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Oksana Kaliberda was born on 14 November 1967 in Livny, Oryol Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for Lyubov na ostrove smerti (1991), Shakaly (1990) and Sheremetevo-2 (1990).- Actor
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Sergey Fetisov was born on 12 August 1952 in Oryol, RSFSR, USSR. He was an actor and writer, known for Short Stories (2012), Firebird (2021) and Georg (2007). He died on 3 May 2017 in Oryol, Russia.- Writer
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Ivan Turgenev was born into a wealthy landowning family with many serfs, in the city of Oryol in Southern Russia. His father, a cavalry colonel, died when he was 15, and he was raised by his abusive mother, who ruled her 5000 serfs ruthlessly with a whip. He never married, but fathered a daughter with one of their family serfs. Turgenev studied at Universities of Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Berlin, and later in his life received a Doctorate degree from Oxford. Turgenev lived in Western Europe for most of his life and admired the advancements of the Western civilization. He advocated modernization of Russia and liberation of serfs. In "A Sportsman's Sketches" (1852) he bitterly criticized serfdom, and in "A Nest of Nobles" (1859), and "On the Eve" he focused on the social and political troubles brewing in Russia. In his masterpiece "Fathers and Sons" (1862) Turgenev presented a man of the new generation, an educated and open-minded medical student Basarov, in a conflict with the old generation of 'fathers', who are standing for the ultra-conservative Russia. After being wildly attacked by Russian critics, Turgenev retired in Europe, living in Baden-Baden and Paris where he had a life-long affair with the celebrated singer Pauline Garcia-Viardot. His late stories "First Love", "Asya", "Torrents of Spring", and a collection of "Poetry in Prose" are among the finest in all of the Russian literature. He died in Bougival, near Paris, and was buried in St. Petersburg, Russia. Turgenev's influence may be found in Western literature; in the works of Gustave Flaubert, and also Ernest Hemingway, who regarded "A Sportsman's Sketches" as his favorite book. .- Nikolai Leskov was born in 1831, in Gorokhovo, Orel province, Russia. His parents belonged to Russian gentry and owned an estate with serfs. He was a Gymnasium student until the age of 15. In 1846 his father died and a disastrous fire destroyed the family estate and ruined him financially. Leskov served as a court clerk in Orel and in Kiev. In 1853 he married Olga Smirnova; they had two children and separated in 1860. His job at an English firm made him travel to remote regions of Russia, where he also collected the material for his writings.
Leskov absorbed the knowledge of the folk traditions and legends from his childhood. His exposure to vernacular speech of peasants has marked his highly original literary style. His writing career began in St. Petersburg, where he settled in 1861. Leskov published short stories with moderate liberal messages. His travels in Europe strengthened his opposition to the conservatives in Russia. His first novel "Nowhere" (Nekuda, 1864) was written in Prague. Leskov was critical of the Russian Orthodox Church for its rigid conservatism and it's corrupt clerics. His views caused him a loss of many publishing contracts, but Leskov was consistent in his independent position. He joined Lev Tolstoy in a call for separation of Church and State. That caused his dismissal after 10 years of exemplary work for the Imperial Department of Education. At that time he lived in a civil union with Katherina Bubnova. They had a son, Andrei Leskov, who became his biographer, and the keeper of the writer's archive.
Leskov was a master of colloquial Russian. He investigated the dark and mysterious sides of passion in "Lady Makbeth of Mtsensk" (1865). He explored religious piety of an Orthodox monk in "Enchanted Wanderer" (Zacharovanny Strannik, 1873). Leskov made literary portraits of the corrupt and drunk clerics of the Orthodox Church, weird revolutionaries, and terrible social conditions in Russia. His truthfulness triggered attacks on the writer from all parties, and he almost became a literary outcast. His masterpiece "Lefty" (The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea, 1881) was highly regarded by Maxim Gorky and Anton Chekhov, who considered Leskov his teacher. Conservative Russian press labeled Leskov a heretic for his vegetarianism, "organic life philosophy" and "love of the world". He was the disciple of Lev Tolstoy. Leskov died of a rare form of breast cancer that affects men. He was buried at the Volkovo Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia. - Actor
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Sacha Bourdo was born on 8 January 1962 in Oryol, Orlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor and composer, known for The Science of Sleep (2006), Western (1997) and Pigalle, la nuit (2009).- Boris Bityukov was born on 25 April 1921 in Oryol, RSFSR [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for A Big Family (1954), Zhukovsky (1950) and Po tonkomu ldu (1966). He was married to Yuliana Bugaeva. He died on 15 January 2002 in Moscow, Russia.
- Leonid Andreev was born on August 21, 1871 in Orel, Russia. His father, named Nikolai Ivanovich Andreev, was a member of the provincial Russian Nobility and worked as a land inspector for the government. His mother, Named Anastasia Nikolaevna Andreeva (Pazkovska) belonged to the Polish Nobility. Andreev graduated from the Orel Gymnasium, went to study law at the St. Petersburg University, and graduated from the Moscow University. His work as a crime reporter for "Moscovski Vestnik" (Moscow daily paper) provided material for his stories. He was fond of reading Fyodor Dostoevsky, Lev Tolstoy, and Anton Chekhov. He also red then popular Friedrich Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. After the death of his father and a painful first love experience in 1894 he was depressed and tried to shoot himself in a suicide attempt. He survived and worked hard to support his mother and his two sisters and two younger brothers. He successfully passed the Russian Law Bar in 1897 and practiced law as an attorney for five years from 1897-1902.
Andreev published his first story "Bargamot and Garaska" in 1898. It was noticed by Maxim Gorky, who promoted Andreev to the circle of writers and publishers, called Znanie (Knowledge). In 1901 his first book of stories was published by Znanie. His story "Bezdna" (Abyss, 1902), about a teenager's experience with a prostitute ending in her murder and his suicide, was attacked by Lev Tolstoy. But Andreev became an instant celebrity in Russia. After his anti-war story "Krasny Smekh" (Red Laughter, 1904), written during the Russian-Japanese war, he got involved with anti-Czar revolutionaries. Andreev was arrested and jailed by the Czar's secret service in 1905, after that he emigrated to Europe and lived in Capri, Italy as a guest of Maxim Gorky. While developing his expressionist style, Andreev wrote a bluntly realistic anti-war story "Rasskaz o semi poveshennykh" (A Story About the Seven Hung, 1909) and a realist novel "Sashka Zhegulev" (1911). After the war and the first Russian revolution of 1905, Andreev was writing a play every year. His plays were staged at the Moscow Art Theatre and theatres in Vienna, Berlin, Odessa and Kazan by directors Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko and Vsevolod Meyerhold among others. His best plays "Anathema", "Tsar-Golod" (Czar-hunger), "Samson v okovakh" (Samson in Handcuffs, 1914) were banned by Russian censorship under the Czar. Andreev built a big villa in Kuokkala, Finland, where many Russian intellectuals lived, just 50 km. West of St. Petersburg. He was a regular member of the circle of Korney Ivanovich Chukovskiy and maintained friendship with Maxim Gorky. Leonid Andreev also was a friend of writers Aleksandr Kuprin, Vladimir Korolenko, Ivan Bunin, Vikenti Veresaev, and singer Feodor Chaliapin Sr.. During WWI he was a strong critic of German aggression. In 1917 he opposed the Bolshevik Revolution.
Leonid Andreev was the founder of the Russian Expressionism in literature. He modernized his style through experiments with spiritualism, symbolism, eroticism and mysticism, and also studied a range of occult and religious traditions. His literary parallel was the American writer H.P. Lovecraft. Andreev remained in his villa in Finland after it's separation from Russia during the Russian revolution of 1917. He was a staunch critic of the Soviet communism and wrote powerful articles about the atrocities of communists in Russia. He died on September 12, 1919, at his home in Kuokkala, Finland, at the age of 48. Some mystery was haunting his burial; his grave in Finland was later on the Soviet territory since WWII. His magnificent villa was destroyed. In 1957 Leonid Andreev's remains were exhumed and moved to the prestigious "Poet's Alley" at the "Literatorskie Mostki" (Literary burials) near the graves of Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov, Nikolai Leskov and other Russian cultural luminaries at the Volkovo Cemetery in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). - Ivan Pereverzev was born on 3 September 1914 in village Kuzminki, Bolkhov uyezd, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire [now Znamensky District, Oryol Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Taras Shevchenko (1951), Sadko (1953) and Priklyucheniya v gorode, kotorogo net (1974). He died on 23 April 1978 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Nikolai Rozhkov was born on 10 December 1906 in Station Stanovaya, Yelets uyezd, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire [now Stanovlyansky District, Lipetsk Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for Symphony of Life (1948), Shikari: The Hunter (1991) and Ori okeanis saidumloeba (1957). He died on 30 October 1998 in Moscow, Russia.
- Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov born 26 June 1944 is a Russian communist politician who has been the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation since 1993. He has been Chairman of the Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP-CPSU) since 2001, a deputy in the State Duma since 1993, and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 1996. Zyuganov ran for President of Russia four times, most notably in 1996, when he lost in the second round to incumbent Boris Yeltsin.
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Tikhon Khrennikov was born on 10 June 1913 in Yelets, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire [now Lipetsk Oblast, Russia]. He was a composer and actor, known for Night Watch (2004), Six P.M. (1944) and Enemy at the Gates (2001). He was married to Klara Arnoldovna Vaks. He died on 14 August 2007 in Moscow, Russia.- Director
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Mikhail Segal was born on 3 January 1974 in Oryol, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is a director and writer, known for Short Stories (2012), Franz + Polina (2006) and Deeper! (2020).- Actor
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Vyacheslav Ivanovich Polunin (Slava Polunin) was born on June 11, 1950, in Novosil, Orel province, USSR. Young Polunin was obsessed with the image of Charley Chaplin. He imitated Chaplin at school performances and also developed a wide range of other comic characters during his school years. Polunin was a popular participant at many school festivals and competitions. After graduation from high school Polunin moved to Leningrad. There he founded the clown-mime theatre 'Litsedei' in 1968. He dropped out of college of Economics, then studied at the Leningrad Institute of Culture from which he graduated in 1977. Then he studied and graduated from the State Institute of Theatrical Art (GITIS) in Moscow. He regarded Yuriy Nikulin, Marcel Marceau, Arkady Raykin , and Leonid Yengibarov as his teachers.
Polunin shot to fame in the USSR after his 1980 TV performance of 'Asisyai', a sketch-parody of a telephone conversation between two lovers. In Leningrad he led the clown-mime theatre 'Litsedei' for over 20 years. Under his directorship 'Litsedei' became the most popular pantomime show in the USSR and then in Russia. He organized and led the Mime-Parade of 1982, which gathered over 800 pantomime artists of the Soviet Union. In 1989 Polunin became one of the founders of "Caravan of Peace" International Festival of Street Theatres. Polunin and his clown-mime theatre 'Litsedei' performed their show in Tiergarten, West Berlin, before the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Polunin was among the founding members of the Academy of Fools and became its president.
From 1986 Polunin has been touring worldwide with his troupe 'Litsedei'. His amazing "Snowshow" became one of the most highly regarded achievements in the contemporary theatre. It is a comedy, a fairytale, a mystery, and an interactive show that amused audiences around the world. It was performed in over 50 cities to more than one million spectators. Polunun was awarded the Laurence Olivier Prize for his 'Snowshow', which was acclaimed as the best theatrical show of the year (1998). He received prizes from the British Critics Association, from the 'Time-out' magazine, and also received other awards for his works. He was made the Honorary resident of London.
In 2001 Polunin organized the New Carnival within the framework of the World Theatre Olympics, in the Hermitage Gardens in Moscow. There he brought some of the best acting mimes of the 20th century, such as Bolek Polívka, Django Edwards, Jérôme Deschamps, Franz-Joseph Bogner, Leo Bassi, and others. Polunin continues his collaboration with artist Mikhail Shemyakin for the annual carnivals in Venice, Italy.
Vyacheslav Polunin has three sons. He lives with his wife and children in London and has a home in Russia.- Varvara Osipovna Massalitinova was born on July 29, 1878, in Yelets, Lipetsk province, Russian Empire (now Yelets, Russia). She began acting at an amateur theatre club in the Siberian city of Tomsk, then moved to Moscow and studied acting under A. Lensky at Moscow Theatrical school from which she graduated in 1901, as an actress.
From 1901-1945 Varvara Massalitinova was a permanent member of the legendary troupe at Maly Academic Theatre in Moscow. There she worked on stage with such actors as Ermolova, Yelena Gogoleva, A. Yablochkina, Vera Pashennaya, Aleksandr Yuzhin, Aleksandr Ostuzhev, Vladimir Davydov, Konstantin Zubov, Stepan Kuznetsov, Nikolai Annenkov, Mikhail Tsaryov, Igor Ilyinsky and many other notable Russian actors. She became famous in 1902 after her powerful stage performances as Korobochka in Nikolay Gogol's classic drama 'Dead Souls'. Among her best known stage roles were such classic parts, as the officer's widow in the 1903 staging of 'Revizor' (Inspector General), Merchutkina in 'Jubiley' (1904), based on a play by Anton Chekhov, and Kukushkina in the 1911 staging of 'Dokhodnoe Mesto'. Over the course of her stage career Massalitinova established herself as one of the best performers in the classic plays by Aleksandr Ostrovskiy.
In 1922 Massalitinova made her film debut in a small role in a silent movie 'Polikushka'. Then she worked with director Yakov Protazanov in the first Russian Sci-Fi experiment, Aelita, the Queen of Mars (1924), where she appeared alongside Mikhail Zharov and Igor Ilyinsky among other fellow actors from the Maly Theatre. In 1939 Massalitinova received a state award for her portrayal of the grandmother of writer Maxim Gorky in the 1938 classic film trilogy by director Mark Donskoy based on Gorky's autobiographical books. Her best known role was the mother of the Russian folk hero Buslai in the acclaimed film Alexander Nevsky (1938) by director Sergei Eisenstein, starring Nikolay Cherkasov and Nikolai Okhlopkov.
Varvara Massalitinova was designated People's Artist of Russia and was awarded for her performances on stage and in film. She died on October 20, 1945, in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union and was laid to rest in Novodevichi Cemetery in Moscow. - Aleftina Konstantinova was born on 19 November 1936 in Oryol, Kurskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Orlovskaya oblast, Russia]. She is an actress, known for Svet dalyokoy zvezdy (1965), Posle svadby (1963) and Gorod - odna ulitsa (1964). She was previously married to Vladimir Korenev.
- Naum Gabo was born on 5 August 1890 in Bryansk, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire [now Bryansk Oblast, Russia]. He was married to Miriam Israels. He died on 23 August 1977 in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA.
- Aleksandr Lipov is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.
Lipov was born in Oryol. His father was the director of Oryol school No. 24. With the beginning of the war, his father went to the front, and the family lived in Groznyy during the occupation of Oryol. After the war he graduated from school No. 24 in Oryol. Initially, he entered the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Oryol State Pedagogical Institute. However, after the second year Aleksandr left his studies and a year later entered the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK).
After graduating from VGIK, Lipov was sent to the Lenfilm film studio, where he worked for 35 years. During this time, he starred in about 50 films, and also managed to work in dubbing. In the 1990s, he worked at St. Petersburg radio, reading for the radio a series of stories by Lev Tolstoy, Nikolai Leskov, and Ivan Shmelyov.
In 1999 Aleksandr Lipov returned to Oryol. Since 2000 he has been working at the Oryol Russian Style Theater. - Liliya Gurova was born on 8 September 1931 in Vtoraya Grachyovka, Central Black Earth Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Oryol Oblast, Russia]. She is an actress, known for Tsari (1964), Pod stuk kolyos (1959) and Pamyat (1975). She was previously married to Nikolai Kryukov.
- Leonid Agranovich was born on 15 May 1915 in Zmiyevka, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire [now Oryol Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer and director, known for Sluchay iz sledstvennoy praktiki (1968), Srok davnosti (1983) and Shchit goroda (1980). He died on 15 March 2011 in Moscow, Russia.
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Paul Ouspensky was born on 3 January 1982 in Oryol, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. Paul is known for :03 from Gold (2002).- Nikolai Dorokhin was born on 18 May 1905 in Yelets, Yelets uyezd, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire [now Yeletsky District, Lipetsk Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for The Last Night (1937), Oshibka inzhenera Kochina (1939) and Na dalnem vostoke (1937). He died on 31 December 1953 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Yuri Prokopovich was born on 18 November 1921 in Oryol, Kurskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Orlovskaya oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for One Chance in a Thousand (1969), Chelovek v shtatskom (1973) and The Variegateds Case (1958). He died on 13 October 1995.
- Sergei Romodanov was born on 12 August 1899 in Livny, Livny uyezd, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire [now Oryol Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Delo Artamonovykh (1941), Vysota (1957) and Ispytanie vernosti (1954). He died on 23 September 1975 in Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Nikolay Penkov was born on 4 January 1936 in Oryol Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Auktsion (1983), Sem stikhiy (1985) and Lebedev protiv Lebedeva (1965). He died on 21 December 2009 in Moscow, Russia.
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Gennadiy Trofimov was born on 9 April 1948 in Bolkhov, Oryol Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor and composer, known for Povar i pevitsa (1978), Niotkuda s lyubovyu, ili Vesyolye pokhorony (2006) and Kazachya byl (1999).