KonstantinAlekseyevich Korovin (November 23 1861, Moscow – September 11, 1939,
Paris) was a leading Russian Impressionist painter. Constantin
Korovin was born in Moscow on December 5th, 1861 into the family of
businessmen. His grandfather, a self-made man was the founder of the family
business; his father, Alexey Mikhailovich, after graduating from the University
had to go into business as well, though he never liked it and was more
interested in art and music. As a result, soon after the grandfather’s death
the family went bankrupt and had to move into the country. Constantin and his
younger brother, Sergey, also a future artist, were brought up in an artistic
atmosphere, they received drawing and painting lessons since their childhood.
Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky (November
23 1875 – December 26, 1933) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary
and the first Soviet People's Commissar of Enlightenment
responsible for culture and education. He was active as an art
critic and journalist throughout his career. Lunacharsky was known as an art
connoisseur and a shrewd critic. He
was interested in philosophy (not only Marxist dialectics) since he was a
student (for instance, he was fond of the ideas
of Fichte, Nietzsche, Avenarius).He could read six modern
languages and two dead ones. Lunacharsky corresponded with such significant
figures of world culture as H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw,
and Romain Rolland.
Nikolai(y) Nikolaevich Nosov (23
November [1908 Kiev - 26 July 1976 Moscow) was
a Soviet children's literature writer, the author of a number of
humorous short stories, a school novel, and the popular trilogy of fairy
tale novels about the adventures of Neznaika and his friends. The
most popular works became his stories for teenagers Merry
Family (1949), The Kolya Sinitsyn's Diary (1950), Vitya
Maleev at School and at Home (1951). This last one
received State Stalin Prize in 1952.
Nikolay Nosov is also the author of an autobiographical work Story about My Friend Igor (1971-1972) and a memoirs narrative Mystery on a Well Bottom (1977).
ReplyDeleteProceeding with comments about Nosov. I'd like to tell all my course-mate that the 4th cource of our faculty, students who are higher us in level, has staged a performance which is an annual concert - "We Study English", based on the famous work of this author - "Neznaika".
ReplyDeleteTo my mind it's necessary to know what our previous courses did, because we do not want to repeat performances they staged.
For us as future linguists it's necessary to know that today Vladimir Ivanovich Dahl was born (1801 – 1872), one of the greatest Russian language lexicographers. He was a founding member of the Russian Geographical Society. He knew at least six languages including Turkic and is considered to be one of the early Turkologists. During his lifetime he compiled and documented the oral history of the region that was later published in Russian and became part of modern folklore.
ReplyDeleteAnatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky,Russian author, publicist, and politician who, with Maksim Gorky, did much to ensure the preservation of works of art during the civil war of 1918–20.
ReplyDeleteDeported in 1898 for his revolutionary activities, Lunacharsky joined the Bolshevik group of the Social Democratic Party and started to work on the editorial board of the Bolshevik journal Vpered (“Forward”). He disseminated Social Democratic propaganda and organized lectures for Russian students and political refugees in foreign countries. During the Russian Revolution of 1905, Lunacharsky was arrested
As it was mentioned above, Konstantin Korovin was a leading Russian Impressionist painter. And it's interesting to note that one of the artist's favourite themes was Paris. He painted A Paris Cafe (1890s), Cafe de la Paix (1905), La Place de la Bastille (1906), Paris at Night, Le Boulevard Italien (1908), Night Carnival (1901), Paris in the Evening (1907) and others. In 1923 Korovin moved to Paris on the advice of Commissar of Education Anatoly Lunacharsky to cure his heart condition and help his handicapped son. There was supposed to be a large exhibition of Korovin's works but the works were stolen and Korovin was left penniless. For years he produced the numerous Russian Winters and Paris Boulevards just to make ends meet.
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