Prince Alexander
Sergeevich Obolensky
(Russian: Александр Сергеевич Оболенский; 17 February 1916 — 29 March 1940) was
a Rurikid prince of Russian origin who became a naturalised Briton, having
spent most of his life in England ,
and who went on to represent England
in International Rugby Union. He was, and is, popularly known as "The
Flying Prince", "The Flying Slav", or simply as "Obo"
by many sports fans.
A member of the Rurik Dynasty,[1] he was born
in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg) on 17 February 1916 and was the son of
Prince Serge Obolensky, an officer in the Czar's Imperial Horse Guards, and his
wife Princess Lubov' (née Naryshkina). Their name derived from the Russian town
of Obolensk .
They fled Russia after the
Russian Revolution of 1917, settling in Muswell Hill, London , England .
Prince Obolensky won three caps for England later that year (against Wales on 18 January, Ireland
on 8 February and Scotland
on 21 March), and scored no further tries. He was selected as a member of the
touring party for the 1936 British Lions tour to Argentina .
By August 1939, Obolensky was already serving
as an A/P/O with 615 Squadron, Auxiliary Air Force, stationed at Kenley; and,
on the outbreak of World War II in 1939, he joined the Royal Air Force's 504
Squadron.
Stanislav Sergeyevich
Govorukhin PAR
(Russian: Станислав Сергеевич Говорухин) (born March 29, 1936 in Berezniki , Perm Krai,[1] Russian SFSR) has
been one of the most popular Soviet and Russian film directors since the 1960s.
His films, often featuring detective or adventure plots, are commonly dominated
by strong male characters who seek to revenge criminal acts but have to eschew
commonly accepted social norms in order to succeed.
Govorukhin has been a member of the State Duma
since its inauguration in 1993, running the Duma culture committee for some
time. Following the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, he had abandoned his
previous democratic anti-communist convictions and sided with the
national-communist opposition. In 1996, he supported Gennady Zyuganov against
Boris Yeltsin during the second round of the presidential election campaign. In
2000, he took part in Russian presidential elections, but failed to be elected.
At a Duma by-election in 2005, Govorukhin's opponent, the journalist and
satirist Victor Shenderovich, accused him of using illegal funds to guarantee
his victory.
In 2009 Stanislav Govorukhin started to shoot a
movie by Ksenya Stepanycheva screenplay; the movie’s name is “Hearts of Four”.
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and Deputy Premier in the postwar years (1946–1953).
ReplyDeleteI deeply appreciate the great talent of Govorukhin! I Like his most famous film "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed" with V.Vysotsky.
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