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The daughter of a lawyer, Ouspenskaya studied singing at the Warsaw Conservatory and acting at Adasheff's School of the Drama in Moscow. She received her practical training as an actress touring in the Russian provinces. She later joined the Moscow Art Theatre. It was here that she first worked under the direction of the great Konstantin Stanislavski, whose "Method" she would go on to promote for the remainder of her life. She came to America with the Art Theatre in 1922 and, upon their return to Moscow, defected to the US to become a dominant Broadway actress for more than a decade until she founded the School of Dramatic Art in New York in 1929. It was to help keep the school funded that she accepted her first Hollywod film, Dodsworth (1936). She had appeared in six silent movies in Russia earlier in her career. This lucrative association, for Ouspenskaya, Hollywood and the viewing public, would last for more than a dozen years and two dozen films. Thanks to her often-superior demeanor and addiction to astrology, she could prove maddening on the set. She remained in nearly daily communication with L.A. Times' astrologer Carroll Righter who would advise her on the best times to appear on camera along with when and where to travel. As a consequence, most casts and crews disliked the over-bearing, wispy 90-pound actress intensely. She bounced between prestigious A-pictures (Love Affair (1939), Waterloo Bridge (1940)) and B-movies (Mystery of Marie Roget (1942), Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)), performing, and behaving, with equal intensity. She is especially notable for having appeared in the last great Universal horror entry, The Wolf Man (1941) and the interesting Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943). A heavy smoker, she fell asleep in bed with a lit cigarette in late November 1949 and suffered massive burns. She died of a stroke in the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital three days later.- Actor
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Vladimir Lvovich Mashkov was born in Tula, to Natalia, a puppet theatre director, and Lev Mashkov, an actor. He worked for Oleg Tabakov's theatre where he performed in Alexander Galich's "My Big Land", Neil Simon's "Biloxy Blues", Nickolai Gogol's "The Inspector General", Jean-Batiste Moliere's "Don Juan", and other plays. As a director, he staged "A Star Hour By Local Time", "Passions For Bumbarash", "The Death-Defying Act" and Bertolt Brecht's "The Threepenny Opera".- Actor
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Actor, director, screenwriter, recording artist, musician, composer, producer, X-Factor and Dancing With The Stars Winner, car wreck and massive stroke survivor, Alex's credits are nothing short of mind-blowing. Having over 30 European films under his belt, Alex also stars in the third and forth season of popular American series UnREAL on Lifetime Channel, and Netflix show Space Force on the side of Steve Carell and John Malkovich.
The global rising star that is Alex Sparrow, is on a seemingly unstoppable trajectory of success and earth staggering talent.
It's a a rare find in the entertainment business to see one individual not only engage in, but conquer, a plethora of fields - actor, director, screenwriter, recording artist, musician, composer, producer, arranger.
Born in Russia and raised in the family of Austrian Baron Alexis von Gecmen-Waldek, Sparrow's early training included Moscow Jazz College, followed by Moscow Art Theatre Studio School (MHAT).
Showing the young generation that a healthy lifestyle and positive mental attitude is a recipe for success, in 2007 Alex was appointed Good Will Ambassador to the United Nations for all Anti-AIDS Programs under jurisdiction of U.N.F.P.A.
His dedication to his all round craft saw him add 'professional stuntman' to his name through his study at Mosfilm Studios. Already a multi-instrumentalist and skilled in dancing in a myriad of styles, Alex was committed to further development and excellence in the film world. In his new home of L.A, he completed both Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop and studied at the Ivana Chubbuck Studio.
Truckloads of natural ability fostered with endless hard work certainly paid off. Amongst some of his most impressive mainstream achievements, Sparrow's respective wins of "X-factor', 'Dancing with the Stars', and twice Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards as 'Favourite Actor' surely put him in a stand out category of his own.
And if that wasn't enough, his music video "She's Crazy But She's Mine" (written, performed, directed and starring Alex himself) quickly going viral across the globe, now boasts more then 980 million views on Facebook, and 302 million plus on YouTube.
Perhaps it's this gifted Eastern European's accomplishments in film that have earned him the most critical acclaim. A three-time 'Best Score Award' winner and several acting gongs, Alex composed the music for the European co-produced film "The House of Others", a multiple award winning post-war drama that was a Georgian Oscars and Golden Globe entry in 2017, also receiving the most prestigious US Spotlight Award and Satellite Award.
Just beginning to take his first steps on the way to his International career he got into an accident, leaving the left side of his body paralyzed. During a year and a half of rehabilitation, he had to work hard to get his life back, and had to learn many things like singing from scratch again. While the doctors were saying that it's very unlikely he would ever be able to continue with acting and show business, Alex was trying to find a new place behind the camera as a director and screenwriter. In 2013, the moment he was able to work again, he made his first short movie, called "DAD"- as screenwriter, director, editor and composer, and gets with it numerous Awards on International Film Festivals. Alex has made it - today he is back on stage, proving the doctors wrong. With that fierce imagination, anything-is-possible attitude and boundless capabilities to turn captivating ideas into reality on any medium, there's no telling what Alex Sparrow will do next.- Alex Ozerov is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Mischa on The Americans. Ozerov was born in Tula, Russia and migrated to Toronto at the age of 13. Shortly after, he got an interest in acting and studied with actor/director Walter Alza. Alex made his feature film debut in Jason Buxton's award-winning film Blackbird, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. He can now be seen as Oliver Sokolov on the Netflix original, Another Life.
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Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in his ancestral estate Yasnaya Polyana, South of Moscow, Russia. He was the fourth of five children in a wealthy family of Russian landed Gentry. His parents died when he was a child, and he was brought up by his elder brothers and relatives.
Leo Tolstoy studied languages and law at Kazan University for three years. He was dissatisfied with the school and left Kazan without a degree, returned to his estate and educated himself independently. In 1848 he moved to the capital, St. Petersburg, and there passed two tests for a law degree. He was abruptly called to return to his estate near Moscow, where he inherited 4000 acres of land and 350 serfs. There Tolstoy built a school for his serfs, and acted as a teacher. He briefly went to a Medical School in Moscow, but lost a fortune in gambling, and was pulled out by his brother. He took military training, became an Army officer, and moved to the Caucasus, where he lived a simple life for three years with Cossacs. There he wrote his first novel - "Childhood" (1852), it became a success. With writing "Boyhood" (1854) and "Youth" (1857) he concluded the autobiographical trilogy. In the Crimean War (1854-55) Tolstoy served as artillery commander in the Battle of Sevastopol, and was decorated for his courage. Between the battles he wrote three stories titled "Sevastopol Sketches", that won him wide attention, and a complement from the Czar Aleksandr II.
After the war, Tolstoy returned to St. Petersburg, where he enjoyed the friendship of Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai A. Nekrasov, Ivan Goncharov, and other writers. On his trips to Europe, he had discussions with Gertsen in London, and attended Darwin's lectures. In Brussels he had meetings with philosophers Prudhon and Lelewel. Tolstoy undertook a research of schools in Europe, and later he built and organized over 20 schools for poor people in Russia. At that time the secret police began surveillance, and searched his home. In 1862 he married Sofia Andreevna Bers, and fathered 13 children with his wife. Four of their babies died, and the couple raised the remaining nine children. His wife was also his literary secretary, and also contributed to his best works, "War and Peace" (1863-69) and "Anna Karenina" (1873-77). In his "Confession" (1879) Tolstoy revealed his own version of Christianity, blended with socialism, that won him many followers. Tolstoyan communities sprang up in America and Europe, and he assisted the Russian non-Orthodox Christians (Dukhobors) in migrating to USA and Canada. He split from aristocratic class and developed an ascetic lifestyle, becoming a vegetarian, and a farmer. He sponsored and organized free meals for the poor. He transfered his copyright on all of his writings after 1880 to public domain. In his later age Tolstoy was pursuing the path of a wandering ascetic. He corresponded with Mohandas K. Gandhi, who was directly influenced by Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God is Within You" (1894), which was praised by many nonviolent movements.
In 1900 Tolstoy criticized the Tsar's government in a series of publications, calling for separation of Chuch and State. Tsar Nicholas II retaliated through the Church, by expulsion of Tolstoy from Orthodox Cristianity as a "heretic". He fell ill, and suffered from a severe depression; he was suicidal and even had to eliminate all hunting guns from his home, because of his suicidal mode. He was treated by the famous doctor Dahl, and was visited by composer Sergei Rachmaninoff and basso Feodor Chaliapin Sr., who performed for Tolstoy on many occasions. Later he went to convalesce in Yalta, in Crimea, where he spent time with Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky. Tolstoy was an obvious candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but was initially omitted by the Nobel Committee for his views. The omission caused a strong response from a group of Swedish writers and artists. They sent an address to Tolstoy, but the writer answered by declining any future prize nomination.
In 1902 Tolstoy wrote a letter to the Tsar, calling for social justice, to prevent a civil war, and in 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War, Tolstoy wrote a condemnation of war. The Tsar replied by increasing police surveillance on Tolstoy. In November of 1910 he left his estate, probably taking the path of a wandering ascetic, which he had been pursuing for decades. He left home without explanations and took a train, in which he caught pneumonia, and died at a remote station of Astapovo. He was laid to rest in his estate of Yasnaya Polyana, which was made a Tolstoy National Museum.
His youngest daughter, named Alexandra Tolstoy, was the director of the Tolstoy Museum, and was arrested by the Communists five times. She emigrated from Russia to the United States, where she founded the Tolstoy Foundation. She helped many prominent Russian intellectuals, such as Vladimir Nabokov and Sergei Rachmaninoff among many others.- Director
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Ilya Aksyonov was born on 1 May 1989 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR. He is a director and actor, known for KVN-ers (2018), Na kray sveta (2019) and Kapelnik (2022). He is married to Anastasiya Reznik.- Lyudmila Davydova was born on 29 March 1939 in Tula, Tulskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979), Skaz pro to, kak tsar Pyotr arapa zhenil (1976) and Heavenly Swallows (1976). She was married to Andrey Ladynin and Valeriy Uskov. She died on 25 December 1996 in Moscow, Russia.
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Vyacheslav Nevinny was a Russian actor of Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT).
He was born Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Nevinny on November 30, 1934, in Tula, Russia, Soviet Union (now Tula, Russia). Young Nevinny was fond of theatre, he was active in amateur drama club at Palace of Pioneers in Tula, and made his stage debut with Tula Theatre. From 1955 - 1959 he studied acting under Viktor Stanitsyn at Moscow Art Theatre School of Acting, graduating in 1959 as an actor. In 1960 he made his film debut in Ispytatelnyy srok (1960) by director Vladimir Gerasimov.
From 1959-2009 Vyacheslav Nevinny was a permanent member of the troupe at Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). There his stage partners were such renown Russian actors as Anatoli Ktorov, Olga Androvskaya, Angelina Stepanova, Nikolay Khmelyov, Mikhail Yanshin, Aleksey Gribov, Boris Livanov, Mikhail Kedrov, Mark Prudkin, Anastasiya Georgievskaya, Vasili Toporkov, Mikhail Bolduman, Pavel Massalsky, and the next generation of MKhAT actors - Oleg Efremov, Tatyana Doronina, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Oleg Tabakov, Kristina Babushkina, Alla Pokrovskaya, Kira Golovko, Iya Savvina, Nina Gulyaeva, Elena Panova, Darya Moroz, Olga Litvinova, Natalya Rogozhkina, Ekaterina Semyonova, Olga Yakovleva, Anastasiya Voznesenskaya, Irina Miroshnichenko, Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya, Andrey Myagkov, Stanislav Lyubshin, Vladimir Kashpur, Viktor Sergachyov, Evgeniy Kindinov, Vladimir Krasnov, Dmitriy Nazarov, Sergey Sazontev, Avangard Leontev, Igor Vasilev, Igor Vernik, Sergei Sosnovsky, Mikhail Porechenkov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Valeri Khlevinsky, Valeriy Troshin, Mikhail Trukhin, Eduard Chekmazov, Aleksey Kravchenko, Aleksei Agapov, and Evgeniy Mironov among others. His best known stage appearances include his roles in such classic plays as Nikolay Gogol's Revizor (aka.. Inspector-General) and in Anton Chekhov's plays: Ivanov, Chaika (aka.. The Seagull), Dyadya Vanya (aka.. Uncle Vanya), and Vishnevy sad (aka.. The Cherry Orchard).
Vyacheslav Nevinny was designated People's Actor of the USSR, and received a congratulatory note from the Russian president. He was suffering from diabetes with complications causing him amputation of both legs. However, Nevinny was supported by his family as well as by his fellow actors, such as Aleksandr Kalyagin and Sergey Yurskiy among many others. Nevinny was married to actress Nina Gulyaeva, their son, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy is also an actor at Moscow Art Theatre.
He died at his home in Moscow on May 31, 2009, of complications related to diabetes, and was laid to rest in Troekurovskoe Cemetery in Moscow, Russia.- Michael Khmurov was born on 26 February 1966 in Tula, Tulskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for Fracture (2007), Lektor (2011) and Odna voyna (2009). He is married to Elena Semyonova-Khmurova. They have two children.
- Evgeniya Osipova was born on 24 May 1986 in Tula, Tulskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for Zakrytaya shkola (2011), Realnyy papa (2008) and Ikona sezona (2013). She was previously married to Anatoliy Simchenko.
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Sergey Stolyarov was born on 1 November 1911 in village Bezzubovo, Venyov uyezd, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Serebryano-Prudsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor and writer, known for Far from Moscow (1950), Sadko (1953) and The Sword and the Dragon (1956). He died on 9 December 1969 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Sergey Chonishvili was born on August 3, 1965 in the city of Tula in a family of actors. Father - Nozheri Davidovich Chonishvili - Artist of the USSR. His name was given to an establishment dedicated to actors in Omsk (Siberia). Sergey's Mother - Prokop Valeria Ivanovna, People's Artist of Russia. In 1986 he graduated from the Shukshin's Theater School with honors and was accepted into the troupe of the theater Lenin Komsomol - Moscow theater "Lenkom". After the release of the country's extremely popular TV series "St. Petersburg secrets," Sergei has attracted a lot of attention on the part of moviegoers. In 2000, Sergey has released his debut took book - "Minor changes". In 2003 he published a second book,"The Train Man."
Since 2010, engaged in the performance of Theatre of Nations "The Gronholm Method" by Jordi Galceran Ferrer. Sergey's role brought him enormous popularity and brought him People's vote for Best Male Actor.
Since 2011, played in productions of Chekhov Moscow Art "Event", "Witness for the Prosecution", "An Ideal Husband"
Sergei Nozherievich Chonishvili - the most attractive and sought after male voice of modern Russian television. Sergey is official voice of the channel CTC. - Ekaterina Shulman was born on 19 August 1978 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Antonina Maksimova was born on 7 November 1916 in Tula, Russian Empire [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for Othello (1956), Ballad of a Soldier (1959) and Mayakovsky itskeboda ase... (1958). She died on 4 October 1986 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Leonid Mozgovoy was born on 17 April 1941 in Tula, Tula Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for Taurus (2001), Moloch (1999) and Last Love (2017).
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Vasili Pronin was born on 24 July 1905 in Kobelevo, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Kazaki (1961), Pardesi (1957) and Son of the Regiment (1946). He died on 23 November 1966.- Actor
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Blas García was born on 26 May 1942 in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico. He is an actor, known for La casa al final de la calle (1989), Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976) and Las poquianchis (De los pormenores y otros sucedidos del dominio público que acontecieron a las hermanas de triste memoria a quienes la maledicencia así las bautizó) (1976).- Director
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Sergey Seryogin is a Russian director-animator. Creator of the festival of children's animation "Firebird" in Novosibirsk.
In 1991 Seryogin graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a diploma in journalism. In 1992-1994 he worked at the Novosibirsk Television (Novosibirsk State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company) as an editor, author of television programs, and a director. In the same place in 1993 he organized animation courses and a studio. In 1995 he worked at Soyuzmultfilm, at the School-Studio "SHAR", since 1996 - at the Master-Film film company. Acted as a director of documentaries. Since 2004 - President of the Open All-Russian Master Class Festival of Children's Animated Film "Firebird" (Novosibirsk).- Nikolay Shrayber was born on 6 October 1982 in Tula, Tulskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for Podrostki v kosmose, Malvina and Nomer Odin (2020).
- Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. He is best known for commanding the 62nd Army which saw heavy combat during the Battle of Stalingrad in the Second World War.
Born to a peasant family near Tula, Chuikov earned his living as a factory worker from the age of 12. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, he joined the Red Army and distinguished himself during the Russian Civil War. After graduating from the Frunze Military Academy, Chuikov worked as a military attach and intelligence officer in China and the Russian Far East. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Chuikov commanded the 4th Army during the Soviet invasion of Poland, and the 9th Army during the Winter War against Finland. In December 1940, he was again appointed military attach to China in support of Chiang Kai-she and the Nationalists in the war against Japan.
In March 1942, Chuikov was recalled from China to defend against the German invasion of the Soviet Union. By September, he was assigned command of the 62nd Army in defense of Stalingrad. Tasked with holding the city at all costs, Chuikov adopted keeping the Soviet front-line positions as close to the Germans as physically possible. This served as an effective countermeasure against the Wehrmacht's combined-arms tactics, but by mid-November 1942 the Germans had captured most of the city after months of slow advance. In late November Chuikov's 62nd Army joined the rest of the Soviet forces in a counter-offensive, which led to the surrender of the German 6th Army in early 1943. After Stalingrad, Chuikov led his forces into Poland during Operation Bagration and the Vistula-Oder Offensive before advancing on Berlin. He personally accepted the unconditional surrender of German forces in Berlin on 2 May 1945.
After the war, Chuikov served as Chief of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (1949-53), commander of the Kiev Military District (1953-60), Chief of the Soviet Armed Forces and Deputy Minister of Defense (1960-64), and head of the Soviet Civil Defense Forces (1961-72). Chuikov was twice awarded the titles Hero of the Soviet Union (1944 and 1945) and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by the United States for his actions during the Battle of Stalingrad. In 1955, he was named a Marshal of the Soviet Union. Following his death in 1982, Chuikov was interred at the Stalingrad memorial at Mamayev Kurgan, which had been the site of heavy fighting. - Countess Alexandra Lvovna Tolstoy (Aleksandra Tolstaya) was the youngest daughter of the famous Russian writer Count Lev Tolstoy. She was born in 1884, in Yasnaya Polyana, the ancestral estate of the Tolstoy family. Her mother, named Sofia Andreevna Bers, was the literary secretary for Leo Tolstoy, and made Alexandra an assistant to her writer father. Alexandra managed most of the secretarial work for Leo Tolstoy during his later years. She became the keeper of the Tolstoy archive after the writer's death in 1910.
Alexandra shared the "Tolstoyan" ideas and was the follower her father's position of non-violence, but she felt a duty call at the beginning of the First World War. She participated in action by helping the wounded, and became one of the leading organizers of hospitals for the wounded soldiers. Alexandra Tolstoy was decorated for her courage with three Medals of the Order of St. George, rising to the rank of Colonel.
After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Countess Alexandra Tolstoy was arrested five times by the Communists. She was sentenced for supporting the right of free speech and assembly. After release she worked as a keeper of her father's estate in Yasnaya Polyana, which was turned into a Tolstoy's National Museum. She left Russia in 1929, and settled in the United States. There she co-founded the Tolstoy Foundation in 1939, with the sponsorship from such prominent intellectuals as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Sikorsky, Tatiana Schaufuss, Boris Bakhmeteff, and Boris Sergievsky. Former President Herbert Hoover became the first Honorary Chairman from 1939-1964.
Under the leadership of Alexandra Tolstoy, the Tolstoy Foundation assisted more than 500,000 people to escape from political persecution and the horrors of war. In 1948, she testified before the government on behalf of the Displaced Persons Act and was instrumental in its passage. In 1941, on a generous private donation the Tolstoy Foundation acquired Reed Farm north of New York City. She provided the 70-acre Farm for a resettlement center for over 30,000 refugees directly sponsored by the Foundation during the Second World War and after. She organized English classes and occupational therapy for the immigrants, as well, as a summer camp for needy children.
Countess Alexandra Tolstoy was known for her remarkable calmness and dignity. She died in 1979, at age 96, and was laid to rest in the Russian cemetery of Spring Valley, New York, USA. - Ekaterina Zhemchuzhnaya was born on 28 March 1944 in Shchyokino, Tula Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for Queen of the Gypsies (1976), Tsyganka Aza (1987) and Karnaval (1982).
- Sergey Styopin was born on 3 October 1965 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR. He is an actor, known for Prikazano unichtozhit! Operatsiya «Kitayskaya shkatulka» (2009), Kapitan Kryuk and Couple from the Future (2021). He is married to Natalya Styopina. They have two children.
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Boris Giller was born on 17 April 1956 in Tula, Tula Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is a writer and producer, known for Chek (2000), Prisoner of the Mountains (1996) and Kriminalnyy kvartet (1989).- Antonina Konchakova was born on 14 February 1928 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979), Inspektor Gull (1979) and Poem of the Sea (1958). She died on 28 September 2014 in Moscow, Russia.
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Stanislav Shmelev was born on 1 August 1988 in Tula, Russia. He is an actor and editor, known for Dikiy (2009), Provokator (2016) and Taksi pod prikrytiem (2023).- Kristina Elkhanovna Sarkisyan (born March 9, 1991, Tula, now Russia), better known as Kristina Si, is a Russian singer. She became most widely known after signing a contract with the Black Star record label in 2013, with which she ended her collaboration in 2018.
Kristina was born into a family of circus performers. Until the age of 6, she moved from city to city with her parents, lived in a traveling circus, owned by her parents. At the age of 6, Sargsyan began studying at a music school. For three years she played the piano, after which she switched to pop-jazz vocals. She moved to live in Moscow in 2008 and entered the Institute of Contemporary Art at the department of pop-jazz singing.
In 2010, she met the composer Pavel Murashov, who later became the author of her first composition called "I'm Flying Away". In the summer of 2011, Kristina Sargsyan released a new single, as well as a video for the song "I Begin to Forget".
The collaboration between Black Star and Kristina Si began in 2011 with the recording of a joint track by the singer and label artist -Music Hayk. In early 2013, she released the single "Winter". In March of the same year, she became an artist of the label and the only girl at that time on Black Star. The first work on the label Black Star Inc. became the single "Well, well, yes." The editors of the portal Rap.ru placed in tenth place in the list of "50 Best Songs of 2013" and the video for this song in fifth place in the list of "Clips of the Year. Russian version"
In June 2015, she was on the jury of A-One 's "Just Dance" dance competition.
In November 2016, the singer was banned from entering Ukraine for three years. According to TASS with reference to the press service of the State Border Service of Ukraine, this is due to her speech in the Crimea, which took place in the summer of that year.
On November 28, 2016, Kristina Si released her debut album titled Light in the Dark. The album included 15 songs, including collaborations with Black Star label artist Scrooge and rapper Dima No One.
2017 was a very eventful and difficult year for the singer, in March, as part of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Moscow, another show took place, one of the stars of which was Kristina Si, in the summer of the same year, Kristina Si became a member of the star jury of the casting "Hit on TV for love" on the channel "S.T.S. Love".
Thanks to a large number of fans among teenagers, Kristina won in the category "Favorite Singer" in the children's award from the TV channel "STS" - "High Five"
In November 2017, Kristina Si gave an exclusive interview for Fashion People, where she talked about working with Black Star and about the ideal man, and Kristina also got on the cover of the magazine.
At the end of 2017, Kristina was in the top 100 most popular rap artists according to the MTV Russia channel and took 15th place, the video for the song "You Won't Hurt" was in the top 50 best clips of the year according to TV channel " Music of the First " and took 25th place and according to the media, Kristina is one of the most sought-after and expensive artists of the Black Star production center.
In March 2018, Black Star Inc. announced the termination of the contract with Kris, they announced this on their Instagram page . The rights to the pseudonym remained with the label, while the singer herself said that she did not intend to leave the stage and would continue her career.
In April 2018, she launches his own clothing line. - Vsevolod Sanaev was born on 25 February 1912 in Tula, Tula uyezd, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tula Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Eolomea (1972), Volga - Volga (1938) and Four Hearts (1944). He died on 27 January 1996 in Moscow, Russia.
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Ivan Novikov was born on 20 February 1981 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR. He is a writer and producer, known for Moy papa - vozhd (2022), Pod zashchitoy (2022) and Vy vse menya besite (2017).- Actor
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Valentin Mishatkin was born on 7 December 1946 in Tula, Tulskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor and director, known for Come and See (1985), Vstretimsya na Taiti (1991) and Zaliv schastya (1987). He died on 7 May 2012.- Stanislav Zakharov was born on 23 June 1949 in Tula, USSR. He was an actor, known for Larets Marii Medichi (1981), Noch greshnikov (1991) and Scenes from Family Life (1979). He died on 10 November 1996 in Tula, Russia.
- Margarita Zakharova was born on 26 March 1971 in Tula, Russia. She is an actress, known for Nesrochnaya vesna (1989) and Santa Lyuchiya (1999).
- Mikhail Mayorov was born on 18 November 1906 in Tula, Tula uyezd, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tula Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for V kvadrate 45 (1956), Uchitel tantsev (1952) and Zastava v gorakh (1953). He died on 23 February 1993 in Moscow, Russia.
- Masha Novoselova was born on 31 January 1985 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She was previously married to Dimitri Rassam.
- Natalia Goncharova was a prominent Russian artist and costume designer who expanded boundaries of avant-garde art into Cubo-Futurism. She belonged to the circle of Wassily Kandinsky and later collaborated with the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev.
She was born Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova on June 4, 1881, in Nagaevo, near Tula, Russia. Her Great aunt was Natalia Goncharova-Pushkina, wife of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Young Goncharova was brought up in a highly intellectual environment of her family. She studied sculpture at the Moscow Academy of Art, and won a Silver Medal for her art-works. After three years of studying sculpture, she switched to painting in 1904. She drew inspiration from the traditional Russian folk art, as well as from the imagery and the primitive aspects of the early Russian icons. Goncharova also experienced an early exposure to the haunting beauty of the unspoiled nature of the Central Russia. During the 1900s, Goncharova made her trips to European capitals and had a taste of such emerging styles as Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism, through her exposure to the works of 'Vincent Van Gogh', Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cezanne, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. In 1900 Goncharova moved together with artist Mikhail Larionov. Together they developed Rayonism, a style inspired by technology and modernity with the emphasis on dynamic rays of contrasting color.
In 1911 Goncharova became a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter group of avant-garde artists led by Wassily Kandinsky. She participated in the first show of Der Blaue Reiter in Munich. In 1912 she took part in organizing the Russian avant-garde group "Osliny Khvost" (aka.. Donkey's Tail), together with her partner, artist Mikhail Larionov. At that time she was inspired by the lectures by the Italian ideologue and founder of Futurism Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in Moscow. Marinetti's lectures about Futurism and the influence on masses of people through art, provoked Goncharova and Larionov on making their own lectures on Futurism, albeit their Russian lectures were less politically charged compared to their Italian counterpart. Goncharova was also a graphic artist who created design and illustrations for books in the style of Futurism. In her innovative compositions, Goncharova often broke traditional forms by introducing an intricate fabric of images intertwined with music notation, letters, fragments of words and textual messages. In 1913 Goncharova had her first and biggest "one-man" show which covered the enormous range of her talent, from her Neo-primitive works and Russian icon-inspired images, to her most modern endeavors in Cubo-Futurism and Rayonism. At that time Goncharova emerged as an important and also a highly controversial figure, often breaking social conventions as well as rigid cultural dogmas. She was among the first women in Russia who shocked the public with her casual cross-dressing, and also with her sharp comments on art and society.
In 1914, for the premiere at Paris Grand Opera, Goncharova created what became her best known work for Diaghilev's big stage productions, the costumes and set design for "Le Coq d'Or" (aka.. The Golden Cockerel) ballet by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov with choreography by Mikhail Fokin. Back in Russia, she created the curtain for "Daphnis and Chloe" production at the Komissarzhevskaya Drama Theatre in St. Petersburg. Soon she emigrated from Russia amidst the unfolding disaster of the World War I. In 1915 Goncharova moved to Switzerland, and worked in Geneva on her design for ballet costumes and stage sets. In 1921 she moved to Paris and began her collaboration with the legendary Ballets Russes (aka .. Russian Ballets) by impresario Sergei Diaghilev. For Diaghilev, she worked together with her husband, Mikhail Larionov, on the ballet "Chout" on the music by Sergei Prokofiev, in 1921. On the next year, Goncharova and Larionov worked with Bronislava Njinska and Igor Stravinsky on the short ballet "Renard" which premiered at the Paris Opera. In 1923 Goncharova created costumes and stage set design for "les Noches" (aka.. The Wedding), a dance cantata with ballet and singers, on the music of Igor Stravinsky and choreography of Bronislava Njinska. "Les Noches" became the epitome of experimental blending of dance with vocal and instrumental music and the art of Cubo-Futurism, and its influence reached as far as the original production of the 'West Side Story' by Leonard Bernstein.
During the 1930s, even after the death of Diaghilev, Goncharova's reputation as an innovative costume and stage designer was strong. She continued her work for major stage productions worldwide, such as her 1930s stage and costumes designs for Russian ballet productions in Australia. In 1937, while living in Paris, Goncharova illustrated a book about Joseph Stalin titled "Tsar Stalin" which made her the public enemy of the Soviet communism. During the 1930s and 1940s Goncharova lived in Paris and continued working as artist for several stage plays. In her later works she actively drew inspiration from a variety of Eastern and Western sources and maintained a unique artistic position of bridging the distant cultures through her talent and vision.
In April of 1938, realizing the threat of Nazism, Goncharova and Larionov applied for French nationalization. Full French citizenship was granted to both on September 8, 1938, which secured their lives, home, art and work in the future. Goncharova and Larionov survived the hardship of the Nazi occupation of Paris during the World War II. However, life became harder after her husband, Mikhail Larionov, suffered a debilitating stroke. Goncharova visited him daily in the rest home where Larionov was recovering. She did not have any job at that time, she only ate a bowl of soup per day from a charity. In 1955, after 55 years of living together, Goncharova and Larionov decided to get married. Their marriage made an unexpected effect, and Larionov experienced a miraculous improvement of his health. In 1957, the Sputnik spacecraft was launched, and Goncharova expressed her excitement in creating a series of oils titled "Space" on canvasses. At that time she was so crippled with arthritis, that she could no longer raise her arms to the easel. She painted sitting on her bed with the canvas flat on a stool in front of her. She was so inspired that continued working until her death, and made over 20 new canvasses.
Natalia Goncharova died of cancer on October 17, 1962, in Paris, and was laid to rest in the Russian section in Cimetiere Parisien, 44 Avenue de Verdun, Ivry-sur-Seine, France. Her husband, Mikhail Larionov, joined her two years later. - In 1974 he entered the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography for the course of People's Artist of the USSR I.P. Vladimirova. Upon graduation in 1978 he was accepted into the troupe of the Lensovet Theater. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2008). Theater them. The Leningrad City Council: Carlson - "Kid and Carlson, who lives on the roof" A. Lindgren, (1969, directed by N.Roichten) Kiselvrode - "Lefty" V. Konstantinov and B. Ratser (1974, directed by I.Vladimirov) Latnik - "People and passions" based on the works of the classics of German dramatic (1974, directed by I.Vladimirov) The King - "Troubadour and His Friends" V. Livanov and Yu. Entin (1975, directed by I.Vladimirov) Giglio - "Man, Animal and Virtue" by L. Pirandello (1978, directed by I.Vladimirov) Jacob-Hook - "The Threepenny Opera" by B. Brecht (1983, directed by I.Vladimirov) Benjamin Trotter - "Promised Land" S. Maugham (1984, directed by I.Vladimirov) The King - "The Snow Queen" E.Shvarts
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