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Chamberlain Lane
Kamergerskiy Pereulok or Chamberlain Lane () is a short street with many historical buildings located within the Boulevard Ring in central Moscow. Almost all of the buildings on Chamberlain Lane are classified as architectural monuments. The street runs from Tverskaya Street in the west to Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street in the east. Artists The lane is associated with the life and work of many Russian cultural figures. Artists who lived on Chamberlain Lane include writers Vladimir Odoyevsky, Yuri Samarin, Leo Tolstoy, Yury Olesha, Mikhail Svetlov, Eduard Bagritsky, Lev Kassil, Mikhail Sholokhov, and Venedikt Yerofeyev; poet Novella Matveyeva; actors Vera Pashennaya, Vasily Kachalov, Alla Tarasova, Mark Prudkin, Nikolai Khmelyov, Sofya Giatsintova, Lyubov Orlova; painter Vasily Tropinin; and composer Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow
Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents within the city limits, over 19.1 million residents in the urban area, and over 21.5 million residents in Moscow metropolitan area, its 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 List of largest cities, largest cities, being the List of European cities by population within city limits, most populous city entirely in Europe, the largest List of urban areas in Europe, urban and List of metropolitan areas in Europe, metropolitan area in Europe, and the largest city by land area on the European continent. First documented in 1147, Moscow became the capital of the Grand Principality of Moscow, which led the unification of the Russian lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lev Kassil
Lev Abramovich Kassil (; 10 July 1905 – 21 June 1970) was an influential Soviet and Russian writer of juvenile and young adult literature and screenwriter, depicting Soviet life, teenagers, school, sports, culture, and war. Biography He was born into a Jewish family in Pokrovskaya Sloboda (now Engels). He attended a local gymnasium that was later transformed into a Uniform Labour School. In 1923 Kassil entered Moscow State University, where he studied aerodynamics. He published his first short story in 1925, and eventually became a REF and LEF member. In 1927 Mayakovsky invited him to participate in the magazine called New LEF. His most important works were two autobiographical novels for young people dealing with student life before the Revolution, ''Konduit'' (The conduct book, 1929, tr. as ''The Black Book'') and ''Shvambraniya'' (1931, tr. as ''The Land of Shvambrania''); the two were revised and combined into one book called ''Konduit i Shvambraniya'' (1935, tr. as ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Tropinin
Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (; – ) was a Russian Romanticism, Romantic painter. Much of his life was spent as a serf, not attaining freedom until he was more than forty years old. Three of his more important works are a portrait of Alexander Pushkin and paintings called '':Image:Tropinin lacemaker.jpg, The Lace Maker'' and '':Image:Tropinin ZolotoshveykaGTG.jpg, The Gold-Embroideress''. Biography Vasily was born as a serf of Count Munnich in the village Chudovsky District, Korpovo of Velikiy Novgorod, Novgorod guberniya. He was transferred to Count Morkov as part of the dowry of Munnich's daughter. Soon he was sent to Saint Petersburg to study the trade of a confectioner. Instead of learning his trade Tropinin secretly attended free drawing lessons in the Imperial Academy of Arts. In 1799, his owner allowed Tropinin to study at the Academy as a non-degree student (''Postoronny uchenik''). He took lessons from S. S. Schukin and was supported by the President of the Academy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyubov Orlova
Lyubov Petrovna Orlova ( ; – 26 January 1975) was a Soviet and Russian actress, singer, dancer, and People's Artist of the USSR (1950). Life and career Lyubov Orlova was born to a family of Russian nobility#Hereditary nobility, Russian hereditary nobles on her maternal side and gentry on her paternal side in Zvenigorod, 60 km from Moscow, then lived with her parents and older sister in Yaroslavl. Her acting and singing talents were evident very early on, but her noble parents considered acting a disgraceful career and directed her towards classical music. There she began to study music. In 1914, after her father left for the front, her mother Evgenia Nikolaevna and her daughters settled in Moscow, where the sisters entered the gymnasium. The Orlovs spent the difficult years of the Russian Civil War, Civil War in Voskresensk because their mother's sister lived here. The family subsisted on funds from the sale of milk which was given by the aunt's cow. Lyuba and Nonna d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofya Giatsintova
Sofya Vladimirovna Giatsintova (April 12, 1982) was a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress, theater director and pedagogue, who worked in the Moscow Art Theatre (1910-1937), the Lenkom Theatre (1938-1957, 1961-1982, where she was the artistic director in 1951-1957), and the Moscow Stanislavsky Drama Theatre (1958-1960). Sofia Giatsintova, the People's Artist of the USSR (1955), received the Stalin Prize (1947, for her role of Varvara Mikhailovna in the film '' The Vow'', 1946), as well as numerous state awards, among them the Order of Lenin (1965, 1975). She is the author of the book of memoirs ''Alone With Memories'' (С памятью наедине, 1985). Biography Sofya Giatsintova was born in 1895 to a noble family from Moscow. Her father Vladimir Giatsintov was the Moscow State University professor; after 1914 he became the director of the Moscow University Fine Arts museum. Her mother Elizaveta Alexeyevna Giatsintova (née Vekstern) was connected to the renowned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Khmelyov
Nikolai Pavlovich Khmelyov (1 November 1945) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theater director, and pedagogue, associated with the Moscow Art Theatre and later the Yermolova Theatre. Biography Nikolai Khmelyov was born in Sormovsky City District, Sormovo, Nizhny Novgorod, to a working-class family. "A man who was highly ambitious, always dissatisfied with himself and difficult to contact with," he joined the MAT's Second Studio in 1919, soon to become "one of the most intriguing figures of the 'second generation' of MAT actors," according to the theatre historian Inna Solovyova. He excelled in the parts of Tsar Fyodor in ''Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich'' by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Aleksey Tolstoy (1935), Karenin in ''Anna Karenina'' (1937), Tuzenbach in ''Three Sisters (play), Three Sisters'' by Anton Chekhov (1940), but before that as Alexey Turbin in ''The Days of the Turbins'' by Mikhail Bulgakov, which brought him critical recognition and fame in 1926. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
