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- proper noun A
transliteration of a Russianpatronymic , meaning "daughter ofIvan ".
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OUR FIFTH-GRADE LITERATURE TEACHER, Ludmila Ivanovna, is short and round, wheeling from one corner of the classroom to the other on tiny feet.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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OUR FIFTH-GRADE LITERATURE TEACHER, Ludmila Ivanovna, is short and round, wheeling from one corner of the classroom to the other on tiny feet.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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Anna Ivanovna, who built the famous ice palace in St Petersburg.
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But Ludmila Ivanovna, her plump face framed in tight chemical curls, is doing something unauthorized and daring: she is entertaining us with an extracurricular analysis of the reading preferences of Tatiana, the virtuous heroine of Eugene Onegin.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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But Ludmila Ivanovna, her plump face framed in tight chemical curls, is doing something unauthorized and daring: she is entertaining us with an extracurricular analysis of the reading preferences of Tatiana, the virtuous heroine of Eugene Onegin.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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Which Russian composer married a pupil, Antonina Ivanovna Milyukova, but left her a month after the wedding in a state of nervous collapse?
June 2007 2007
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Ivanovna, in spite of her confidence, cast uneasy glances upon him.
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Ivanovna inquired severely (‘You dare rush off into Latin again,’ she implied.) ‘No need to anticipate any at present!’
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Ivanovna — he fought a duel with the English milord Hugh
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Ivanovna looked after him, shook her head, put on her spectacles again, and again took up her comforter ... but more than once sank into thought, and let her knitting-needles fall on her knees.
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