Sergey Victorovich Zhigunov (born 2 January 1963) is a Russian actor and producer.
Sergey Zhigunov was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. He graduated from the
Shchukin Theater School in Moscow. Since 1990, he has been in charge of the
Chance film studio (part of Mosfilm). In 2000, he became the President of the
Russian Film Actors Guild. His most famous roles as an actor were in
"Queen Margot", "Hearts of Three" (by Jack London),
"Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin", and "Gardemariny,
Vperyod". He also starred in the Russian remake of the American sitcom "The
Nanny". In August 2012, he begun to direct The Three Musketeers Russian TV adaptation.
Alexander Ivanovich Tikhonov (born January 2, 1947 in the village ofUyskoye, Kolkhozny District, Chelyabinsk Oblast) is a retired Russian biathlete who represented the USSR. Tikhonov trained at Dynamo in Novosibirsk.
He is one of the most successful biathletes of all time, with nine world
championship gold medals and four Olympic gold medals. He lacks an individual
Olympic gold medal in his cupboard, but took part in the gold medal relay
winning teams in 1968, 1972, 1976, and 1980. In May 2002, he was chosen as vice
president of the International Biathlon Union (IBU). He lived in Austria for several years in the early 2000s. In
2000, he was accused of participating in planning the murder of Kemerovo Oblast governor Aman Tuleyev. According to the
prosecution, a businessman named Mikhail Zhivilo and his company MIKOM had a
business conflict with Tuleyev, and Zhivilo decided to organize Tuleyev's
murder as revenge. Zhivilo knew Tikhonov and, allegedly, asked him for help.
Tikhonov got him in touch with his younger brother, Viktor Tikhonov, who found
two potential killers—Vladimir Kharchenko and Sergey Nikanorov. Kharchenko and
Nikanorov went to FSB and told them about the murder plans.
Viktor Tikhonov was convicted in 2002 and sentenced to four years imprisonment.
Since Alexander Tikhonov lived in Austria for several years, he was indicted
separately from the other accused. On July 23, 2007, he was found guilty of
conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment. However,
he was amnestied immediately and will not spend any time in prison. 
Yury Nikolayevich Grigorovich (born January 2, 1927 in Leningrad) is a Soviet and Russian dancer and choreographer who dominated the Russian ballet for
30 years. Grigorovich was born into a family connected with the Imperial
Russian Ballet. He graduated from the Leningrad
Choreographic School in 1946 and
danced as a soloist of the Kirov
Ballet until 1962. His staging of Sergey Prokofiev's The Stone Flower (1957) and of The Legend of Love (1961) brought him acclaim as a choreographer.
In 1964 he moved to the Bolshoi
Theatre, where he would work as an artistic director until 1995. His most
famous productions at the Bolshoi were The
Nutcracker (1966), Spartacus (1967), and Ivan the Terrible (1975). He controversially reworked Swan Lake to produce a happy end for the story
in 1984. In 1995, he was accused of having allowed the theatre to plunge into
stagnation and after many a squabble was ousted from office. Thereupon he
choreographed for various Russian companies before settling in Krasnodar, where he set up his own
company. Grigorovich has been heading the juries of numerous international
competitions in classical ballet. After the death of his wife, the great
ballerina Natalia Bessmertnova,
on February 19, 2008, he has been offered the opportunity to return to the Bolshoi again in the capacity of ballet master
and choreographer.
In 1905, Japanese Gen. Nogi received from Russian Gen. Stoessel at 9 o’clock P.M. a letter formally offering to surrender, ending the Russo-Japanese War. The Russo-Japanese War was "the first great war of the 20th century." It grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. The major theatres of operations were Southern Manchuria, specifically the area around the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden; and the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea. Russians sought a warm water port on the Pacific Ocean, for their navy as well as for maritime trade. Vladivostok was only operational during the summer season, but Port Arthur would be operational all year. From the end of the First Sino-Japanese War and 1903, negotiations between Russia and Japan had proved impractical. Japan chose war to gain dominance in Korea. After discussions broke down in 1904, the Japanese Navy attacked the Russian eastern fleet at Port Arthur, a naval base in the Liaotung province leased to Russia by China, which led to war. The Russians were poorly organized and the Japanese defeated them in a series of battles on land and at sea. The resulting campaigns, in which the Japanese military attained victory over the Russian forces arrayed against them, were unexpected by world observers. Over time, the consequences of these battles would transform the balance of power in East Asia, resulting in a reassessment of Japan's recent entry onto the world stage.
ReplyDeleteVladimir Pavlovich Ovchinnikov (born January 2, 1958) is a Russian pianist from Belebey, Bashkir ASSR. He is the only pianist ever to win the top prizes at both the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow(1982) and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition (1987).
ReplyDeleteOvchinnikov appears regularly with such leading Russian orchestras as the Moscow Philharmonic; Moscow Radio Symphony and the St Petersburg Philharmonic; he also has a long standing relationship with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, and was a special favorite of Yevgeny Svetlanov, with whom he toured France, the Netherlands, and North and South America.