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Viktor Pavlov
Viktor Pavlovich Pavlov (russian: Ви́ктор Па́влович Па́влов; October 5, 1940 – August 24, 2006) was a Russian stage and film actor. Pavlov worked in some of the most popular theatres of Moscow: 1963–1965 - Sovremennik Theatre, Yermolova Theatre (1965–1969), Mayakovsky Theatre (1969–1977), Malyi Theatre (1977–1985), Yermolova Theatre (1985–1990), Malyi Theatre (1990–2006). He appeared in over 120 films in his native country. His first appearance on film was in ''When the Trees Were Tall'' (1961). His most popular films are: '' Operation Y'', ''The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed'', ''The Twelve Chairs'', ''The Adjutant of His Excellency'', '' Dauria'', ''Trial on the Road'', ''Gambrinus'', and ''Children of Monday''. His last appearances were in ''The Envy of Gods'' (2000), ''DMB'' (2000) and ''Brigada'' (2002). Biography Early life and education Viktor Pavlovich Pavlov was born on October 6, 1940, in Moscow. His father, Pavel Igantievich, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million residents within the city limits, over 17 million residents in the urban area, and over 21.5 million residents in the metropolitan area. The city covers an area of , while the urban area covers , and the metropolitan area covers over . Moscow is among the world's largest cities; being the most populous city entirely in Europe, the largest urban and metropolitan area in Europe, and the largest city by land area on the European continent. First documented in 1147, Moscow grew to become a prosperous and powerful city that served as the capital of the Grand Duchy that bears its name. When the Grand Duchy of Moscow evolved into the Tsardom of Russia, Moscow remained the political and economic center for most of the Tsardom's history. When th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Envy Of Gods
The Envy of Gods (russian: Зависть Богов, Zavist Bogov) is a 2000 Russian drama film directed by Vladimir Menshov. Plot In the "History" Herodotus says, "The gods do not like happy people". In ancient times, people knew why they can not demonstrate their good fortune and happiness: it can cause jealousy and anger of the gods, because they believed that happiness is their, gods, privilege, and daring people who want the same thing, should be punished. The film takes place in early autumn 1983 in Moscow, in an atmosphere of acute cold war (including the war in Afghanistan, the incident with the South Korean "Boeing", etc.). The main heroine of the picture Sonia ( Vera Alentova) is an editor in television, she has a son, a graduate of the school, and her husband Sergei (Aleksandr Feklistov) is a quite successful Soviet writer. One day to visit them a Frenchman Bernard ( Gérard Depardieu) comes, whom Sergei met while working on a book about the French Resistance, acco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
At War As At War
''At War as at War'' (russian: На войне как на войне, Na voyne, kak na voyne) is a 1969 Soviet war film directed by Viktor Tregubovich. The film had 20 million theatre admissions. Plot By freeing Right-Bank Ukraine (west of the Dnieper River) from the German invaders, the fresh junior lieutenant of self-propelled, weaponized military vehicle earns respect of his subordinates. It had the hit song “The Tanks Rumbled Across the Field” — one of the most widely recognized and established war song. Cast * Mikhail Kononov as Alexander Alexandrovich Maleshkin * Oleg Borisov as Mikhail Domeshek * Victor Pavlov as Grigory Shcherbak * Fyodor Odinokov as Osip Byankin * Boris Tabarovsky as Bezzubtsev * Mikhail Gluzsky as Col. Day * Pyotr Lyubeshkin as Timofei Vasilievich Ovsyannikov * Valentin Zubkov as Col. Basov * Boris Arakelov as Chegnichka * German Kolushkin as Pavel Telenkov * Pyotr Gorin as Sergachyov * Boris Sichkin as Selivanov * Yuriy Dubrovin as sol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time, Forward!
''Time, Forward!'' (russian: Время, вперёд!, ''Vremya, vperyod!'') is a 1965 Soviet drama film directed by Sofiya Milkina and Mikhail Schweitzer based on a novel with the same name and a screenplay by Valentin Kataev. The film was produced by Mosfilm, a unit of the State Committee for Cinematography (Goskino). The famous musical score was composed by Georgy Sviridov. The title is derived from Vladimir Mayakovsky's play ''The Bathhouse'' (russian: Баня). Plot summary The film is set in the 1930s, depicting one day of the construction work of Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (or ''Magnitka''). The characters are construction workers and Komsomol members who are eager to work. Learning that their colleagues in Kharkov have set a record, they are mobilized in order to beat them. Everyone at the construction site has embraced socialist competition. They are ready to win at any cost to speed up construction and complete the work on time. A Moscow journalist comes to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major Whirlwind
''Major Whirlwind'' or (russian: Майор Вихрь , Mayor Vikhr) is a 1967 television film directed by Yevgeny Tashkov and based on the novel by Yulian Semyonov. The main character, Major Whirlwind, is inspired by Aleksey Nikolayevich Botyan. Plot Summer 1944. In impotent rage before impending disaster, management of the SS with the support of Hitler undertakes a special program of extermination of Slavic cultural capitals. Kraków, Bratislava, Prague all these cities must be mined and razed to the ground with explosions. The Soviet command sends a special group of Major Whirlwind into occupied Kraków, consisting of three people, whose aim is to prevent the destruction of the city. The release of the group is unsuccessful, Whirlwind gets shipped to the Gestapo, but later he manages to escape. Agents start to take action. The Polish underground collects valuable information about the German troops in Kraków, and radio operator Anya transmits them to the Soviet com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Y And Shurik's Other Adventures
''Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures'' (russian: Операция „Ы“ и другие приключения Шурика, Operatsiya „Yery“ i drugie priklyucheniya Shurika) is a 1965 Soviet slapstick film, slapstick comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai, starring Aleksandr Demyanenko, Natalya Seleznyova, Yuri Nikulin, Georgy Vitsin and Yevgeny Morgunov. The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate" (Напарник, ''Naparnik''), "Déjà vu" (Наваждение, ''Navazhdeniye'') and "Operation Y"The letter "Y" in the title of the film is in fact Yery (Cyrillic: Ы, pronounced roughly as the vowel sound in the word "nib"), Operatsiya „Y“, this codename sounds bizarre because no native Russian word starts with this letter. As ''Fool'' (Yu. Nikulin) answers to the "Why 'Y'?" question — "So that nobody would guess why!" The phrase became a common colloquialism in Russian used to answer odd questions. (Операция „Ы“). The plot follows th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Gaidai
Leonid Iovich Gaidai (russian: Леонид Иович Гайдай; 30 January 1923 – 19 November 1993) was a Soviet and Russian comedy film director, screenwriter and actor who enjoyed immense popularity and broad public recognition in the former Soviet Union. His films broke theatre attendance records and were some of the top-selling DVDs in Russia. He has been described as "the king of Soviet comedy".Prokhorova, Elena, "The Man Who Made Them Laugh: Leonid Gaidai, the King of Soviet Comedy", in Beumers, Birgit (2008) ''A History of Russian Cinema'', Berg Publishers, , pp. 519–542 Early life and first success Gaidai was born on 30 January 1923 in Svobodny, Amur Oblast,Rollberg, Peter (2010) ''The A to Z of Russian and Soviet Cinema'', The Scarecrow Press, Inc., , pp. 235–8 where he is commemorated by a statue. His father Iov Isidorovich Gaidai came from a Ukrainian family of serfs of the Poltava Governorate. At the age of 22 he was sentenced to several years of katorga fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolay Annenkov
Nikolay Aleksandrovich Annenkov (russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович А́нненков; , Kalugino, Tambov Governorate – 30 September 1999, Moscow) was the longest-lived People's Artist of the USSR before Igor Moiseyev and Vladimir Zeldin. He worked in the Maly Theatre from 1924 until his centenary and was awarded three Stalin Prizes. Annenkov celebrated his 100th birthday playing on stage but died only 10 days later. He acted in the 1955 film ''The First Echelon''. Honours and awards * Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1937) * People's Artist of the RSFSR (1949) * Stalin Prizes: **2nd class (1947) - for his role of Lieutenant-Maximov in the play "For those who are in the sea!" BA Lavrenev **1st class (1948) - for his role Lavrov in the play "The great strength of" BS Romashova **1st class (1949) - for his role Alexei Dobrotvor in the movie "The Court of Honour" (1948) * People's Artist of the USSR (1960) * Hero of Socialist Labour (1990) * Four Orders o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Pashennaya
Vera Nikolayevna Pashennaya (russian: Вера Николаевна Пашенная; in marriage – Gribunina; 7 (19) in September 1887, Moscow, Russia – October 28, 1962, Moscow) was a Russian theater and film actress. She joined the CPSU in 1954. Biography Vera Pashennaya was born in the family of the famous actor Nikolay Roshchin-Insarov (1861 — 1899, this surname is Pashenny). Her sister, actress Yekaterina Roshchina-Insarov, emigrated in 1919. Selected filmography * '' Polikushka'' (1922) * '' Wolves and Sheep'' (1953) * ''The Idiot'' (1958) Awards * People's Artist of the USSR (1937) // KM.ru. * (1961) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School
The Mikhail Semyonovich Shchepkin Higher Theatre School (Institute) is a drama school associated with the Maly Theatre (Moscow), State Academic Maly Theatre in Moscow. It was established in 1809 by decree of Alexander I of Russia. History Since 1938, the school has been named after Mikhail Shchepkin, a prominent Russian actor and college teacher in the period from 1830 until his death in 1863. With the direct assistance of the Shchepkin School in 1863 received a building on Neglinnaya Street, where it remains to this day. In 1943, the school received the status of a higher educational institution. The rector of the school is Professor Boris Nikolaevich Lyubimov, Merited Artist of the Russian Federation, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. References External links * * Drama schools in Russia Performing arts education in Russia Cultural heritage monuments of regional significance in Moscow {{Russia-school-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow Art Theatre School
Moscow Art Theatre School is the studio school of the Moscow Art Theatre. It is a state educational institution that has existed since 1943. The initiator of the studio school was Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko.Школа-студия МХАТ: История mhatschool.theatre.ru Open three faculties — the cast (training — 4 years, the competition — 30 per place), staging (training — 5 years, the contest — 3 persons per place) and Producer (training — 5 years, the competition — 4 persons per place). Form of study — full-time. History 
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Sivtsev Vrazhek Lane
Sivtsev Vrazhek is a radial lane in the Central Administrative Okrug of Moscow; it forms the boundary between Arbat and Khamovniki municipal districts. The lane begins at a T-junction with Gogolevsky Boulevard and runs west, roughly parallel to Arbat Street (north) and Prechistenka Street (south), ending at a T-junction with Denezhny Lane, one block short of the Garden Ring. The name of the lane, literally '' stream gully'', refers to a historical stream now locked in an underground sewer and is only one of two ''Vrazheks'' in present-day Moscow (the other being Kozhevnichesky Vrazhek west of Novospassky Bridge). History Sivka Stream ran eastward along the present-day lane into Chertoryi Stream that flowed southward on site of present-day Gogolevsky Boulevard into Moskva River. In the 18th century Sivka was locked into an open stone-clad ditch, opening up space for a proper lane, and in the first quarter of the 19th century the ditch was rebuilt into an underground sewer. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
