Nikolai Petrovich Starostin (Cyrillic: Никола́й Петро́вич Ста́ростин; 26 February 1902 – 17 February 1996) was a Russian footballer and ice hockeyplayer, and founder of Spartak Moscow.
Nadezhda Konstantinovna "Nadya" Krupskaya (Russian: Наде́жда Константи́новна Кру́пская, scientific transliteration Nadežda Konstantinovna Krupskaja) (26 February [O.S. 14 February] 1869 – February 27, 1939) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician. She married the Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin in 1898. She was deputy minister (Comissar) of Education in 1929–1939, Doctor of Education.
This day is also the birthday of the greatest Russian pianist
ReplyDeleteLazar Naumovich Berman (Russian: Лазарь Наумович Берман, Lazarʹ Naumovič Berman; February 26, 1930 – February 6, 2005) was a Soviet Russian classical pianist. As a technician, Berman was extraordinary in terms of sheer evenness, control, and rhythmic panache, yet he always channeled his considerable craft toward musical ends.
Berman was appointed an Honoured Artist of the RSFSR in 1988.
Vladimir Petrovich Kesarev also was born on the 26th of February. He is a former Soviet Russian footballer. He earned 14 caps for the USSR national football team, and participated in the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He was selected in the squad for the first ever European Nations' Cup in 1960, where the Soviets were champions, but did not play in any games at the tournament.
ReplyDeleteVladimir Petrovich Serbsky (Russian: Владимир Петрович Сербский, February 26 [O.S. February 14] 1858, Bogorodsk – April 18 [O.S. April 14] 1917, Moscow) was one of the founders of the forensic psychiatry in Russia.
ReplyDeleteAn author of The Forensic Psychopathology, Serbskiy thought delinquency to have no congenital diatheses, considering it to be caused by social reasons.A disciple of Sergey Korsakov, Serbskiy was the head physician of Tambov mental hospital from 1885 to 1887. Then he was offered the rank of the senior assistant in the mental hospital of Moscow University. In 1902 Serbsky became a professor extraordinary and the head of psychiatric studies at Moscow University.
This day there also was born Leonid Maryagin, a Russian filmmaker and screenwriter
ReplyDeleteAu interesting fact about Nadezhda Krupskaya.
ReplyDeleteFollowing her death in 1939 a Leningrad chocolate factory was renamed in her honour. Its chocolate bar product was named Krupskaya and retains that name today.