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Bogoslovskoe Cemetery
Bogoslovskoe Cemetery (russian: Богословское кладбище) is a cemetery in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is located in the Kalininsky District of the city between and . The name comes from the church of John the Apostle, (russian: Иоанн Богослов, Ioann Bogoslov), which from the early 18th century had a burial ground attached, mostly for those who died in the nearby military hospital. This site was some 2.5 km south of the present cemetery, at what is now the intersection of and . The church and cemetery were closed in 1788 and the land sold off into private ownership. In 1841 the city acquired a new plot of land for a cemetery, and named it after the previous one. In 1844, the Most Holy Synod approved the building of a new stone church, but no funds were available. In 1853-1854 a small two-storey chapel was built. In 1915–1916, a new wooden three-fronted church of John the Apostle was built at the cemetery to the design of architect . The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bonch-Bruevich
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bonch-Bruevich ( rus, Михаил Александрович Бонч-Бруевич, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈbontɕ brʊˈjevʲɪtɕ , a=Ru-Mikhail_Aleksandrovich_Bonch-Bruevich.ogg, 22 February 1888 – 7 March 1940), sometimes spelled Bonch-Bruyevich, was a engineer, scientist, and professor. Generally considered the leading authority on radio in Russian Empire and Soviet Union in the first decades of the 20th century, he greatly influenced the pre-radar development of radio-location in that nation. Career and accomplishments M. A. Bonch-Bruevich was born in Oryol, a town in Oryol Oblast in Central Russia. The family, which was of royal Polish origin, the original surname being Boncz-Brujewicz, moved to Kiev in 1896. Bonch-Bruevich attended the Nikolaevsky Engineering School in St. Petersburg, completing undergraduate studies in 1909. He then entered the Imperial Russian Army and did graduate study and performed research at the Imperi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Gardin
Vladimir Rostislavovich Gardin (russian: Влади́мир Ростисла́вович Га́рдин) (born Vladimir Rostislavovich Blagonravov (Благонра́вов); – 28 May 1965) was a pioneering Russian film director and actor who strove to raise the artistic level of Russian cinema. He first gained renown as a stage actor in the adaptations of Russian classics by and other directors. In 1913, he turned to cinema and started producing screen versions of great Russian fiction: '' |
Andrey Gagarin
Prince Andrey Petrovich Gagarin (Russian: Андрей Петрович Гагарин; 9 July 1934, in Leningrad, USSR St. Petersburg, Russia] – 30 January 2011, in Maryland, United States, USA) was a professor of physics at Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University. Ancestry and background As the son of Prince Peter Andreevich Gagarin (Russian: Князь Петр Андреевич Гагарин, 1904–1938) and grandson of Prince Andrey Grigorievich Gagarin (Russian: Князь Андрей Григорьевич Гагарин, 1855–1920), Andrey Petrovich Gagarin walked in the footsteps of his closest ancestors. His father was a graduate of the same Polytechnical University for which his grandfather was the first rector, and at which Andrey Petrovich Gagarin held a professorship. His Great-grandfather was the diplomat, artist, officer and the vice-chancellor of the Imperial Academy of Arts Prince Grigory Grigorievich Gagarin (Russian: Князь Григорий ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerian A
Valerian may refer to: Arts and entertainment * a fictional character in ''Valérian and Laureline'', a comics series **''Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets'', a film adaptation of the comic series * an early pseudonym for Gary Numan (b. 1958), a musician * a fictional race in "Dramatis Personae" (''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'') * an arms manufacturer in ''On the Frontier'', a play published in 1938 People * Valerian (name), including a list of people with the given name and surname * Valerian (emperor), Roman emperor from 253 to 260 Plants * Valerian (herb), ''Valeriana officinalis'', a medicinal plant, and the namesake for other valerians. ** other plants in the genus ''Valeriana'' * ''Centranthus'', a genus containing plants closely related to ''Valeriana'' Ships * HMS ''Valerian'' (1916) See also * * Valeria (other) * Valerianus (other) * Valérien (other) * Valyrian languages, in the fiction of George R. R. Martin * ''Sweet Vale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Freidenberg
Olga Freidenberg (March 15, 1890 in Odessa – July 6, 1955 in Leningrad) was a Russian and Soviet classical philologist, one of the pioneers of cultural studies in Russia. She is also known as the cousin of the famous writer Boris Pasternak; their correspondence has been published and studied. Biography Olga Freidenberg was born to Anna Osipovna Pasternak and Mikhail Filippovich Freidenberg in Odessa. The family moved to St Petersburg in 1903 and Freidenberg graduated from a gymnasium there in 1908. Restricted in her ability to pursue university education as a woman and a Jew, she travelled through Europe studying foreign languages on her own and living in Germany, Sweden, Italy, and Switzerland. As World War I broke out, she returned to Russia and became a military nurse. Freidenberg returned to her studies at Petrograd University in 1923 and wrote a Ph.D. thesis in 1924, titled ''The Origins of the'' ''Greek Novel''. The university had only started accepting wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fridrikh Ermler
Fridrikh Markovich Ermler (russian: Эрмлер, Фридрих Маркович; born Vladimir Markovich Breslav; 13 May 1898 in Rēzekne – 12 July 1967 in Leningrad) was a Soviet film director, actor, and screenwriter. He was a four-time recipient of the Stalin Prize (in 1941, twice in 1946, and in 1951). After studying pharmacology, he joined the Czarist army in 1917 and soon took part in the October revolution on the side of the Bolshevists. Captured and tortured by the White army, he only became a full party member at the end of the Civil War. From 1923 to 1924 Ermler studied at the Cinema Academy. In 1932 he took part in creating one of the first Soviet talkies – the movie ''Vstrechny'' (''The Counterplan''). He also was one of the founders of the Creative Association KEM (together with E. Ioganson). In 1929-1931 Ermler studied at the Communist Academy and wrote for the newspaper ''Kino''. He also became the chairman of the Russian Association of Revolutionary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Eikhenbaum
Boris Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum ( rus, Борис Михайлович Эйхенбаум, p=ɨjxʲɪnˈbaʊm; 16 October 1886 – 2 November 1959) was a Russian Empire and Soviet literary scholar and historian of Russian literature. He is a representative of Russian formalism. Biography Eikhenbaum was born in Voronezh, the grandson of Jewish mathematician and poet Jacob Eichenbaum. His childhood and adolescence were spent there. After finishing elementary school in 1905, Eikhenbaum went to Petersburg and enrolled in the Military Medical Academy, soon thereafter in 1906, he enrolled in the biological faculty of the Free High School of P. F. Lesgaft. In parallel he studied music (violin, piano, voice). In 1907 Eikhenbaum left this school and enrolled in the Musical school of E. P. Raprof and the historical-philological faculty of Saint Petersburg State University. In 1909, Eikhenbaum abandoned professional aspirations in music, choosing in favor of philology. In this same year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Dzerzhinsky
Ivan Ivanovich Dzerzhinsky (9 April 1909 – 18 January 1978) was a Soviet and Russian composer. The work for which he best known, his opera ''Quiet Flows the Don'' (''Tikhiy Don''), was more successful for its political potential than for any musical distinction.McAllister, ''New Grove'', 5:797. Personal life and career Born in Tambov, Dzerzhinsky had an extended formal background in music. He studied piano with Boleslav Yavorsky at the First Music Tekhnikum in Moscow between 1925 and 1929. Afterwards he spent 1930–31 at the Gnesin School as a composition student of Mikhail Gnessin. Two years at the Leningrad Central Music Tekhnikum followed. There he studied composition first with Gavriil Popov, then with Pyotr Ryazanov. He then proceeded to the Leningrad Conservatory for two years of study with Boris Asafyev. From 1936 Dzerzhinsky held important administrative positions in the Union of Soviet Composers as well as in party politics. In 1948 he was appointed to the central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor M
Igor may refer to: People * Igor (given name), an East Slavic given name and a list of people with the name * Mighty Igor (1931–2002), former American professional wrestler * Igor Volkoff, a professional wrestler from NWA All-Star Wrestling * Igorrr, (born 1984) a French musician Fictional characters * Igor (character), a stock character * Igor Karkaroff, character in the ''Harry Potter'' series * Igor, the eagle in ''Count Duckula'' * Igor, the first enemy character in fighting game ''Human Killing Machine'' * Igor, a baboon with shape-shifting powers in Marvel comics (see List of fictional monkeys) * Igor, a reoccurring character in the ''Persona'' series * Igor, a character in ''Young Frankenstein'' * Igor Nevsky, an assassin in ''Air Force One'' (film) Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Igor'' (album), a 2019 album by Tyler, The Creator * ''Igor'' (film), a 2008 American animated film * '' Igor: Objective Uikokahonia'', a 1994 Spanish MS-DOS PC video game released C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Chistiakov (parodist)
Viktor Ivanovich Chistyakov (russian: Виктop Иванoвич Чистякoв; June 30, 1943, Leningrad, USSR - May 18, 1972, Kharkiv, USSR) - Soviet actor and parodist. One of the first masters parody of the Soviet Union, achieved star status. Parody he wrote at different times of the actor , poets Ilya Reznik and Yuri Entin Yuri Sergeyevich Entin (russian: Ю́рий Серге́евич Э́нтин; born 21 August 1935) is a Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, and lyricist who wrote screenplays and songs for various children's films including ''The Bremen Town Mu .... On May 18, 1972, he died, aged 28, onboard Aeroflot flight 1492 . References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Chistiakov, Viktor Russian parodists 1943 births 1972 deaths Russian male comedians Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in the Soviet Union Soviet male stage actors 20th-century comedians Burials at Bogoslovskoe Cemetery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Chernyshyov
Aleksandr Alekseyevich Chernyshov (russian: Александр Андреевич Чернышeв; 21 August 1882 – 28 April 1940), anglicised Alexander Chernyshov, was an electrical engineer. He graduated from Saint Petersburg Polytechnical Institute Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, abbreviated as SPbPU (also, formerly "Saint Petersburg State Technical University", abbreviated as SPbSTU), is a Russian technical university located in Saint Petersburg. Other former names i ... in 1907, and worked there until the end of his life. His research consisted of radio engineering and high-voltage techniques. He won the Lenin Prize in 1930. ReferencesAll Russian Genealogical Tree {{DEFAULTSORT:Chernyshev Soviet engineers Engineers from the Russian Empire Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University alumni 1882 births 1940 deaths Burials at Bogoslovskoe Cemetery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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