List Of People In Taganrog
This is a list of famous people who have lived in Taganrog. Please add new people and also add the dates they lived in Taganrog, if known. Actors, Performers, Cinema * Sergei Bondarchuk, actor and film director, Oscar (Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film) of 1968, graduated from the ''Taganrog School Num. 4'' in 1938 * Pavel Derevyanko, actor, born in Taganrog in 1976 * Fyodor Dobronravov, actor, born in Taganrog in 1961 * Viktor Dobronravov, actor, born in Taganrog in 1983 * Nikolai Dobrynin, actor, born in Taganrog in 1963 * Anatoly Anatolievich Durov, circus animal trainer, 1926–1928 * Vatslav Dvorzhetsky, Soviet actor, Peoples' Artist of Russia, worked at Taganrog Theatre in 1940–1941 * Victor Dyomin, Soviet cinema critic, editor, writer, actor, born in Taganrog in 1937, graduate of Chekhov Gymnasium (1954) * Vatslav Mikhalsky, Soviet and Russian writer, screenwriter and editor, born in Taganrog in 1938 * Elena Obraztsova, mezzo-soprano, studied in 1954–1957 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Taganrog
Taganrog ( rus, Таганрог, p=təɡɐnˈrok) is a port city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, on the north shore of the Taganrog Bay in the Sea of Azov, several kilometers west of the mouth of the Don River. Population: History of Taganrog The history of the city goes back to the late Bronze Age–early Iron Age (between the 20th and 10th centuries BC), when it was the earliest Greek settlement in the northwestern Black Sea Region and was mentioned by the Greek historian Herodotus as Emporion Kremnoi. In the 13th century, Pisan merchants founded a colony, Portus Pisanus, which was however short-lived. Taganrog was founded by Peter the Great on 12 September 1698. The first Russian Navy base, it hosted the Azov Flotilla of Catherine the Great (1770–1783), which subsequently became the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Taganrog was granted city status in 1775. By the end of the 18th century, Taganrog had lost its importance as a military base after Crimea and the entire Sea of Azov w ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ivan Perestiani
Ivan Nikolaevich Perestiani (also Ivane, ka, ივანე პერესტიანი; russian: Иван Николаевич Перестиани; — 14 May 1959) was a Georgian/Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor, and People's Artist of the Georgian SSR (1949). He was of Kefalonian Greek descent. Biography Ivan Perestiani was born in the city of Taganrog into the family of Nikolay Afanasievich Perestiani on . His first actor's experience was onstage of Taganrog Theatre under name of ''Ivan Nevedomov'' in 1886. The first movie roles played by Perestiani were ''Grif starogo bortsa'' a.k.a. ''Griffon of an Old Warrior'' and ''Zhizn za zhizn '' a.k.a. ''A Life for a Life'' in 1916. During Russian Civil War, he wrote scenario for several short films. In 1920 Ivan Perestiani moved to Tbilisi, becoming one of the founding fathers of Georgian cinematography. In 1921, he staged the first Soviet Georgian historical and revolutionary film ''Arsen Jorjiashvili'' a.k ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; 29 January 1860 Old Style date 17 January. – 15 July 1904 Old Style date 2 July.) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics."Stories ... which are among the supreme achievements in prose narrative.Vodka miniatures, belching and angry cats George Steiner's review of ''The Undiscovered Chekhov'', in ''The Observer'', 13 May 2001. Retrieved 16 February 2007. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress." Chekhov renounced the theatre after the reception of ''The Seagull'' in 1896, but the play was revived to acclaim in 189 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Moscow Art Theatre
The Moscow Art Theatre (or MAT; russian: Московский Художественный академический театр (МХАТ), ''Moskovskiy Hudojestvenny Akademicheskiy Teatr'' (МHАТ)) was a theatre company in Moscow. It was founded in 1898 by the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright and director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. It was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the melodramas that were Russia's dominant form of theatre at the time. The theatre, the first to regularly put on shows implementing Stanislavski's system, proved hugely influential in the acting world and in the development of modern American theatre and drama. It was officially renamed the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre in 1932. In 1987, the theatre split into two troupes, the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre and the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre. Beginnings At the end of the 19th-century, Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenk ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alexander Leonidovich Vishnevsky
Aleksandr Leonidovich Vishnevsky (russian: Александр Леонидович Виншевский) was a Russian actor and one of the founding members of the Moscow Art Theatre. Biography Vishnevsky studied at the Taganrog gymnasium where he befriended the young Anton Chekhov. From 1883 he took part in the performances of the Taganrog Music and Drama Society. Later he acted in the theatres of Kharkiv, Yekaterinoslav, Odessa, Saratov where he was a ''jeune premier''. In 1898 he joined the troupe of the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT). On the opening night of the MAT, Vishnevsky played the part of Boris Godunov in the play ''Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich'' by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy. In 1899 he played Godunov again in Tolstoy's ''The Death of Ivan the Terrible''. Vishnevsky was the first to play the title role in Chekhov's play ''Uncle Vanya'' at the MAT. In 1933 Vishnevsky became the first actor to be awarded the title of Hero of Labour (later replaced with Hero of Socialist Labou ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marianna Tavrog
Marianna Yelizarovna Tavrog (russian: Таврог, Марианна Елизаровна) (1921-2006) was a Soviet Russian documentary film director, Honored Artist of Russian Federation. Biography Born into a Jewish family on January 16, 1921, in the city of Taganrog, studied in Taganrog. Entered the Teachers' College in Moscow, and after the start of World War II had to evacuate to Alma-Ata and entered the VGIK, which was evacuated to Alma-Ata in 1941. Among her teachers were Leonid Trauberg and Grigory Kozintsev. After VGIK returned from evacuation to Moscow, Tavrog attended classes by Lev Kuleshov and Aleksandra Khokhlova Aleksandra Sergeyevna Khokhlova (born Alexandra Sergeyevna Botkina, russian: Александра Сергеевна Хохлова, 4 October 1897 – 22 August 1985) was a Soviet actress, theatre director, writer, and educator. Biography .... Filmography The main topics of Tavrog's documentaries were literature and art. * 1960 — Самуил ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and shares Borders of Russia, land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than List of countries and territories by land borders, any other country but China. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, world's ninth-most populous country and List of European countries by population, Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city is Moscow, the List of European cities by population within city limits, largest city entirely within E ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Merited Artist Of The Russian Federation
Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (russian: link=no, Заслуженный артист Российской Федерации, ''Zasluzhenny artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii'') is an honorary title in the Russian Federation. The title is awarded to actors, directors, filmmakers, writers, dancers and singers for exceptional achievements in the arts. The honorary title was originally modeled after the German honorific title for distinguished opera singers. PONS Online Dictionary Historically, the title was bestowed by princes or kings, when it was styled ''Hofkammersänger(in)''. In before 1917, several stars of stage and film were honored with the title "Imperial singer", but after the < ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Petr Shelokhonov
Petr Illarionovich Shelokhonov, ( pl, Piotr Szełochonow, russian: Пётр Илларио́нович Шелохо́нов, be, Пятро Ларывонавіч Шэлахонаў, uk, Петро Іларіонович Шелохонов; in English language, English also spelled 'Peter' or 'Pyotr' or 'Petr'; 15 August 1929 – 15 September 1999) was a Russians, Russian actor, Theatre director, director, filmmaker and socialite, designated Merited Artist of the Russian Federation, Honorable Actor of Russia (1979). A strong proponent of making High culture accessible to all people, he organized Party, social events for all people in artistic Community, communities of St. Petersburg and Moscow using his position as member of the International Federation of Actors, Union of Actors.Book "My best friend Petr Shelokhonov" (2009, Russian) by actor Ivan I. Krasko – Saint Petersburg, Russia: SOLO Publishing, 2009. Biography Childhood Petr Shelokhonov was born in 1929, in Wilno Voiv ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |