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Shishkin
Shishkin (russian: Шишкин) is a Russian masculine surname. Its feminine counterpart is Shishkina. The surname is derived from the sobriquet шишка/''shishka'' ('pinecone'), or from tr, şiş ('to swell'). Notable people with the surname include: *Aleksey Shishkin, Russian Gypsy arranger and composer *Aleksandr Shishkin (born 1966), Russian football player *Alla Shishkina (born 1989), Russian competitor in synchronized swimming *Boris Schischkin (1886–1963), Russian botanist *Dasha Shishkin (born 1977), Russian-American artist *Dmitry Shishkin (born 1992), Russian pianist *Georgy Shishkin (born 1948), Russian painter *Ivan Shishkin (1832–1898), Russian painter *Mikhail Shishkin (writer) (born 1961), Russian writer *Mikhail Shishkin (footballer) (born 1980), Russian association football player *Nikolai Shishkin (1845-1911), Russian gypsy singer-arranger-composer from Kursk *Oleg Șișchin (born 1975), Moldovan footballer *Olga Shishkina (musician) (born 1985), Russian-b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Shishkin (writer)
Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin (russian: Михаил Павлович Шишкин, born 18 January 1961) is a Russian-Swiss writer and the only author to have won the Russian Booker Prize (2000), the Russian National Bestseller (2005), and Big Book Prize (2010). His books have been translated into 30 languages. He also writes in German. Biography Mikhail Shishkin was born in 1961 in Moscow on 18 January 1961 to Irina Georgievna Shishkina, a Russian literature teacher, and Pavel Mikhailovich Shishkin, an engineer constructor. In 1977 Shishkin graduated from the high school #59 in the centre of Moscow in Arbat district. After the graduation from Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, where Shishkin studied German and English, he worked as a road worker, a street sweeper, journalist, school teacher, and translator. In 1995, Shishkin moved to Switzerland for family reason. He worked in Zürich within the Immigration Department and specifically with refugees as a Russian and German transl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |