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Cases about members of Russian Academy of Sciences. Memberships appear only where Wikidata records one for the person the case is about: societies, clubs, fraternities, academies, parties and councils.
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- 2013Boris Berezovsky lost his case against Abramovich, died seven months later, and a judge called his estate hopelessly insolventThe National Archives, Find Case Law and 6 more
- 1955Einstein gave his Nobel money to his first wife and asked to be cremated in secret, and the pathologist kept his brain for decadesnationalgeographic.com and 3 more
- 1955Albert Einstein's publicity rights ended in 2005, a judge ruled, defeating Hebrew University's suit over a GM ad with his face on a muscled bodycacd.uscourts.gov and 5 more
- 1940Stalin's agents killed Trotsky and members of his family; he sealed his exile papers at Harvard until 1980, and the grandson who survived kept his house as a museumguides.library.harvard.edu and 5 more
- 1910Tolstoy signed a secret will in the woods to give his copyrights to the publicProject Gutenberg and 4 more
- 1891Moltke bought Kreisau with his 1866 war grant; his great-grandnephew was hanged in 1945 and the family lost the estatekrzyzowa.pl and 4 more
- 1891Pedro II's heirs still collect 2.5 percent of every land sale in central Petrópolis, 137 years after the empire fellub.edu and 2 more
- 1778Voltaire was refused a Paris burial in 1778, buried in secret, moved to the Panthéon in 1791 with his heart kept apart, and a legend says his bones were thrown away in 1814jackboulware.substack.com and 3 more