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Benois House
Benois House (russian: До́м Бенуа́, Dóm Benuá), also widely known as the Three Benois House (russian: До́м трёх Бенуа́, Dóm trokh Benuá), is a historic building in Saint Petersburg, Russia. History The apartment house occupies almost a whole quarter on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt. The locals call it “the Benois House ” or “the house of the Three Benois”, because it was designed by three members of a famous family of architects—brothers Leon Benois and Albert Benois and their cousin Julius Benois. The building was erected in 1911-1914 by order of the First Russian Insurance Company. The number of apartments during the construction of the house is 250, the number of front doors is 25, the number of courtyards is 12. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 the house’s original residents—princes, counts and prosperous manufacturers were replaced by Bolshevik leaders. The apartments on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt were taken by comrades Grigory Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style), Modern Style in English. It was popular between 1890 and 1910 during the Belle Époque period, and was a reaction against the academic art, eclecticism and historicism of 19th century architecture and decoration. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and flowers. Other characteristics of Art Nouveau were a sense of dynamism and movement, often given by asymmetry or whiplash lines, and the use of modern materials, particularly iron, glass, ceramics and later concrete, to create unusual forms and larger open spaces.Sembach, Klaus-Jürgen, ''L'Art Nouveau'' (2013), pp. 8–30 One major objective of Art Nouveau was to break down the traditional distinction between fine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bandit Petersburg
''Bandit Petersburg'' (or ''Gangster Petersburg'', russian: Бандитский Петербург) is a Russian detective television series. It was one of the most successful Russian series of the early 2000s. The series is loosely based on the eight works of . The first two parts premiered in May 2000 on the NTV channel. In total, ten seasons were produced, the last of which was broadcast in 2007. The only character who appears in 9 seasons (except the film ''The Operative''), is Lieutenant Colonel Kudasov by Yevgeny Sidikhin. Music The series' theme song is ''The City that isn't there'', by singer and composer Igor Kornelyuk, and lyricist . Part I of the series also features ''You're a Stranger To Me'' by Tatiana Bulanova as a secondary theme. Anachronism Although the events of the series are portrayed as taking place in the late 1980s to early 1990s, anachronistic objects such as car models, mobile phones, personal computers, signage and media appear in the ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Prokofyev
Aleksandr Andreyevich Prokofiev (russian: Алекса́ндр Андре́евич Проко́фьев; , Kobona –18 September 1971, Leningrad) was a Soviet poet. Prokofyev is best recognized for the motifs of Russian folklore found in his works. Biography The son of a peasant fisherman, Prokofiev was born in the Lake Ladoga village of Kobona in the Russian Empire (now in northwestern Leningrad Oblast) in 1900.Moore, Harry Thonrton, and Albert Parry. ''Twentieth-Century Russian Literature''. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 1971. , . P 117. Having graduated from a local school in 1913, spending the next four years as a teenage student of a teachers' academy in the Imperial capital of St. Petersburg. Prokofiev joined Bolshevik Party in 1919, during Russian Civil War, and came into the Red Army the same year, remaining in the Soviet Union's military ranks until 1930. He debuted with his first published poetry in 1927, producing his first book of poems in 1931. Prokofi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlas Doroshevich
Vlas Mikhailovich Doroshevich (russian: Влас Миха́йлович Дороше́вич), born April 17, 1864 – died February 22, 1922, was one of Russia's most popular and widely read journalists, and a novelist, essayist, drama critic, and short story writer. Early life Doroshevich was born in Moscow, where his mother Alexandra Sokolova was a member of the wealthy upper class. She was educated at the prestigious Smolny Institute in St. Petersburg, but was disinherited by her family for marrying Vlas's father, who was an unsuccessful writer, and far beneath her in social status. He died shortly before Vlas was born.Introduction to ''Russia's Penal Colony in the Far East'', Andrew A. Gentes, Anthem Press 2009. When Vlas was six months old, Alexandra, who had two other children and was struggling financially, brought him to Moscow and gave him to a childless couple by the name of Doroshevich. His mother requested that he be named Blaise in honor of the French philosophe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolay Cherkasov
Nikolay Konstantinovich Cherkasov (russian: Никола́й Константи́нович Черка́сов; 14 September 1966) was a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1947). Career He was born in Saint Petersburg (later Petrograd in 1914, and Leningrad from 1924 to 1991) into the family of a railway clerk. From 1919 he was a mime artist in Petrograd's Maryinsky Theatre, the Bolshoi Theatre, and elsewhere. After graduating from the Institute of Stage Arts in 1926, he began acting in the Young Spectator's Theatre in Leningrad. Cherkasov debuted in film with the supporting part of hairdresser Charles in Vladimir Gardin’s Pushkin biopic ''The Poet and the Tsar'' (1927). Cherkasov was one of Stalin's favorite actors and played title roles in Sergei Eisenstein's monumental sound films '' Alexander Nevsky'' (1938) and Parts I & II of '' Ivan the Terrible'' (1945 & 1946; though Part II was not officially released until 1958 for political reasons). He also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evgenija Ivanovna Zbrueva
Evgenija Ivanovna Zbrueva (December 26, 1867 or January 7, 1868 – 20 October 1936), in Russian Евге́ния Ива́новна Збру́ева, was a Russian contralto opera singer. Early life Zbrueva was born in Moscow, the daughter of composer Pyotr Bulakhov. (Her surname came from her mother's first husband, because her parents were not legally married.) She trained as a singer at the Moscow Conservatory, under E. A. Lavrovskaya. Career Zbrueva was a contralto in the Moscow Imperial Opera at the Bolshoi Theatre from 1894, and with the Mariinsky Theatre from 1905 until 1918, including appearances in Paris and Munich. In 1915 she was appointed Professor of Singing at Petrograd Conservatory. She was named an Honored Artist of the USSR in 1922. Zbrueva's repertoire included roles in Glinka's ''A Life for the Tsar'' (1894), Saint-Saëns' ''Henry VIII'', Rimsky-Korsakov's ''The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya'' (1907) and ''The Snow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgi Vasilyev
Georgi Nikolayevich Vasilyev (russian: Гео́ргий Никола́евич Васи́льев) (25 November 1899 – 18 June 1946) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and actor. From 1928 to 1943, together with Sergei Vasilyev (often jointly, though incorrectly credited as Vasilyev brothers), he co-directed several films, including an influential and critically acclaimed ''Chapaev'' (1934). Georgi Vasilyev received two Stalin Prizes in 1941 and 1942. Filmography Honors and awards * Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1940) * Stalin Prize: **first class (1941) – for ''Chapaev'' **first class (1942) – for the 1st series of ''The Defense of Tsaritsyn'' * Order of Lenin (1935) – for ''Chapaev'' * Order of the Red Star (1944) * Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" The Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (russian: медаль «За доблестный труд в Великой Отече ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Babochkin
Boris Andreyevich Babochkin (russian: Бори́с Андре́евич Ба́бочкин; 18 January 1904 – 17 July 1975) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor and director. Boris Babochkin was one of the first internationally recognized stars of the Soviet-Russian cinema. He rose to fame with the title role in the classic film '' Chapaev'' (1934) and later, in the 1950s, he played a sharp anti-communist character on stage in Moscow, for which he was censored by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Biography Life on the Volga Babochkin was born on 18 January 1904, in Saratov on the Volga river in Russia. His father, Andrei Babochkin, came from a family of Russian merchants and traders. The father had owned a successful trade business in the city of Saratov on Volga, then sold his business and worked for a railroad. The Babochkins lived in Krasny Kut, a small station near Saratov. His mother, a school teacher, was fond of Russian classical literature, and yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Kachalsky
Vladimir Stanislavovich Kachalsky (russian: Владимир Станиславович Качальский; (March 1, 1956) is a Союз Советских Социалистических Республик, Soviet and Russian painter, graphic artist and Printmaking, printmaker, book artist, author of installations and sculptural objects. Biography Studied in the studio under the guidance of Y. V. Dimakov (1962–1964). Studied in the studio of his father, artist S. B. Kachalsky; Secondary Leningrad Secondary Art School, Art School named after Ioganson (1967–1974). Graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts, Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.Y. Repin, V. A. Vetrogonsky's studio (1979–1985). Member of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (since 1990). Over recent years, he has been occupied with private interior design, fresco wall painting, colour relief. The artist works in printed graphic technics: lithography, etching, serigraphy, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
