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Grigory Ivanovich Rossolimo
Grigory Ivanovich Rossolimo (Григорий Иванович Россолимо; 1860–1928) was a Russian neurologist and psychiatrist known for the Rossolimo toe-flexion reflex and for founding Russia's first children's nervous-disease clinic at his own expense in 1911.
Grigory Kiriyenko
Grigory Kiriyenko (Григорий Анатольевич Кириенко), Russian sabre fencer born 1965 in Novosibirsk; two-time Olympic team sabre champion (1992 Unified Team, 1996 Russia) and four-time world individual champion (1989, 1991, 1993, 1995).
Grigory Kosykh
Grigory Kosykh (Григорий Георгиевич Косых, 1934–2012), Soviet pistol shooter, Dynamo Moscow; 1968 Olympic free pistol champion, eight-time world champion, 18-time Soviet champion, world record 572.
Grigory Kotoshikhin
Grigory Kotoshikhin (Григорий Карпович Котошихин) was a Russian clerk of the foreign affairs chancery who defected to Sweden in 1664 and wrote an account of the Muscovite state.
Grigory Kriss
Grigory Kriss (Григорий Яковлевич Крисс, Hryhoriy Kriss), born 1940 in Kyiv, Soviet-Ukrainian épée fencer; Olympic individual épée champion Tokyo 1964, four Olympic medals, three world titles, later coach of Ukraine's 1996 Olympic fencers.
Grigory Kulik
Grigory Ivanovich Kulik (Григорий Иванович Кулик) was a Soviet military leader made Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1940, stripped of his ranks in 1942, and executed in 1950.
Grigory Landsberg
Grigory Samuilovich Landsberg was a Soviet physicist and full USSR Academy of Sciences member who, with Leonid Mandelstam, discovered Raman scattering in crystals in February 1928.
Grigory Margulis
Grigory Margulis, born 1946 in Moscow, is a Russian-born mathematician at Yale University known for work on lattices in Lie groups and winner of the Fields, Wolf, and Abel prizes.
Grigory Morozov
Grigory Iosifovich Morozov (Григорий Иосифович Морозов, 1921–2001), Soviet jurist and UN law specialist at IMEMO and MGIMO, first husband of Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva; distinct from general Grigory Fyodorovich Morozov and footballer Grigoriy Morozov.
Grigory Myasoyedov
Grigory Myasoyedov (Григорий Мясоедов), 1834 to 1911, was a Russian realist painter who co-founded the Peredvizhniki, drafted their charter, and painted peasant life in works like The Zemstvo Dining.
Grigory Orlov
Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov (Григорий Григорьевич Орлов, 1734–1783), Count, favorite of Catherine II and chief organizer of the 1762 coup that deposed Peter III; later artillery chief, plague controller of Moscow, and Focsani peace envoy.
Grigory Potemkin
Grigory Potemkin (Григорий Александрович Потёмкин-Таврический), 1739–1791, Russian field marshal and Catherine II's favorite who annexed Crimea (1783), founded Sevastopol, Kherson, and Nikolaev, created the Black Sea fleet, led the 1787–1791 Turkish war, and inspired the debunked 'Potemkin villages' myth.
Grigory Rodchenkov (Григорий Михайлович Родченков)
Grigory Rodchenkov (Григорий Михайлович Родченков), born Moscow 1957, former director of Russia's Moscow Anti-Doping Center; whistleblower whose testimony produced the McLaren Report on Sochi sample swapping; subject of Icarus and namesake of the Rodchenkov Act.
Grigory Romanov (Григорий Васильевич Романов)
Grigory Vasilyevich Romanov (Григорий Васильевич Романов), Soviet party leader, first secretary of the Leningrad oblast committee 1970–1983, Politburo member 1976–1985 and Central Committee secretary for defense industry, defeated by Gorbachev in the 1985 succession.
Grigory Romodanovsky
Grigory Romodanovsky (Григорий Григорьевич Ромодановский) was a Russian boyar and military commander who directed tsarist policy in the Cossack Hetmanate and was killed in the Moscow uprising of 1682.
Grigory Semyonov
Grigory Semyonov (Григорий Семёнов) was a Transbaikal Cossack general-lieutenant who led the White movement in Transbaikal from 1918 to 1920, then lived in exile until his execution in 1946.
Grigory Shelekhov
Grigory Shelekhov (Григорий Иванович Шелихов, 1747 to 1795) was a Russian merchant and navigator who founded the first permanent Russian settlement in America, on Kodiak Island, in 1784.
Grigory Shelikhov
Grigory Shelikhov (Григорий Шелихов) was a Russian merchant and fur trader who founded the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska, on Kodiak Island, in 1784.
Grigory Shtern
Grigory Shtern (Григорий Михайлович Штерн) was a Soviet colonel general who commanded in the Spanish Civil War, at Lake Khasan, Khalkhin Gol, and the Winter War before being shot in 1941.
Grigory Skovoroda
Grigory Skovoroda (Григорій Сковорода, 1722–1794) was a philosopher, poet, composer, and teacher of Cossack origin who spent his last twenty-five years as a wandering philosopher.
Grigory Zasekin
Grigory Zasekin (Григорий Засекин) was a Russian voyevoda, or military governor, who founded the Volga fortresses of Samara, Tsaritsyn, and Saratov between 1586 and 1590.
Grigory Zinoviev
Grigory Zinoviev (Григорий Зиновьев, born Radomyslsky, 1883–1936) was a Bolshevik leader, Petrograd Soviet chairman from 1917, and Comintern president 1919–1926; he broke with Stalin in 1925 and was executed in 1936.
Grihadaha
Grihadaha (গৃহদাহ, "burning of the home") is a Bengali novel by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, first published in 1920, telling of a married woman, Achala, torn between two men.
Grihapravesh (গৃহপ্রবেশ) (2025 film)
Grihapravesh (গৃহপ্রবেশ) is a 2025 Bengali drama directed by Indraadip Dasgupta, starring Subhashree Ganguly, Kaushik Ganguly, and Jeetu Kamal. Released 13 June 2025, a Rituparno Ghosh tribute about a wife in a North Calcutta Rajbari whose homestay guest reveals he was her vanished husband's lover.
Grijalva - Usumacinta
Grijalva-Usumacinta: Mexico's largest river system, joining in Tabasco; drains ~112,550 km², ~30% of national runoff, delta seventh worldwide by discharge; Usumacinta undammed in Mexico, Grijalva dammed since 1964; FEOW freshwater ecoregion 173.
Grill (jewelry)
Grill (jewelry), also called grillz, fronts, or caps: removable decorative tooth covers in gold, silver, or platinum, popularized by 1980s hip-hop and Eddie Plein; costs $20 to thousands, with decay and gum risks.
Grilling
Grilling: cooking food on a grate directly over high heat from charcoal, wood, or gas flames, distinct from low-indirect-heat barbecue. Covers heat transfer, HCA/PAH health risks, safe temperatures, and grill history.
Grillz
Grillz are removable metal coverings that snap over the teeth, often gold or diamond-set, popularized in hip hop after Eddie Plein brought the trade to Atlanta in 1992.
Grim & Evil
Grim & Evil (Grim and Evil) is a 2001 American Cartoon Network animated anthology by Maxwell Atoms pairing Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne, won via the 2000 Big Pick with 57% of the vote, split into two series in 2003.
Grim Dawn
Grim Dawn: action RPG by Crate Entertainment, spiritual successor to Titan Quest, Kickstarter-funded 2012, released 2016. Dual class system, Devotion constellations, world of Cairn; expansions Ashes of Malmouth, Forgotten Gods, Fangs of Asterkarn; over 5 million copies sold.