Category: Biographies

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

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,…

(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,…

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,…

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…

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…

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…