Category: Biographies

(1895 – 1934) Bagritsky (real name – Dzyubin) Edward Georgievich (1895-1934), poet, translator. He was born on October 22 (November 3, 2001) in Odessa in a philistine family. He studied in a real school, then on land survey courses. Beginning in 1915 Bagritsky began to publish in the Odessa almanacs “Silver Pipes”, “Auto in the…

Sergei Tsikunov – bodybuilder, world champion. Sergei was born on December 10, 1972 in Achinsk, Krasnodar Region. Sport in his biography, Sergei Tsikunov began to study at the age of ten. He was very mobile and nimble child. At first I tried myself in athletics, basketball. He was fond of skiing and boxing. He received…

Christopher Columbus is a Spanish navigator who discovered America and the nearby islands. The first of the travelers who crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Youth. First voyages Christopher Columbus was born between August 26 and October 31, 1451 on the island of Corsica in the Genoa Republic. Education the future discoverer received at the University of…

Michael Schumacher – the famous racing driver, was born on January 3, 1969 in the city of Hurt-Hermolheim, Germany. The most famous as a Formula 1 racer with dozens of Grand Prix wins. Schumacher was the undisputed king of Formula One racing in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In the biography of Michael Schumacher,…

Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky is a famous Russian writer and a talented playwright. The founder of the modern Russian theater, the founder of the Art Circle, a corresponding member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences and the winner of the Uvarov Prize. Early years. Education and career. Born March 31, 1823 in Moscow, grew up in…

Povetkin Alexander Vladimirovich is a Russian sportsman, Honored Master of Sports of Russia in boxing. He was born on September 2, 1979 in the city of Kursk. Now the height of the boxer is 188 cm, weight – 103 kg. A successful boxer graduated from the Kursk branch of the Moscow State University in the…

(1936 – 1971) Rubtsov Nikolai Mikhailovich (1936 – 1971), a poet. He was born in the village of Emetsk, Arkhangelsk region, he was an orphan early: his childhood was spent in the Vologda region in the Nikolsky orphanage. Vologda’s “little homeland” gave him the main theme of future creativity – “the ancient Russian identity,” became…

(1855 – 1888) Garshin Vsevolod Mikhailovich (1855 – 1888), prose writer, art critic, critic. Born February 2 (14 N. p.) In the estate Pleasant Valley of Ekaterinoslav province in the officer’s family. Mother Garshin, “typical sixties,” interested in literature and politics, fluent in German and French, had a huge impact on her son. Zashadovsky, an…

(1884-1937) Klyuev Nikolai Alekseevich (1884 – 1937), the poet. He was born on October 10 in one of the remote villages of the Russian North (Olonets province) in a peasant family closely associated with the Old Believer traditions, which had a great influence on the character and work of the future poet. From his mother,…

(1853-1922) Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was born in 1853 in the city of Zhitomir. His father was an official of the judicial department and was distinguished by incorruptible honesty, sharply singling it out from among the officials of that time. The writer’s mother was the daughter of a middle-class landowner. In 1868, Korolenko’s father died, leaving…