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Vladimir Lvovich Mashkov was born in Tula, to Natalia, a puppet theatre director, and Lev Mashkov, an actor. He worked for Oleg Tabakov's theatre where he performed in Alexander Galich's "My Big Land", Neil Simon's "Biloxy Blues", Nickolai Gogol's "The Inspector General", Jean-Batiste Moliere's "Don Juan", and other plays. As a director, he staged "A Star Hour By Local Time", "Passions For Bumbarash", "The Death-Defying Act" and Bertolt Brecht's "The Threepenny Opera".- Actress
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The daughter of a lawyer, Ouspenskaya studied singing at the Warsaw Conservatory and acting at Adasheff's School of the Drama in Moscow. She received her practical training as an actress touring in the Russian provinces. She later joined the Moscow Art Theatre. It was here that she first worked under the direction of the great Konstantin Stanislavski, whose "Method" she would go on to promote for the remainder of her life. She came to America with the Art Theatre in 1922 and, upon their return to Moscow, defected to the US to become a dominant Broadway actress for more than a decade until she founded the School of Dramatic Art in New York in 1929. It was to help keep the school funded that she accepted her first Hollywod film, Dodsworth (1936). She had appeared in six silent movies in Russia earlier in her career. This lucrative association, for Ouspenskaya, Hollywood and the viewing public, would last for more than a dozen years and two dozen films. Thanks to her often-superior demeanor and addiction to astrology, she could prove maddening on the set. She remained in nearly daily communication with L.A. Times' astrologer Carroll Righter who would advise her on the best times to appear on camera along with when and where to travel. As a consequence, most casts and crews disliked the over-bearing, wispy 90-pound actress intensely. She bounced between prestigious A-pictures (Love Affair (1939), Waterloo Bridge (1940)) and B-movies (Mystery of Marie Roget (1942), Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)), performing, and behaving, with equal intensity. She is especially notable for having appeared in the last great Universal horror entry, The Wolf Man (1941) and the interesting Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943). A heavy smoker, she fell asleep in bed with a lit cigarette in late November 1949 and suffered massive burns. She died of a stroke in the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital three days later.- Actor
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Actor, director, screenwriter, recording artist, musician, composer, producer, X-Factor and Dancing With The Stars Winner, car wreck and massive stroke survivor, Alex's credits are nothing short of mind-blowing. Having over 30 European films under his belt, Alex also stars in the third and forth season of popular American series UnREAL on Lifetime Channel, and Netflix show Space Force on the side of Steve Carell and John Malkovich.
The global rising star that is Alex Sparrow, is on a seemingly unstoppable trajectory of success and earth staggering talent.
It's a a rare find in the entertainment business to see one individual not only engage in, but conquer, a plethora of fields - actor, director, screenwriter, recording artist, musician, composer, producer, arranger.
Born in Russia and raised in the family of Austrian Baron Alexis von Gecmen-Waldek, Sparrow's early training included Moscow Jazz College, followed by Moscow Art Theatre Studio School (MHAT).
Showing the young generation that a healthy lifestyle and positive mental attitude is a recipe for success, in 2007 Alex was appointed Good Will Ambassador to the United Nations for all Anti-AIDS Programs under jurisdiction of U.N.F.P.A.
His dedication to his all round craft saw him add 'professional stuntman' to his name through his study at Mosfilm Studios. Already a multi-instrumentalist and skilled in dancing in a myriad of styles, Alex was committed to further development and excellence in the film world. In his new home of L.A, he completed both Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop and studied at the Ivana Chubbuck Studio.
Truckloads of natural ability fostered with endless hard work certainly paid off. Amongst some of his most impressive mainstream achievements, Sparrow's respective wins of "X-factor', 'Dancing with the Stars', and twice Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards as 'Favourite Actor' surely put him in a stand out category of his own.
And if that wasn't enough, his music video "She's Crazy But She's Mine" (written, performed, directed and starring Alex himself) quickly going viral across the globe, now boasts more then 980 million views on Facebook, and 302 million plus on YouTube.
Perhaps it's this gifted Eastern European's accomplishments in film that have earned him the most critical acclaim. A three-time 'Best Score Award' winner and several acting gongs, Alex composed the music for the European co-produced film "The House of Others", a multiple award winning post-war drama that was a Georgian Oscars and Golden Globe entry in 2017, also receiving the most prestigious US Spotlight Award and Satellite Award.
Just beginning to take his first steps on the way to his International career he got into an accident, leaving the left side of his body paralyzed. During a year and a half of rehabilitation, he had to work hard to get his life back, and had to learn many things like singing from scratch again. While the doctors were saying that it's very unlikely he would ever be able to continue with acting and show business, Alex was trying to find a new place behind the camera as a director and screenwriter. In 2013, the moment he was able to work again, he made his first short movie, called "DAD"- as screenwriter, director, editor and composer, and gets with it numerous Awards on International Film Festivals. Alex has made it - today he is back on stage, proving the doctors wrong. With that fierce imagination, anything-is-possible attitude and boundless capabilities to turn captivating ideas into reality on any medium, there's no telling what Alex Sparrow will do next.- Alex Ozerov is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Mischa on The Americans. Ozerov was born in Tula, Russia and migrated to Toronto at the age of 13. Shortly after, he got an interest in acting and studied with actor/director Walter Alza. Alex made his feature film debut in Jason Buxton's award-winning film Blackbird, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. He can now be seen as Oliver Sokolov on the Netflix original, Another Life.
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Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in his ancestral estate Yasnaya Polyana, South of Moscow, Russia. He was the fourth of five children in a wealthy family of Russian landed Gentry. His parents died when he was a child, and he was brought up by his elder brothers and relatives.
Leo Tolstoy studied languages and law at Kazan University for three years. He was dissatisfied with the school and left Kazan without a degree, returned to his estate and educated himself independently. In 1848 he moved to the capital, St. Petersburg, and there passed two tests for a law degree. He was abruptly called to return to his estate near Moscow, where he inherited 4000 acres of land and 350 serfs. There Tolstoy built a school for his serfs, and acted as a teacher. He briefly went to a Medical School in Moscow, but lost a fortune in gambling, and was pulled out by his brother. He took military training, became an Army officer, and moved to the Caucasus, where he lived a simple life for three years with Cossacs. There he wrote his first novel - "Childhood" (1852), it became a success. With writing "Boyhood" (1854) and "Youth" (1857) he concluded the autobiographical trilogy. In the Crimean War (1854-55) Tolstoy served as artillery commander in the Battle of Sevastopol, and was decorated for his courage. Between the battles he wrote three stories titled "Sevastopol Sketches", that won him wide attention, and a complement from the Czar Aleksandr II.
After the war, Tolstoy returned to St. Petersburg, where he enjoyed the friendship of Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai A. Nekrasov, Ivan Goncharov, and other writers. On his trips to Europe, he had discussions with Gertsen in London, and attended Darwin's lectures. In Brussels he had meetings with philosophers Prudhon and Lelewel. Tolstoy undertook a research of schools in Europe, and later he built and organized over 20 schools for poor people in Russia. At that time the secret police began surveillance, and searched his home. In 1862 he married Sofia Andreevna Bers, and fathered 13 children with his wife. Four of their babies died, and the couple raised the remaining nine children. His wife was also his literary secretary, and also contributed to his best works, "War and Peace" (1863-69) and "Anna Karenina" (1873-77). In his "Confession" (1879) Tolstoy revealed his own version of Christianity, blended with socialism, that won him many followers. Tolstoyan communities sprang up in America and Europe, and he assisted the Russian non-Orthodox Christians (Dukhobors) in migrating to USA and Canada. He split from aristocratic class and developed an ascetic lifestyle, becoming a vegetarian, and a farmer. He sponsored and organized free meals for the poor. He transfered his copyright on all of his writings after 1880 to public domain. In his later age Tolstoy was pursuing the path of a wandering ascetic. He corresponded with Mohandas K. Gandhi, who was directly influenced by Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God is Within You" (1894), which was praised by many nonviolent movements.
In 1900 Tolstoy criticized the Tsar's government in a series of publications, calling for separation of Chuch and State. Tsar Nicholas II retaliated through the Church, by expulsion of Tolstoy from Orthodox Cristianity as a "heretic". He fell ill, and suffered from a severe depression; he was suicidal and even had to eliminate all hunting guns from his home, because of his suicidal mode. He was treated by the famous doctor Dahl, and was visited by composer Sergei Rachmaninoff and basso Feodor Chaliapin Sr., who performed for Tolstoy on many occasions. Later he went to convalesce in Yalta, in Crimea, where he spent time with Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky. Tolstoy was an obvious candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but was initially omitted by the Nobel Committee for his views. The omission caused a strong response from a group of Swedish writers and artists. They sent an address to Tolstoy, but the writer answered by declining any future prize nomination.
In 1902 Tolstoy wrote a letter to the Tsar, calling for social justice, to prevent a civil war, and in 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War, Tolstoy wrote a condemnation of war. The Tsar replied by increasing police surveillance on Tolstoy. In November of 1910 he left his estate, probably taking the path of a wandering ascetic, which he had been pursuing for decades. He left home without explanations and took a train, in which he caught pneumonia, and died at a remote station of Astapovo. He was laid to rest in his estate of Yasnaya Polyana, which was made a Tolstoy National Museum.
His youngest daughter, named Alexandra Tolstoy, was the director of the Tolstoy Museum, and was arrested by the Communists five times. She emigrated from Russia to the United States, where she founded the Tolstoy Foundation. She helped many prominent Russian intellectuals, such as Vladimir Nabokov and Sergei Rachmaninoff among many others.- Michael Khmurov was born on 26 February 1966 in Tula, Tulskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for Fracture (2007), Lektor (2011) and Odna voyna (2009). He is married to Elena Semyonova-Khmurova. They have two children.
- Evgeniya Osipova was born on 24 May 1986 in Tula, Tulskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for Zakrytaya shkola (2011), Realnyy papa (2008) and Ikona sezona (2013). She was previously married to Anatoliy Simchenko.
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Ilya Aksyonov was born on 1 May 1989 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR. He is a director and actor, known for KVN-ers (2018), Na kray sveta (2019) and Kapelnik (2022). He is married to Anastasiya Reznik.- Actor
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Vyacheslav Zharikov was born on 22 September 1937 in Tula, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Tula Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor and director, known for Derevenskiye kanikuly (1970), Pirates of the 20th Century (1980) and Ten Little Indians (1987). He died on 9 October 2004 in Moscow, Russia.- Actor
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Sergey Stolyarov was born on 1 November 1911 in village Bezzubovo, Venyov uyezd, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Serebryano-Prudsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor and writer, known for Far from Moscow (1950), Sadko (1953) and The Sword and the Dragon (1956). He died on 9 December 1969 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Masha Novoselova was born on 31 January 1985 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She was previously married to Dimitri Rassam.
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Blas García was born on 26 May 1942 in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico. He is an actor, known for Kung Fu Panda (2008), La casa al final de la calle (1989) and Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976).- Nikolay Shrayber was born on 6 October 1982 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR. He is an actor, known for Podrostki v kosmose, Malvina and Nomer Odin (2020).
- Sergey Chonishvili was born on August 3, 1965 in the city of Tula in a family of actors. Father - Nozheri Davidovich Chonishvili - Artist of the USSR. His name was given to an establishment dedicated to actors in Omsk (Siberia). Sergey's Mother - Prokop Valeria Ivanovna, People's Artist of Russia. In 1986 he graduated from the Shukshin's Theater School with honors and was accepted into the troupe of the theater Lenin Komsomol - Moscow theater "Lenkom". After the release of the country's extremely popular TV series "St. Petersburg secrets," Sergei has attracted a lot of attention on the part of moviegoers. In 2000, Sergey has released his debut took book - "Minor changes". In 2003 he published a second book,"The Train Man."
Since 2010, engaged in the performance of Theatre of Nations "The Gronholm Method" by Jordi Galceran Ferrer. Sergey's role brought him enormous popularity and brought him People's vote for Best Male Actor.
Since 2011, played in productions of Chekhov Moscow Art "Event", "Witness for the Prosecution", "An Ideal Husband"
Sergei Nozherievich Chonishvili - the most attractive and sought after male voice of modern Russian television. Sergey is official voice of the channel CTC. - Vera Petrova was born on 9 August 1927 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for A Cruel Romance (1984), Sudba barabanshchika (1956) and Through Fire, Water and... Trumpets (1968). She was married to Yuriy Sarantsev. She died on 16 December 2001 in Moscow, Russia.
- Leonid Mozgovoy was born on 17 April 1941 in Tula, Tula Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for Taurus (2001), Moloch (1999) and Last Love (2017).
- Vsevolod Sanaev was born on 25 February 1912 in Tula, Tula uyezd, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tula Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Eolomea (1972), Volga - Volga (1938) and Four Hearts (1944). He died on 27 January 1996 in Moscow, Russia.
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Ilya Lvovich ("son of Leo") Tolstoy was the 3rd child of the world-famous Russian writer and philosopher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), from the latter's 48-year marriage to Sonya Behrs, a marriage which produced 13 children in all. Although 5 of the Tolstoys' children died at birth or in infancy, the other 8 (including Ilya) survived to adulthood, and had careers which took them in many different directions. Ilya worked as a journalist, migrated to the USA in 1918 (around the time of the Russian Revolution), and had a motley career in the States. He did some journalism, including writings about his famous father in Russia, and served as a consultant on a few Hollywood films with Russian themes, including "Resurrection" and "Love" (1927). In one film Ilya Tolstoy even appeared briefly playing the role of his own father Leo Tolstoy. He died in poverty in a New York hospital in 1933. Ilya Lvovich Tolstoy's children were: Anna (1888- ), Mikhail (1893-1919), Andrei (1895-1920), Ilya Jr. (1896- ), and Vera (1898- ).- Lyudmila Davydova was born on 29 March 1939 in Tula, Tulskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979), Skaz pro to, kak tsar Pyotr arapa zhenil (1976) and Heavenly Swallows (1976). She was married to Andrey Ladynin and Valeriy Uskov. She died on 25 December 1996 in Moscow, Russia.
- Nikolai Prokopovich was born on 4 November 1925 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for The Brothers Karamazov (1969), Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) and Rodiny soldat (1975). He died on 24 February 2005 in Moscow, Russia.
- Antonina Maksimova was born on 7 November 1916 in Tula, Russian Empire [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for Othello (1956), Ballad of a Soldier (1959) and Mayakovsky itskeboda ase... (1958). She died on 4 October 1986 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Countess Alexandra Lvovna Tolstoy (Aleksandra Tolstaya) was the youngest daughter of the famous Russian writer Count Lev Tolstoy. She was born in 1884, in Yasnaya Polyana, the ancestral estate of the Tolstoy family. Her mother, named Sofia Andreevna Bers, was the literary secretary for Leo Tolstoy, and made Alexandra an assistant to her writer father. Alexandra managed most of the secretarial work for Leo Tolstoy during his later years. She became the keeper of the Tolstoy archive after the writer's death in 1910.
Alexandra shared the "Tolstoyan" ideas and was the follower her father's position of non-violence, but she felt a duty call at the beginning of the First World War. She participated in action by helping the wounded, and became one of the leading organizers of hospitals for the wounded soldiers. Alexandra Tolstoy was decorated for her courage with three Medals of the Order of St. George, rising to the rank of Colonel.
After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Countess Alexandra Tolstoy was arrested five times by the Communists. She was sentenced for supporting the right of free speech and assembly. After release she worked as a keeper of her father's estate in Yasnaya Polyana, which was turned into a Tolstoy's National Museum. She left Russia in 1929, and settled in the United States. There she co-founded the Tolstoy Foundation in 1939, with the sponsorship from such prominent intellectuals as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Sikorsky, Tatiana Schaufuss, Boris Bakhmeteff, and Boris Sergievsky. Former President Herbert Hoover became the first Honorary Chairman from 1939-1964.
Under the leadership of Alexandra Tolstoy, the Tolstoy Foundation assisted more than 500,000 people to escape from political persecution and the horrors of war. In 1948, she testified before the government on behalf of the Displaced Persons Act and was instrumental in its passage. In 1941, on a generous private donation the Tolstoy Foundation acquired Reed Farm north of New York City. She provided the 70-acre Farm for a resettlement center for over 30,000 refugees directly sponsored by the Foundation during the Second World War and after. She organized English classes and occupational therapy for the immigrants, as well, as a summer camp for needy children.
Countess Alexandra Tolstoy was known for her remarkable calmness and dignity. She died in 1979, at age 96, and was laid to rest in the Russian cemetery of Spring Valley, New York, USA. - Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. He is best known for commanding the 62nd Army which saw heavy combat during the Battle of Stalingrad in the Second World War.
Born to a peasant family near Tula, Chuikov earned his living as a factory worker from the age of 12. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, he joined the Red Army and distinguished himself during the Russian Civil War. After graduating from the Frunze Military Academy, Chuikov worked as a military attach and intelligence officer in China and the Russian Far East. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Chuikov commanded the 4th Army during the Soviet invasion of Poland, and the 9th Army during the Winter War against Finland. In December 1940, he was again appointed military attach to China in support of Chiang Kai-she and the Nationalists in the war against Japan.
In March 1942, Chuikov was recalled from China to defend against the German invasion of the Soviet Union. By September, he was assigned command of the 62nd Army in defense of Stalingrad. Tasked with holding the city at all costs, Chuikov adopted keeping the Soviet front-line positions as close to the Germans as physically possible. This served as an effective countermeasure against the Wehrmacht's combined-arms tactics, but by mid-November 1942 the Germans had captured most of the city after months of slow advance. In late November Chuikov's 62nd Army joined the rest of the Soviet forces in a counter-offensive, which led to the surrender of the German 6th Army in early 1943. After Stalingrad, Chuikov led his forces into Poland during Operation Bagration and the Vistula-Oder Offensive before advancing on Berlin. He personally accepted the unconditional surrender of German forces in Berlin on 2 May 1945.
After the war, Chuikov served as Chief of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (1949-53), commander of the Kiev Military District (1953-60), Chief of the Soviet Armed Forces and Deputy Minister of Defense (1960-64), and head of the Soviet Civil Defense Forces (1961-72). Chuikov was twice awarded the titles Hero of the Soviet Union (1944 and 1945) and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by the United States for his actions during the Battle of Stalingrad. In 1955, he was named a Marshal of the Soviet Union. Following his death in 1982, Chuikov was interred at the Stalingrad memorial at Mamayev Kurgan, which had been the site of heavy fighting. - Antonina Konchakova was born on 14 February 1928 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979), Inspektor Gull (1979) and Poem of the Sea (1958). She died on 28 September 2014 in Moscow, Russia.
- Mariya Skvortsova was born on 4 April 1911 in Turino, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tula Oblast, Russia]. She was an actress, known for Esli by znat... (1993), Ekipazh (1980) and Odinokim predostavlyaetsya obshchezhitiye (1984). She died on 1 December 2000 in Moscow, Russia.
- Georgi Bobynin was born on 23 December 1901 in village Bredikhino, Odoev uyezd, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Dubensky District, Tula Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Osobnyak Golubinykh (1924), Goryachaya krov (1932) and Women of Ryazan (1927). He died on 11 April 1961 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Mikhail Mayorov was born on 18 November 1906 in Tula, Tula uyezd, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tula Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for V kvadrate 45 (1956), Uchitel tantsev (1952) and Zastava v gorakh (1953). He died on 23 February 1993 in Moscow, Russia.
- Ekaterina Zhemchuzhnaya was born on 28 March 1944 in Shchyokino, Tula Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for Queen of the Gypsies (1976), Tsyganka Aza (1987) and Karnaval (1982).
- Ekaterina Shulman was born on 19 August 1978 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
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Vyacheslav Nevinny was a Russian actor of Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT).
He was born Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Nevinny on November 30, 1934, in Tula, Russia, Soviet Union (now Tula, Russia). Young Nevinny was fond of theatre, he was active in amateur drama club at Palace of Pioneers in Tula, and made his stage debut with Tula Theatre. From 1955 - 1959 he studied acting under Viktor Stanitsyn at Moscow Art Theatre School of Acting, graduating in 1959 as an actor. In 1960 he made his film debut in Ispytatelnyy srok (1960) by director Vladimir Gerasimov.
From 1959-2009 Vyacheslav Nevinny was a permanent member of the troupe at Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). There his stage partners were such renown Russian actors as Anatoli Ktorov, Olga Androvskaya, Angelina Stepanova, Nikolay Khmelyov, Mikhail Yanshin, Aleksey Gribov, Boris Livanov, Mikhail Kedrov, Mark Prudkin, Anastasiya Georgievskaya, Vasili Toporkov, Mikhail Bolduman, Pavel Massalsky, and the next generation of MKhAT actors - Oleg Efremov, Tatyana Doronina, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Oleg Tabakov, Kristina Babushkina, Alla Pokrovskaya, Kira Golovko, Iya Savvina, Nina Gulyaeva, Elena Panova, Darya Moroz, Olga Litvinova, Natalya Rogozhkina, Ekaterina Semyonova, Olga Yakovleva, Anastasiya Voznesenskaya, Irina Miroshnichenko, Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya, Andrey Myagkov, Stanislav Lyubshin, Vladimir Kashpur, Viktor Sergachyov, Evgeniy Kindinov, Vladimir Krasnov, Dmitriy Nazarov, Sergey Sazontev, Avangard Leontev, Igor Vasilev, Igor Vernik, Sergei Sosnovsky, Mikhail Porechenkov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Valeri Khlevinsky, Valeriy Troshin, Mikhail Trukhin, Eduard Chekmazov, Aleksey Kravchenko, Aleksei Agapov, and Evgeniy Mironov among others. His best known stage appearances include his roles in such classic plays as Nikolay Gogol's Revizor (aka.. Inspector-General) and in Anton Chekhov's plays: Ivanov, Chaika (aka.. The Seagull), Dyadya Vanya (aka.. Uncle Vanya), and Vishnevy sad (aka.. The Cherry Orchard).
Vyacheslav Nevinny was designated People's Actor of the USSR, and received a congratulatory note from the Russian president. He was suffering from diabetes with complications causing him amputation of both legs. However, Nevinny was supported by his family as well as by his fellow actors, such as Aleksandr Kalyagin and Sergey Yurskiy among many others. Nevinny was married to actress Nina Gulyaeva, their son, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy is also an actor at Moscow Art Theatre.
He died at his home in Moscow on May 31, 2009, of complications related to diabetes, and was laid to rest in Troekurovskoe Cemetery in Moscow, Russia.- Cinematographer
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Artyom Nikitin was born on 24 December 1991 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is a cinematographer and editor, known for Somneniye (2012), Po tu storonu (2014) and Martha and the Bird.- Sergey Styopin was born on 3 October 1965 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR. He is an actor, known for Prikazano unichtozhit! Operatsiya «Kitayskaya shkatulka» (2009), Kapitan Kryuk and Couple from the Future (2021). He is married to Natalya Styopina. They have two children.
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Valentin Mishatkin was born on 7 December 1946 in Tula, Tulskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor and director, known for Come and See (1985), Vstretimsya na Taiti (1991) and Zaliv schastya (1987). He died on 7 May 2012.- Yelizaveta Smirnova was born on 18 September 1908 in Tula, Russian Empire. She was a writer, known for Ya vstretil devushku (1957), Zdravstvuy, dobryy chelovek (1973) and Prizraki zelyonoy komnaty (1992). She died on 25 March 1999 in Moscow, Russia.
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Yevgeni Kotov was born on 27 November 1937 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a writer and director, known for Ariel (1992), Strelba dupletom (1979) and Pyl pod solntsem (1977). He died on 2 March 2018.- Valentin Bryleev was born on 1 May 1926 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Ballad of a Soldier (1959), Carnival Night (1956) and V kvadrate 45 (1956). He was married to Galina Bryleeva. He died on 18 December 2004 in Moscow, Russia.
- In 1974 he entered the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography for the course of People's Artist of the USSR I.P. Vladimirova. Upon graduation in 1978 he was accepted into the troupe of the Lensovet Theater. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2008). Theater them. The Leningrad City Council: Carlson - "Kid and Carlson, who lives on the roof" A. Lindgren, (1969, directed by N.Roichten) Kiselvrode - "Lefty" V. Konstantinov and B. Ratser (1974, directed by I.Vladimirov) Latnik - "People and passions" based on the works of the classics of German dramatic (1974, directed by I.Vladimirov) The King - "Troubadour and His Friends" V. Livanov and Yu. Entin (1975, directed by I.Vladimirov) Giglio - "Man, Animal and Virtue" by L. Pirandello (1978, directed by I.Vladimirov) Jacob-Hook - "The Threepenny Opera" by B. Brecht (1983, directed by I.Vladimirov) Benjamin Trotter - "Promised Land" S. Maugham (1984, directed by I.Vladimirov) The King - "The Snow Queen" E.Shvarts
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Alexandra Kozlova was born on 24 December 1993 in Novomoskovsk, Tula region, Russia. Alexandra is an assistant director, known for Sputnik (2020), T-34 (2018) and Major Grom: Plague Doctor (2021).- Nikolai Vitovtov was born on 1 September 1895 in Tula, Russian Empire. He was an actor, known for Kapitanskaya dochka (1928), House of Death (1932) and Reis mistera Lloyda (1927). He died on 10 February 1980.
- Kristina Elkhanovna Sarkisyan (born March 9, 1991, Tula, now Russia), better known as Kristina Si, is a Russian singer. She became most widely known after signing a contract with the Black Star record label in 2013, with which she ended her collaboration in 2018.
Kristina was born into a family of circus performers. Until the age of 6, she moved from city to city with her parents, lived in a traveling circus, owned by her parents. At the age of 6, Sargsyan began studying at a music school. For three years she played the piano, after which she switched to pop-jazz vocals. She moved to live in Moscow in 2008 and entered the Institute of Contemporary Art at the department of pop-jazz singing.
In 2010, she met the composer Pavel Murashov, who later became the author of her first composition called "I'm Flying Away". In the summer of 2011, Kristina Sargsyan released a new single, as well as a video for the song "I Begin to Forget".
The collaboration between Black Star and Kristina Si began in 2011 with the recording of a joint track by the singer and label artist -Music Hayk. In early 2013, she released the single "Winter". In March of the same year, she became an artist of the label and the only girl at that time on Black Star. The first work on the label Black Star Inc. became the single "Well, well, yes." The editors of the portal Rap.ru placed in tenth place in the list of "50 Best Songs of 2013" and the video for this song in fifth place in the list of "Clips of the Year. Russian version"
In June 2015, she was on the jury of A-One 's "Just Dance" dance competition.
In November 2016, the singer was banned from entering Ukraine for three years. According to TASS with reference to the press service of the State Border Service of Ukraine, this is due to her speech in the Crimea, which took place in the summer of that year.
On November 28, 2016, Kristina Si released her debut album titled Light in the Dark. The album included 15 songs, including collaborations with Black Star label artist Scrooge and rapper Dima No One.
2017 was a very eventful and difficult year for the singer, in March, as part of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Moscow, another show took place, one of the stars of which was Kristina Si, in the summer of the same year, Kristina Si became a member of the star jury of the casting "Hit on TV for love" on the channel "S.T.S. Love".
Thanks to a large number of fans among teenagers, Kristina won in the category "Favorite Singer" in the children's award from the TV channel "STS" - "High Five"
In November 2017, Kristina Si gave an exclusive interview for Fashion People, where she talked about working with Black Star and about the ideal man, and Kristina also got on the cover of the magazine.
At the end of 2017, Kristina was in the top 100 most popular rap artists according to the MTV Russia channel and took 15th place, the video for the song "You Won't Hurt" was in the top 50 best clips of the year according to TV channel " Music of the First " and took 25th place and according to the media, Kristina is one of the most sought-after and expensive artists of the Black Star production center.
In March 2018, Black Star Inc. announced the termination of the contract with Kris, they announced this on their Instagram page . The rights to the pseudonym remained with the label, while the singer herself said that she did not intend to leave the stage and would continue her career.
In April 2018, she launches his own clothing line. - Margarita Zakharova was born on 26 March 1971 in Tula, Russia. She is an actress, known for Nesrochnaya vesna (1989) and Santa Lyuchiya (1999).
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Aleksey Solodkov was born on 13 March 1898 in Simonovo, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tula oblast, Russia]. Aleksey was a cinematographer, known for The Last Attraction (1929), Anna (1936) and Tokar Alekseyev (1931). Aleksey died on 13 July 1943 in Oryol oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Production Designer
- Art Department
Vladimir Kartashov was born on 20 June 1957 in Tula, USSR [now Russia]. He was a production designer, known for The Castle (1994), Karmen (2003) and Brother (1997). He died on 20 September 2002 in Karmadon Canyon, Russia.- Boris Zavolokin was born on 26 July 1939 in Tula, USSR. He was an actor, known for Pyotr Ryabinkin (1973), Pochtovyy roman (1970) and Neylon 100% (1973). He died on 15 April 2022 in Tula, Russia.
- Stanislav Zakharov was born on 23 June 1949 in Tula, USSR. He was an actor, known for Larets Marii Medichi (1981), Noch greshnikov (1991) and Scenes from Family Life (1979). He died on 10 November 1996 in Tula, Russia.
- Dmitriy Lomovskiy was born on 11 January 1986 in Tula, Russia, USSR. He is an actor, known for Dikiy (2009), Niotkuda s lyubovyu, ili Vesyolye pokhorony (2006) and S.S.D. (2008).
- Mikhail Osokin was born on 17 September 1903 in Krapivna, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire. Mikhail is known for Moskovskiye kanikuly (1973) and Pushkinskiye skazki (1973).
- Leonid Trutnev was born on 17 February 1951 in Tula, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Pirates of the 20th Century (1980), Tayny madam Vong (1986) and Syshchik (1980). He died on 22 June 1995 in Moscow, Russia.
- Fyodor Odinokov was born on 17 February 1913 in Voskresenskoye, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tula Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Pugachev (1979), Ten Little Indians (1987) and Kto, esli ne ty... (1974). He died on 19 February 1994.
- Oleg Mashkov was born on 24 November 1965 in Tula, USSR. He is an actor, known for Sensory Perception (2019).