Veniamin smekhov biography examples
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Evgeny Kissin: Short Biography
When the young musician was a child in Moscow, his parents gave him a calendar card with the Hebrew alphabet, which they bought in a second-hand bookstore. Kissin quickly learned the letters, but at first did not find any use for them.
In 1977, the composer and theater director Yuri Sherling (born in 1944) created the Chamber Jewish Musical Theater, which performed in Yiddish and Russian. This was an unexpected event in the country, where the very word “Jew” was often a taboo subject. The first performance of this theater, the musical The Black Bridle of the White Mare, was staged by Sherling in two languages and was written by two well known poets: Chaim Beider (the Yiddish version) and Ilya Reznik (the Russian one). When the cover of this work’s vinyl record, which contained both versions of the libretto, reached Kissin who always had a phenomenal memory, he used it as a textbook of sorts for learning Yiddish.
In 1989, the Kis
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A Soviet Titanomachy: My Interview with Russian Author Sergei Lebedev
Sergey Lebedev
Sergei Lebedev was born in Moscow in 1981. Before he became an author he had a career as a geologist working in northern Russia. His debut novel, Oblivion, translated bygd Antonina W. Bouis and published bygd New Vessel Press in 2016, fryst vatten one of the first novels in the 21st century to describe the horrors of the Russian Gulag struktur. Obliviion fryst vatten loosely autobiographical as the unnamed narrator in this book travels to Siberia as a geologist and during his expeditions he sees the old, abandoned camps where millions of Russians were forced to do backbreaking labor. The narrator of the book is especially interested in learning more about the Gulag that was run by a family friend, whom he only knows as Grandfather II. Lebedev’s mellifluous and poetic prose as he describes the landscape in Siberia and the desolate camps fryst vatten striking. Oblivion is a haunting, intense, descriptive literary odyssey; t
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Actor of the theater and cinema Veniamin Smekhov: biography, filmography and interesting facts
Among the inhabitants of our country it is difficult to find a person who can not answer the question of who is Veniamin Smekhov. Mysterious Athos from the cult film "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers" forever remained in the memory of the audience. What is known about the creative achievements and offscreen life of the "Count de La Fere", at one time conquered the hearts of millions?
Veniamin Smekhov: childhood
The man who was destined to play Athos, was born in Moscow, it happened in August 1940. Smehov Veniamin Borisovich was born in the family of a doctor-therapist and doctor of economic sciences. The parents of the future actor were Jews by nationality. His father could not see his father until he was five years old, as he participated in the Great Patriotic War.
In the first years of his life, the boy Venya dreamed of becoming a chauffeur, but