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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".- Actress
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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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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.- 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].- 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.
- 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).
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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.- Actor
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Blas García was born on 26 May 1942 in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico. He is an actor, known for Kung Fu Panda (2008), La casa al final de la calle (1989) and Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976).- Vera Petrova was born on 9 August 1927 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for A Cruel Romance (1984), Sudba barabanshchika (1956) and Through Fire, Water and... Trumpets (1968). She was married to Yuriy Sarantsev. She died on 16 December 2001 in Moscow, Russia.
- 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.
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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).- 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).- 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 Alye parusa (1961). She died on 28 September 2014 in Moscow, Russia.
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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.- Anastasiya Zueva was born on 17 December 1896 in village Spasskoe, Venyov uyezd, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Novomoskovsky District, Tula Oblast, Russia]. She was an actress, known for Miners of the Don (1951), The Anniversary (1944) and The Winner (1947). She was married to Victor Alexandrovich Oransky and Ivan Evseev. She died on 23 March 1986 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- 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. - 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.
- Masha Novoselova was born on 31 January 1985 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She was previously married to Dimitri Rassam.
- 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.
- 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).
- Valeri Zalotukha was born on 3 July 1954 in village Shakhty 5/15, Uzlovaya raion, Tula Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a writer, known for Musulmanin (1995), Makarov (1993) and 72 metra (2004). He died on 9 February 2015 in Moscow, Russia.