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Definition of ıvan in English English dictionary
- Ivan
- A transliteration of the Russian male given name Иван
- Ivan
- a Russian
- Ivan
- A male given name borrowed from the equivalent of John in several Slavic languages
- Ivan
- {i} male first name
- Ivan
- known as Ivan the Great born Jan. 22, 1440, Moscow died Oct. 27, 1505, Moscow Grand prince of Moscow (1462-1505). Determined to enlarge the territory he inherited from his father, Ivan led successful military campaigns against the Tatars in the south (1458) and east (1467-69). He subdued Novgorod (1478) and gained control of most of the remainder of Great Russia by 1485. He also renounced Moscow's subjection to the khan of the Golden Horde (1480) and won a final victory over the khan's sons in 1502. Stripping the boyars of much of their authority, he laid the administrative foundations of a centralized Russian state. Ivan IV the Terrible was his grandson. Russian Ivan Vasilyevich known as Ivan the Terrible born Aug. 25, 1530, Kolomenskoye, near Moscow died March 18, 1584, Moscow Grand prince of Moscow (1533-84) and first tsar of Russia (1547-84). Crowned tsar in 1547 after a long regency (1533-46), he embarked on wide-ranging reforms, including a centralized administration, church councils that systematized the church's affairs, and the first national assembly (1549). He also instituted reforms to limit the powers of the boyars. After conquering Kazan (1552) and Astrakhan (1556), he engaged in an unsuccessful war to control Livonia, fighting against Sweden and Poland (1558-83). After the defeat and the suspected treason of several Russian boyars, Ivan formed an oprichnina, a territory separate from the rest of the state and under his personal control. With a large bodyguard, he withdrew into his own entourage and left Russia's management to others. At the same time, he instituted a reign of terror, executing thousands of boyars and ravaging the city of Novgorod. During the 1570s he married five wives in nine years, and, in a fit of rage, he murdered his son Ivan, his only viable heir, in 1581. Russian Ivan Antonovich born Aug. 23, 1740, St. Petersburg, Russia died July 16, 1764, Shlisselburg Fortress, near St. Petersburg Infant emperor of Russia (1740-41). The grandnephew of Empress Anna, Ivan was proclaimed her heir and then emperor, with his mother as regent, when he was only eight weeks old. In 1741 they were deposed by Elizabeth, daughter of Peter I, and for the next 20 years he remained in solitary confinement in various prisons. In 1764, when an army officer tried to free Ivan to restore him to power and remove Catherine II, who had seized the throne in 1762, Ivan was assassinated by his jailers. Russian Ivan Alekseyevich born Sept. 6, 1666, Moscow, Russia died Feb. 8, 1696, Moscow Nominal tsar of Russia (1682-96). When his brother Tsar Fyodor III died, Ivan, a mentally deficient chronic invalid, was proclaimed coruler with his half brother Peter I, with Ivan's sister Sophia as regent. After Sophia's overthrow in 1689, Ivan was allowed to retain his official position, though he never participated in governmental affairs, devoting the bulk of his time to prayer, fasting, and pilgrimages. Albright Ivan Le Lorraine Bunin Ivan Alekseyevich Ivan Asen II Ivan III Ivan the Great Ivan IV Ivan the Terrible Ivan Vasilyevich Ivan VI Ivan Antonovich Ivan V Ivan Alekseyevich Konev Ivan Stepanovich Pavlov Ivan Petrovich Sikorsky Igor Ivan Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich
- Ivan
- borrowed from the Russian equivalent of John
- Ivan Albright
- born Feb. 20, 1897, North Harvey, Ill., U.S. died Nov. 18, 1983, Woodstock, Vt. U.S. painter. He was the son of a painter. Independently wealthy, he studied at various institutions, developing a meticulously detailed style and often spending several years of painstaking work on a single painting. With pinpoint exactness and hallucinatory hyperclarity, he repeatedly depicted decay, corruption, and the wreckage of age, often with great emotional intensity. Among his important works is That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (1931-41). He gained fame with his portrait (1943-44) of the title character in the film The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), depicting the final stage of Gray's dissolute life
- Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
- born Oct. 10, 1870, Voronezh, Russia died Nov. 8, 1953, Paris, France Russian poet and novelist. He worked as a journalist and clerk while writing and translating poetry, but he made his name as a short-story writer, with such masterpieces as the title story of The Gentleman from San Francisco (1916). His other works include the novel Mitya's Love (1925), the story collection Dark Avenues (1943), fictional autobiography, memoirs, and books on Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov. The first Russian awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1933), he is among the best stylists in the language
- Ivan Asen
- died 1241 Tsar of the Second Bulgarian empire (1218-41). He took the throne after overthrowing and blinding his cousin Boril. A good soldier and administrator, Ivan restored order, controlled the boyars, and acquired much of Albania, Serbia, Macedonia, and Epirus (1230). He forged alliances through the marriages of his daughters, but a treaty to make him regent of the Latin empire was repudiated by Latins fearful of Bulgaria's growing power, and he afterward separated the Bulgarian church from Rome
- Ivan Bunin
- born Oct. 10, 1870, Voronezh, Russia died Nov. 8, 1953, Paris, France Russian poet and novelist. He worked as a journalist and clerk while writing and translating poetry, but he made his name as a short-story writer, with such masterpieces as the title story of The Gentleman from San Francisco (1916). His other works include the novel Mitya's Love (1925), the story collection Dark Avenues (1943), fictional autobiography, memoirs, and books on Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov. The first Russian awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1933), he is among the best stylists in the language
- Ivan IV Vasilievich
- The first czar of Russia (1547-1584). He conducted unsuccessful wars against Sweden and Livonia and terrorized the Russian aristocracy
- Ivan Konev
- born Dec. 28, 1897, Lodeino, near Veliky Ustyug, Russia died May 21, 1973, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R. Soviet general in World War II. When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Konev led the first counterattack of the war. He defeated Heinz Guderian's advance on Moscow and halted large German forces in 1942 and 1943. In 1944 his army was the first to march onto German soil; with the forces of Georgy K. Zhukov, it captured Berlin. After the war he served as commander in chief of Soviet ground forces (1946-50) and later of Warsaw Pact forces (1955-60)
- Ivan Krylov
- {i} (1769-1844), Russian writer of fables
- Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
- born Feb. 20, 1897, North Harvey, Ill., U.S. died Nov. 18, 1983, Woodstock, Vt. U.S. painter. He was the son of a painter. Independently wealthy, he studied at various institutions, developing a meticulously detailed style and often spending several years of painstaking work on a single painting. With pinpoint exactness and hallucinatory hyperclarity, he repeatedly depicted decay, corruption, and the wreckage of age, often with great emotional intensity. Among his important works is That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (1931-41). He gained fame with his portrait (1943-44) of the title character in the film The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), depicting the final stage of Gray's dissolute life
- Ivan Lendl
- {i} (born 1960) Czech born U.S. tennis player, winner of 94 singles titles
- Ivan Pavlov
- {i} (1849-1936) Russian physiologist and the 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine (famous for his experiments on classical conditioning)
- Ivan Pavlov
- born Sept. 26, 1849, Ryazan, Russia died Feb. 27, 1936, Leningrad Russian physiologist. He is known chiefly for the concept of the conditioned reflex. In his classic experiment, he found that a hungry dog trained to associate the sound of a bell with food salivated at the sound even in the absence of food. He expanded on Charles Sherrington's explanation of the spinal reflex. He also tried to apply his laws to human psychoses and language function. His ability to reduce a complex situation to a simple experiment and his pioneering studies relating human behaviour to the nervous system laid the basis for the scientific analysis of behaviour. After the Russian Revolution, he became an outspoken opponent of the communist government. He won a 1904 Nobel Prize for his work on digestive secretions
- Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
- a Russian scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on the digestive system. He is famous especially for his work with dogs, which proved the existence of the conditioned reflex (=a physical reaction that you cannot control, caused by repeated training or experiences). Each time he fed his dogs he rang a bell before giving them their food. The dogs learned to connect the ringing of the bell with the arrival of the food, and they got excited and began to salivate when they heard the bell, even if there was no food. (1849-1936). born Sept. 26, 1849, Ryazan, Russia died Feb. 27, 1936, Leningrad Russian physiologist. He is known chiefly for the concept of the conditioned reflex. In his classic experiment, he found that a hungry dog trained to associate the sound of a bell with food salivated at the sound even in the absence of food. He expanded on Charles Sherrington's explanation of the spinal reflex. He also tried to apply his laws to human psychoses and language function. His ability to reduce a complex situation to a simple experiment and his pioneering studies relating human behaviour to the nervous system laid the basis for the scientific analysis of behaviour. After the Russian Revolution, he became an outspoken opponent of the communist government. He won a 1904 Nobel Prize for his work on digestive secretions
- Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
- born Nov. 9, 1818, Oryol, Russia died Sept. 3, 1883, Bougival, near Paris, France Russian novelist, poet, and playwright. His years at the University of Berlin convinced him of the West's superiority and the need for Russia to Westernize. He lived in Europe after 1862. He is known for realistic, affectionate portrayals of the Russian peasantry and for penetrating studies of the Russian intelligentsia who were attempting to move the country into a new age. His most famous early work is "The Diary of a Superfluous Man" (1850), which supplied the epithet "superfluous man" for the weak-willed intellectual protagonist common in 19th-century Russian literature. He gained fame with the short-story cycle A Sportman's Sketches (1852), which criticizes serfdom. His dramatic masterpiece, A Month in the Country (1855), and the novel Rudin (1856) followed. His interest in change and intergenerational differences is reflected in the controversial Fathers and Sons (1862), his greatest novel. Turgenev's work is distinguished from that of his contemporaries by its sophisticated lack of hyperbole, its balance, and its concern for artistic values. His greatest work was always topical, committed literature, having universal appeal in the elegance of the love story and the psychological acuity of the portraiture
- Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
- {i} Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian writer of novels and playwright
- Ivan Stepanovich Konev
- born Dec. 28, 1897, Lodeino, near Veliky Ustyug, Russia died May 21, 1973, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R. Soviet general in World War II. When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Konev led the first counterattack of the war. He defeated Heinz Guderian's advance on Moscow and halted large German forces in 1942 and 1943. In 1944 his army was the first to march onto German soil; with the forces of Georgy K. Zhukov, it captured Berlin. After the war he served as commander in chief of Soviet ground forces (1946-50) and later of Warsaw Pact forces (1955-60)
- Ivan Turgenev
- {i} Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian writer of novels and playwright
- Ivan Turgenev
- a Russian writer of books, short stories, and plays. His best-known works are his play A Month in the Country and his book Fathers and Sons (1818-83). born Nov. 9, 1818, Oryol, Russia died Sept. 3, 1883, Bougival, near Paris, France Russian novelist, poet, and playwright. His years at the University of Berlin convinced him of the West's superiority and the need for Russia to Westernize. He lived in Europe after 1862. He is known for realistic, affectionate portrayals of the Russian peasantry and for penetrating studies of the Russian intelligentsia who were attempting to move the country into a new age. His most famous early work is "The Diary of a Superfluous Man" (1850), which supplied the epithet "superfluous man" for the weak-willed intellectual protagonist common in 19th-century Russian literature. He gained fame with the short-story cycle A Sportman's Sketches (1852), which criticizes serfdom. His dramatic masterpiece, A Month in the Country (1855), and the novel Rudin (1856) followed. His interest in change and intergenerational differences is reflected in the controversial Fathers and Sons (1862), his greatest novel. Turgenev's work is distinguished from that of his contemporaries by its sophisticated lack of hyperbole, its balance, and its concern for artistic values. His greatest work was always topical, committed literature, having universal appeal in the elegance of the love story and the psychological acuity of the portraiture
- Ivan Vasilievich
- {i} Ivan IV (1530-84), first Czar of Russia (1547-84) who was known as Ivan the Terrible because of his tyrannical and brutal method of governing
- Ivan the Terrible
- the first Russian ruler to take the title tsar. He was famous for his cruel and unfair leadership (1530-84)
- Ivan the Terrible
- {i} (1530-1584) first czar of Russia
- Igor Ivan Sikorsky
- born May 25, 1889, Kiev, Russian Empire died Oct. 26, 1972, Easton, Conn., U.S. Russian-U.S. pioneer in aircraft design. After studying engineering in Kiev, he set up his own shop to develop the helicopter. In 1910, after failing to build a workable model, he turned to fixed-wing airplane design, and in 1913 he built the first four-engine airplane, with an innovative enclosed cabin. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1919. In 1931 he produced the twin-engine amphibian aircraft that became the model for Pan American World Airways' "Clipper." In 1939 Sikorsky finally realized a viable helicopter design. He directed his company, a division of United Aircraft Corporation, from 1929 to 1957
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Definition of ıvan in Spanish English dictionary
- Ivan
- Ivan, male first name
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Definition of ıvan in Turkish Turkish dictionary
- ıvan pavlov
- şartlı refleks kavramını yaratan Rus doktor