovich Lepsveridze, commonly known as Grigory Leps, is a Russian singer-songwriter created a unique style mixing between rock music, pop music, and in his early career shanson. Known for his low strength voice with long-range vocals.… read more

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   Grigory Sokolov

   Age 62 Male
   

   Pianist, Musician

   
   

   Grigory Lipmanovich Sokolov is a concert pianist, often considered one of the greatest pianists alive. He was born April 18, 1950 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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   Grigory Frid

   Age 96 Male
   

   Composer, Artist and Writer

   
   

   Grigory Samuilovich Frid also Grigori Fried is a Russian composer of music written in many different genres, including chamber opera. Born in Petrograd, now St. Petersburg, Frid studied in the Moscow Conservatory with Heinrich Litinsky and Vissarion Shebalin. He was a soldier in the Second World War. The style of his early music may be explained as conventional, written in the tradition of so-called "Socialist realism".… read more