Glinski
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Glinski, Glinskii, or Glinsky is a family name
. Feminine form: Russian: Glinskaya (Глинская), Polish: Glińska. It may refer to one of the following.
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. Feminine form: Russian: Glinskaya (Глинская), Polish: Glińska. It may refer to one of the following.
- Glinski family, a Polish-Lithuanian noble family (:pl:Glińscy) in Russian Empire, see Gliński coat of arms
- Elena GlinskayaElena GlinskayaElena Vasilyevna Glinskaya April 1538, Moscow) was the second wife of Grand Prince Vasili III and regent of Russia for 5 years .- Background :...
- Juozas GlinskisJuozas GlinskisJuozas Glinskis is a Lithuanian playwright.- Works :Juozas Glinskis marked a new stage in the development of Lithuanian theatre in the second half of the 20th century...
- Michael GlinskiMichael GlinskiMichael Glinski was a noble from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of distant Tatar extraction who was also a tutor of his nephew, Ivan the Terrible. As a young man, Glinski served in the court of Emperor Maximilian I and earned distinction for his military service. Around 1498 he returned to Lithuania...
- Mikhail Iosifovich GlinskyMikhail Iosifovich Glinsky-Biography:Mikhail Iosifovich Glinsky was born to ethnic Russian peasant parents in the village of Malaya Kamenka in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire in 1901...
(1901-1991), a Soviet general - Wieńczysław Gliński (1921-2008), A Polish actor (:pl:Wieńczysław Gliński)
- Witold Gliński (1925-1983), a Polish counter-admiral (:pl:Witold Gliński)
- Władysław Gliński, the inventor of Gliński's hexagonal chessGlinski's hexagonal chessThe term hexagonal chess designates a group of chess variants played on hexagonal boards. The most popular one is Gliński's hexagonal chess which was invented in 1936 by Władysław Gliński of Poland.- Gliński's hexagonal chess :...