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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Panin-Kolomenkin ( Russian: Николай Александрович Панин-Коломенкин; 8 January 1872 [ O.S. 27 December 1871] – 19 January 1956) was a Russian figure skater and coach. [1] He won the gold medal in special figures in the 1908 Summer Olympics, became one of the oldest figure skating ...
- birth name: Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kolomensky, alternative spelling: Nikolay, Nicolai
- Russian Empire
- Nikolai Aleksandrovich Panin-Kolomenkin
Apr 7, 2024 · Son of the Russian commandant at Pärnu (Pernau), Estonia, Panin entered the Russian army in 1740, was appointed Russia’s minister to Denmark in 1747, and was then transferred to Sweden, where he served from 1748 to 1760, officially acting as a major opponent of the pro-French party in Sweden and personally developing liberal political views ...
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Moreover, he did notsign the letter with his pseudonym but with his birth name "N. Kolomenkin".7 Learning skating on one skate Nikolai came into the world as the third child of Evgeniya and Alexander Kolomenkin in the village of Khrenovoye in Bobrovsky District. A few years later the family moved to Voronezh, where the father became manager of an
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The 1900 Paris Olympic Games are now considered to have been a complete failure. The second time the modern international competition had been held, they coincided with the World Exhibition and received much less attention than the great scientific and technological achievements presented at the fair. Furthermore, sport at that time was rarely prof...
Source: Archive photo The famous wrestler Ivan Poddubny was never a professional sportsman. Before he found fame, the strongman worked as a labourer, a longshoreman and a circus artist. In the arena, he showed off his skill at weightlifting, and in the circus, he began to master traditional Russian wrestling and later Greco-Roman wrestling.\\ Poddub...
Source: Archive photo The first Russian Olympic champion, Nikolai Kolomenkin, was never paid a kopeck of his prize money for bringing victory to his homeland. Furthermore, he was threatened with exile to Siberia for his participation in the London Games in 1908. The sportsman went to England illegally, under the pseudonym of Panin. It was surprisin...
Tennis was one of the Russian aristocracy’s main pastimes in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The best Russian tennis player of the time was Count Mikhail Sumarokov-Elstone. In 1910, the 16-year-old boy, much to everyone's surprise, won the Russian tennis championship. He retained the title until he went to war in 1914, even when well-known forei...
Nikita Panin. Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin ( Russian: Никита Иванович Панин; September 29 [ O.S. September 18] 1718 – April 11 [ O.S. March 31] 1783) was an influential Russian statesman and political mentor to Catherine the Great for the first 18 years of her reign (1762–1780). In that role, he advocated the Northern ...
Nikolai Panin won the gold medal in special figures in the 1908 Summer Olympics, became one of the oldest figure skating Olympic champions. 2. Nikolai Panin competed in figure skating under the name "Nikolay Panin", though most Russian sources now hyphenate his surname to "Panin-Kolomenkin".
