Sviatoslav
Teofilovich Richter (March 20 1915 – August 1, 1997) was a Soviet pianist well
known for the depth of his interpretations, virtuoso technique, and vast
repertoire. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.
Ekaterina Strizhenova (born March 20, 1968) - Russian actress and TV presenter.
In this day in 1840 Illarion Mikhailovich Pryanishnikov was born. He was a Russian painter, one of the founders of the Peredvizhniki artistic cooperative.
ReplyDeleteIllarion Pryanishnikov was born in the village of Timashovo (today's Kaluga Oblast) in a family of merchants. From 1856 to 1866 he studied in the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the classes of Evgraf Sorokin and Sergey Zaryanko.
His picture Jokers. Gostiny Dvor in Moscow, painted in the last year of education, straight away brought to him a wide reputation. In this small canvas he gives an original solution of a theme of the humiliation of human dignity, callousness and cruelty in the world, where everything is bought and is sold. After depicting the tipsy merchants, who with a jeer are compelled to dance under the concertina and a poor elderly official, the artist authentically demonstrates a whole gallery of the specimens of moral deformity and complacent caddishness. The painting caused the indignation in some adherents of official academic art who felt that the young painter appeared as the destroyer of the "high" destination of the art which was to express in the ideal form the eternal truths.
Yelena Nikolaevna Romanova (Russian: Елена Николаевна Романова; March 20, 1963 – January 28, 2007) was a Russian middle distance runner. She won an Olympic gold medal in 1992.
ReplyDeleteRichter was born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. His father, Teofil Danilovich Richter (1872–1941), was a German expatriate pianist, organist, and composer who had studied in Vienna. His mother, Anna Pavlovna (née Moskaleva; 1892–1963), was from a landowning Russian family, and at one point had been a pupil of her future husband. In 1918, when Richter's parents were in Odessa, the Civil War separated them from their son, and Richter moved in with his aunt Tamara. He lived with her from 1918 to 1921, and it was then that his interest in art first manifested itself, although he first became interested in painting, which his aunt taught him.
ReplyDeleteAlexander Moiseevich Gorodnitsky (born March 20, 1933 in Leningrad) is a well-known Soviet and Russian bard and poet. Professionally, he is a geologist and oceanographer.
ReplyDeleteGorodnitsky graduated with a degree in Geophysics from Leningrad Mining Institute in 1957, and received a Ph.D. in geological and mineralogical sciences in 1982. He became a professor in 1991 and has published over 130 scientific papers.
Since 1962, he has participated in Arctic geological expeditions and sailed on board various scientific research vessels. Gorodnitsky’s first songs appeared during his expedition in 1953. For a long time his songs were distributed via samizdat tape recordings, and often performed by other singers. Like Alexander Galich, and unlike other bards, Gorodnitsky composed and sang his songs a cappella for several decades; later, he started playing the guitar. Most of his songs are of the Tourist Song sub-genre and are based on his personal experiences. In concert, he usually performs with a professional guitarist accompanying him.
Gorodnitsky currently resides in Moscow and regularly performs at concerts and various bard festivals.