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Sergey Vitalyevich Bezrukov is a Russian screen and stage actor, People's Artist of Russia, the laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation. Since 1994 he has played a wide range of characters, such as Ivan Brilling in Azazel, Irakliy in The Irony of Fate 2, Kappel in Admiral, and most recently Sumarokov in Kanikuly strogogo rezhima
Andrey Timofeyevich Bolotov (18 October 1738 – 16 October 1833) was the most distinguished Russian agriculturist of the 18th century. During his life there, he brought out a pioneering manual on crop rotation and elaborated an innovative system of pomology which included more than 600 cultivars of apple and pear. Always interested in plant breeding, Bolotov discovered dichogamy of apple-trees and pointed out to the advantages of cross-pollination
Kir Bulychev (October 18, 1934 – September 5, 2003) was a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mojeiko, a Soviet Russian science fiction writer and historian. His magnum opus is a children's science fiction series Alisa Selezneva, although most of his books are adult-oriented. He also wrote many science fiction novels, most known among them are "The Last War" (1970), "Thirteen years of travel", "Those who survive" , "The Witches Cave" , "River Chronos", "Abduction of a Sorcerer"
SERGEY BEZRUKOV is the son of Vitali Bezrukov, who is also an actor. Sergey was named after two people: his paternal grandfather Sergey Stepanovich Bezrukov and the famous Russian poet Sergey Esenin, the latter he portrayed in theater and film.
ReplyDeleteHe graduated from Moscow Art Theatre and made his cinema debut in Nocturne for Drum and Motorcycle. Since 1994 he has played a wide range of characters, such as Ivan Brilling in Azazel, Irakliy in The Irony of Fate 2, Kappel in Admiral, and most recently Sumarokov in Kanikuly strogogo rezhima.[2] His notable roles in Russian miniseries include starring as Sasha Belov in Brigada, Yeshua Ha-Nozri in The Master and Margarita and Sergei Yesenin in Yesenin.
Bezrukov's awards:
People's Artist of Russia
Meritorious Artist of Russia
BOLOTOV'S works brought him to the attention of Count Orlov, who asked him to manage the neighbouring estate of Bobriki, where Catherine II's illegitimate son, Count Bobrinsky, was being raised. Bolotov turned Bobriki into the most up-to-date agricultural estate in provincial Russia and ensured the keen interest which later Counts Bobrinsky would take in agriculture.
ReplyDeleteBolotov was also active in the Free Economic Society, which published his treatise on forestry. Together with Nikolay Novikov, he edited the journals The Village Resident (1778-79) and The Magazine of Economics (1780-89), which brought him the income of 400 roubles a year, a very considerable sum for the time. His extensive memoirs, entitled Life and Adventures of Andrei Bolotov, in 26 parts and written between 1789 and 1816, went through several editions and were translated into English.
I'd like to share with you about one historical event: selling of Alyaska. The largest state of the United States, Alaska was admitted to the union as the 49th state in 1959, and lies at the extreme northwest of the North American continent. Acquired by the United States in 1867, the territory was dubbed "Seward's Folly" after U.S. Secretary of State William Seward, who arranged to purchase the land from Russia (for $7.2 million, or about two cents an acre). Critics of the purchase believed that the land had nothing to offer, but the discovery of gold in the 1890s created a stampede of prospectors and settlers. Alaska is bounded by the Beaufort Sea and the Arctic Ocean to the north; Canada's Yukon Territory and British Columbia province to the east; the Gulf of Alaska and the Pacific Ocean to the south; the Bering Strait and the Bering Sea to the west; and the Chukchi Sea to the northwest.
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