Category: Biographies

American actress with Ukrainian roots, model and singer Mila Jovovich is best known as a zombie hunter in a series of films “Resident Evil”. Early years and career Mila Jovovich was born on December 17, 1975 in the city of Kiev, Ukraine. Her parents – Bogdan Jovovich, a doctor from Montenegro, and Galina Loginova Jovovich,…

(1915-1976) Smirnov Sergey Sergeevich (13 / 26.09.1915-22.03.1976), the writer. The main business of Smirnov’s life was the perpetuation of the memory of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War. The writer first made the heroic epic of the defense of the Brest Fortress in the summer of 1941, when the besieged garrison for more than…

Voltaire is a philosopher, writer, human rights activist, historian. Born François-Marie November 21, 1694 in Paris in the family official. Education in the biography of Voltaire was obtained at the Jesuit College. After that, despite his father’s wish, he did not become a lawyer, but started to work on literary activity. Voltaire wrote poignant satirical…

Polina Deripaska is an entrepreneur, owner of Forward Media Group. Polina was born in the family of the former head of the Presidential Administration B. Yeltsin – Valentin Yumashev. Since my childhood I was fond of journalism, probably, following the example of my parents. Education in the biography of Polina Deripaska was received at the…

Alexei Vorobyov is a popular Russian singer and actor, who won the hearts of fans with his unique talent, charm and beauty. Alexey Vladimirovich Vorobyev was born on January 19, 1988 in an ordinary large family. His mother was a housewife, and her father was the head of security at a private company. The singer’s…

Adolf Augustus Berley is an American lawyer, public official. Born in Boston, served during the First World War. It is known that Burleigh was part of the American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference. In protest against the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, in the biography of Burley, a return to legal practice in…

(1905-1970) Kassil Lev Abramovich (1905 – 1970), the prose writer. He was born on June 27 (July 10, 2006) in the village of Pokrovskaya (town of Engels on the Volga) in the family of a doctor. He studied at the gymnasium, after the revolution transformed into the Unified Labor School. Collaborated with the Pokrov Children’s…

Dragunsky Victor Yuzefovich – writer-novelist, poet, classic of Soviet literature, author of the famous children’s cycle “Deniskiny stories.” Childhood Victor Yuzefovich Dragunsky was born on December 1, 1913 in New York. The parents of the future writer were Belarusian emigrants. The life of the Dragoon family in America did not work out, so in 1914…

Aranta Sanchez-Vicario – tennis player, was born on December 18, 1971 in Barcelona, ​​Spain. Most known as the first tennis player in the world in 1995 according to the Women’s Tennis Association. In the biography of Aranta Sanchez-Vicario her career in women’s tennis was very long. In 1995 she became the first Spanish woman, considered…

Lev Davidovich Trotsky is a political figure in the communist movement. Since childhood, Trotsky’s biography has been filled with creativity: he painted, read a lot, he wrote. These hobbies were later used during political propaganda – Trotsky helped to publish the newspaper, spoke at rallies. For which he was arrested in 1898, for 4 years…