(born 1943) Sokolov Sasha (Alexander Vsevolodovich) (born 1943), writer and poet. He was born in Ottawa in the family of an assistant military attache. After graduation, he entered the Military Institute of Foreign Languages, then moved to the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow University. M. V. Lomonosov. Labor activity began with journalistic work, but, having … Read more
(born 1919) Volodin (real name Lifshits) Alexander Moiseevich (born 1919), playwright, prose writer. He was born on February 10 in Minsk. He received a pedagogical education, worked as a rural teacher. At the beginning of the war, the soldier goes to the front. In the postwar years he studied at the scenario faculty of the … Read more
John Ronald Ruel Tolkien is a world-famous science fiction writer. He is better known as the author of works “The Hobbit” and the trilogy “The Lord of the Rings”. Early years John Ronald Ruel Tolkien was born January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in the family of Arthur Tolkien and Mabel Saffild Tolkien. After … Read more
Henry Armstrong – American boxer, was born in Columbus, Mississippi. At birth in the biography of Henry Armstrong was given the name of Henry Jackson. The athlete began his professional career in 1931. Soon he became known as a strong, tireless boxer. Armstrong won the title of champion in a very lightweight title in 1936. … Read more
Napoleon Bonaparte is a great French emperor, commander, statesman. Napoleon’s education was received at the Otien College, then at the Brienne Cadet School. In the biography of Napoleon, military service began as a junior lieutenant in 1785. In 1793 he became a battalion commander, then chief of artillery. After the brilliant campaign of Napoleon on … Read more
(1899-1994) Leonov Leonid Maksimovich (1899-1994), prose writer, playwright. Born May 19 (31 N. s.) In Moscow in the family of a poet of a peasant trend, known at the time. His publishing activities more than once brought him police reprisals. Children’s years of the future writer were held in Moscow Zaryadye, where he studied at … Read more
(1.05.1924 – 29.11.2001) May 1, 1924 in the village of Ovsyanka, which is on the banks of the Yenisei, near Krasnoyarsk, in the family of Peter Pavlovich and Lidia Ilyinichna Astafyev, son Victor was born. At the age of seven, the boy lost his mother – she drowned in the river, catching a scythe behind … Read more
Nancy Lopez is a golfer, born January 6, 1957 in Torrance, California. Most known as a great golfer. Nancy Lopez was the most famous among the other athletes involved in golf for ten years after her debut in 1978. Starting to play golf as a little girl, Nancy achieved perfection in amateur golf, then engaged … Read more
A Ukrainian with Jewish roots Isaac Babel, whose stories about the Russian army and life in the ghetto made him a popular author in the 1920s, compromised his credibility with the Soviet authorities and was executed in 1940. General information Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel was born in a family of Jews on July 13, 1894 in … Read more
(1783 – 1852) Zhukovsky’s father – Afanasy Ivanovich Bunin, landowner of the Tula province, owner with. Mishensky, mother – Salcha, a Turkish woman by birth, captured by the Russians during the storming of Bender in 1770. According to family legends, she was brought to Mishenskoye and presented to Bunin by one of his serfs, a … Read more