Biographies

(10.09.1708 – 31.03.1744) Cantemir Antioch Dmitrievich (10.9.1708, Constantinople – 31.3.1744, Paris, buried in Moscow), prince, poet, translator, diplomat, secret adviser (1741). Son of DK Kantemir. I got a brilliant education for my time. He studied history, Ancient Greek, Latin, Italian, Old Slavonic, Russian; the teachers of Antiochus Cantemir were the Greek A. Kandoidi and the … Read more

Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet is a Russian lyricist, famous for his “poet of feeling” and “fanatic of beauty”. Being an adherent of “pure art”, he developed in his work “eternal” themes of love, beauty, nature, “poetry of the soul”, art. The life of A. A. Fet in dates and facts Presumably between October 29 and November … Read more

Ryan Shackler is a skateboarder, born on December 20, 1989 in San Clemente, California. Biography Shekler is best known as the history of the youngest professional skateboarder, as well as the television star “Life of Ryan”. Shackler conquered the skateboard world when, at the age of 13, he won a gold medal at the extreme … Read more

Ivan Andreevich Krylov, who possesses both the talent of the poet, and the skill to create dramatic works, publisher and publicist, went down in the history of Russian literature as the most famous fabulist. His creative legacy consists of tragedies, comedies and 236 fables, collected in 9 books. Childhood and youth Ivan Andreevich was born … Read more

Daniel Defoe is an English writer, publicist. Born Defoe in Criplegate in about 1660. Education in the biography of Daniel Defoe was received at the Newington Academy. Since then, Defoe has been fascinated by the study of foreign languages, and later improved his knowledge during trade trips to Europe. Biography of Daniel Defoe is also … Read more

Fedor Ivanovich Tiutchev is a famous Russian poet, diplomat and publicist. The author of more than 400 poems. Early years Fedor Ivanovich Tyutchev was born on November 23, 1803 in the estate Ovstug of the Orel province. In the biography Tyutchev primary education was received at home. He studied the poetry of ancient Rome and … Read more

Valeria Lvovna Kudryavtseva is a Russian actress, presenter. Born May 19, 1971 in Ust-Kamenogorsk in a family, completely unrelated to acting. However, after school in her biography Kudryavtseva went to study in the cultural enlightenment school, where she devoted herself to theatrical direction. Having decided to raise her level, she entered GITIS. Attractive appearance, plasticity, … Read more

Daria Viktorovna Astafieva – model, winner of the title “Playmate of the Month” magazine “Playboy”, singer. Dasha was born on August 4, 1985 in the Ukrainian city of Ordzhonikidze, Dnipropetrovsk region. Dasha’s parents were ordinary workers. As a child, the girl did not differ in particular beauty, as well as high marks in the school. … Read more

Steve Prefontaine is a runner, born January 25, 1951 in Cus Bay, Oregon. Biography of Steve Prefontaine is best known as the history of the Oregon star. Charismatic, handsome, self-confident Steve Prefontaine was one of the leading American runners in the 1970s. He won seven championships of the National Student Sports Association while studying at … Read more

Basta is a rap singer. Basta – was born on April 20, 1980 in Rostov-on-Don. As a teenager, in his biography Nagano showed interest in music. Already at the age of 15 he tried to create his own band, and recorded the first song at the age of 17. A year later there was a … Read more

(born 1925) Vinokurov Eugene Mikhailovich (born 1925), the poet. He was born on October 22 in Bryansk, in the family of a serviceman. He studied at school until the tenth grade. The outbreak of the Patriotic War interrupted education: Vinokurov went to the officer artillery school, where a two-year program was held for nine months … Read more

Quentin Tarantino – film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, owner of the most prestigious in the film industry awards: “Oscar”, “Golden Palm Branch”, “Golden Globe”. Quentin Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. His parents were not painted. At birth in the biography of Quentin Tarantino was given the name Quintus. Later … Read more

Daisuke Matsusaka is a baseball player who was born on September 13, 1980 in Higashi Tsugaru-gu, Aomori, Japan. Best known as the reliever of the Boston Red Sox team. Daisuke is one of Japan’s most famous athletes. Various parts of the biography of Daisuke Matsusaka were intensively covered in the mass media, which brought him … Read more

English writer, professor of mathematics at Oxford University. Charles Ludwidge Dodgson (this is the real name of Carroll) was born in a small village of Dersbury in the Cheshire emblem. He was the eldest son of the modest parish priest Charles Dodgson and Francis Jane Lutwidge. At baptism, as it often happened in those days … Read more

Vladislav Borisovich Galkin is an actor, Honored Artist of Russia. Vyacheslav was born in Leningrad on December 25, 1971 in an acting family. His father was a famous director, actor Boris Galkin. But his parents did not want Vladislav Galkin’s biography to be chosen as an actor’s way. Since childhood, the boy has been mischievous, … Read more

(1811 – 1848) Russian critic and publicist. Born June 11 (old style – May 30) in 1811 in the fortress of Sveaborg (Finland), in the family of a naval doctor, and later – a district doctor. My mother was a typical provincial gossip, and my father, a man without gifts, sank under the influence of … Read more

James Baldwin is an American author, was born in New York. He spent his childhood in poverty in the slums of Harlem and at the age of 14 became a preacher in the Pentecostal Fireworks. His first novel, “Go forth from the mountain,” reflected his reflections as a young preacher. Two of these works in … Read more

Iosif Alexandrovich Brodsky – writer, translator. Joseph Brodsky was born on May 24, 1940 in Leningrad. Two years later, when the blockade was over, a move to Cherepovets took place in Brodsky’s biography. But the image of post-war Leningrad was preserved for a long time in the poet’s work. After the end of the seven … Read more

Muhammad Ali is a boxer, was born on January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. He is best known as the heavyweight boxing champion, named the greatest. At birth, he received the name Cassius Marcellus Clay. A charismatic, outspoken athlete, named great, Muhammad Ali was one of the most outstanding boxers in the heavyweight of the … Read more

Adam Smith is a famous Scottish economist and philosopher, the founder of the classical school of political economy. His most famous works are: the scientific work Theory of Moral Senses and the book Study of the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Adam Smith was born in the small town of Kirkcaldy in … Read more

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov – Russian poet and prose writer, playwright, translator, critic-literary critic, one of the founders of Russian symbolism. Childhood and youth Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov was born on December 1 in Moscow in a merchant family. The future poet received his primary education at home. Since 1885, Bryusov studied at the classical gymnasium of … Read more

Agatha Christie is a Russian band playing in the style of art-rock, post-punk. The Agatha Christie group was founded in 1988 by Vadim Samoilov, Peter May, Alexander Kozlov. Taking a great interest in music back in school, this three during the study at the institute founded the group “RTF UPI”, which played in a break … Read more

Cal Ripken is a baseball player, born August 24, 1960 in Navdr de Grace, Maryland. In baseball, it is best known as the “Iron Man”. At birth, he received the name Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr.. Cal Ripken earned the nickname “Iron Man” due to the record number of games played in the top league. Such … Read more

Emelyan Ivanovich Pugachev – leader of the Peasants’ War. In the biography of Pugachev from 1756 to 1763 took part in the Seven Years’ War. From 1763 to 1767 he served in the winter village of the Don region. Participated in the Russian-Turkish war of 1769. Due to illness, I decided to resign, after refusal … Read more

Roman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko – footballer, was born on December 15 in the settlement Mostovskoy of the Krasnodar Territory. After moving to Cherkassk, in Pavlyuchenko’s biography there was a hobby for football. From courtyard games over time, moved to training in the Sports School of Stavropol, and then became a member of the Stavropol “Dynamo”. In … Read more

(1800 – 1844) Born February 19, 1800, in the village of Vezhle (Tambov province, Kirsanov uyezd), and was the son of Adjutant General Abram Andreevich B. and the maid of honor Alexandra Feodorovna, nee Cherepanovoy. As a child, B. uncle had an Italian Borghese, and the boy got acquainted with the Italian language; he also … Read more

Mario Lemie – Canadian hockey player, was born in the city of Montreal. Biography Mario Lemieux is known as the history of the star of the team “Pittsburgh Penguins”. In 1984, in the first round, he was selected for the National Hockey League draft. Then Lemier became the beginner of the year. In 1991, 1992, … Read more

Fedor Ivanovich Tiutchev is a Russian lyricist who developed the traditions of philosophical poetry. In his work, the setting for intellectual contemplation was combined with the passionate experience of the pictures depicted, and thought and feeling were refracted through the prism of a late romantic worldview. Life of F. Tyutchev in dates and facts December … Read more

(7.03.1928 – 9.06.1984) Chivilikhin Vladimir Alekseevich (7.03.1928, Mariinsk, Kemerovo region – 9.06.1984, Moscow). His father worked on freight trains, died in 1938. At the age of 13 I came to work as a mechanic in a railway depot. He graduated from zheldortekhnikum at Taiga station. After the war, the family moved to Chernigov. He graduated … Read more

Alexander Dumas is a writer, playwright, journalist, famous for his adventure novels. Dumas was born on December 5, 1802 in the small French town of Villiers-Cotteros in the family of a general. Thanks to the connections of their parents in the biography of Dumas, a small position was obtained in the office of the Palais … Read more

Radishchev Alexander Nikolayevich – Russian writer, poet, philosopher, translator, author of the famous work “Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.” Childhood and Education Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev was born on August 20, 1749 in Moscow to a noble family. The childhood of the future writer passed in the village of Nemtsovo, then his family moved to … Read more

(1924 – 1997) That’s what Bulat Shalvovich himself told the “Ogonyok” correspondent Oleg Terentyev about his life: “Well, I can tell you.” I was born in Moscow, on Arbat in the 24th year. By origin I am Georgian. But, as my Moscow friends say, Georgians of the Moscow spill. My native language is Russian. I … Read more

Marat Alimzhanovich Basharov – a popular TV host, Honored Artist of Tatarstan. Early years He was born on August 22, 1974 in Moscow. His father was a fitter and his mother a cook. The showman also has two brothers for his father. After Marat graduated from high school, he entered the Moscow State University. Chooses … Read more

Viktor Petrovich Astafyev is a famous Soviet writer, novelist, essayist. Laureate of state prizes of the USSR and the Russian Federation. Childhood and youth Victor was born on May 1, 1924 in a small village Ovsyanka Yenisei province. Even in a brief biography of Astafiev, you can list many tragic moments. Even when Victor was … Read more

Brett Favre is a football player, was born on October 10, 1969 in Gulfport, Mississippi. He is best known as the starting quarterback of the Green Bay Packers. Brett Favre spent 15 years in the “Green Bay Packers” team in the position of the starting quarterback. Favre has done more touchdowns than anyone else in … Read more

(1821 – 1881) Pisemsky Alexey Feofilaktovich (1821 – 1881), the prose writer. Born March 11 (23 N. s.) In the village Ramenie of the Kostroma province in a poor noble family. He spent his childhood in Vetluga, where his father, a retired lieutenant colonel, served as a governor. In 1934 – 40 he studied at … Read more

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin – a great Russian artist, academician. Ivan was born in the city of Elabuga in Vyatka province on January 25, 1832 in a merchant family. The first education in Shishkin’s biography was received at the Kazan Gymnasium. After studying there for 4 years, Shishkin entered the School of Painting in Moscow. After … Read more

Cheryl Swaps, a basketball player, was born on March 25, 1971 in Brownfield, Texas. Best known as the star of the Houston Comets team of the Women’s National Basketball Association. Cheryl Swaps began to play for the team of the Texas Technical University in 1993. She scored 47 points in the national championship game. After … Read more

Sergio Oliva is a bodybuilder, winner of the “Mr. Olympia” competition of 1967-1969. Sergio Oliva was born on July 4, 1941 in Cuba. In 12 years, along with his father began working on plantations of sugar cane. Taking up weight lifting, in the first six months of training in his biography Sergio Oliva was able … Read more

(1890 – 1972) Inber Vera Mikhailovna (1890 – 1972), poetess, prose writer. She was born on June 28 (July 10, 2007) in Odessa to the family of the owner of a scientific publishing house. Since childhood, she wrote poetry. At the end of the gymnasium, she enrolled in the Odessa Higher Women’s Courses for the … Read more

Berres Frederick Skinner is the inventor of the camera of operant conditioning and one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century. Childhood and early years Berres Frederick was born in Pennsylvania, USA, in the family of the lawyer William Skinner and his wife Grace. The boy had a happy childhood, and from an … Read more

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov is a Russian writer and public figure, one of the greatest authors of Soviet “official” literature, a Nobel Prize winner. Endowed with an original epic talent, he acted as a continuer of Tolstoy’s realism traditions on new life material and in the conditions of a new historical era. World fame Sholokhov brought … Read more

(born 1938) Writer, editor-in-chief of the journal `Moscow`; was born in 1938 in Irkutsk; studied at the Irkutsk State University, from which he was expelled for organizing a student circle; graduated from the Pedagogical Institute in Ulan-Ude in 1962; worked on the construction of the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station, at a mine in Norilsk; after … Read more

(1903 – 1965) Zlobin Stepan Pavlovich (1903 – 1965), the prose writer. Born November 11 (24 N. p.) In Moscow in the family of a medical student, participant in the revolutionary movement. He was brought up by his grandmother (parents were in prison, then in exile), having lived a difficult, often hungry childhood. At the … Read more

John Barth is an American writer, was born in Cambridge, Maryland. He studied at Johns Hopkins University. Since 1973, at the end of the university, the twenty following years of John Barth’s life have been devoted to the teaching of writing. His postmodern novels – experimental, comic, self-referential, and often prolonged – reflected his anger … Read more

(1889 – 1963) Aseev Nikolai Nikolaevich (1889 – 1963), the poet. He was born on June 28 (July 10, 2006) in the city of Lgov, Kursk region, to the family of an insurance agent. He spent his childhood in the house of his grandfather, Nikolai Pavlovich Pinsky, hunter and fisherman, lover of folk songs and … Read more

Tracy Austin – tennis player, was born on December 12, 1962 in the city of Palo Verdes, California. Biography Tracy Austin is known as the champion who defeated Evert and Navratilova. Teenydzherka won a place among the best tennis players of the era of Chris Evert and Mirtina Navratilova. Tracy was a young girl with … Read more

Polina Gagarina – singer, was born on March 27, 1987. After finishing the first class in Greece Polina moved to Saratov, where she went to music school. In the biography of Gagarina, from childhood, along with a passion for music, dancing talent was manifested. After not enrolling in a ballet school, after graduating from the … Read more

(1882-1938) Zhitkov Boris Stepanovich (1882 – 1938), the prose writer. He was born on August 30 (September 11, 2001) in Novgorod to a family of a teacher of mathematics. He received a wonderful home education. After graduation he entered the natural department of Novorossiysk University, graduated in 1906. In 1911 – -16 he studied at … Read more

(1889 – 1966) Poetess. After the family disbanded in 1905, the mother and children moved to Evpatoria, from there to Kiev. There, Akhmatova graduated from high school and in 1907 entered the law faculty of the Higher Women’s Courses in Kiev. In 1910 she married S. Gumilev. Together with him was in 1910 and 1911 … Read more