Tovarishch
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Tovarishch or tovarisch is a Russian word meaning comrade
Comrade
Comrade means "friend", "colleague", or "ally". The word comes from French camarade. The term is frequently used by left-wing organizations around the globe. "Comrade" has often become a stock phrase and form of address. This word has its regional equivalents available in many...

, friend, colleague, or ally. In pre-revolutionary Russia (1802-1917) also any official's assistant. It may also refer to:
  • Gorch Fock (1933)
    Gorch Fock (1933)
    The Gorch Fock I is a German three-mast barque, the first of a series built as school ships for the German Reichsmarine in 1933. She was taken as war reparations by the USSR after World War II and renamed Tovarishch...

    , a German three-mast barque in the 1930s, used by USSR under the name Tovarishch until the 1990s, now a museum ship
  • Towarzysz
    Towarzysz
    A Towarzysz was sort of a junior cavalry officer or rather knight-officer in the autorament narodowy Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth National army, both in cavalry and infantry, from the 16th century until 1794 AD....

    , the name of cavalry soldiers in the Polish army since the 16th century
  • Tovaritch, a 1933 play by French writer Jacques Deval
  • Tovarich, a 1935 play by Robert E. Sherwood
    Robert E. Sherwood
    Robert Emmet Sherwood was an American playwright, editor, and screenwriter.-Biography:Born in New Rochelle, New York, he was a son of Arthur Murray Sherwood, a rich stockbroker, and his wife, the former Rosina Emmet, a well-known illustrator and portrait painter known as Rosina E. Sherwood...

     based on Jacques Deval's play
  • Tovarich (film)
    Tovarich (film)
    Tovarich is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Anatole Litvak, based on the 1935 play by Robert E. Sherwood, which in turn was based on the 1933 French play Tovaritsch by Jacques Deval. It was produced by Litvak through Warner Bros., with Robert Lord as associate producer and Hal B. Wallis...

    , a 1937 movie based on the play and starring Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer
  • Tovarich (musical)
    Tovarich (musical)
    Tovarich is a 1963 musical play in two acts with book by David Shaw; music by Lee Pockriss and lyrics by Anne Croswell; based on the comedy by Jacques Deval and Robert E...

    , a 1963 musical based on the play and featuring Vivien Leigh
  • Tovarich, a comic strip by Antonio Prohías
    Antonio Prohias
    Antonio Prohías , born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, was a cartoonist most famous for creating the comic strip Spy vs. Spy for MAD Magazine....

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