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Teuvo Tulio
Theodor Antonius Tugai (23 August 1912 – 8 June 2000), better known as Teuvo Tulio, was a Finnish film director and actor. Beginning his career as an actor at the end of the silent era, Tulio turned to directing and producing in the 1930s. His films are noted for their extremely melodramatic style. Biography Tulio was born as Theodor Antonius Tugai to a Turkish- Polish father named Aleksander Tugai and a Persian- Latvian mother named Helena Garschin in Rēzekne, in the Vitebsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Latvia). His mother was an 18-year-old aspiring ballerina when he was born. His parents' marriage was brief, and he spent the early part of his childhood in rural Latvia with his grandparents while his mother pursued a career as a ballerina in St. Petersburg. After his mother married a Finnish man named Alarik Rönnqvist, she sent for him to move to Helsinki in 1922, when he was ten years old. The family settled in the Katajanokka neighborhood of Helsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rēzekne
Rēzekne (, ''Rēzne'' or ''Rēzekne'' , ) is a state city in the Rēzekne River valley in the Latgale region of eastern Latvia. It is called ''The Heart of Latgale'' (Latvian ''Latgales sirds'', Latgalian ''Latgolys sirds''). Built on seven hills, Rēzekne is situated east of Riga, and west of the Latvian-Russian border, at the intersection of the Moscow – Ventspils railway and Warsaw – Saint Petersburg Railways. It is the 7th largest city in Latvia. Other names The Latgalian name of the city is ''Rēzne'' ( ) or ''Rēzekne'' (). Historically, in German sources, the location has been known as ''Rositten''. It is called ''Rzeżyca'' in Polish. Under the Russian Empire the city was named ''Rezhitsa'' (; ), but since Soviet period known as ''Резекне'' (). History A Latgalian hill fort''Rēzekne.com''.History." Retrieved on 4 October 2006 is known to have existed at Rēzekne from the 9th to the 13th centuries, until its destruction at the hands of German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
