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Gardes-Marines, Forward!
''Gardes-Marines, Forward!'' or () is a 1988 Soviet four-series television film (mini-series), the first of a series of films about Russian Gardes-Marines of the 18th century, directed by Svetlana Druzhinina. It was followed by ''Viva Gardes-Marines!''. Plot It is Russia in 1742. Some time ago as a result of a palace coup, Elizabeth Petrovna, the daughter of Peter the Great, came to power. French Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, displeased with Russia's foreign policy, plots against Vice-Chancellor Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin. The secret archive of Bestuzhev has been stolen, and priceless papers from Russia are to be brought out by Chevalier de Brillieu, an experienced diplomat and womanizer. At the same time three faithful friends are undergoing training in the navigational school in Moscow: Aleksei Korsak, Alexander Belov and Nikita Olenev. Their student life is fun and carefree but suddenly due to a combination of circumstances, the young men are drawn into dangerous political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svetlana Druzhinina
Svetlana Sergeevna Druzhinina (; born 16 December 1935 in Moscow) is a USSR, Soviet and Russians, Russian actress, film director, screenwriter and film producer. She is best known for directing the Gardes de la Marine, Gardes-Marines trilogy consisting of ''Gardes-Marines, ahead! (film), Gardes-Marines, ahead!'', ''Viva Gardes-Marines! (film), Viva Gardes-Marines!'' and ''Gardes-Marines-III (film), Gardes-Marines-III''. Biography Svetlana Druzhinina was born on 16 December 1935 in Moscow. In 1946, Druzhinina entered the circus school, where she successfully worked with a group of circus acrobats for one year. A year later she moved to the ballet school at the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre. In 1955 she graduated from the ballet school of the Bolshoi Theatre, where she studied together with future ballet stars Māris Liepa and Natalya Kasatkina. Because of a serious injury Druzhinina couldn’t become a dancer. In 1955 Druzhinina debuted as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Grinevich
Andrei, Andrey or Andrej (in Cyrillic script: Андрэй, Андрей or Андреј) is a form of Andreas/Ἀνδρέας in Slavic languages and Romanian. People with the name include: *Andrei of Polotsk (–1399), Lithuanian nobleman *Andrej Babiš (born 1954), Czech prime minister *Andrey Belousov (born 1959), Russian politician *Andrey Bolotov (1738–1833), Russian agriculturalist and memoirist *Andrey Borodin (born 1967), Russian financial expert and businessman *Andrei Broder (born 1953), Romanian-Israeli American computer scientist and engineer *Andrei Chikatilo (1936–1994), prolific and cannibalistic Russian serial killer and rapist *Andrei Denisov (weightlifter) (born 1963), Israeli Olympic weightlifter *Andrey Ershov (1931–1988), Russian computer scientist *Andrey Esionov, Russian painter *Andrei Glavina (1881–1925), Istro-Romanian writer and politician *Andrei Gromyko (1909–1989), Belarusian Soviet politician and diplomat *Andrei Iosivas (born 1999), Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Pashutin
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pashutin (; born January 28, 1943, Moscow, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1999). Selected filmography * 1975: ''Bonus (film), Bonus'' as Oleg Kachnov * 1976: ''How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor'' as painter * 1977: ''White Bim Black Ear'' as dog show judge * 1977: ''The Second Attempt of Viktor Krokhin'' as Sergey Andreevich * 1977: ''Destiny (1977 film), Destiny'' as crazy man (uncredited) * 1980: ''Air Crew'' as a passenger with a dislocated jaw * 1980: ''Investigation Held by ZnaToKi'' as Gorobets * 1980: ''The Evening Labyrinth'' as waiter * 1980: ''White Snow of Russia'' as Semyonov * 1982: ''Incident at Map Grid 36-80'' as Captain Gremyachkin * 1982: ''The Train Has Stopped'' as train passenger * 1983: ''Quarantine (1983 film), Quarantine'' as colleague of the grandmother * 1983: ''From the Life of a Chief of the Criminal Police'' as driver Utkin * 1983: ''Start Liquidation'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques-Joachim Trotti, Marquis De La Chétardie
Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie (3 October 1705 – 1 January 1759) was a French diplomat who engineered the coup d'etat that brought Elizaveta Petrovna to the Russian throne in 1741. In the course of his eventful career, La Chetardie was sent on diplomatic errands throughout Europe: in London (1727), then in Holland and Prussia, in Russia twice, and finally in Turin in 1749 in the company of Jean-Louis Favier. When he arrived as ambassador to Saint Petersburg in 1739, he found all the key positions in the imperial administration in the hands of ethnic Germans, inimical to his own country. In order to counterbalance their influence, La Chetardie approached his compatriot, Count Lestocq, and the Swedish ambassador, who was preparing the war with Russia. Their complex manoeuvring resulted in the coup d'etat which made Peter the Great's daughter Elizaveta the new Empress. Upon her accession to the throne, she awarded La Chetardie with the Order of Saint Andre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Bortsov
Viktor Andreyevich Bortsov (; June 14, 1934 in Orenburg, USSR – May 20, 2008 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet/Russian theatrical and cinema actor. He was a People's Artist of RSFSR. Bortsov was best known as Savva Ignatyevich in the 1982 film The Pokrovsky Gate. He died at 73, after a long struggle with intestinal cancer. A civil funeral was held at the Maly Theatre, Moscow on May 23, 2008. He was buried in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow. Selected filmography * 1970 — Liberation () as General Grigory Oriol * 1978 — Aniskin Begins Again (И снова Анискин) as Sidorov, tractor driver * 1982 — Station for Two (Вокзал для двоих) as drunkard in a restaurant * 1982 — The Pokrovsky Gate (Покровские ворота) as Savva Ignatyevich * 1984 — Alone and Unarmed (Один и без оружия) as Dmitry Sergeyevich * 1986 — Ballad of an Old Gun (Баллада о старом оружии) as Gritsenko * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Balon
Vladimir Yakovlevich Balon (; 23 February 1937,Фехтование: энциклопедия: А-Я / Федерация фехтования России; авт.-сост. М. Ракита, В. Штейнбах; под общ. ред. Д. А. Тышлера. — М.: Человек, 2011. — 702 с. Leningrad — 2 February 2013 Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian actor, a professional fencer, Master of sports of the USSR (1956), champion of the USSR in fencing (juniors, 1958, adults 1961) foil, stunt. Since 1990 to 2002 was the director of the studio ''Mosfilm-Autotrake''. Selected filmography * ''Hussar Ballad'' (, 1962) as Kutuzov's adjutant * '' Give Me a Book of Complaints'' (Дайте жалобную книгу, 1965) as journalist, Yuri Nikitin's friend * '' They're Calling, Open the Door'' (Звонят, откройте дверь, 1966) as teacher of fencing * ''Anna Karenina'' (Анна Каренина, 1967) as officer at the races (''uncredited'') * '' Sea T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Pavlov
Viktor Pavlovich Pavlov (; 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, was an engineer who later had a high post in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Innokenty Smoktunovsky
Innokenty Mikhailovich Smoktunovsky (; born ''Smoktunovich'', 28 March 19253 August 1994) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1974 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1990. Early life Smoktunovsky was born in a Siberian village in a peasant family of Belarusians, Belarusian ethnicity. It was once rumored that he came from a Polish family, even nobility, but the actor himself denied these theories by stating his family was Belarusian and not of nobility. He served in the Red Army during World War II and fought in the battles Battle of Kursk, of Kursk, Battle of the Dnieper, the Dnieper and Battle of Kiev (1943), Kiev. In 1946, he joined a theatre in Krasnoyarsk, later moving to Moscow. In 1957, he was invited by Georgy Tovstonogov to join the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater, Bolshoi Drama Theatre of Saint Petersburg, Leningrad, where he stunned the public with his dramatic interpretation of Prince Myshkin in Fyodor Dostoev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Abdulov
Aleksandr Gavrilovich AbdulovАбдулов Г. Д. Ферганский государственный областной русский драматический театр, ferrusdramteatr.uz (''Russian:'' Алекса́ндр Гаври́лович Абду́лов; 29 May 1953 – 3 January 2008) was a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian film and stage actor, film director, screenwriter and television presenter. He was awarded People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1991. Biography Aleksandr Abdulov went to school from 1960 to 1970, and upon graduation wanted to become a Sportsperson, sportsman. However, Abdulov's father encouraged his son to act, and Aleksandr Abdulov starred in ''About Vitya, about Masha and the Sea Force'', 1974. In 1975 he graduated from GITIS and was hired by Lenkom The ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Armand De Lestocq
Count Jean Armand de L'Estocq (; ; 29 April 1692, in Lüneburg – 12 June 1767, in Saint Petersburg) was a French adventurer and court physician in Russia. He wielded immense influence on Russian foreign policy during the early reign of Empress Elizabeth. Biography Coming from a noble family of Champagne, as a youth he was committed to prison for a petty offense. He was liberated on the urging of Françoise-Marie de Bourbon (1677–1749), legitimized daughter of Louis XIV of France and Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan. Françoise-Marie was also married at the time to Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. She was thus a well-connected patroness. In 1709, Lestocq arrived in Saint Petersburg in the capacity of a court physician. He was well regarded by Catherine I of Russia until 1720, when her husband had him exiled to Kazan for having seduced a jester's daughter. Upon the Emperor's death, Catherine summoned her favourite physician to the Russian capital, where his light-hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladislav Strzhelchik
Vladislav Ignatievich Strzhelchik (; 1921–1995) was a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1974). Biography Vladislav Strzhelchik born in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg, Russia). His father, Ignatiy Petrovich was a native of Poland () who settled in St. Petersburg at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1938 Vladislav Strzhelchik was accepted into the studio of the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater and in the same year he became an actor of this theater, where he worked all his life. He graduated from the studio only in 1947. During the Great Patriotic War, Vladislav Strzhelchik was drafted into the Red Army and served in the infantry at the forefront. In 1959–1968 Strzhelchik lectured at the Leningrad Institute for Theatre, Music and Cinematography, since 1966 at the Leningrad Institute for Culture. He died in Saint Petersburg on 11 September 1995, and was buried on the famous Literatorskie mostki ("Writer's footworks") of Volkovo Cemetery. Selected fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevstigneyev (; 9 October 1926 — 4 March 1992) was a prominent Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre pedagogue, one of the founders of the Moscow Sovremennik Theatre. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1983 and awarded the USSR State Prize in 1974. Early years Yevgeny Yevstigneyev was born on 9 October 1926 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian SFSR (modern day Nizhny Novgorod Oblast of Russia) into a poor working-class family and spent his childhood at the outskirts in the Volodarsky village.''Yevgeny Yevstigneyev and a collective of authors (2017)''I'm Alive...— Moscow: AST, 288 pages He was a late child of Maria Ivanovna Yevstigneyeva (née Chernishova), a milling machine operator, and a metallurgist Aleksandr Mikhailovich Yevstigneyev who was twenty years older than her and who died when Yevgeny was six years old. Maria Ivanovna married another man who died when Yevgeny turned seventeen. |
