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Anna Ivanovna

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[ah-nuh ee-vah-nuhv-nuh] / ˈɑ nə iˈvɑ nəv nə /

noun

  1. 1693–1740, empress of Russia 1730–40.


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Her name is Anna Ivanovna and we tracked her down to Velyka Danylivka, a village near Kharkiv in north-eastern Ukraine where she lives with her husband, dogs, cats and rabbits.

From BBC Jun. 14, 2022

As for Anna Ivanovna, she died the following October of kidney troubles.

From Slate Nov. 13, 2015

No one epitomizes this mindset more than Anna Ivanovna.

From Slate Nov. 13, 2015

Tushin lived with his spinster sister, Anna Ivanovna, to whom Tatiana Markovna was much attached.

From The Precipice by Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich

My sister is delighted with you and Anna Ivanovna, and I am inexpressibly glad of it, for I love your family like my own.

From Letters of Anton Chekhov by Garnett, Constance

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