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Dersu Uzala (book)
''Dersu Uzala'' (russian: Дерсу Узала; alternate U.S. titles: ''With Dersu the Hunter'' and ''Dersu the Trapper'') is a 1923 memoir by the Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, concerning his travels in the Russian Far East with the Goldi hunter Dersu Uzala. The story was made into a 1975 film '' Dersu Uzala'', directed by Akira Kurosawa. Plot Arsenyev tells of his travels in the Ussuri basin in the Russian Far East. Dersu Uzala (c. 1849–1908) was a Goldi hunter who acted as a guide for Arsenyev's surveying crew mapping the taiga from 1902 to 1907 and saved them from starvation and cold. Arsenyev portrays him as a simple yet great man, an animist who sees animals and plants as equal to man. From 1907, Arsenyev invited Dersu to live in his house in Khabarovsk as Dersu's failing sight hampered his ability to live as a hunter. In the spring of 1908, Dersu bade farewell to Arsenyev and walked back toward his home in the woods of the Primorsky Krai; he was killed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dersu Uzala (1975 Film)
''Dersu Uzala'' (russian: Дерсу Узала, ja, デルス·ウザーラ, ''Derusu Uzāra''; alternative U.S. title: ''Dersu Uzala: The Hunter'') is a 1975 Soviet-Japanese film directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa, his only non-Japanese-language film and his only 70mm film. The film is based on the 1923 memoir '' Dersu Uzala'' (which was named after the native trapper) by Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, about his exploration of the Sikhote-Alin region of the Russian Far East over the course of multiple expeditions in the early 20th century. Shot almost entirely outdoors in the Russian Far East wilderness, the film explores the theme of a native of the forests who is fully integrated into his environment, leading a style of life that will inevitably be destroyed by the advance of civilization. It is also about the growth of respect and deep friendship between two men of profoundly different backgrounds, and about the difficulty of coping with the loss of capabilit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 Non-fiction Books
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Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 123.2 million on narrow coastal plains. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions. The Greater Tokyo Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agasi Babayan
Agasi Babayan ( hy, Աղասի Բաբայան, 21 December 1921 in Azatavan, Armenian SSR, USSR – November 17, 1995) was an Armenian director, screenwriter, and actor.Agasi Babayan IMDb He received the title of Merited Artist of the RSFSR in 1974. Biography He studied acting and film direction under Sergei Gerasimov at and worked at the |
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a Federation, federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, fifteen national republics; in practice, both Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, its economy were highly Soviet-type economic planning, centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Saint Petersburg, Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kyiv, Kiev (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainian SSR), Minsk (Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian SSR), Tas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dersu Uzala (1961 Film)
''Dersu Uzala'' (russian: Дерсу Узала) is a 1961 Soviet film adapted from the book by Vladimir Arsenyev about his travels in the Russian Far East with the native trapper Dersu Uzala. The film was directed by Agasi Babayan from a screenplay by screenwriter Igor Bolgarin. The film starred actors Adolf Shestakov and Kasym Zhakibayev. Cast * Adolf Shestakov * Kasym Zhakibayev * Aleksandr Baranov * N. Gladkov * Lev Lobov * Spiridon Grigoryev * A. Yevstifyev * Mikhail Medvedev * Pyotr Lyubeshkin * Nikolai Khryashchikov See also *'' Dersu Uzala'' (1975), a Soviet-Japanese film version directed by Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dy ... External links *Dersu Uzala Info 1961 films 1961 in the Soviet Union Soviet adventure films 1960s Russia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raduga Publishers
Raduga Publishers (russian: радуга, English: "rainbow") was a Soviet publishing house of innovative children's books, which has been described as "one of the most important book publishers of its type" during the early twentieth century.Andrea Immel"Cotsen Children's Library: The Anna Baksht Benjamin Family Collection of Raduga Books" ''The Princeton University Library Chronicle'', Vol. 65, No. 2, Winter 2004, pp. 343-356. Retrieved 3 January 2022. History Raduga Publishers was founded in 1922 by the Russian journalist Lev Moisevich Kliachko (1873-1939) who was at one time the chairman of the Committee of Journalists at the State Council. The main office was located in Bolshoy Gostiny Dvor building in Nevsky Prospect, St. Petersburg and the editorial office in the founder's apartment at 14 Stremyannaya Street in the same city. Kliachko originally intended to publish a magazine called Raduga but instead starting publishing picture books with texts and illustrations.Serge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Burr
Malcolm Burr (6 July 1878 - 13 July 1954) was an English author, translator, entomologist, and geologist. He taught English at the School of Economics in Istanbul, and spent most of his life in Turkey. Life Burr was a noted specialist of earwigs (Dermaptera) and crickets and grasshoppers (Orthoptera). He was the first to classify earwigs on the basis of copulatory organs, and the diversity and biology of the earwigs of Sri Lanka is well studied due to major contributions by Burr in 1901. He also met and befriended the White émigré Paul Nazaroff, whose works he translated from Russian into English (including ''Hunted through Central Asia''). Private life He married Clara Millicent Goode in 1903 and they had four daughters, Gabrille Ruth Millicent, Rowena Frances, Yolanda Elizabeth and another. Bibliography * * * * * Dersu the Trapper (translated by Malcolm Burr), published by Secker & Warburg, London 1939 (First English edition) See also * ''Epilandex burri'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Braziller
George Braziller (February 12, 1916 – March 16, 2017) was an American book publisher and the founder of George Braziller, Inc., a firm known for its literary and artistic books and its publication of foreign authors. Life and career Braziller was first employed as a shipping clerk, during the Great Depression. In 1941, George and Marsha Braziller founded the "Book Find Club", which was smaller than the Book of the Month Club but exceedingly successful, "with a reputation for seriousness of purpose." They then began the "Seven Arts Book Society" in 1951 and in 1955 they began to publish their own books. The Braziller publishing firm is located at 277 Broadway, Suite 708, in Manhattan, New York City. When Braziller travelled to Europe in the late 1960s, he was in Paris during the events of May 1968 which led to the collapse of the de Gaulle government. Henri Alleg's autobiography '' La Question'', which he brought back from that trip and published in English language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Terry White
Anne Terry White (February 19, 1896 – July 1980) was a Russian Empire-born American writer and translator. The daughter of Aaron and Sarah Terry, she was born Anne Terry in the Russian Empire, and came to the United States with her family at the age of 8. She was educated at Brown University and obtained a master's degree from Stanford University in 1925. She worked as a teacher and social worker. Besides writing books for young people, she also translated works for children from Russian to English. In 1918, she married Harry Dexter White; the couple had two daughters. In 1937, she published ''Heroes of the Five Books'' about characters from the Old Testament, her first book. Her books were primarily non-fiction on a variety of subjects, including archaeology, anthropology, other various scientific topics and biographies. She also published adaptions of myths, fairy tales and classic children's literature. Selected works * ''Three Children and Shakespeare'' (1938) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berdan Rifle
The Berdan rifle (''винтовка Бердана''/''vintovka Berdana'' in Russian) is a Russian rifle created by the American firearms expert and inventor Hiram Berdan in 1868. It was standard issue in the Russian army from 1870 to 1891, when it was replaced by the Mosin–Nagant rifle. It was widely used in Russia as a hunting weapon, and sporting variants, including shotguns, were produced until the mid-1930s. The ''Russian'' Berdan I (M1868) and Berdan II (M1870) rifles of .42 caliber are distinct from the ''Spanish'' Berdan 15mm (.58+ cal) conversion rifles adopted by Spain as the M1857/67 Berdan (and related engineer, artillery & short rifles). Berdan I Two different versions of the later single-shot Berdan rifle were adopted as service weapons by Imperial Russia. The first version, manufactured by Colt in the US, is known as model 1868, or Berdan I. It is a hammerless "trapdoor" breechblock design, and was manufactured in limited numbers (the contract stipulated 30,000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
