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(Encyclopedia) Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich mədyĕstˈ pĕtrôˈvĭch mo͞osôrgˈskē [key], 1839–81, Russian composer. His name is also transliterated as Mussorgsky and Musorgsky. He was one of the first to pr...

(Encyclopedia) Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich: see Moussorgsky. ...

(Encyclopedia) Katayev, Yevgeny Petrovich: see Petrov, Yevgeny Petrovich. ...

(Encyclopedia) Petrov, Yevgeny Petrovich yĭvgāˈnyē pētrôˈvĭch pētrôfˈ [key], 1903–42, Russian writer and journalist; brother of the dramatist Valentin P. Katayev. His original name was Yevgeny Petrovich...

(Encyclopedia) Pogodin, Mikhail Petrovich mēkhəyēlˈ pētrôˈvĭch pəgôˈdyĭn [key], 1800–1875, Russian historian and publisher. His conservative journal The Muscovite (1841–56) defended the policies of N...

(Encyclopedia) Sumarokov, Aleksandr Petrovich əlyĭksänˈdər pētrôˈvĭch so͞omərôˈkəf [key], 1718–77, Russian dramatist and poet. Sumarokov wrote fables, satires, lyrics, and comic odes in the classical...

(Encyclopedia) Artzybashev, Mikhail Petrovich mēkhəyēlˈ pētrôˈvĭch ärtsĭbäˈshĕf [key], 1878–1927, Russian novelist, playwright, and essayist. Artzybashev's early works were short stories in the manner...

(Encyclopedia) Rozhdestvenski, Zinovi Petrovich zēnôˈvē pētrôˈvĭch rəzhdyĭstvyĕnˈskē [key], 1848–1909, Russian admiral. Commander of the Baltic fleet at the time of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5,...

(Encyclopedia) Katayev, Valentin Petrovich vəlyĭntyēnˈ pētrôˈvĭch kətīˈəf [key], 1897–1986, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. Katayev's novels portray almost the entire range of Sov...

(Encyclopedia) Wrangell, Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von: see Wrangel, Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von. ...