Biography of Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev is the 5th General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, president of the USSR, winner of the Nobel Prize. Mikhail was born into a family of peasants in the Stavropol Territory.

Biography Dombrovsky Yuri Osipovich

(1909 – 1978) Dombrovsky Yuri Osipovich (1909 – 1978), the prose writer. Born May 12 in Moscow in the family of a famous lawyer. He grew up in Arbat alleys, graduated from school here,

Biography Brodsky Joseph Alexandrovich

(1940-1996) Poet, translator, critic, essayist, playwright The first poetic experiences of I. Brodsky belong to 1957. In the early 60-ies begins to work as a poet-translator. By the same time, an acquaintance with AA

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. Biography

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol is a prose writer and playwright, whose work developed at the intersection of Russian and Ukrainian cultures and combined romantic and realistic features. As the author of a number of works

Biography of Alexander Rybak

Alexander Igorevich Rybak – singer, musician, composer, winner of “Eurovision 2009”. A talented musician and singer – Belarusian by origin, and by citizenship – Norwegian. Alexander was born on May 13, 1986 in Minsk.

Biography of Frank Robinson

Frank Robinson is an American baseball player and manager, was born in Beaumont, Texas. In the biography of Frank Robinson, participation in the Major League began with the games for the Cincinnati Reds team.

Biography Evtushenko Evgeny Alexandrovich

(born on July 18, 1933) He was born at the station Zima of Irkutsk region. He started publishing in 1949. In 19511954. studied at the Literary Institute. M. Gorky. In 1952 the first collection

Biography of Howard Carter

Howard Carter is an archaeologist, born May 9, 1874 in London, England. The biography of Carter is best known as the story of the discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Carter found, excavated the

Biography of Edwin Powell Hubble

Edwin Powell Hubble is an American astronomer who made a decisive contribution to observational cosmology. Childhood and youth Edwin Powell Hubble was born on November 20, 1889 in the city of Marshfield, Missouri, USA.

Biography of Albrecht Durer

Albrecht Durer – German painter, engraver, theorist, the most influential personality of the German school, was born in Nuremberg. Being the son of a jeweler, Durer spent some time in his biography working as
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