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Plasticine Crow
''Plasticine Crow'' (russian: Пластилиновая ворона, translit. ''Plastilinovaya vorona'') is a 1981 Soviet clay animation by Alexander Tatarsky ('' T/O Ekran'' studio). Animation divided into three independent parts (''Picture'', ''Game'' and ''But maybe, but maybe...''). The film was Russia's first claymation film. Plot synopsis Picture The first part tells kids about the three painting styles – landscape, still life and portrait. Lyrics for the first part were written by Alexander Kushner and sung by Grigory Gladkov, who also composed whole cartoon. Game The second part features the story of grandpa and his nephew playing the children game where the players periodically opens and shuts their eyes. And every time they are amazed with looking to something new in front of them. This part was based on lyrics by Ovsey Driz and performed by Leonid Bronevoy and Alesha Pavlov. But maybe, but maybe... The final part is a parody of '' The Crow and the Fox'', b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Tatarsky
Alexander Mikhailovich Tatarsky (russian: Александр Михайлович Татарский; December 11, 1950 – July 22, 2007) was a Soviet and Russian animation director, screenwriter, animator, producer, artist, co-founder and artistic director of the Pilot studio. Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (2000). Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1998).''Sergey Kapkov (2006)''. Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation, p. 632-633 Biography Tatarsky was born in Kiev into a family of Jewish origin. His father Mikhail Semyonovich Tatarsky worked in circus and wrote gags for such clowns as Oleg Popov and Yuri Nikulin who was a close family friend."Sasha was a Jew, I'm not" |
Montpelier, Vermont
Montpelier ( ) is the capital of the U.S. state of Vermont and the county seat of Washington County. The site of Vermont's state government, it is the least populous state capital in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,074. However, the daytime population grows to about 21,000, due to the large number of jobs within city limits. The Vermont College of Fine Arts is located in the municipality. It was named after Montpellier, a city in the south of France. Montpelier was chartered as a town by proprietors from Massachusetts and western Vermont on August 14, 1781, and the Town of Montpelier was granted municipal powers by the "Governor, Council and General Assembly of the Freemen of the State of Vermont". The first permanent settlement began in May 1787, and a town meeting was established in 1791. The city received a French name because the Franco-American alliance during the Revolutionary War had sparked widespread Francophilia. Montpelier was sele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, his developments to the ideology are called Leninism. Born to an upper-middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin embraced revolutionary socialist politics following his brother's 1887 execution. Expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating in protests against the Russian Empire's Tsarist government, he devoted the following years to a law degree. He moved to Saint Petersburg in 1893 and became a senior Marxist activist. In 1897, he was arrested for sedition and exiled to Shushenskoye in Siberia for three years, where he married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Central Television
The Central Television of the USSR (russian: Центральное телевидение СССР, translit=Tsentral'noye televideniye SSSR; abbr. CT USSR .html" ;"title="/nowiki>">/nowiki>/nowiki>) was the state television broadcaster of the Soviet Union. Soviet TV programming was highly diverse. Like much of the Soviet media, CT USSR regularly promoted the agendas of the Communist Party. Initially, the service was operated, together with the national radio service, by the Ministry of Culture. Later it was operated by the Gosteleradio committee, under the Communications Ministry and the Information and Press Ministry, and later a Council of Ministers-controlled network of television and radio broadcasting. First decades Radio was the dominant medium in the former Soviet Union, however, in the 1930s preparations for television were in full swing. On 1 October 1934, the first television sets were made available to the public. The next year, the first television broadcasts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eldar Ryazanov
Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov (russian: Эльдар Александрович Рязанов; 18 November 1927 – 30 November 2015) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, poet, actor and pedagogue whose popular comedies, satirizing the daily life of the Soviet Union and Russia, are celebrated throughout the former Soviet Union and former Warsaw Pact countries. Biography Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov was born in Samara. His father, Aleksandr Semyonovich Ryazanov, was a diplomat who worked in Tehran. His mother, Sofya Mikhailovna (née Shusterman), was of Jewish descent. In 1930, the family moved to Moscow, and soon his parents divorced. He was then raised by his mother and her new husband, Lev Mikhailovich Kopp. In 1937 his father was arrested by the Stalinist government and subsequently served 18 years in the correctional labour camps. Ryazanov began to create films in the early 1950s. In 1955, Ivan Pyryev, then a major force in the Soviet film industry, sugges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xeniya Marinina
Xenia (variants include Ksenia, Ksenija, Kseniya; derived from Greek ξενία '' xenia'', "hospitality") is a female given name. The below sections list notable people with one of the variants of this given name. Related names include '' Oksana'' (, Ксенія, ( be, Ксенiя, Аксана), Ксения (Russia), ''Ksenija'' (Slovenia, Croatia, Lithuania; Ксенија, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia); ''Kseniya'' (); ''Xénia'' (Hungary), and ''Senja'' (Finland). In Spain, although it started to become more popular during the 1990s, it appears mainly in Galician as ''Xenia'' , and in Catalan as ''Xènia'' . Ksenia Actresses * Ksenia Alfyorova (born 1974), Bulgarian-born actress and television presenter in Russia * Ksenia Khairova (born 1969), Russian stage and film actress * Ksenia Solo (born 1987), Latvian-Canadian actress Artistic gymnasts * Ksenia Afanasyeva (born 1991), Russian artistic gymnast * Ksenia Dudkina (born 1995), Russian group rhythmic gymnast * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Levenbuk
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Aleksander and Aleksandr. Related names and diminutives include Iskandar, Alec, Alek, Alex, Alexandre, Aleks, Aleksa and Sander; feminine forms include Alexandra, Alexandria, and Sasha. Etymology The name ''Alexander'' originates from the (; 'defending men' or 'protector of men'). It is a compound of the verb (; 'to ward off, avert, defend') and the noun (, genitive: , ; meaning 'man'). It is an example of the widespread motif of Greek names expressing "battle-prowess", in this case the ability to withstand or push back an enemy battle line. The earliest attested form of the name, is the Mycenaean Greek feminine anthroponym , , (/Alexandra/), written in the Linear B syllabic script. Alaksandu, alternatively called ''Alakasandu'' or ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
