June, 7

Пётр Я́ковлевич Чаада́ев (устар. Чадаев, Чедаев 7 июня 1794, Москва — 14 (26) апреля 1856, Москва) — русский философ (по собственной оценке — «христианский философ») и публицист, объявленный правительством сумасшедшим за свои сочинения, в которых резко критиковал действительность русской жизни. Его труды были запрещены к публикации в императорской России.

В 1829—1831 создает своё главное произведение — «Философические письма». Публикация первого из них в журнале «Телескоп» в 1836 году вызвала резкое недовольство властей из-за выраженного в нём горького негодования по поводу отлучённости России от «всемирного воспитания человеческого рода», духовного застоя, препятствующего исполнению предначертанной свыше исторической миссии. Журнал был закрыт, издатель Надеждин сослан, а Чаадаев — объявлен сумасшедшим.

Родился в старинной зажиточной дворянской семье Чаадаевых, по материнской линии внук академика, историкаМ. М. Щербатова, автора 7-томного издания «Истории Российской от древнейших времен». Рано остался сиротой — его отец умер на следующий год после его рождения, а мать в 1797. Его и старшего брата Михаила, совсем маленьких, забрала из Нижегородской губернии в Москву тётка — княжна Анна Михайловна Щербатова, у неё они и жили в Москве, в Серебряном переулке, рядом с известной церковью Николы Явленного на Арбате. Опекуном Чаадаевых стал их дядя — князь Д. М. Щербатов, в доме которого Чаадаев получил свое образование.

В 1807—1811 годах учился в Московском университете, дружил с А. С. Грибоедовым, будущими декабристамиН. И. Тургеневым, И. Д. Якушкиным, А. С. Пушкиным.

6 June

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin.
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин, tr. Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin; IPA: ; 6 June [O.S. 26 May] 1799 – 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1837) was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.

Pushkin was born into the Russian nobility in Moscow. A remarkable fact about his ancestry is that one great-grandfather of his – Abram Gannibal – was brought over as a slave from Africa and had risen to become an aristocrat. Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum.

While under the strict surveillance of the Tsar's political police and unable to publish, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, the drama Boris Godunov. His novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, was serialized between 1825 and 1832.

Notoriously touchy about his honour, Pushkin fought a total of twenty-nine duels, and was fatally wounded in such an encounter with Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès. D'Anthès, a French officer serving with the Chevalier Guard Regiment, had been attempting to seduce the poet's wife, Natalya Pushkina. Pushkin's early death at the age of 37 is still regarded as a catastrophe for Russian literature.

June 5

Valdis Pelšs (born 5 June 1967 in Riga) is a TEFI-awarded Soviet and Russian television presenter of Latvian descent and Zolotoi Grammofon-awarded musical artist. Valdis Pelšs currently works as a screen actor and manages child programms subdivision on Channel One. He hosted several popular game shows, such as Ugadai Melodiu, Russian Roulette and Rozygrysh. Pelšs is a former vocalist and percussion instrument player inNeschastny Sluchai band, which was founded by him and Alexei Kortnev in 1983.

Valdis Pelšs graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Philosophy. He firstly appeared on television as a KVN player among MSU team with his friend Alexei Kortnev(1987). Together they also participated in Oba-na television program. In 1983 they formed an alternative rock band Neschastny Sluchai, which Pelšs left in 1997.

In 1995 Vladislav Listyev invited him to work on musical game show Ugadai Melodiu, a Russian version of Name That Tune aired on Channel One. The show quickly gained popularity: while airing it was watched by 96% of people, therefore Valdis Pelšs is mentioned in The Guinness Book of Records as the most popular Russian television personality. He was awarded with TEFI in 1997. After the death of Sergei Suponev in 2001 Pelšs manages child programms subdivision on Channel One.

Shows hosted

Ugadai Melodiu

Ugadaika

Russian Roulette

Vlastelin Vkusa

Eti Zabavnye Zhyvotnye

Rozygrysh

Odni doma

Filmography

1998: Na boykom meste

2000: Brother 2 (as himself)

2005: The Turkish Gambit

2007: Zolushka.ru (as himself)

2007: Lubov morkov

2008: Snezhniy chelovek

June 4

Viktor Vasilyevich Tikhonov is a Russian former ice hockey player and coach. He was the coach of the Soviet team when it was the most dominant team in the world. He is in the IIHF Hall of Fame (builder, 1998).

Viktor Tikhonov was born in the Soviet Union on June 4, 1930.

Tikhonov played as a defenceman with the VVS (Team of the Soviet Air Forces) and Dynamo Moscow. He scored 35 goals in 296 games in the Soviet elite hockey league from 1949 to 1963. In 1950, he became a Soviet Sports Master. As a player, he won four gold medals of the Soviet national championship (three times with VVS (1951–1953) and once with Dynamo, 1954). He won the USSR Cup in 1952 as a member of VVS.

His coaching career started in 1964 when he became an assistant coach for Dynamo Moscow, then he took the position of the Head Coach for Dynamo Riga. In 1973, he was named a Latvian merited sports coach (ZTR SSSR). In 1977 he became the Head Coach for both CSKA Moscow (Central Sport Club of the Army or the Red Army Club as it was known in USA and Canada), and the Soviet National Team. In 1978, he became a Soviet Merited sports coach (ZTR SSSR). He was the Soviet and later CIS and Russian National Team coach until 1994, and the coach for CSKA until 1996.

As coach he won:

13 straight Soviet titles (1978–1989)

World Championship gold in 1978–1979, 1981–1983,1986,1989,1990.

Olympics gold in 1984,1988,1992; silver in 1980.

1979 Challenge Cup and 1981 Canada Cup.

Tikhonov was known for his dictatorial coaching style. He exercised nearly absolute control over his players' lives. His teams practiced for 10 to 11 months a year, and were confined to barracks throughout that time. CSKA was literally part of the Soviet Army during the Soviet era, and Tikhonov was a general. While he publicly supported efforts by his players to go to the NHL, many accuse him of using his contacts within the Soviet government to keep them from leaving (although Soviet Army officials would probably not have allowed them to leave anyway). Tikhonov's fear of defections since the late 1980s was supposedly so great that he often cut players when he thought they might defect. In 1991, for instance, he cut Pavel Bure, Valeri Zelepukin, Evgeny Davydov, and Vladimir Konstantinov just before the 1991 Canada Cup. All of them had been drafted by NHL teams, and Tikhonov might have thought that they might defect if they were allowed to go to the West, just like Alexander Mogilny and Sergei Fedorov. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Tikhonov mellowed his style considerably.

Since his retirement, Tikhonov has lobbied the Russian government for more attention and better financing for the national team.

June 3, 2013

Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov was an avant-garde Russian painter.

Larionov was born at Tiraspol, near Odessa, in the Russian Empire. In 1898 he entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Isaac Levitan and Valentin Serov. He was suspended three times for his radical outlook. In 1900 he met Natalia Goncharova and formed a lifelong relationship with her.

From 1902 his style was Impressionism. After a visit to Paris in 1906 he moved into Post-Impressionism and then a Neo-primitive style which derived partly from Russian sign painting. In 1908 he staged the Golden Fleece exhibition in Moscow, which included paintings by international avant-garde artists such as Matisse, Derain, Braque, Gauguin and Van Gogh. Other group shows promoted by him included Tatlin, Chagall and Malevich.

Larionov was a founding member of two important Russian artistic groups Jack of Diamonds (1909–1911) and the more radical Donkey's Tail (1912–1913). He gave names to both groups. His first solo show was for one day in Moscow in 1911.

In 1913 he created Rayonism, which was the first creation of near-abstract art in Russia. In 1915 he left Russia and worked with the ballet owner Sergei Diaghilev in Paris on the productions of the Ballets Russes. He spent the rest of his life in France and obtained the French citizenship. He died, aged 82, in the Paris suburb of Fontenay-aux-Roses.

In 2001, the Central Bank of Transnistria minted a silver coin honoring this native of today's Transnistria, as part of a series of memorable coins called The Outstanding People of Pridnestrovie.

The highest price paid for a Larionov painting at auction is 2,200,000 British pounds.

June 2

Ivan Akimovich Akimov  (2 June 1754 – 27 May 1814) was a Russian Neoclassical painter who studied under Anton Losenko and then worked in the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, capping off his career as its director in 1796-1800. Akimov may be considered the first art historian in Russia: in 1804 he published a series of biographies of Russian painters.
Ivan was born to a family of a typesetter of the Senate typography in Saint-Petersburg. At the age of ten he wrote a doleful letter asking to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts and was indeed admitted into students. In 1764-1773 he studied at the Academy. In 1773 he received the Gold Medal for his painting Svyatoslav's return from the Danube to his family in Kiev and was sent to Italy where he studied until 1779. From 1780 to 1800 he worked as a faculty at the Imperial Academy of Arts. In 1782 he was elected as an academician of the Academy. Since 1791 he was the director of the Imperial Tapestry Manufactory and also taught art to daughters of Paul I of Russia. From 1794 to 1800 he was the director of the Academy.

June 1

Children's Day is recognized on various days in many places around the world, to honor children globally. It was established in 1954 to protect children working long hours in dangerous circumstances and allow all children access to an education. The UN General Assembly recommended that all countries should establish a Universal Children's Day on an "appropriate" day.

Children's Day is often celebrated on other days as well. International Day for Protection of Children, observed in many countries as Children's Day on June 1 since 1950, was established by the Women's International Democratic Federation on its congress in Moscow (22 November 1949) and was strongly bound to the Stalin`s "peace propaganda" policy .