(28.02.1866 – 16.07.1949) Writer Was born in Moscow. Father – a small servant of the Control Chamber, died in 1871. Mother was the daughter of a Senate official; she has since childhood instilled in her son a patriarchal faith in God and a love of poetry. In the first Moscow gymnasium, which Ivanov graduated with … Read more
Igor Akinfeev – footballer, was born on April 8, 1986 in the city of Vidnoe, Moscow region. In the life of Igor Akinfeev, football began at the age of four. At the age of seven, he entered the CSKA Children’s Sports School. After the end of the football academy, the sportsman began to play on … Read more
Vladimir Vladimirovich Klitschko – professional boxer, was born March 25, 1976 in the Kazakh city of Semipalatinsk in a military family. He has the pseudonym “Stilhammer Doctor”. Physical characteristics of the athlete: height 198 cm, weight 110 kg, range of arms 206 cm. In fights Vladimir performs in a heavy weight category. For the sports … Read more
(1905-1973) Panova Vera Fedorovna (1905 – 1973), prose writer, playwright, screenwriter. She was born on March 7 (20th century) in Rostov-on-Don. In his early childhood, having lost his father, Panova lived a difficult working childhood. I was engaged in self-education, I wrote poems from my youth. At the age of 17 she worked in the … Read more
(3.10.1742 – 14.1.1791) Knyazhnin Yakov Borisovich [3.10.1742 (or 1740), Pskov – 14.1.1791, St. Petersburg], playwright, poet, translator, member of the Russian Academy (1783). Of the nobility. From 1750 he studied at the Academic Gymnasium. From 1755 the Junker junior of the College of Livonian, Estland and Finnish Affairs, from 1757 the translator of the Chancellery … Read more
(1732 – 1768) Ivan Semenovich Barkov (1732-1768) – a noble son, a Russian poet and translator. He graduated from the seminary, then consisted consistently of the Russian Academy of Sciences: a student, a compositor, a copyist, and an interpreter. Barkov translated mostly ancient authors. I squandered my talent and strength with excessive drunkenness. In 1763-1764 … Read more
Pavlov Ivan Petrovich – a famous Russian scientist-physiologist, Nobel Prize winner. He is the author of the doctrine of higher nervous activity and physiology of digestion, the founder of the largest physiological school in Russia. His works have made an invaluable contribution to the development of medicine, psychology and physiology. Ivan Pavlov was born in … Read more
Neil Armstrong – an astronaut, July 20, 1969 was the first astronaut to set foot on the surface of the moon. He was born on August 5, 1930 in Huapakonetta, Ohio. Biography of Armstrong is best known as the story of the first man to step on the moon. Neil Armstrong was a veteran of … Read more
Stepan Timofeevich Razin is a Cossack who raised the uprising of 1670-1671. He was born in a Cossack family. Biography of Stepan Razin is reliably known only from the 1660s. By this time, he had become a Cossack ataman, had received a rich military experience. After conducting negotiations with the Kalmyks, in 1662-1663 he conducted … Read more
Anthony Quinn is an American actor of Mexican descent who won an Oscar three times, an artist, a writer. Antonio was born in the Mexican city of Chihuahua on April 21, 1915. Quinn’s family was not rich, and when Anthony was still young, she moved to Los Angeles. In his youth Anthony Quinn in his … Read more