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Tatiana Leskova
Tatiana Yourievna Medem Leskov (Russian: Лескова, Татьяна Юрьевна; born 6 December 1922) is a French-born Brazilian Ballet dancer, ballerina and choreographer of Russian origin. Early life and education Leskova was born in Paris, France on 6 December 1922. She was the great-granddaughter of Russian writer Nikolai Leskov. Her parents Yuri and Elena were descendant of the Russian imperial family, Russian imperial aristocracy. They fled Russia after the Russian Revolution, 1917 revolution. In 1922 the couple moved from Venice to Paris where they soon had a daughter. Her father worked as a translator and her mother got a job as a model in Elsa Schiaparelli's fashion house. Later, her parents got divorced. Tatiana studied at Princess Olga Paley, Princess Paley's School for girls in Quincy-sous-Sénart. At the age of nine she lost her mother who died from tuberculosis. Her father decided that the young girl would begin to study ballet. In 1932 she was introduced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Leskov
Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (; – ) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, and held in high esteem by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others, Leskov is credited with creating a comprehensive picture of contemporary Russian society using mostly short literary forms. His major works include ''Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (novella), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk'' (1865), which was later made into an Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (opera), opera by Dmitri Shostakovich, Shostakovich); ''The Cathedral Folk'' (1872); ''The Enchanted Wanderer'' (1873); and "The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea" (1881). Leskov received his formal education at the Oryol Lyceum#Russia, Lyceum. In 1847 Leskov joined the Oryol criminal court office, later transferring to Kiev, where he worked as a clerk, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
