Biographies

Sophia Loren is an Italian actress, winner of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts. The name of the outstanding beauty Lauren is often included in the lists of the most attractive women in the world. Early years Actress Sofia Villani Shikolone was born in Italy, in Rome, September 20, 1934. Her father, Riccardo Chicolone, … Read more

Hristo is a Bulgarian-American painter, was born in the town of Gabrovo under the name of Hristo Vladimirov Yavashev. In his biography Hristo studied in Sofia, Vienna, Paris. His early experiments on installation led to the creation of a device for wrapping ordinary objects in fabrics and other materials. Thus, an artificial cover was created, … Read more

Amedeo Avogadro is an Italian chemist and physicist known for his molecular theory. Childhood and early years Amedeo Avogadro was born on August 9, 1776 in Turin, Italy, to a family of lawyers. His father, Count Filippo Avogadro, was a well-known lawyer in Piedmont, an area in Northern Italy. His training begins at the age … Read more

(1908 – 1981) Field (real name – Kampov) Boris Nikolayevich (1908 – 1981), a prose writer. Born March 4 (17 N. s.) In Moscow in the family of a lawyer. Children’s and teenage years passed in Tver, in the factory yard of the huge textile combine owned by Morozov. At home there was a good … Read more

Denis Rozhkov is an actor of theater and cinema. According to Denis Rozhkov, his biography does not stand out against the background of his contemporaries-actors. He was born on July 3, 1976 in Moscow. In 1993 he graduated from the school. After an unsuccessful attempt to enter GITIS, he studied for a year at the … Read more

Thomas Hart Benton – American artist, was born in Neosho, Missouri. He is the grand-nephew of Senator Thomas Hart Benton, the son of congressman patron E. Benton. In 1906, 1907 in his biography Benton attended the Institute of Art of Chicago. At the age of 19, Thomas moved to Paris, where he stayed for five … Read more

John von Neumann is rightfully considered one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. Childhood John von Neumann was born in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, on December 28, 1903. He was the eldest son of his parents – Max Neumann and Margaret Kahn. From the earliest age of Neiman, the nature of numbers and … Read more

(born 1913) Rozov Victor Sergeevich (born 1913), playwright. Born July 8 (21 N. s.) In Yaroslavl in the family accountant. Childhood years passed in his native city. In 1918, during the mutiny organized by Savinkov, the city burned. The Pink family, who lost all property that had fled from Yaroslavl, settled in Vetluga. From the … Read more

Petr Andreevich Nalich is a singer, songwriter, representative of Russia at Eurovision 2010. Peter was born in Moscow on April 30, 1981. Peter’s great-grandfather sang at the Belgrade Opera, so it’s likely that his own unique velvet tenor Peter received from him. The first musical education Peter Nalich in biography received in the Moscow Music … Read more

Ansel Adams – American photographer, was born in San Francisco. I started to take pictures in the clubs “Sierra” and “Yosemite Valley”. The name of the photographer is primarily associated with these clubs. In 1930, the fascination with photography in the biography of Ansel Adams became professional. In the same year he published the first … Read more

The highest example of realistic art at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was the work of Alexander Kuprin. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin is a well-known Russian prose writer who aspired to update the aesthetic principles of realism in his work. Kuprin, like Ivan Bunin, inherited the “ideological mood” of Anton Chekhov. The writer … Read more

Willem de Kooning is an American artist born in the Netherlands. Training in the biography of de Kooning took place at the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts and Techniques. Then de Kooning emigrated to the United States. As a stowaway passenger, he arrived in 1926 in America and stopped in New York. There, in 1935, … Read more

Jason Williams – basketball player, was born on February 22, 1968 in Ritter, South Carolina. Best known as an NBA player who shot his limousine driver. For his biography, Jason Williams played 9 seasons in the NBA, but is best known as a guy from New Jersey who shot his chauffeur. Strong center height of … Read more

Alfred Adler is a well-known physician and psychotherapist, creator of the system of individual psychology. Childhood and youth Alfred Adler was one of seven children in the family of a Jewish grain merchant and his wife. As a child, he suffered from rickets, and could not walk until four years. At the age of five, … Read more

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol – a classic of Russian literature, writer, playwright, publicist, critic. The most important works of Gogol are: the collection “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka”, dedicated to the customs and traditions of the Ukrainian people, as well as the greatest poem “Dead Souls”. Childhood and youth of the writer Born March 20, … Read more

(1899 – 1977) NABOKOV Vladimir Vladimirovich [12 (24) April 1899, St. Petersburg – July 3, 1977, Montreux, Switzerland], Russian and American writer; prose writer, poet, dramatist, literary critic, translator. In the literary history of the 20th century. this author occupies a unique place, and it is determined primarily by his bilingualism. A native of Russia, … Read more

Andrei Nikolayevich Shevchenko – footballer, Honored Master of Sports. He was born in the Kiev region in the village of Dvorkivshchyna. Then in the biography of Shevchenko moved to Kiev. Back in school I started to get involved in football. After the coach of the Dynamo Kyiv Dynamo team Alexander Shpak noticed Andrei’s good game, … Read more

Alexander Badanin – editor of popular magazines. A talented girl who could accomplish everything with her work, an incredible zeal for knowledge and perseverance. She was born on April 8, 1982 in Sevastopol, in the family of a teacher of foreign languages ​​and a naval officer. When Alexander was only two months old, his parents … Read more

Nikita Vladimirovich Presnyakov is an actor, the beginning director, the son of Christina Orbakaite and Vladimir Presnyakov. Nikita was born on May 21, 1991 in a star family. His mother is a well-known singer, actress, actress Christina Orbakaite, and father Vladimir Presnyakov is a musician, singer and composer. Biography of Nikita Presnyakov in childhood was … Read more

Yuri Ignatievich Mukhin is a Russian publicist, writer, politician. He was born on March 22, 1949 in Dnepropetrovsk. Education in Mukhin’s biography was received at the metallurgical institute of Dnepropetrovsk. After graduation in 1973 he began working in Kazakhstan at a ferroalloy plant. During his time he managed to develop several fundamentally new ideas of … Read more

Honore de Balzac is a French novelist who entered the history of literature as the creator of the monumental epic “Human Comedy”, which became a kind of chronicle of the life of the society of the first half of the nineteenth century. and one of the fundamental works of realism. The life of O. de … Read more

Igor Yuryevich Nikolayev – composer, singer. Igor was born on January 17, 1960 in the town of Kholmsk, Sakhalin Region, in a creative family. Higher education in the biography of Igor Nikolayev was obtained at the Moscow Institute of Culture. There Nikolaev studied in the variety department. He started his creative career in the group … Read more

(14.02.1907 – 18.09.1945) Kedrin Dmitry Borisovich (14.02.1907-18.09.1945), Russian poet, translator. Early orphaned, Kedrin was brought up by a well-educated grandmother, a noblewoman who introduced him to the world of folk art, introduced poetry to Pushkin, Lermontov, Nekrasov, Shevchenko. Already in 1923, abandoning his studies at the technical school, begins to work in the newspaper, writes … Read more

(1703 – 1768) Trediakovsky Vasily Kirillovich (1703 – 1768), poet, novelist, theoretician. Born February 22 (March 5, 2007) in Astrakhan in the family of a priest. At the insistence of his father he studied at the school of Catholic Capuchin monks, then served in the church. In the early 1720s, leaving service in the church, … Read more

Baysarov Ruslan Sulimovich is a Russian entrepreneur, founder and owner of a number of companies, a former civilian of Christina Orbakaite. Ruslan was born in the village of Veduchi of Checheno-Ingushetia. In the early 1990s, for Ruslan Baisarov, a new period began in the biography. He moved to Moscow and took up entrepreneurial activities. They … Read more

Peter the Great is an outstanding statesman, a Moscow tsar from the Romanov dynasty, an all-Russian emperor from 1721, a great reformer. Early years Peter the Great was born on May 30, 1672 in Moscow. In the biography of Peter 1 it is important to note that he was the youngest son of Tsar Alexei … Read more

Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev is a Russian scientist, a chemist. He was born near Tobolsk in the village of Verkhnie Aremzyan. Training in his biography Dmitry Mendeleev was held first in the Tobolsk gymnasium. Then in the life of Mendeleyev with success, the pedagogical institute of Petersburg was completed with a gold medal. From 1855 to … Read more

Danica Patrick – a famous racer, was born on March 25, 1982 in Beloit, Wisconsin. Better known as the female driver who finished fourth in the Indy 500-mile championship in 2005. Finishing Danica fourth in the race of 500 miles of Indianapolis made her one of the most famous women in the history of racing. … Read more

(September 15, 1922 – December 25, 1988) AKULOV Ivan Ivanovich (15.09.1922-25.12.1988), the writer. He was born in the Urals in the Urusovo village of the Irbit district in a peasant family. He studied at the Pedagogical Institute. He worked as a teacher in a rural school, then in the newspaper “Ural worker”. Participated in the … Read more

(1843 – 1903) Stanyukovich Konstantin Mikhailovich (1843 – 1903), the prose writer. Born March 18 (30 N. p.) In Sevastopol in the family of the admiral of the Russian fleet, who continued the traditions of the family, whose father and grandfather were also sailors. Despite the fact that the naval career did not attract young … Read more

Claudius Ptolemy – a physicist, a mathematician, an astronomer, a geographer. The biography of Ptolemy has not been reliably studied for several reasons. It so happened that his contemporaries did not mention in their writings Ptolemy. Therefore, all the facts of Ptolemy’s biography are not fully confirmed. His contribution to science and destiny can be … Read more

American actor Al Pacino has been attracting the attention of TV viewers since the 1970s with his play in the films The Godfather, Serpico and The Scent of a Woman. Early years Alfredo James Pacino was born on April 25, 1940 in New York. First he grew up in East Harlem, then in the Bronx. … Read more

Herodotus – an ancient Greek historian, nicknamed the “father of history.” One of the first geographers and scientists-travelers. On the basis of the seen and questioned information gave the first general description of the then known world. Almost all known countries of their time traveled to write their famous “History”: Greece, South Italy, Asia Minor, … Read more

ILF Ilya (real name – Ilya Arnoldovich Faisilberg) (1897 – 1937); Petrov Eugene (real name – Yevgeny Petrovich Kataev) (1903 – 1942) – satirical writers, authors of novels, short stories, feuilletons and essays written together. Ilf was born on October 3 (15th century) in Odessa in the family of a bank employee. In 1913, after … Read more

Oksana Aleksandrovna Akinshina is a young and popular actress of Russian cinema. Akinshina was born on April 19, 1987 in the city of Leningrad. Her mother was an accountant, and her father a fitter. Oksana also has a younger sister. Akinshina attended a modeling agency and a circle of choreography at a young age. At … Read more

Sergei Yurievich Jursky – actor of theater and cinema, director, Honored and People’s Artist of the RSFSR. Sergei was born on March 16, 1935 in Leningrad. To say that Sergey’s family was creative is not enough. His father directed Lenkontsertom, was an actor, director, worked as art director of the Moscow Circus. It is not … Read more

Vysotsky Vladimir Semenovich is a Soviet poet, singer, actor, laureate of the USSR State Prize. Childhood Vladimir Vysotsky was born on January 25, 1938 in Moscow in a military family. The early childhood of the future poet passed in a close communal apartment. In 1941 – 1943, during the Great Patriotic War, Vladimir and his … Read more

The diverse actor Brian Cranston played Walter White in the popular television drama “In All Grave”. In it, the school teacher made methamphetamine and turned into a criminal authority. Youth Bryan Lee Cranston was born on March 7, 1956 in Canoga Park, California. The son of an actor striving for success, Brian spent a lot … Read more

(1818 – 1883) Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov was born on November 6, 1818 in Nizhny Novgorod in the family of Ivan Ivanovich Melnikov and his wife Anna Pavlovna in the house of her grandfather on the mother of the outward counselor Pavel Petrovich Sergeyev, in honor of whom the first-born was named. The Melnikov family belonged … Read more

Tony Braxton – R & B singer, was born on October 7, 1967 in the city of Severn, Maryland. As the daughter of a priest, she furtively listened to worldly musicians when her parents were not at home. At the beginning of her biography, Tony Braxton sang in a church choir. This provided an opportunity … Read more

(1913 – 1972) Smelyakov Yaroslav Vasilievich (1913 – 1972), the poet. Born December 26, 1912 (January 8, 1913) in Lutsk in the family of a railway worker. Early childhood passed in the village, where he received primary education, then continued teaching in the Moscow Seven-Year Plan. Early started writing poems. In 1931 he graduated from … Read more

Zinaida Mikhailovna Kirienko is an actress, People’s Artist of the RSFSR. Zinaida was born on July 9, 1933 in Makhachkala. The desire to become an actress in the biography of Zinaida Kiriyenko originated in her childhood. At first she moved with her mother to the Stavropol Territory, and after the end of the seven classes … Read more

Alice in Chains is an American band playing in the style of rock, metal rock, grunge. In 1987, Jerry Cantrell and Lane Staley founded the band “Alice in Chains”. Later they were joined by Mike Starr, Sean Kinney. The band was formed in Seattle, so at first they played in local clubs. After club success … Read more

Igor Vasilyevich Severyanin is a Russian poet. In the biography of Severyanin, the school in Cherepovets was finished. After that, together with his father went to the Far East. Passion for poetry in the life of Severyanin manifested itself in childhood. The first poem of the poet was published in the magazine “Leisure and business” … Read more

Paul Cezanne – French artist, was born in Aix-en-Provence. Biography Cezanne is known as the history of the leader of the abstract art revolution in contemporary painting. From an early age Paul was a friend of Emile Zola, who from time to time supported the work of Cezanne. In 1861, the artist went to Paris, … Read more

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a writer, composer, philosopher, developer of a direct form of government. Born Jean-Jacques June 28, 1712 in Geneva. Since childhood in his biography Jean Jacques Rousseau was fond of reading books. Mother died at birth, and when the father got married again, Jean-Jacques was sent to study to a notary, later to … Read more

Yana Alexandrovna Rudkovskaya is a music producer, entrepreneur, TV presenter. Jan was born on January 2, 1975 in Moscow. Higher education in the biography of Yana Rudkovskaya was completely unrelated to show business. Yana graduated from the Medical University in Barnaul, where she specialized in cosmetology, hardware and medicine. After graduating from the University in … Read more

(born 1933) Roshchin Mikhail Mikhailovich (born 1933), writer and playwright. He was born on February 10 in Kazan. Childhood years passed in Sevastopol. After the war he lived in Moscow, worked in the industry, was engaged in journalism. From 1952 he began to publish. He graduated from the correspondence department of the Literary Institute. M. … Read more

(1870-1938) Kuprin Alexander Ivanovich (1870-1938) the prose writer. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin is a talented writer of the early twentieth century. Kuprin was born in the village of Narovchatov in the Penza region in the family of a clerk. The eventful life of Kuprin, his diverse creativity – all this was an extremely complicated picture. Its … Read more

Charles Burnham Wilkinson – American football coach, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. During his student years, his athletic talent manifested itself comprehensively. Later, Charles became an assistant football coach at the University of Syracuse, as well as Minnesota. In 1943, the athlete was part of the US Navy. Then in 1945 he became an assistant … Read more