Anna Akhmatova

Akhmatova was born in Bolshoy Fontan near Odessa. Her childhood does not appear to have been happy; her parents separated in 1905. She was educated in Kiev, Tsarskoe Selo, and the Smolny Institute of St Petersburg. Anna started writing poetry at the age of 11, inspired by her favourite poets: Racine, Pushkin, and Baratynsky. As her father didn't want to see any verses printed under his "respectable" name, she had to adopt the surname of one of her Tatar ancestors as a pseudonym. Grey-Eyed King (1910) Hail! Hail to thee, o, immovable pain! The young grey-ey ...

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1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) 1966 - Events. 1966 - January. January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. January 2 - Strike of public transportation workers in New York City - ends January 13 January 3 - First Acid Test at the Fillmore, San Francisco January 4 - Military coup in Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso).Including:

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 1889 - Events. 1889 - January-April. January 8 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine January 22 - Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC. January 30 - Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera commit a d ...

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Alexander Blok (Александр Александрович Блок, November 16, 1880 - August 7, 1921), was probably the most gifted lyrical poet that Russia produced after Alexander Pushkin. A powerful influence on the pre-revolutionary Russian society, he is sometimes compared with William Butler Yeats for the visionary quality of his lush, sonorous verse. Alexander Blok - Early life and influences. Blok was born in St Petersburg, into a sophisticated and intellectual family. Some of his relatives we ...

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His real name was Nikolay Vasilyevich Korneychukov, which he humorously reworked into his now familiar pen-name while working as a journalist in Odessa News in 1901. He was an illegitimate son of Ekaterina Osipovna Korneychukova by Emmanuil Solomonovich Levinson (grandfather of mathematician Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin). He studied in Odessa gymnasium, with Zeev Jabotinsky as a classmate. Later Nikolay was expelled from his gymnasium for his "low origin". He had to get his secondary sc ...

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Brodsky was born into a Jewish family in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, the son of a professional photographer in the Soviet Navy. In the early childhood he survived the Siege of Leningrad. When he was fifteen, after the eighth grade, Brodsky left school and tried to enter the School of Submariners (школа подводников) without success. He went on to work as the milling machine operator (фрезеровщик) at a plant. Later, having in mind to become a physician, he worked at a morgue at the Kresty prison. Subsequently, he changed a variety of jobs at a hos ...

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List of Russians - Architects. Vasily Bazhenov (1738-1799) Savva Chevakinsky (1709-between 1774 and 1780) Matvei Kazakov (1738-1812) Andrey Kvasov (1720 - after 1770) Alexander Kokorinov (1725-1772) Konstantin Melnikov (1890-1974) Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin (1700–1763) Alfred Alexandrovich Parland (1842-1920) Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700-1771) Carlo Rossi (architect) (1775-1849) Andrey Schtakenshneider (1802-1865) ...

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19th century is traditionally referred to as the "Golden Age" for Russian literature. Romanticism permitted a flowering of especially poetic talent: the names of Zhukovsky and Aleksandr Pushkin came to the fore, followed by Mikhail Lermontov. Nineteenth-century developments included Ivan Krylov the fabulist; non-fiction writers such as Belinsky and Herzen; playwrights such as Griboedov and Ostrovsky; poets such as Evgeny Baratynsky, Konstantin Batyushkov, Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Fyodor Tyutchev, ...

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List of asteroids named after people - Mathematicians. 1858 Lobachevskij (Nikolai Lobachevsky) 1859 Kovalevskaya (Sofia Kovalevskaya) 1888 Zu Chong-Zhi (Zu Chongzhi) 1996 Adams (John Couch Adams) 1997 Leverrier (Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier) 2010 Chebyshev (Pafnuti Chebyshev) 4354 Euclides (Euclid) 4628 Laplace (Pierre-Simon Laplace) 6765 Fibonacci (Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa) 6143 Pythagoras (Pythagoras) 12493 Minkowski (He ...

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List of Ukrainians - Actors. Elina Bystritskaya George Dzundza Lyudmila Gurchenko Milla Jovovich Roman Kartsev Mila Kunis Vasily Lanovoy Ana Layevska Paul Muni Ivan Mykolaychuk Alla Nazimova Zhanna Prokhorenko Ada Rohovtseva Yakov Smirnoff John Spencer B ...

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Annensky was born into the family of a public official in Omsk on September 1 N.S. 1855. In 1860, while still a child, he was taken to Saint Petersburg. Innokenty lost his parents early on, and was raised in the family of his older brother, Nikolai Annensky, a prominent Narodnik and political activist. In 1879 Innokenty graduated from philological department of St Petersburg University, where he concentrated on Historical-comparative linguistics. He himself became a teacher, and taught classical languages and ancient literature studie ...

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Gumilev did not extend this ethnological ecumenism, however, to the medieval Jews, who he regarded as a parasitic, international urban class that had dominated the Khazars who in turn had subjected the early East Slavs to the "Khazar Yoke". This last phrase he adapted from the traditional term "Tatar Yoke" for the Mongol domination of medieval Russia, a term Gumilev rejected for he did not regard the Mongol conquest as a necessarily negative event. In particular, and with virtually no support from primary sources, he asserted that the Radhan ...

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Gorky became an orphan at the age of nine and was brought up by his grandmother, an excellent storyteller. Her death deeply affected him, and after an attempt at suicide in December 1887, he travelled on foot across the Russian Empire for five years, changing jobs and accumulating impressions used later in his writing. As a journalist working in provincial newspapers, he wrote under pseudonym Иегудиил Хламида (Jehudiel Khlamida). He began using pseudonym Gorky (literally "bitter") in 1892, while working in Tiflis newspa ...

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Nikolai was born in Kronstadt, into a family of a naval physician Stepan Yakovlevich Gumilev (1836—1920) and Anna Ivanovna L'vova (1854—1942). He studied at the gymnasium of Tsarskoe Selo, where the Symbolist poet Innokenty Annensky was his teacher. Later, Gumilev admitted that it was Annensky's influence that turned his mind to writing poetry. His first publication were verses I run from cities into forest (Russian: Я в лес бежал из городов) on September 8, 1902. In 1 ...

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1966 - January. January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. January 2 - Strike of public transportation workers in New York City - ends January 13 January 3 - First Acid Test at the Fillmore, San Francisco January 4 - Military coup in Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso). January 4 - Prime ministers of India and Pakistan meet in Moscow January 5 - Fire due to a gas leak in Feyzin oil refi ...

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During the later period of his life, Blok concentrated primarily on political themes, pondering upon the messianic destination of his country (Vozmezdie, 1910-21; Rodina, 1907-16; Skify, 1918). In keeping with Solovyov's doctrines, he was full of vague apocalyptic apprehensions and often passed from hope to despair. Throughout the summer of 1917, for example, he was vexed with distant lightnings and smokiness of air. "I feel that the great event is coming, but what exactly is not revealed to me", he wrote in his much-rea ...

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Zinaida Serebryakova - Family. Zinaida Serebryakova was born on the estate of Neskuchnoye near Kharkiv (now Ukraine) into one of the most refined and artistic families of Russia. She belongs to the artistic family of Lansere (sometimes spelled Lanceray). Her grandfather Nikolay Leontyevich Lansere was a famous architect, chairman of architect's society and member of Russian Academy of Science. Her uncle Alexandre Benois was a famous painter, founder of the Mir iskusstva art group. Her father, ...

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1889 - January-April. January 8 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine January 22 - Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC. January 30 - Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera commit a double suicide (or a murder suicide) in Mayerling hunting lodge February 11 - Meiji Constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890 February 22 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota ...

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Joseph Stalin - Industrialization. Main article: Industrialization of the USSR. The Russian Civil War and War communism had a devastating effect on the country's economy. Industrial output in 1922 was 13% of that in 1914. A recovery followed under the New Economic Policy, which allowed a degree of market flexibility within the context of socialism. Under Stalin's direction, this was replaced by a system of centrally ordained Five-Year Plans in the late 1920s. These called for a highly ambitious program of state-g ...

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Sovietization of Russia affected literature after 1917. Maxim Gorky, Nobel Prize winner Mikhail Sholokhov, Valentin Kataev, Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ilf and Petrov came to prominence as part of Soviet literature. Whilst Socialist realism gained official support in the Soviet Union, some of the writers -- such as Mikhail Bulgakov, Boris Pasternak, Andrei Platonov, Osip Mandelstam, Isaac Babel and Vasily Grossman -- secretly continued the classical tradition of Russian literature, writing "under the table", with no hop ...

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