Biography of Oleg Yankovsky

Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky is an outstanding actor of theater and cinema, People’s Artist of the USSR, director. Oleg was born in Dzhezkazgan in a military family. Oleg’s childhood was poor, but no less joyful:

Biography of Arthur Ashe

Arthur Esch – tennis player, was born on July 10, 1943 in the city of Richmond, Virginia. Best known as the first black man to win the US championship. In the biography of Arthur

Biography of Ivan Aivazovsky

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky is an artist, an activist. Ivan was born on July 29, 1817 in Feodosia. The first years of Aivazovsky’s biography passed in poverty as a result of his father’s ruin. But

Biography of Nikita Dzhigurdy

Nikita Borisovich Dzhigurda – actor, director, screenwriter, singer, poet. He was born on March 27 in Kiev. After graduation from the school, Jigurda entered the Institute of Physical Culture. The first great victories in

Biography Shevchenko Taras Grigorevich

(1814 – 1861) Shevchenko Taras Grigoryevich (1814 – 1861), Ukrainian poet. He was born in the village of Morintsy in the Kiev province in the family of a serf Ianina cross. Children’s days passed

Biography of Pasternak

Pasternak Boris Leonidovich is a Russian writer, poet and prose writer of the 20th century. Author of the famous novel “Doctor Zhivago”, a lot of translations from other languages, collections of poems, stories, articles

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Biography

Johann Wolfgang Goethe is a German poet, prose writer, playwright, essayist, thinker and researcher. The main book of the writer, the tragedy “Faust”, is recognized as the peak phenomenon of fiction, and its main

Biography of Henry Belle

Heinrich Belle is a German writer, novelist and playwright. Belle represents a critical, anti-militaristic image of modern society in the collection of skilful short stories. Such works include “The Traveler, when you come to

Biography of Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett is an English novelist and playwright. As one of the great 20th-century English novelists, Bennett is known for his realistic “Five Cities” novels, which tell of fictional production areas in the north

Biography Orlov Sergey Sergeevich

(22.08.1921 – 7.10.1977) Orlov Sergey Sergeevich (22.08.1921, the village of Megra, Vologda region – 7/10/1977, Moscow). He grew up in a family of rural teachers. In 1938 he received a prize at the All-Union
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