Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky is an outstanding actor of theater and cinema, People’s Artist of the USSR, director. Oleg was born in Dzhezkazgan in a military family. Oleg’s childhood was poor, but no less joyful: he played football, and nothing predicted future great fame as an actor. Then the family moved to Saratov, and in 1958 … Read more
Arthur Esch – tennis player, was born on July 10, 1943 in the city of Richmond, Virginia. Best known as the first black man to win the US championship. In the biography of Arthur Ash, the stellar period was the 1960s and 1970s. Sometimes the athlete is called an African American pioneer, because he was … Read more
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky is an artist, an activist. Ivan was born on July 29, 1817 in Feodosia. The first years of Aivazovsky’s biography passed in poverty as a result of his father’s ruin. But all the same, he managed to enter the gymnasium of Simferopol. His passion for painting led him to the walls of … Read more
Nikita Borisovich Dzhigurda – actor, director, screenwriter, singer, poet. He was born on March 27 in Kiev. After graduation from the school, Jigurda entered the Institute of Physical Culture. The first great victories in the biography of Dzhigurdy were achieved in sports. He received the title of candidate for master of sports, also was a … Read more
(1814 – 1861) Shevchenko Taras Grigoryevich (1814 – 1861), Ukrainian poet. He was born in the village of Morintsy in the Kiev province in the family of a serf Ianina cross. Children’s days passed in their native village, then in the village of Kirilovka. Early orphaned, he knew the serf lacking rights. He was taught … Read more
Pasternak Boris Leonidovich is a Russian writer, poet and prose writer of the 20th century. Author of the famous novel “Doctor Zhivago”, a lot of translations from other languages, collections of poems, stories, articles and essays. Nobel prize winner in literature. Early years Born January 29, 1890 in Moscow in the family of the artist … Read more
Johann Wolfgang Goethe is a German poet, prose writer, playwright, essayist, thinker and researcher. The main book of the writer, the tragedy “Faust”, is recognized as the peak phenomenon of fiction, and its main character stands alongside the greatest “eternal images.” Goethe is considered a symbol of the spiritual culture of Germany and the personification … Read more
Heinrich Belle is a German writer, novelist and playwright. Belle represents a critical, anti-militaristic image of modern society in the collection of skilful short stories. Such works include “The Traveler, when you come to the Spa…”, Traveler, If You Come to Spa 1957), the novel “Where have you been, Adam?” , Adam, Where Art Thou? … Read more
Arnold Bennett is an English novelist and playwright. As one of the great 20th-century English novelists, Bennett is known for his realistic “Five Cities” novels, which tell of fictional production areas in the north of England. Early career Bennett began with the editing of the fashion magazine “Woman” and writing literary reviews and articles. Around … Read more
(22.08.1921 – 7.10.1977) Orlov Sergey Sergeevich (22.08.1921, the village of Megra, Vologda region – 7/10/1977, Moscow). He grew up in a family of rural teachers. In 1938 he received a prize at the All-Union competition of poems by schoolchildren for the poem “Pumpkin”, which Kornei Chukovsky liked very much. In 1940 he entered the history … Read more