Category: Biographies

Kornei Ivanovich Chukovsky – writer, poet, translator, critic. Nikolay was born on March 31, 1882 in St. Petersburg. Under the pseudonym Korney Chukovsky in his biography, the writer worked since the beginning of literary activity. Later he added Ivan’s false middle name. In 1901, Chukovsky began to engage in journalism, and two years later became…

Eminem is a rap singer, actor, producer, Oscar winner. Born Eminem October 17, 1972 in St. Joseph of Missouri. The father left the family when Marshall was not even a year old. Since then, the boy and his mother have moved a lot, lived with relatives. Then the family settled in Detroit, but there Marshall…

(07/07/1923) Ognev Vladimir Fedorovich (7.07.1923, Poltava). Frontier. Graduated in 1950 Litinstitut. For many years he studied modern poetry. At one time he studied the literature of the socialist countries of Europe. He also tried to write prose, but she had no success. In 1991, after the failure of the putsch, he headed the International Literature…

Dmitry Nikolaevich Bilan is a singer, Honored and People’s Artist of Kabardino-Balkaria, Honored Artist of Chechnya, Ingushetia. He was born on December 24, 1981 in Ust-Dzhegut, Karachay-Cherkessia. From birth until July 2008 was named Viktor Nikolaevich Belan. He moved to Naberezhnye Chelny, then to Maysky. It was there that the first musical education was received…

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is a Spanish writer, one of the key figures of the Renaissance, the creator of the “eternal image” of Don Quixote, which has become a universal symbol of humanity. The life of M. de Cervantes in dates and facts Supposedly September 29, 1547 – was born in the town of Alcalá…

Alex Rodriguez – a baseball player, was born on July 27, 1975 in the city of New York. Best known as “E-Rod”, a baseball star that earned a quarter of a billion dollars. At birth, he received the name Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez. Shortstop superstar Alex Rodriguez in 2000 signed a contract with Texas Rangers for…

(1868-1936) Gorky Maxim (1868-1936), Russian writer, publicist. Great resonance had a collection of “Essays and Stories” (vol.1-3, 1898-99), where the bearers of the new, “free” morality were depicted (not without the influence of Nietzscheanism) so-called. tramps. In the novel “Mother” (1906-1907) sympathetically showed the growth of the revolutionary movement in Russia. Identifying the different types…

Gumilev Nikolai Stepanovich – Russian poet, prose writer, literary critic, translator, representative of the literature of the “Silver Age”, the founder of the school of Russian acmeism. Childhood and the first works Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev was born on April 3, 1886 in Kronstadt, in the family of a ship’s doctor. The childhood of the future…

Carl Friedrich Gauss was an outstanding mathematician who proved a number of algebraic and geometric theorems. Childhood and early years Karl Friedrich Gauss, the son of a poor man and an uneducated mother, independently solved the riddle of the date of his birth and defined it as April 30, 1777. Gauss showed all signs of…

Babe Didrikson is an American sportswoman, in general she is one of the greatest female athletes of modern times. Born in Port Arthur, Texas. In the early years, Babe Didrikson performed well in basketball, baseball. In 1932 she won at once in five competitions. Two weeks later, she won two medals at the Olympic Games…