Biographies

Egor Vadimovich Beroyev – a famous actor of theater and cinema, played a large number of unique roles. Egor was born on October 9, 1977 in Moscow to a family of actors. His father – Miseenko Vadim – Soviet actor, who played many roles in the domestic cinema. Mother – actress Elena Beroeva. Both the … Read more

Salvador Dali is a Spanish artist. Staying under the influence of futurism, in 1924, in the biography of Dali, a transition to the direction of the Italian artist de Chirico. By 1929, Dali became the leader in surrealism. Strictly realistic style reinforced the obsessive nightmare effect of many of his paintings. Among the most famous … Read more

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich – an artist, famous in the genre of avant-garde, impressionism, futurism, cubism. Kazimierz was born on February 23, 1878 in Kiev to a family with Polish roots. The first drawing paints in his biography Kazimir Malevich performed at the age of 15. Since then he began to master the art of painting … Read more

Robert Mario de Niro Jr. is a talented actor, director and producer of American cinema. Born in 1943, grew up in the Italian neighborhoods of New York. Father Robert de Niro was a creative person: an artist and a sculptor. Since childhood, Robert dreamed of the future artist. Then he graduated from acting school and … Read more

(1929 – 1977) Shatrov Nikolay (1929 – 1977). Son of Arbat homeopath Mihin, who died in 1942 in Tbilisi. Father replaced his stepfather – the artist. Mother is an artist. One time he lived in Semipalatinsk, where he studied at the local pedagogical institute. In Semipalatinsk, he brought the first verses to the newspaper “Priirtyshskaya … Read more

John Fitzgerald Kennedy is the 35th President of the United States. Born John May 29, 1917 in Massachusetts, the city of Brookline in a wealthy family policy. The first training in the biography of Kennedy took place at the boarding school of Connecticut, then he studied at Princeton, Harvard. For some time he lived in … Read more

Gene Tunney – American boxer, was born in the city of New York. Gin Tunney’s fascination with boxing manifested itself in his youth. Then Jean began boxing in the surrounding clubs. During the First World War, Tunney served in the US Navy. Until they took Paris, the American light heavyweight champion served in the exposition … Read more

Boris Valeryevich Grumbkov is a lawyer, a graduate of the St. Petersburg State University, general director of the publishing house “St. Petersburg Vedomosti”. The path from entering the university to a serious managerial post was complex and interesting. But first things first. Studentism, study and first difficulties Boris Valerievich studied at the Faculty of Law … Read more

Sergey Brin is a man who, together with Larry Page, created the most popular search engine in the world “Google”. Early years Internet entrepreneur and computer expert Sergei Mikhailovich Brin was born on August 21, 1973 in Russia, in Moscow. In 1971, Brin, a native of the family of Soviet mathematicians, economists, escaping from the … Read more

Alberta Bandura can be safely called the most influential psychologist of all time. Childhood and early years Albert Bandura, the youngest of six children and the only son in the family of small farmers, was born in Mandera, in the province of Alberta in Canada. His veins mixed Ukrainian and Polish blood. The possibilities for … Read more

The famous physicist Count Alessandro Volta is considered the inventor of the electric battery. Childhood and youth Volta was born in Como, his parents were Filippo Volta and Maddalena Inzaghi. His family was from the middle class. As a child, Alessandro was not smarter than his peers, and did not speak until four years. But … Read more

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok is the greatest poet, the classic of Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Childhood and Education He was born on November 16, 1880 in St. Petersburg in a highly cultured family. In 1889 he was sent to the second class of the Vvedensky Gymnasium, which he graduated in 1898. Then … Read more

(1.06.1923 – 2.03.1996) Mozhaev Boris Andreevich (1.06.1923, the village of Pitelino, Ryazan region – 2.03.1996, Moscow). Father before the revolution served on the boat. He grew up in a peasant family. After school in 1940 he submitted documents to the Gorky Institute of Water Transport Engineers for the shipbuilding faculty. But then they introduced a … Read more

Franz Kafka is an Austrian writer, one of the founders of modernist prose, who exerted a tremendous influence on the literature, art and culture of the twentieth century. In his work, the depth of understanding of the core problems of the spiritual life of the Modern Age is combined with an original imagery, balancing on … Read more

Valentina Tereshkova is an astronaut, the first woman to have been in space. Born March 6, 1937 in a small village of the Yaroslavl region. Education in the biography of Valentina Tereshkova was started in 1945 in the Yaroslavl school. After seven years of school began to work in the factory, and in parallel with … Read more

Constantine Brancusi is a Romanian sculptor. Biography Brancusi considered as one of the foremost modern creators. In 1904 he went to Paris. Because of the radical, economical style, his abstract works “The Kiss”, “Sleeping Muse”, a portrait of Miss Pogani were the object of great controversy. Brancusi has changed his technique from modeling to carving. … Read more

Budarin Viktor Konstantinovich is a banker who has received many awards, both at the regional and federal levels, the owner and chairman of the supervisory board of the Kuban Credit bank. Surname and biography of Budarin are known to everyone in the Kuban. A businessman who has invested his labor and resources in various branch … Read more

(1743-1803) Bogdanovich Ippolit Fedorovich (1743-1803) – poet of the Catherine’s times, genus. December 23, 1743 in Perevolochne; He was enrolled in military service for ten years, but after graduating from Moscow University in 1761 he was appointed a supervisor for classes to the university, and in 1762 to a commission on the structure of the … Read more

Alla Pugacheva is a singer, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, People’s Artist of the RSFSR, USSR. Alla Pugacheva was born on April 15, 1949 in Moscow. In the biography of Pugacheva, a hobby for singing appeared from childhood. In 1965, she graduated from high school. In the same year, the first song of Pugacheva was … Read more

(1869-1945) Gippius Zinaida Nikolaevna (1869 – 1945), poetess, prose writer, critic. She was born on November 8 (20th century) in the city of Belev in the Chernigov province to the family of a state official who served in Nizhyn. I received a thorough home education. After the death of his father, the family moved to … Read more

Musa Jalil is a poet, Hero of the Soviet Union. Musa Jalil was born on February 2, 1906 in the village of Mustafino, Orenburg region, in a Tatar family. Education in the biography of Musa Jalil was received in the madrasah “Khusainia” in Orenburg. Jalil since 1919 is a member of the Komsomol. Education Musa … Read more

John Davison Rockefeller headed the company Standard Oil and was one of the richest people in the world. Being a philanthropist and a pious man, he spent his fortune on charity. Founded a charitable organization – the Rockefeller Foundation. Early years John Davison Rockefeller is an American entrepreneur who has earned his fortune by starting … Read more

(born 1937) Rasputin Valentin Grigorievich (born 1937), writer. Born March 15 in the village of Ust-Uda, Irkutsk region in a peasant family. After school he entered the historico-philological faculty of Irkutsk University. In his student years he became a freelance correspondent for a youth newspaper. One of his essays attracted the attention of the editor. … Read more

(1909 – 1983) Kron (Kerin) Alexander Alexandrovich (1909 – 1983), prose writer, playwright. He was born on June 30 (July 13, 2001) in Moscow to the composer’s family. During the civil war he got into a children’s correctional colony near Moscow, where he studied and acquired a specialty. Have worked. In 1930 he graduated from … Read more

Michelle Vigolphist, was born on 11 October 1989 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Most known as a gifted Hawaiian golfer. Michelle took up professional golf in October 2005, on the eve of her sixteenth birthday. Up to this point, Michelle Vie has already shown herself at both women’s and men’s competitions. She acted as a member of … Read more

Jorge Luis Borges is an Argentine poet, critic and publicist. Born in the city of Buenos Aires. Borges was widely hailed as an outstanding Spanish-American writer. He was educated in Switzerland and then moved to Spain. There, Borges became a representative of ultra-ism, a poetic movement that followed the decline of modernism after the First … Read more

Nikolai Copernicus is a scientist, an astronomer, a physicist, a mathematician. Born February 19, 1473 in Torun, Poland. In 1491, a biography of Copernicus received admission to the University of Cracow. It is there that he is fond of astronomy, medicine, mathematics. Then in Copernicus’s life there was a transfer to Italy, and afterwards – … Read more

Winston Churchill – Prime Minister, political and statesman of Great Britain, Nobel Prize winner, writer. Born Winston Churchill November 30, 1874 in Blenheim, Oxfordshire in a wealthy and influential family. Until eight years in the biography of Winston Churchill his nanny was engaged in his upbringing. And then he was sent to study at St. … Read more

Art Buchwald – American journalist and humorist, was born in New York. Living in Paris, he received in 1949 the position of editor of the humorous column of the magazine “New York Herald Tribune”. In 1962, he returned to the United States, where from 1967 to 2006, his humorous columns are simultaneously published in the … Read more

Albert Camus is a French writer, was born in Algiers. Camus was one of the most important authors and thinkers of the 20th century. As a student at the University of Algiers, he formed a theater group and adapted, directed and staged plays. He was active in public reforms, and became a member of the … Read more

Roger Maris – a baseball player, was born on September 10, 1934 in the city of Hibbing, Minnesota, died of lymphatic cancer on December 14, Best known as a man who beat the Babe Ruth record on home runs for one season. In 1961, 61 home runs were made by Roger Maris. This athlete broke … Read more

Elena Lvovna Chekalova is a journalist, television presenter, wife of Leonid Parfenov. Elena Chekalova is known not simply as the wife of the famous TV presenter, but as a woman who has covered all of her culinary abilities. She is able to bring from the screens not only a dry recipe for an expensive overseas … Read more

Rimma V. Markova is an actress of theater and cinema, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation. Rimma Markova was born in the village of Churino, Samara region, March 3, 1925. The girl was brought up in an actor’s family: her father worked as an actor in the drama theater of Saratov. Not surprisingly, since childhood … Read more

(Wilde) (16.10.1854, Dublin, 30.11.1900, Paris), an English writer and critic. Irish by nationality. He graduated from Oxford University (1879). The collection of “Poems” (1881) was a success. Under the influence of J. Ruskin’s lectures on art, he was carried away by the ideas of the so-called aesthetic movement, preached the need for the revival of … Read more

President Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States. He radically revised the goals of the US government and put an end to the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Childhood and Education Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6, 1911 in Tampico, Illinois, USA, to John Edward’s family “Jack” Reagan and … Read more

Harutyun A. Hakobyan – artist, magician, was born on April 26, 1918 in Yerevan. At the beginning of the biography of Harutyun Hakobyan, a choreographic education was received at the local school. Then, thanks to the will of his father, he leaves the dance ensemble for training in a construction technical school. The next stage … Read more

Christy Mathewson is an American baseball player, was born in Factoryville, Pennsylvania. In 1902 he graduated from the University of Bucknell. The baseball player played with his right hand. In the biography of Christy Mathewson, since 1901, games began for the “Cincinnati Reds” team, and then for the “New York Giants”. After John McGraw, Matthews … Read more

Scarlett Johansson is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the films “Lost in Translation”, “Nanny Diaries”, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”, “Avengers”, “Hitchcock” and “Lucy”. Briefly Scarlett Johansson was born in New York in 1884. Acting career she began as a child, at the age of 13, the role in the film … Read more

Charles Augustin de Coulomb is a physicist, whose name is the law of interaction of electric projectiles. Childhood and youth Charles Augustin de Coulon was born into a well-to-do family in Angouleme, France. His father, Henri Coulomb, came from a well-known family of lawyers, and his mother, Catherine Bage, was a representative of a noble … Read more

Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov is a famous Soviet writer, public figure, military correspondent, laureate of Lenin and Stalin prizes, Hero of Socialist Labor. Early years Born on November 15, 1915 in Petrograd. But the first years of his life Simonov lived in Saratov, Ryazan. Parents were named Kirill, but then changed his name and took a … Read more

(1904 – 1941) Gaidar (real name – Golikov) Arkady Petrovich (1904 – 1941), the prose writer. Born January 9 (22 N. s.) In the city of Lgov Kursk province in the family of a teacher. Children’s days were spent in Arzamas. He studied in a real school, but when the First World War broke out … Read more

(11/10/1936 – June 30, 1987) Kistyakovsky Andrey Andreevich (11/10/1936, Moscow – June 30, 1987, Moscow). From an old noble family. Many relatives on the part of the mother were repressed in the 1930s, and K.’s father, who was in charge of the chair of sports facilities at the construction institute, also underwent a short-term arrest. … Read more

(1895 – 1990) Odoyevtseva Irina, real name – Iraida Gustavovna Ivanova, nee Heinike (1895 – 1990), poetess, prose writer. Born February 23 in Riga to a family lawyer. She got a good home education, graduated from high school. Early started writing poems. After the revolution, being a disciple of N. Gumilev, adjoined the Acmeists. In … Read more

Michelangelo Buonarotti is a great Italian art figure, an ingenious sculptor, architect, painter, a famous representative of the High Renaissance. He was the first sculptor who was well versed in human anatomy, and for depicting the human body in the form of sculptures, he worked with solid material – marble. Michelangelo was born in the … Read more

Nikita Khrushchev – Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Council of Ministers. He was born in Kalinovka in Kursk province. He was a shepherd, then a fitter. And in 1914 he went to the front. After joining the Bolshevik Party in 1918, Nikita Khrushchev’s biography began active party work. Continuing his education … Read more

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi is an Italian composer, conductor, teacher. Born March 4, 1678 in Venice in the family violinist. In the biography of Antonio Vivaldi, the first lessons in music were received from his father. After tonsuring at the monks at the age of fifteen, he became deacon after seven years, and three more later … Read more

Eva Jacqueline Longoria is an American actress who became famous for her role as Gabrielle Solis in the television series Desperate Housewives. Briefly Actress Eva Longoria was born on March 15, 1975 in Corpus Christi, Texas. In her youth, she participated in beauty contests. Her appearance in show business occurred with a role in the … Read more

(25.7.1929 – 2.10.1974) Shukshin Vasily Makarovich (25.7.1929, village Srostki, Biysk District, Altai Territory, 2.10.1974, village of Kletskaya, Volgograd Region, buried in Moscow), Russian Soviet writer, film director, actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1969). Member of the CPSU since 1955. He was born into a peasant family. He graduated from the directing department of VGIK … Read more

(born 1906) Kazantsev Alexander Petrovich (born 1906), writer. He was born on August 20 (September 2 nd) in Akmolinsk. He studied at a real school in Petropavlovsk, then at a technical school in Omsk, at the Tomsk Technological Institute at the Faculty of Mechanics. In his student years he was fond of inventing. In 1930, … Read more

Casey Stengel is an American baseball player and manager, was born in Kansas City, Missouri. In the biography of Casey Stengel, professional baseball games began in 1910. From 1912 to 1925 he played for clubs Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York, Boston National League. Here, in the main league, he scored average points in the batting … Read more