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Georgians In Russia
Ethnic Georgians in Russia (; ) number 112,765, according to the 2021 Russian Census. Notable Georgians in Russia * Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union * Pyotr Bagrationi, general of the Imperial Russian Army during the Napoleonic War * Nikolai Baratov, Imperial Russian Army general during World War I * Lavrenty Beria, bolshevik and a Soviet politician * Alexander Borodin, composer and chemist * Sergo Ordzhonikidze, bolshevik and a Soviet politician * Keti Topuria, singer * George Balanchine, ballet choreographer * Roman Bagrationi, Imperial Russian Army general * Pavel Tsitsianov, Imperial Russian Army General * Boris Akunin, writer * Marlen Khutsiev, filmmaker best known for his cult films from the 1960s, which include I Am Twenty and July Rain. * Otar Iosseliani, film maker. * Bulat Okudzhava, poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter * Zurab Sotkilava, a Georgian operatic tenor and People's Artist of the USS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgian People
Georgians, or Kartvelians (; ka, ქართველები, tr, ), are a nation and Caucasian ethnic group native to present-day Georgia and surrounding areas historically associated with the Georgian kingdoms. Significant Georgian diaspora communities are also present throughout Russia, Turkey, Greece, Iran, Ukraine, the United States, and the European Union. Georgians arose from Colchian and Iberian civilizations of classical antiquity; Colchis was interconnected with the Hellenic world, whereas Iberia was influenced by the Achaemenid Empire until Alexander the Great conquered it. In the early 4th century, the Georgians became one of the first to embrace Christianity. Currently, the majority of Georgians are Orthodox Christians, with most following their national Georgian Orthodox Church; there are also small Georgian Catholic and Muslim communities as well as a significant number of irreligious Georgians. Located in the Caucasus, on the continental crossroads of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Balanchine
George Balanchine (; Various sources: * * * * born Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze;, Romanization of Georgian, : April 30, 1983) was a Georgian-American ballet choreographer, recognized as one of the most influential choreographers of the 20th-century. Styled as the father of American ballet, he co-founded the New York City Ballet and remained its artistic director for more than 35 years.Joseph Horowitz (2008)''Artists in Exile: How Refugees from 20th-century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts.'' HarperCollins. His choreography is characterized by plotless ballets with minimal costume and décor, performed to classical and neoclassical music. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Balanchine took the standards and technique from his time at the Imperial Ballet School and fused it with other schools of movement that he had adopted during his tenure on Broadway theatre, Broadway and in Cinema of the United States, Hollywood, creating his signature " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikheil Chiaureli
Mikheil Chiaureli ( ka, მიხეილ ჭიაურელი, , 6 February 1894 – 31 October 1974) was a Soviet Georgian actor, film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1928 and 1974. He was awarded the Stalin Prize five times in 1941, 1943, 1946, 1947, and 1950. Biography In early life Chiaureli studied in a trade school and then worked for a while as a locksmith. Starting in amateur dramatics he became a professional actor aged 20 and worked as both actor and stage-decorator at the Tbilisi theatre. After 1917 he studied acting formally at the Tbilisi Academy of Arts. Chiaureli won four Stalin Prizes and became a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.Soviet Calendar 1917-1947, Foreign Publishing House, Moscow 1947 Selected filmography ;as actor * ''Arsen Dzhordjiashvili'' (1921) as star of the first Soviet film made in Georgia * '' The Suram Fortress'' (1922) * ''Iron Hard Labor'' (1924; ) ;as director * ''The First Cornet Streshnev'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgiy Daneliya
Georgiy Nikolozis dze Daneliya, Romanization of Georgian, : (25 August 19304 April 2019) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1989 and a laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 1997. Early life Georgiy Daneliya was born in Tbilisi into a Georgians, Georgian family. His father Nikolai Dmitrievich Danelia (1902–1981) came from peasants. He moved to Moscow following the October Revolution, finished the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering and joined Mosmetrostroy where he spent the rest of his life working as an engineer and a manager at different levels.''Georgiy Daneliya (2006)''. A Passenger Without a Ticket. — Moscow: Eksmo, 416 pages Georgiy's mother Maria Ivlianovna Anjaparidze (1905–1980) belonged to a noble Anjaparidze family known since the 13th century and recognized by the Russian Empire in 1880. She worked as a film director, a second unit director and an assistant direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolshoi Ballet
The Bolshoi Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company based at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia. Founded in 1776, the Bolshoi is among the world's oldest Ballet company, ballet companies. In the early 20th century, it came to international prominence as Moscow became the capital of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia. The Bolshoi has been recognised as one of the foremost ballet companies in the world. It has a branch at the Bolshoi Ballet Theater School in Joinville, Brazil. History The earliest iteration of the Bolshoi Ballet can be found in the creation of a dance school for a Moscow orphanage in 1773. In 1776, dancers from the school were employed by Prince Pyotr Vasilyevich Urusov and English theatrical entrepreneur Michael Maddox to form part of their new theatre company. Originally performing in privately owned venues, they later acquired the Petrovsky Theatre, which, as a result of fires and erratic redevelopment, would l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolay Tsiskaridze
Nikolay Maximovich Tsiskaridze PAR (; ka, ნიკოლოზ ცისკარიძე, ''Nik'oloz Cisk'aridze'') is a Georgian-Russian ballet dancer who had been a member of the Bolshoi Ballet for 21 years (1992–2013). Biography Early years Nikolay Tsiskaridze was born in Tbilisi, Soviet Georgia in 1973. He was the first-born child of Lamara Nikolayevna Tsiskaridze, who was 42 years old when he was born. He grew up without knowing his father. His mother was a physicist, and she worked at Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, then as a teacher at Tbilisi public school №162. Five years after his mother's death an aunt revealed Tsiskaridze's father was a brother of their neighbor, a violinist, who lived next door for almost 20 years, a fact he was unaware of. Career in ballet Tsiskaridze began his dance studies at the Tbilisi Ballet School in 1984. Though initially his mother was reluctant to let her son dance, his teachers eventually convinced her of his talent after w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zurab Sotkilava
Zurab Lavrentievich Sotkilava (, ka, ზურაბ სოტკილავა; 12 March 1937 – 18 September 2017) was a Georgian/Soviet operatic tenor. Since the early 1970s, he lived and worked in Moscow. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1979. Biography Education In 1960, Sotkilava graduated from the Tbilisi State Polytechnical Institute. Football career Sotkilava began playing association football during childhood. At age 16, he joined Dynamo Sukhumi where he played full-back. In 1956 he became captain of the Georgia national team, and two years later he joined Dynamo Tbilisi. In 1958 he incurred severe injuries while playing in Yugoslavia. This ultimately led to the end of his sports career in Czechoslovakia the following year. Music career In 1965 he graduated from the Tbilisi Conservatory under the guidance of David Andguladze. Between 1965 and 1974 Sotkilava was a soloist of the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre (named after Zakaria Paliashvili). From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulat Okudzhava
Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (; ka, ბულატ ოკუჯავა; ; May 9, 1924 – June 12, 1997) was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter of Georgian-Armenian ancestry. He was one of the founders of the Soviet genre called " author song" (''авторская песня'', ''avtorskaya pesnya''), or "guitar song", and the author of about 200 songs, set to his own poetry. His songs are a mixture of Russian poetic and folk song traditions and the French ''chansonnier'' style represented by such contemporaries of Okudzhava as Georges Brassens. Though his songs were never overtly political, the freshness and independence of Okudzhava's artistic voice presented a subtle challenge to Soviet cultural authorities, who were thus hesitant for many years to give him official recognition. Life Bulat Okudzhava was born in Moscow on May 9, 1924, into a family of communists who had come from Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, to study and to work f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otar Iosseliani
Otar Iosseliani ( ka, ოთარ იოსელიანი ''otar ioseliani''; 2 February 1934 – 17 December 2023) was a Georgian film director, known for movies such as '' Falling Leaves'', '' Pastorale'' and '' Favorites of the Moon''. Iosseliani received a lifetime achievement honor – the at the Munich International Film Festival in 2011 for his career accomplishments. Early life He was born in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi, where he studied at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire and graduated in 1952 with a diploma in composition, conducting and piano. In 1953 he went to Moscow to study mathematics at the University of Moscow, but two years into his studies he transitioned to the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) where his teachers included many early Soviet filmmakers such as Alexander Dovzhenko, Lev Kuleshov, Mikhail Romm, Grigori Kozintsev and Mikhail Chiaureli. Film career While studying at the VGIK, Iosseliani also began work as an assist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
July Rain
''July Rain'' () is a 1967 Soviet drama film directed by Marlen Khutsiev. ''July Rain'' is story about the rather boring life of 28-year old Lena, her mother, her longterm boyfriend Volodya and their intellectual friends - and Zhenya, the stranger she has occasional telephone conversations with since he once lent her his jacket during a heavy rain. Plot Lena, a translator at a printing house, is engaged to Volodya, a promising scientist. Over several months, their lives unfold from a summer rainstorm to late autumn, marked by social gatherings and personal challenges. During a downpour, a passerby named Zhenya lends Lena his raincoat, leading to a series of missed opportunities for them to meet again. Meanwhile, Volodya struggles with self-doubt after his research is stolen by a professor, and Lena faces pressure from her mother to marry. The couple navigates shared experiences, such as a modern-style party and a countryside picnic, where discussions of betrayal and ambition deepen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Am Twenty
''I Am Twenty'' (, translit. ''Mne dvadtsat let'') is a 1965 drama film directed by Marlen Khutsiev. It is Khutsiev's most famous film and considered a landmark of 1960s Soviet cinema. The film was originally entitled ''Zastava Iliycha'' (known in English alternately as ''Ilyich's Gate'' or ''Lenin's Guard''), but it was heavily censored upon completion, trimmed to half its original length, retitled and withheld from release until 1965. A restored 3-hour version was released in 1989, and is sometimes referred to by the original title. The film follows the recently demobilized Sergei, a young man who returns to his Moscow neighborhood after two years of military service. Plot The film opens with a symbolic scene of three Red Guards from the time of the October Revolution walking down the street. Gradually, the timeline shifts, and the Red Guards are replaced by contemporary figures—a group of young people, and later, a recently discharged soldier. This soldier, Sergey Zhur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlen Khutsiev
Marlen Martynovich Khutsiev (4 October 192519 March 2019) was a Georgian-born Soviet and Russian filmmaker best known for his cult films from the 1960s, which include '' I Am Twenty'' and '' July Rain''. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1986. Biography Khutsiev's father, Martyn Levanovich Khutsishvili ( ka, მარტინ ლევანის ძე ხუციშვილი) (the family's original Georgian surname, Khutsishvili), was a lifelong Communist who was purged in 1937. His mother, Nina Mikhailovna Utenelishvili ( ka, ნინა მიხეილის ასული უტენელიშვილი) was an actress. Khutsiev studied film in the directing department at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), graduating in 1952. He worked as a director at the Odessa film studio from 1952 to 1958, and worked full-time as a director at Mosfilm from 1965 onward. Khutsiev's first feature film, '' Spring on Zarechnaya Street'' (1956), e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
