Viktor Andreevich Yushchenko is the President of Ukraine. He was born in a small village of Horuzhevka in the Sumy region to a family of teachers. Higher education in the biography of Viktor Yushchenko was received at the Financial and Economic Institute of Ternopil. After serving in the army he began to work as an … Read more
Vasily Stepanov is a movie actor. Vasily was born in Moscow, although his parents are from a small village in the Smolensk region. In the biography of Vasily Stepanov, the decision to become an actor did not come immediately. And his family is uncreative – his father is a policeman, his mother is also far … Read more
(1903-1944) Utkin Iosif Pavlovich (1903 – 1944), the poet. He was born on May 13 at the Khingang Station of the Sino-Eastern Railway, which his parents built. After the birth of the son, the family returned to their hometown Irkutsk, where the future poet lived until 1920. He studied at a three-year primary school, then … Read more
Leo Tolstoy is a Russian writer, publicist, educator, creator of the original philosophical doctrine, known as “Tolstoyism” and evoking a broad social and cultural movement both in Russia and abroad. Creativity Tolstoy, permeated with the pathos of affirming the moral foundations of life and spiritual self-improvement of personality, marked a new stage in the development … Read more
Jean Piaget is a psychologist and philosopher, known for his theory of cognitive development. Childhood and youth Jean Piaget was the eldest son of Arthur Piaget and Rebecca Jackson. His father was a Swiss and taught literature of the Middle Ages, and his mother was French. In his childhood, Jean Piaget was so much interested … Read more
(born 1924) Yury Bondarev (born in 1924), a prose writer. Born March 15 in Orsk in the Urals in the family of an administrative employee. Childhood years have passed in Moscow. The outbreak of the Patriotic War prevented them from continuing their education: after graduating from high school, he went to the front. He was … Read more
Oleg Mikhailovich Gazmanov is a Russian singer, Honored and People’s Artist of Russia. Gazmanov was born on July 22, 1951 in a military family. He spent his childhood in Kaliningrad. After graduation, Gazmanov’s biography was followed by admission to the Higher Engineering and Marine College. After graduation, while serving as lieutenant, he served near Riga. … Read more
Maria Shukshina is a Russian film actress, TV presenter. Maria was born on May 27, 1968 in the family of the film director, actor and writer Vasily Shukshin. In the movie began to act at the age of one year. In 1972, in the biography of Maria Shukshina, another role was played in the movie … Read more
Leonardo da Vinci is the greatest Italian artist who made a great contribution to the art of the High Renaissance, a brilliant scientist, inventor, thinker, musician, the brightest example of a “universal human being.” Childhood and Education Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Ankiato village near the city of Vinci. The … Read more
(1862-1911) Fofanov Konstantin Ivanovich (1862 – 1911), the poet. Born May 18 (30 N. s.) In St. Petersburg in a merchant family. He studied in private boarding schools, then in the city school of Petersburg, which he left in a year and a half. Fofanov’s literary activity began in 1881, and very soon his poems … Read more