Vadim Danilovich Nikolayev (; was born on September 19, 1967) is a Shakespeare scholar from Russia, the writer, the translator of poetry and prose, the essayist and the author of first Russian encyclopedia about William Shakespeare.
Main Shakespeare-related works
Nikolayev was the compiler (together with Alexander Sharakshane) and the translator of forty-seven Shakespeare's sonnets in William Shakespeare. Sonnets: The Anthology of Modern Translations (St. Petersburg: Azbooka-classic Publishing House, 2004, reprinting — 2005, 2007). A copy of the book is available in the library of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
His other main work is the encyclopedia Shakespeare (Moscow, Kharkiv, 2007). The encyclopedia was discussed on April 23, 2008 by the Shakespeare Committee of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which noted that "the author has done a huge work, noteworthy at all amateurs of Shakespeare's creativity". Shakespeare Readings is a prestigious scientific international conference, which is held in Moscow.
In his article Shakespeare and The Count of Monte Cristo Nikolayev found parallels between Shakespeare's plays (Romeo and Juliet, The Winter's Tale, and especially The Tempest) and the novel of Alexandre Dumas.
In his article Hamlet — the Image and the Stereotype Nikolayev tried to prove that Hamlet is a psyhopath with the ideas, which preceded Nietzsche's ideas. Nikolayev thinks that traditional image of Hamlet has been created by the romantics, that Shakespeare wanted to destroy Elizabethian stereotypes of heroic avenger and jealous avenger (Othello).
Translations
Besides Shakespeare's sonnets, Nikolayev also translated into Russian fragments of Hamlet, one scene from Troilus and Cressida, the poems of Petrarch, Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, George Gascoigne, Philip Sydney, Edmund Spenser, Samuel Daniel, Bartholomew Griffin, John Donne, Jonathan Swift, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Blake, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Adam Mickiewicz, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Charles Baudelaire, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Frost, and Richard Aldington, as well as one of the Roger Waters' songs. In 2013 Nikolayev prepared for the edition Stevenson' A Child's Garden of Verses and translated almost all poems.
In the same year Nikolayev published his translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince. In the afterward From the Translator he criticized first Russian translator of Saint-Exupéry's novella, Nora Gal. In 2015 this Nikolayev's translation has been published as the audiobook.
Fiction
In 2014 Nikolayev published historical novel Bogatyr's Armed Force of Monomakh. Rus' in the Fire! The author of the annotation wrote that the book «came back «beautiful and violent» world of our martial ancestors». Ilya Muromets, Dobrynya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich are the members of Vladimir Monomakh's armed force in this historical novel.
Other
Nikolayev was an editor-in-chief of Svetez'Ъ Publishing House. He published the book Notes on Different Themes (Moscow, 2011). He is an author of philological and biographic articles, and he also published his own poetry in periodical press.
Main Shakespeare-related works
Nikolayev was the compiler (together with Alexander Sharakshane) and the translator of forty-seven Shakespeare's sonnets in William Shakespeare. Sonnets: The Anthology of Modern Translations (St. Petersburg: Azbooka-classic Publishing House, 2004, reprinting — 2005, 2007). A copy of the book is available in the library of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
His other main work is the encyclopedia Shakespeare (Moscow, Kharkiv, 2007). The encyclopedia was discussed on April 23, 2008 by the Shakespeare Committee of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which noted that "the author has done a huge work, noteworthy at all amateurs of Shakespeare's creativity". Shakespeare Readings is a prestigious scientific international conference, which is held in Moscow.
In his article Shakespeare and The Count of Monte Cristo Nikolayev found parallels between Shakespeare's plays (Romeo and Juliet, The Winter's Tale, and especially The Tempest) and the novel of Alexandre Dumas.
In his article Hamlet — the Image and the Stereotype Nikolayev tried to prove that Hamlet is a psyhopath with the ideas, which preceded Nietzsche's ideas. Nikolayev thinks that traditional image of Hamlet has been created by the romantics, that Shakespeare wanted to destroy Elizabethian stereotypes of heroic avenger and jealous avenger (Othello).
Translations
Besides Shakespeare's sonnets, Nikolayev also translated into Russian fragments of Hamlet, one scene from Troilus and Cressida, the poems of Petrarch, Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, George Gascoigne, Philip Sydney, Edmund Spenser, Samuel Daniel, Bartholomew Griffin, John Donne, Jonathan Swift, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Blake, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Adam Mickiewicz, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Charles Baudelaire, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Frost, and Richard Aldington, as well as one of the Roger Waters' songs. In 2013 Nikolayev prepared for the edition Stevenson' A Child's Garden of Verses and translated almost all poems.
In the same year Nikolayev published his translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince. In the afterward From the Translator he criticized first Russian translator of Saint-Exupéry's novella, Nora Gal. In 2015 this Nikolayev's translation has been published as the audiobook.
Fiction
In 2014 Nikolayev published historical novel Bogatyr's Armed Force of Monomakh. Rus' in the Fire! The author of the annotation wrote that the book «came back «beautiful and violent» world of our martial ancestors». Ilya Muromets, Dobrynya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich are the members of Vladimir Monomakh's armed force in this historical novel.
Other
Nikolayev was an editor-in-chief of Svetez'Ъ Publishing House. He published the book Notes on Different Themes (Moscow, 2011). He is an author of philological and biographic articles, and he also published his own poetry in periodical press.
LandFort is a free-to-play Puzzle game released on Android devices by Matasoft. It has a gameplay similar to Angry Birds with the addition of RPG elements. It is considered to be Matasoft's first video game and was released
Plot
The Demon Lord Devenoth and his minions have attacked a peaceful kingdom. Players assume control of a hero, who's goal is to destroy enemy fortresses, recruit the remaining knights that managed to escape slaugher and eventually kill Lord Devenoth.
Gameplay
LandFort's physics game engine uses mechanics similar to Angry Birds. Players control a hero who shoots with his crossbow. When players die, they can spend their points earned to raise their four attributes: Strength, Armor, Intellect and Tactics. They can also gain new abilities like more powerful shots or multiple shots. After a while, players are able to recruit friendly soldiers (A.I. controlled) to help them in battle.
The game also features in-app purchases for increasing attributes and abilities quicker, without having to battle. There are no exclusive items via microtransactions, everything can be unlocked by playing.
Plot
The Demon Lord Devenoth and his minions have attacked a peaceful kingdom. Players assume control of a hero, who's goal is to destroy enemy fortresses, recruit the remaining knights that managed to escape slaugher and eventually kill Lord Devenoth.
Gameplay
LandFort's physics game engine uses mechanics similar to Angry Birds. Players control a hero who shoots with his crossbow. When players die, they can spend their points earned to raise their four attributes: Strength, Armor, Intellect and Tactics. They can also gain new abilities like more powerful shots or multiple shots. After a while, players are able to recruit friendly soldiers (A.I. controlled) to help them in battle.
The game also features in-app purchases for increasing attributes and abilities quicker, without having to battle. There are no exclusive items via microtransactions, everything can be unlocked by playing.
Paul Trussell is an actor and playwright who has performed leading roles in many plays, television programmes and films. In 2007 he wrote his first play Mouse and performed in it in The at that year'sThe Edinburgh Festival.
As an actor he has worked with Mike Leigh several times; most notably in the original production of It’s a Great Big Shame at Theatre Royal, Stratford East. He has appeared in plays with The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Old Vic, The Bush Theatre and Shakespeare’s Globe including Mike Alfreds' production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream Tim Carroll's The Golden Ass and Steven Berkoff's world premiere of Six Actors in Search of a Director. Film appearances includes Mike Leigh's Life is Sweet and Secrets and Lies, Roger Michell's Titanic Town and The King's Speech. He has appeared as a regular character in several television series including , Crime Traveller, Vanishing Man, So Haunt Me, Big Meg Little Meg and Cry Wolf as well as guest appearances in many others.
He lives in South London with his wife and dog.
As an actor he has worked with Mike Leigh several times; most notably in the original production of It’s a Great Big Shame at Theatre Royal, Stratford East. He has appeared in plays with The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Old Vic, The Bush Theatre and Shakespeare’s Globe including Mike Alfreds' production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream Tim Carroll's The Golden Ass and Steven Berkoff's world premiere of Six Actors in Search of a Director. Film appearances includes Mike Leigh's Life is Sweet and Secrets and Lies, Roger Michell's Titanic Town and The King's Speech. He has appeared as a regular character in several television series including , Crime Traveller, Vanishing Man, So Haunt Me, Big Meg Little Meg and Cry Wolf as well as guest appearances in many others.
He lives in South London with his wife and dog.
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UBI Spring(yam spring) is grows in the ground. He lived wild in the secondary forest, shrub and can live in a variety of weather conditions. It can live for many years and are very difficult to die. It is categorized as a wild plant that lives creeping and climbing, and can extend up to 20 meter with its trunk.Its already exits decade of years in the Malaysia rainforest.
MEDICAL
A study of ubi spring is showing that it has a high steroid that is important in the production of drugs and hormones which joined the sugar known as saponins that may prevent platelets in the blood clot. The contents were identified could prevent blood clot and diabetes.it have important mineral in iron and magnesium, which increases the energy required to move.
Ubi Spring has a property that has proven its capacity to some common diseases of human didetia. Not infrequently, health experts suggest this ubi spring as a staple food alternatives for certain diseases.
Savor the ubi spring in a number of diseases:
1. Symptoms of anemia
Symptoms of anemia is a symptom of low blood that causes the sufferer fatigue, drowsiness and loss of appetite. Because of its nutritional completeness, the ubi spring is believed efficacious to treat symptoms of anemia.
2. Diabetes
High carbohydrate and natural sugars in the tubers, which are not harmful to the body believed to be eating nutritious substitute for rice by diabetics.
3. Drug constipation
Constipation is a disease caused by hardening of the current fases will be removed. Constipation will make the patients suffer from abdominal pain or cramps during prolonged fases still very firm. Therefore, consuming ubi spring are very high in fiber are proven effective for treating constipation.
UBI Spring(yam spring) is grows in the ground. He lived wild in the secondary forest, shrub and can live in a variety of weather conditions. It can live for many years and are very difficult to die. It is categorized as a wild plant that lives creeping and climbing, and can extend up to 20 meter with its trunk.Its already exits decade of years in the Malaysia rainforest.
MEDICAL
A study of ubi spring is showing that it has a high steroid that is important in the production of drugs and hormones which joined the sugar known as saponins that may prevent platelets in the blood clot. The contents were identified could prevent blood clot and diabetes.it have important mineral in iron and magnesium, which increases the energy required to move.
Ubi Spring has a property that has proven its capacity to some common diseases of human didetia. Not infrequently, health experts suggest this ubi spring as a staple food alternatives for certain diseases.
Savor the ubi spring in a number of diseases:
1. Symptoms of anemia
Symptoms of anemia is a symptom of low blood that causes the sufferer fatigue, drowsiness and loss of appetite. Because of its nutritional completeness, the ubi spring is believed efficacious to treat symptoms of anemia.
2. Diabetes
High carbohydrate and natural sugars in the tubers, which are not harmful to the body believed to be eating nutritious substitute for rice by diabetics.
3. Drug constipation
Constipation is a disease caused by hardening of the current fases will be removed. Constipation will make the patients suffer from abdominal pain or cramps during prolonged fases still very firm. Therefore, consuming ubi spring are very high in fiber are proven effective for treating constipation.