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Among the stars on Hollywood Boulevard are those that have been awarded to filmmakers of Russian origin in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the cinema. Russian emigration had a significant impact on many spheres of world culture of the 20t

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Goncharova [Natalia Goncharova-Pushkina]

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Goncharova [Natalia Goncharova-Pushkina]

Nataliya Nikolaevna Pushkina-Lanskaya, was the wife of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin from 1831 until his death in 1837 in a duel with Georges d'Anths.

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Ril'ke [Rilke]

R. M. Rilke is one of the greatest European poets, who, with his work and his personality, has powerfully influenced the development of world culture, including Russian. Thus, Boris Pasternak a year before his death characterized his own work as variation

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Ekaterina Velikaia [Catherine the Great]

Empress Catherine II, or Catherine the Great (1729-1796), occupies a special place among the rulers of Russia. A German by birth, who did not have any dynastic rights to the Russian throne, she seized it as a result of a coup and for thirty-four years aut

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Tesla. Prorok elektrichestva [Tesla. Prophet of Electricity]

He is recognized as a great inventor and one of the founders of modern electrical engineering, but it is unlikely that only these merits could generate a huge interest in both his work and his personality. He earned millions, but died in poverty, patented

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Prezidenty SSHA [Presidents of the USA]

За 230 лет существования Соединенных Штатов Америки пост высшего руководителя этой страны занимали 44 человека (напомним, что 22-й и24-й президент - один и тот же человек). Поскольку по Конституции США президент имеет чрезвычайно широкие полномочия и явля

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Romanovy [The Romanovs]

За три века пребывания Романовых на троне многое менялось в стране — неизменной оставалась самодержавная власть. Её носители играли разные роли в истории, в меру своих сил, способностей и понимания действуя на благо России. Среди них были яркие личности

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Bal'mont [Konstantin Balmont]

Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont was a Russian symbolist poet, translator, one of the major figures of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.

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Dzhois [James Joyce. A full biography]

A biography of an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are pa

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Kheminguei [Ernest Hemingway]

Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 1961) was an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and public image. He won the Nobel Prize

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Shelepin [Alexander Shelepin]

Alexander Shelepin (1918-1994).

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Kataev: Pogonia za vechnoi vesnoi [Kataev: Chasing Eternal Spring] Full Biorgaphy

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Kataev: Pogonia za vechnoi vesnoi [Kataev: Chasing Eternal Spring] Full Biorgaphy

The book presents the first detailed biography of an outstanding prozoika and poet, a fine master of the word Valentin Petrovich Kitaev, devoid of ideological bias. Few people know that the writer comes from an ancient priestly family, among his close rel

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Eduard Limonov [Eduard Limonov. Full Biography]

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Eduard Limonov [Eduard Limonov. Full Biography]

Эдуард Лимонов - одна из самых противоречивых фигур современной российской литературы и политики. За свою жизнь он успел побывать московским богемным поэтом, бесприютным эмигрантом в Нью-Йорке, модным писателем в Париже, а потом - радикальным политиком, к

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Tukhachevsky [Tukhachevsky]

Tukhachevsky was a Soviet military commander, chief of the Red Army (19251928), and one of the most prominent victims of Stalin's Great Purge of the late 1930s.

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Stanislavskii [Konstantin Stanislavskii]

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Stanislavskii [Konstantin Stanislavskii]

Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky (1863 ? 1938) was a Russian actor and theatre director. The Stanislavsky system would inspire numerous acting teachers in America whose teachings became a dominant force in film acting, especially in the period after Wo

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Leonid Andreev [Leonid Andreev]

Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of Expressionism in Russian literature. He is one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period.

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Gapon [Georgy Gapon]

Father Georgiy Apollonovich Gapon was a Russian Orthodox priest and a popular working class leader before the Russian Revolution of 1905.

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Viktor Astaf'ev [Viktor Astafyev]

Soviet and Russian writer of short stories and novels.

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Darvin [Charles Darvin. Biography]

Charles Robert Darwin (1809 1882) was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that

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Batiushkov [Konstantin Nikolayevich Batyushkov]

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Batiushkov [Konstantin Nikolayevich Batyushkov]

A complete biography of a Russian poet, essayist and translator of the Romantic era. Batyushkov also served in the diplomatic corps, spending an extended period in 1818 and 1819 as a secretary to the Russian diplomatic mission at Naples.

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Maliuta Skuratov [Malyuta Skuratov. Biography]

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Maliuta Skuratov [Malyuta Skuratov. Biography]

A complete biography of one of the most odious leaders of the Oprichnina during the reign of Ivan the Terrible.

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Ugo Chaves. Odinokii revoliutsioner [Hugo Chavez. The Lonely Revolutionary]

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Ugo Chaves. Odinokii revoliutsioner [Hugo Chavez. The Lonely Revolutionary]

This book contains the biography of one of the most famous Latin American politicians since Fidel Castro. Hugo Chavez is the current president of Venezuela, a post he has held since 1999. Chavez has been called the most charismatic politician in the moder

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Blavatskaia [Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]

This woman's name is surrounded by myths and fantasies. Reactions to the works and practices of this well-known theosoph vary widely-from rough admiration of the hidden possibilities of human reason, which Helena Blavatskaia studied, to violent disapprov

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Boris Shcherbina [Boris Shcherbina]

Boris Shcherbina was the head of the committee that was responsible for liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl's accident.

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Shukshin [Vasilii Shukshin]

Biography of Vasilii Shukshin, famous actor, director, and writer.

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Mitropolit Filipp [Metropolitan Philip]

Biography of Metropolitan Philip who lived in XVI century.

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Tairov [Alexander Tairov]

Biography of a famous theater director, Alexander Tairov (1885-1950).

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Vladimir Solov'ev [Vladimir Solov'ev]

Creative biography of one of the most famous Russian philosopher Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900) and his surroundings.

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Konan Doil [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]

Full biography of the Scottish author, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific write

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Viktor Muravlenko [Viktor Muravlenko]

Muravlenko was a Soviet organizer of the oil and gas industry, and served as the head of the largest oil company in the USSR, GlavTiumenNeftGas.

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Frants Kafka [Franz Kafka]

Franz Kafka was a German-language writer of novels and short stories who is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature.

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Ermak [Ermak]

Ermak was a Cossack who led the Russian conquest of Siberia in the reign of Ivan the Terrible.

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Nestor Makhno [Nestor Makhno]

Life of Nestor Makhno, the leader of revolutionary anarchists during the Civil war in 1917-1922.

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Rudenko [Rudenko]

Rudenko was one of the chief prosecutors during the Nuremberg Trial (Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal in 1945-1946).

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Natal'ia Gundareva [Natalia Gundareva]

Life and cinema/theatre career of Natalia Gundareva, famous actress.

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Mishel' Fuko [Michel Foucault]

French philosopher, historian, intellectual, critic and sociologist. He held a chair at the Collège de France with the title "History of Systems of Thought," and also taught at the University of California, Berkeley. Foucault is best known for his critica

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Kniaz' Shakhovskoi [Count Shakhovsky]

Russian liberal Shakhovsky (1861-1939).

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Rishel'e [Cardinal Richelieu]

Consecrated as a bishop in 1607, he later entered politics, becoming a Secretary of State in 1616. Richelieu soon rose in both the Church and the state, becoming a cardinal in 1622, and King Louis XIII's chief minister in 1624. He remained in office until

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Titsian [Titian]

The leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance. Recognized by his contemporaries as "the sun amidst small stars", Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits and landscapes (two genres

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Tukhachevsky [Tukhachevsky]

Tukhachevsky was a Soviet military commander, chief of the Red Army (1925-1928), and one of the most prominent victims of Stalin's Great Purge of the late 1930s.

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Oskar Uail'd [Oscar Wilde]

Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day.

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Bottichelli [Sandro Botticelli]

Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance. Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a "golden ag

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Gertsog Bekingem [Duke of Buckingham]

Buckingham, who continued in office as chief minister into the reign of James's son, Charles I, was responsible for a policy of war against Spain and France, and was assassinated by a Puritan fanatic, John Felton, in 1628 as he prepared an expedition to r

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Leonid Utesov [Leonid Utesov]

Leonid Utesov (1895-1982) - singer, actor and still a very famous figure.

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Giliarovsky [Vladimir Gilyarovsky]

Vladimir Giliarovsky (1855-1935) was a great news reporter, a true legend who was friends with A.Chekhov, V.Briusov, A.Blok, F.Shaliapin, K.Stanislavsky, I.Repin, A.Savrasov and many others.

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Gegel' [Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher.

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Tsarevich Aleksei [Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich]

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Tsarevich Aleksei [Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich]

Prince Alexei was a son of Peter I the Great and he died in prison.

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Paskal' [Blez Paskal]

Blez Paskal - 'king in the kingdom of intellectuals'.

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Tsitseron [Cicero]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC).

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Gamsun [Knut Hamsun]

Knut Hamsun 91859-1952), Nobel Prize winner, Norvegian writer who has been highly admired by readers all over the world and who has been banned in Russia after 1940s because he supported Nazis...

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Merezhkovskii [Dmitry Merezhkovsky]

Book contains full and updated D.Merezhkovsky's (1865-1941) biography.

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Gennadii Ziuganov [Gennadii Ziuganov]

Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov (born 1944) is a Russian politician, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (since 1993), Chairman of the Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP-CPSU) (since 2001), depu

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Liubov' Orlova [Lubov Orlova]

Lyubov Petrovna Orlova, was the first recognized star of Soviet cinema, famous theatre actress and a gifted singer.

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Admiral Kornilov [Admiral Kornilov]

Vice Admiral Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov (1806 ? 1854) was a Russian naval officer who took part in the Crimean War. In 1849 he became chief of staff Black Sea Fleet.

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Minin i Pozharskii [Minin and Pozharskii]

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Minin i Pozharskii [Minin and Pozharskii]

Kuzma Minin (died 1616) was a Russian merchant from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, who, together with Prince Dmitry Pozharsky, became a national hero for his role in defending the country against the Polish invasion in the early-17th century. Dmitry Mikhaylovic

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Nikolai Starshinov [Nikolai Starshinov]

Editor of the almanakh "Poetry", mentor of several generations of Soviet poets, a truly remarcable man!

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Verlen [Paul Verlaine]

Paul-Marie Verlaine was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de sicle in international and French poetry.

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Kataev: Pogonia za vechnoi vesnoi [Kataev] Biography

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Kataev: Pogonia za vechnoi vesnoi [Kataev] Biography

В книге представлена первая подробная биография выдающегося прозаика и поэта, тонкого мастера слова Валентина Петровича Катаева (1897-1986), лишенная идеологической предвзятости. Немногие знают, что писатель происходил из старинного священнического рода,

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Shklovskii [Viktor Shklovskii]

Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky was a Russian and Soviet literary theorist, critic, writer, and pamphleteer.

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Geroi Pervoi mirovoi [The Heroes of the First World War. Biographies]

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Geroi Pervoi mirovoi [The Heroes of the First World War. Biographies]

The book tells a story of a remarkable and distinguished people who became known during the World War I (1914-1918).

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Sommerset Moem [Somerset Maugham]

A complete biography of an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. Maugham was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s.

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Griboedov [Aleksandr Griboedov]

For the first time in Russian, the artistic and scientific biography of Aleksandr Sergeevich Griboedov, author of 'Woe from Wit,' a brilliant musician, diplomat, and lover of women, is available. This book, based on archived documents, presents an authen

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Rokossovskii [Konstantin Rokossovskiy]

Rokossovskiy was a Polish-origin Soviet career officer who was a Marshal of the Soviet Union, as well as Marshal of Poland and Polish Defence Minister. He was famously known for his service in the Eastern Front, where he received high esteem for his outs

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Iliushin [Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin]

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Iliushin [Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin]

Ilyushin was a Soviet aircraft designer who founded the Ilyushin aircraft design bureau. He became interested in aviation in 1910 and was qualified as a pilot in World War I. After obtaining a degree in engineering from the Air Force Academy in 1926, he s

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Boris El'tsin [Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin]

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Boris El'tsin [Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin]

A biography of the controversial Boris El'tsin, who rose up in the ranks of the Communist Party during the Gorbachev years, was kicked out of the party, staged a political comeback and became the first President of an independent Russia.

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Leonid Leonov [Leonid Leonov]

Zahar Prilepin, one of the most known young writers, offers the version of the biography of last Russian classic Leonid Leonov who has lived a life full of tragical collisions. Separate chapters are devoted to Leonov's difficult relationships with Esenin,

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Arkadii Averchenko [Arkady Averchenko]

Arkady Averchenko is a "king of laughter", Russian Mark Twain, author of many short stories, editor of satirical magazines. His personality still remains a puzzle and his life is full of riddles: he never got married, his pamphlets got high reviews from V

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Lzhedmitry I [False Dmitriy I]

He was one of three impostors who claimed during the Time of Troubles to be the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible, tsarevitch Dmitriy Ivanovich, who had supposedly escaped a 1591 assassination attempt. It is generally believed that the real Dmitriy was as

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Bagration [General Peter Bagration]

Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration served as a Russian general. He was an ethnic Georgian and descendant of the Georgian royal family of the Bagrations. In 1812 Bagration commanded the 2nd army of the West, and though defeated at Mogilev, rejoined the main

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Kropotkin [Peter Kropotkin]

Full biography of the famous theoretician of anarchism, Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921).

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Chernenko [Konstantin Chernenko]

Biography of Konstantin Chernenko, written by his assistant in the last years.

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Lefort [Franz Lefort]

Biography of Franz Lefort (1656-1699) who has been very close to Peter the Great. Franz Lefort was a Russian military figure of Swiss origin, general admiral, and close associate of Peter the Great. Franz Lefort came from a merchant family, and was born i

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Iurii Zvenigorodskii [Yury of Zvenigorod]

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Iurii Zvenigorodskii [Yury of Zvenigorod]

Yury Dmitrievich, also known as George II of Moscow, Yury of Zvenigorod and Jurij Zwenihorodski, was the second son of Dmitri Donskoi. He was the Duke of Zvenigorod and Galich from 1389 until his death.

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Maksim Grek [Maximus the Greek]

Maximus the Greek (1475-1556) was a publicist, writer, scholar, humanist and translator of Greek origin, active in Russia.

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Avilov [Viktor Avilov]

Biography of the famous actor, Viktor Avilov (1953-2004).

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Benkendorf [Alexander Benkendorf]

Hero of the war of 1812, personal friend of tzar Nikolai I, Sergei Volkonsky.

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Ivan VI Antonovich [Ivan VI of Russia]

Ivan VI Antonovich of Russia was proclaimed Emperor of Russia in 1740, as an infant, although he never actually reigned. Within less than a year, he was overthrown by the Empress Elizabeth of Russia, Peter I's daughter.

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Omar Khaiam [Omar Khayy m]

He is best known for his poetry, and outside Iran, for the quatrains (rubaiyaas). His substantial mathematical contributions include his Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, which gives a geometric method for solving cubic equations by inters

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Sulla [Sulla]

Sulla was a Roman general and a conservative politician, holding the office of consul twice as well as the dictatorship.

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Iurii Dolgorukii [Yuriy Dolgorukiy]

Yuri was the sixth son of Vladimir Monomakh. Dolgoruki is often called "The Founder of Moscow".

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Arina Rodionovna [Arina Rodionovna]

Arina Rodionovna is the most famous Russian nanny. She took care of small Alexander Pushkin and by boosting his imagination with native folklore, she inspired him to write his most read tales and poems.

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Vasilii Shuiskii [Vassily Shuisky] Full biography

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Vasilii Shuiskii [Vassily Shuisky] Full biography

Имя царя Василия Ивановича Шуйского связано с самыми тяжелыми страницами в истории русской Смуты начала XVII века - восстанием Болотникова, осадой Москвы Тушинским Вором, открытой интервенцией польского короля Сигизмунда III, катастрофическим поражением р

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