Moscow Saga
''Moscow Saga'' (russian: Московская сага, Moscovskaya Saga) is a Russian television series loosely based on the eponymous trilogy Vasily Aksyonov. The shooting took place in the winter and spring of 2004. It aired from 11 October to 12 November 2004 on Channel One Russia. Plot ''Moscow Saga'' shows the fate of family of medicine professor Boris Nikitich Gradov from the mid-1920s to mid-1950s against the background of the history of the new Soviet state. Boris' character represents the old dynasty of Russian doctors. His sons and daughter did not continue in his footsteps, but instead chose other professions. The eldest son, Nikita, joined the military; the younger, Kirill, became a Marxist theoretician; and Boris' daughter Nina became a writer. Cast at the kino-teatr.ru * [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yuri Solomin
Yury Mefodievich Solomin (russian: Ю́рий Мефо́диевич Соло́мин; born June 18, 1935 in Chita) is a Soviet and Russian actor and director who has been art director of the Maly Theatre in Moscow since 1988. Minister of Culture of the RSFSR in 1990-1991. Biography Solomin studied at the Malyi theatre school and joined its troupe in 1957. He was acclaimed as Khlestakov in Igor Ilyinsky's production of ''The Government Inspector'' (1966), Tsar Feodor in ''Tsar Feodor Ioannovich'' (1976), Slavin in '' TASS Is Authorized to Declare...'' TV series (1984), Nicholas II in ''Az Vosdam...'' (1990), and Famusov in his own production of ''Woe'' ''from Wit'' (2000). Solomin was cast as a Russian imperial officer in many Soviet movies, including Akira Kurosawa's ''Dersu Uzala'' (1975), which won him a Japanese decoration for the outstanding contribution to the world culture (1993). Solomin served as the Russian Minister of Culture from 1990 to 1992. March 11, 2014 signed ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Irina Kupchenko
Irina Petrovna Kupchenko (russian: Ирина Петровна Купченко; born 1 March 1948 in Vienna) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. She rose to prominence after acting in Andrei Konchalovsky's 1969 movie adaptation of '' A Nest of Gentry''. She has performed in more than forty films since 1969. Her performance in ''Lonely Woman Seeks Life Companion'' won her a Best Actress award at the Montreal World Film Festival. She also played Alexandre in ''The Last Night of the Last Tsar'', a play that was based on the book ''The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II'' by Edvard Radzinsky. Biography She was born in Vienna in a military family that, after the withdrawal of the Soviet Army in Austria (1955), moved to Kyiv. In childhood, Irina showed an interest in ballet. After high school, she initially studied foreign languages at the University of Kyiv, but after her debut in the role of Liza in ''A Nest of Gentlefolk'', she decided to pursue a career in a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Emilyano Ochagaviya
Emilyano Lorensovich Ochagaviya (russian: Эмиляно Лоренсович Очагавия; May 24, 1945 – February 7, 2016) was a Soviet and Russian theater actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1986), People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2000). Biography He was born in the village of Nei-colony Kamyshinsky District, Stalingrad Oblast to a father of Spanish Basque ancestry and an ethnic Georgian mother. Graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography (Georgy Tovstonogov course). Creative activity was begun by him in the theater of twice heroic Baltic Fleet, and then worked in the drama theaters of Kaluga, Kemerovo, and Astrakhan. Since 1977, he served in Ostrovsky Theatre in Kostroma, where he played many leading roles of classical and contemporary repertoire. In 1999-2003, he headed the theater. Honorary Citizen of Kostroma Oblast (July 10, 2008). Death On Sunday evening, February 7, 2016 in the house on Myasnitskaya Street i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Regimantas Adomaitis
Regimantas Adomaitis (31 January 1937 – 20 June 2022) was a Lithuanian film and stage actor. He was also active in Russia and Germany. Career Adomaitis was born in Šiauliai. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at Vilnius University. Later he studied in Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius Conservatoire. In 1985, he was a member of the jury at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival. Adomaitis has received many awards of recognition. In 1988 he with another 34 prominent people created Sąjūdis, Sąjūdis Reform Movement, which eventually led to the declaration of independence of Lithuania on 11 March 1990. He lived in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, where he worked as an actor at the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vyacheslav Shalevich
Vyacheslav Anatolievich Shalevich (russian: Вячесла́в Анато́льевич Шале́вич; 27 May 1934 – 21 December 2016) was a Soviet-Russian film, theatre actor and a People's Artist of the RSFSR. Biography Vyacheslav Anatolievich Shalevich was born in Moscow in 1934.Вячеслав Шалевич - Биография - Актеры советского и российского кино rusactors.ru; accessed 10 January 2017. His father, Anatoly Shalevich, defected to the Red Army and rose to the rank of General of the . Vyacheslav believed his father had died in the Finnish war. Vyacheslav Anatolievich Sh ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tatiana Samoilova
Tatiana Yevgenyevna Samoilova (russian: link=no, Татья́на Евге́ньевна Само́йлова; 4 May 1934 – 4 May 2014) was a Soviet and Russian film actress best known for her lead role in ''The Cranes Are Flying'' (1957). She received a number of awards for the film, including a special mention at the Cannes Film Festival. Samoilova had several major roles in the 1960s before largely disappearing from public life. In 1993, she was named a People's Artist of Russia. She made a comeback in the 2000s and received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2007 Moscow Film Festival. Early life The only daughter of actor Yevgeny Samoilov (or Samojlov) and Zinaida Samoilova (née Levina), Samoilova was born in Leningrad on 4 May 1934. Soon after her birth, Samoilova's father moved the family to Moscow. As a young girl, Samoilova was interested in ballet and studied music with her mother. She attended the prestigious Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre to st ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mikhail Olegovich Yefremov
Mikhail Olegovich Yefremov (russian: Михаи́л Оле́гович Ефре́мов; born 10 November 1963) is a Russian film and stage actor, Meritorious Artist of Russian Federation (1995). Life and career Mikhail is the son of People's Artist of the USSR Oleg Yefremov and Sovremennik Theatre actor Professor Alla Pokrovskaya ( Boris Pokrovsky's daughter). He made his stage and screen debut in mid 1970s as schoolboy. In 1982-1984 Yefremov served in Soviet Army. In 1987 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School. Yefremov was married four times and he has six children. His first wife was the editor Asya Vorobieva, their son Nikita is a Sovremennik Theatre actor. His second wife was the actress Yevgenia Dobrovolskaya, their son Nikolay is also an actor. His third wife was actress Kseniya Kachalina, they have a son Sergey. His fourth wife is audio engineer Sofiya Kruglikova, they have daughters Vera and Nadezhda, and son Boris. In 2009-2014, Yefremov presented Channel ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Irina Brazgovka
Irina Vladimirovna Brazgovka (russian: Ирина Владимировна Бразговка; born November 12, 1954, Minsk) is a Soviet and Russian actress of theater and cinema. Biography Career She started acting in the cinema from the age of seven. She graduated from the acting department of VGIK (workshop of Sergey Bondarchuk and Irina Skobtseva). She performed in the ensemble of Dmitry Pokrovsky. She starred in more than 60 films and serials. Personal life The actress's father is Deputy Minister of Public Utilities of the Republic of Belarus Vladimir Andreevich Brazgovka. Mother - a teacher in Russian, a teacher of Russian for foreigners Nina Vladimirovna Gedemin. There are two children. The oldest daughter, Daria, the daughter of Andrei Konchalovsky, works on the BUM Сhannel. The youngest daughter is Alexandra Brazgovka, designer. Selected filmography * '' I'm Going to Search'' (1966) as Valya * ''On the Wolf Track'' (1976) as Varvara * ''Vertical Race'' (1982) as ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alexei Makarov
Alexei Valerevich Makarov (russian: Алексе́й Вале́рьевич Мака́ров; 15 February 1972) is a Russian actor of theatre and cinema. Born 1972 in Omsk in family of actors Valeriy Makarov and Lyubov Polishchuk. Biography After high school, at the second attempt, he entered the Russian University of Theatre Arts - GITIS (rate of P. Chomsky) In 1994, after graduation, I worked in the theater Mossovet, but as the great roles he was not offered in 29 years has left the theater. By that time he already had experience in film ''Check'', ''The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment''. But the actor's finest hour came after the release of the film ''Countdown'', in which he starred. Filmography * ''The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment'' (1998) * '' In Motion'' (2002) * ''Moscow Saga'' (2004) * ''Countdown'' (2004) * ''The Three Musketeers ''The Three Musketeers'' (french: Les Trois Mousquetaires, links=no, ) is a French historical adventure novel written in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vyacheslav Molotov
Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov. ; (;. 9 March Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O._S._25_February.html" ;"title="Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O. S. 25 February">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O. S. 25 February1890 – 8 November 1986) was a Russian politician and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik, and a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s onward. He served as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars from 1930 to 1941 and as Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union), Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949 and from 1953 to 1956. During the 1930s, he ranked second in the Soviet leadership, after Joseph Stalin, whom he supported loyally for over 30 years, and whose reputation he continued to defend after Stalin's death, having himself been deeply implicated in the worst atrocities of the Stalin years – the forced collectivisation of agriculture in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mikhail Frunze
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze (russian: Михаил Васильевич Фрунзе; ro, Mihail Frunză; 2 February 1885 – 31 October 1925) was a Bolshevik leader during and just prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Born in the modern-day Kyrgyz Republic, he became active with the Bolsheviks and rose to the rank of a major Red Army commander in the Russian Civil War of 1917–1918. He is best known for defeating Baron Peter von Wrangel in Crimea. The capital of the Kirghiz SSR (modern Bishkek) was named in his honor from 1926 until 1991, when the Soviet Union was dissolved. Life and political activity Frunze was born in 1885 in Pishpek (now Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan), then a small Imperial Russian garrison town in the Kyrgyz part of Russian Turkestan (Semirechye Oblast). His father was a Bessarabian Romanian para-medic (feldsher) (originally from the Kherson Governorate) and his mother was Russian.Martin McCauley, ''Who's Who in Russia Since 1900'', Routledge, 1997, , p. 87 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |