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Konstantin Lavronenko
Konstantin Nikolaevich Lavronenko (russian: Константи́н Никола́евич Лавро́ненко; born 20 April 1961) is a Soviet and Russian actor most commonly accredited for his performance as the mysterious father of two boys in 2003 film Vozvrashcheniye (international English title ''The Return''). He won the Best Actor prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival for ''The Banishment''. Early life Konstantin Lavronenko was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union in southern Russia. Filmography Feature films * 1984 - Still Loving, Still Hoping ''(Ещё Люблю, Ещё Надеюсь/Yeshcho lyublyu, yeshcho nadeyus')'' - Zhenya * 1992 - ''Andryusha'' ''(Андрюша)'' - Andrey * 1998 - Composition for Victory Day ''(Сочинение ко Дню Победы/Sochinenie Ko Dnyu Pobedy)'' * 2003 - The Return ''(Возвращение/Vozvrashcheniye)'' - father * 2005 - The Master ''(Mistrz)'' - Master * 2006 - Nanjing Landscape ''(Нанкинс ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rostov-on-Don
Rostov-on-Don ( rus, Ростов-на-Дону, r=Rostov-na-Donu, p=rɐˈstof nə dɐˈnu) is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East European Plain on the Don River (Russia), Don River, from the Sea of Azov, directly north of the North Caucasus. The southwestern suburbs of the city lie above the Don river delta. Rostov-on-Don has a population of over one million people, and is an important cultural centre of Southern Russia. History Early history From ancient times, the area around the mouth of the Don River has held cultural and commercial importance. Ancient indigenous inhabitants included the Scythians, Scythian and Sarmatians, Sarmatian tribes. It was the site of Tanais, colonies in antiquity, an ancient Greek colony, Gazaria (Genoese colonies), Fort Tana under the Genoa, Genoese, and Azov#Fortress of Azov, Fort Azak in the time of the Ottoman Empire. In 1749, a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Three Musketeers (2013)
''The Three Musketeers'' (russian: link=no, «Три мушкетёра», ''tri mushketera'') is a Russian historical adventure film based on the 1844 novel ''The Three Musketeers'' by Alexandre Dumas, père. It was produced by The Production Center of Sergei Zhigunov. The film has been released in two versions: as a two-hour movie in cinemas on November 14, 2013. and as a TV series consisting of 10 episodes of 45 minutes. The TV series was first shown in December 2013 on the Ukrainian 1+1 Channel and then on Russia's Channel One Russia in January 2014. Young d'Artagnan is coming to Paris to be a musketeer. There he meets three old musketeers, members of the glorious King's Guard, but actually realizes that they are not the great fighters who he thinks they are. While joining the musketeers he is faced with the hidden plots of Cardinal Richelieu, his spy Milady de Winter and a possible war against England. Plot summary In 1625 France, a poor young nobleman named d'Artagnan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Births
Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (25th gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold Diggers (TV Series)
Gold Diggers (russian: Содержанки, Soderzhanki), also released as Russian Affairs, is a Russian drama series produced by Yellow, Black and White for START. The series is about kept-women and the rich men they have relations with. For theater director Konstantin Bogomolov, the first season of the project was his debut in the genre of episodic series. The streaming series was among the first of its kind in Russia to achieve high ratings. It was sold to Amazon Prime to be distributed under its Originals label in 2019. It has been compared to ''Dynasty'' in the English-speaking press. Synopsis Young artist Dasha Smirnova comes from Saratov Saratov (, ; rus, Сара́тов, a=Ru-Saratov.ogg, p=sɐˈratəf) is the largest city and administrative center of Saratov Oblast, Russia, and a major port on the Volga River upstream (north) of Volgograd. Saratov had a population of 901,36 ... to Moscow to change her life. She is immersed in the world of glamor and easy money ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klim (TV Series)
''Klim'' (russian: Клим) is a Russian psychological crime drama television series starring Konstantin Lavronenko as the title character, Detective Chief Inspector Klim, who works in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The series is a direct remake of the BBC TV series ''Luther''. The show is produced by Sreda for broadcast on Channel One Russia. Shooting began in Moscow in August 2014, and the first episode aired January 2016. Plot Klim is a Detective Chief Inspector working for the Serious Crime Unit in Saint Petersburg Police. A dedicated police officer, Klim is obsessive, possessed, and sometimes dangerous in the violence of his fixations. However, he has paid a heavy price for his dedication; he has never been able to prevent himself from being consumed by the darkness of the crimes with which he deals. For him, the job always comes first. His dedication is a curse and a blessing, both for him and those close to him. See also * ''Luther (TV series) ''Luther'' is a British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Armand De Lestocq
Count Jean Armand de L'Estocq (German: ''Johann Hermann Lestocq'', Russian: ''Иван Иванович Лесток''; 29 April 1692, in Lüneburg – 12 June 1767, in Saint Petersburg) was a French adventurer who wielded immense influence on the foreign policy of Russia during the early reign of Empress Elizabeth. Biography Coming from a noble family of Champagne, as a youth he was committed to prison for a petty offense. He was liberated on the urging of Françoise-Marie de Bourbon (1677–1749), legitimized daughter of Louis XIV of France and Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan. Françoise-Marie was also married at the time to Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. She was thus a well-connected patroness. In 1709, Lestocq arrived in Saint Petersburg in the capacity of a court physician. He was well regarded by Catherine I of Russia until 1720, when her husband had him exiled to Kazan for having seduced a jester's daughter. Upon the Emperor's death, Catherine summoned her fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekaterina (TV Series)
''Ekaterina'' is a 2014 Russia-1 historical television series starring Marina Aleksandrova as the eventual Russian empress Catherine the Great. The first season tells the story of princess Sophie Friederike Auguste, and her rise to power to become Empress of Russia, following a coup d'état and the assassination of her husband, Peter III. The second season portrays the challenges she faces at home and abroad during the early years of her rule, as she tries to revitalise Russia to become one of the great powers of Europe, and becomes titled "the Great". The first season premiered on November 24, 2014 on Russia-1, and was released on Amazon in 2017 under the title ''Ekaterina: The Rise of Catherine the Great''. The second season premiered on Russia-1 on February 27, 2017, and was released on Amazon in 2018. The series premiered its third season on October 21, 2019. Plot summary Season 1: Catherine (2014) ''Motto – «I will reign… otherwise I will perish…»'' In 1744 in Sai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Blyukher
Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher ( rus, Васи́лий Константи́нович Блю́хер, Vasiliy Konstantinovich Blyukher; 1 December 1889 – 9 November 1938) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. Early history Blyukher was born into a Russian peasant family named Gurov, in the village of Barschinka in Yaroslavl Governorate. In the 19th century a landlord gave the nickname ''Blyukher'' to the Gurov family in commemoration of the famous Prussian Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819). As a teenager, he was employed at a machine works, but was arrested in 1910 for leading a strike, and sentenced to two years, eight months in prison. In 1914, Vasily Gurov — who later formally assumed ''Blyukher'' as his surname — was drafted into the army of the Russian Empire as a corporal but in 1915 was seriously wounded in the Great Retreat, and excused from military service. He then went to work in a factory in Kazan, where he joine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archangel (TV Series)
''Archangel'' is a television adaptation of the 1998 novel of the same name by Robert Harris. Made by the BBC in 2005, it was filmed in the city of Riga. Plot Part 1 Dr. Christopher 'Fluke' Kelso, a British professor of Soviet history, attends a conference in Moscow where his lecture is interrupted by protestors from 'Aurora', a faction of Communist hardliners. He is approached by elderly Papu Rapava, who explains that as a young soldier in 1953, he escorted Lavrentiy Beria to Joseph Stalin's deathbed at his Kuntsevo Dacha. Rapava witnessed Beria steal a key from the dying Stalin, using it to retrieve a notebook from Stalin's private safe. Burying the notebook inside a toolbox in Beria's yard, Rapava was sworn to secrecy. Kelso is determined to find the notebook, and a librarian directs him to Beria's old address. He questions powerful politician Vladimir Mamantov, Aurora's leader and a former KGB agent; this brings Kelso to the attention of FSB Major Suvorin, who has h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Messenger Of Darkness
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Root Of Evil
''Born Rich'' (Traditional Chinese: 富貴門, literally ''Gate of Wealth'') is a 2009 Hong Kong television drama produced by TVB under executive producer Chong Wai-kin. The drama was promoted as TVB's "grand production" for 2009. Running for 39 episodes, the last two episodes were of two hours each. Synopsis Sophisticated banker Marcus Cheuk mistakes con artist Sha Fu-loi for his half brother Cheuk Yatming, fortuitously elevating the swindler to one of the leading figures in the banking industry. The lost and found brotherhood has blinded Marcus to Fu-loi's real nature and intentions. Marcus is kidnapped overseas by a group of rioters. He undergoes a dramatic personality change after the incident. His wife Connie has tried her best to console him but still cannot help him get over the unpleasant experience. Longing for more comfort and support, Marcus gets back with his ex-lover Angie. Connie is heartbroken to learn about the affair and it has left the broken mirror that can't ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coma (2020 Film)
''Coma'' (russian: Кома, translit=Koma) is a 2020 Russian science fiction action film directed by Nikita Argunov. It was released on January 30, 2020 by Central Partnership. Plot summary "Coma" follows the story of a talented architect who, after a mysterious accident, awakens in a dystopian world. This reality is a labyrinthine space composed of the memories, dreams, and subconscious thoughts of those in comas. In this surreal and fragmented landscape, physical laws are inconsistent, and cities and technologies from various eras coexist. The architect learns he can shape reality with his thoughts but struggles to distinguish between the world of 'Coma' and the real world. As he navigates this perplexing realm, he must confront the implications of his newfound abilities while uncovering the truth behind the coma world's existence. Cast * Rinal Mukhametov as Viktor / The Architect * Lyubov Aksyonova as "Fly" * Anton Pampushnyy as "Phantom" * Milos Bikovic as "Astronomer" * K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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