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Valentina Ivashova
Valentina Semyonovna Ivashova (, ; 1915–1991) was a Soviet film actress.Sadoul & Morris p.6 She was sometimes credited as Vera Ivashova. Selected filmography * '' The Nightingale'' (1936) * '' Young Pushkin'' (1937) * ''Alexander Nevsky'' (1938) * ''Rainbow'' (1944) * '' Sorochinskaya Yarmarka'' (1948) Family Valentina Ivashova was married to Soviet film director Nikolai Ekk Nikolai Vladimirovich Ekk (; 14 June 1902 – 14 July 1976) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. "Ekk" was in fact a pseudonym; his real surname was Ivakin ().Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978) // 3rd edition. Moscow .... References Bibliography * Georges Sadoul & Peter Morris. ''Dictionary of Films''. University of California Press, 1972. External links * 1915 births 1991 deaths Soviet film actresses Ukrainian film actresses Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni {{USSR-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughly one-sixth of the world's landmass, making it the list of largest empires, third-largest empire in history, behind only the British Empire, British and Mongol Empire, Mongol empires. It also Russian colonization of North America, colonized Alaska between 1799 and 1867. The empire's 1897 census, the only one it conducted, found a population of 125.6 million with considerable ethnic, linguistic, religious, and socioeconomic diversity. From the 10th to 17th centuries, the Russians had been ruled by a noble class known as the boyars, above whom was the tsar, an absolute monarch. The groundwork of the Russian Empire was laid by Ivan III (), who greatly expanded his domain, established a centralized Russian national state, and secured inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiev
Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2,952,301, making Kyiv the List of European cities by population within city limits, seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyiv is an important industrial, scientific, educational, and cultural center. It is home to many High tech, high-tech industries, higher education institutions, and historical landmarks. The city has an extensive system of Transport in Kyiv, public transport and infrastructure, including the Kyiv Metro. The city's name is said to derive from the name of Kyi, one of its four legendary founders. During History of Kyiv, its history, Kyiv, one of the oldest cities in Eastern Europe, passed through several stages of prominence and obscurity. The city probably existed as a commercial center as early as the 5th century. A Slav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Actress
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' ( acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of acting pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role", which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nightingale (1936 Film)
''The Nightingale'' () is a 1936 Soviet drama film directed by Nikolai Ekk and starring Valentina Ivashova, Z. Kashkarova and Nikolai Ekk. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ivan Stepanov. It is the first Soviet feature film shot in color. Plot The events in the film take place in pre-revolutionary Russia. A riot of workers of a large porcelain factory is taking place. After the burning of one of the shops, Grunya's father dies in the fire. The owner of the factory caused the fire in order to obtain a fine from the workers. Grunya urges the workers to fight, but is injured, yet she still urges the people not to give up. Cast * Valentina Ivashova as Grunya Kornakova * Z. Kashkarova as Grunya's Mother * Nikolai Ekk as Uncle Andrei * A. Kosanov as Foreman * Ivan Lavrov as Grunya's Father * Mikhail Doronin as M. Novostalano * Vladimir Batalov as N. Luznetsov * G. Yegorova as His Wife * M. Skavronskaya * Yelena Maksimova * Vera Lopatina * A.I. Vasi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Pushkin
''Young Pushkin'' is a 1937 Soviet biopic film directed by Abram Naroditsky. It portrays the youth of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Cast * Valentin Litovsky as Alexander Pushkin * L. Mazin as Sergey Komovsky * Yan Paramonov as Wilhelm Küchelbecker * Alexander Muruzin as Ivan Pushchin * Konstantin Smirnov as Mikhail Yakovlev * Oleg Lipkin as Anton Delvig * Cheslav Sushkevich as Alexander Gorchakov * Vladimir Gardin as Mayer, the tutor * Valentina Ivashova as Natasha * Nina Shaternikova as Princess * Alexander Mgebrov as Gavrila Derzhavin, the poet * Ippolit Novskiy as Count Razumovsky, the Minister of Education * Alexander Gromov as Foma * Valentin Yantsat as Alexander Petrovich Kunitsyn, Professor of Law * Emil Gal as De-Boudrie * Georgy Kranert as Alexander I of Russia * Sergey Karnovich-Valois as Aleksey Arakcheyev Count Alexey Andreyevich Arakcheyev or Arakcheev (; b. in Garusovo – d. in Gruzino) was an Imperial Russian general and stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Nevsky (film)
''Alexander Nevsky'' () is a 1938 Soviet historical drama film directed by Sergei Eisenstein. It depicts the attempted invasion of Novgorod in the 13th century by the Teutonic Knights of the Holy Roman Empire and their defeat by Prince Alexander, known popularly as Alexander Nevsky (1220–1263). Eisenstein made the film in association with Dmitri Vasilyev and with a script co-written with Pyotr Pavlenko; they were assigned to ensure that Eisenstein did not stray into " formalism" and to facilitate shooting on a reasonable timetable. It was produced by Goskino via the Mosfilm production unit, with Nikolai Cherkasov in the title role and a musical score by Sergei Prokofiev. ''Alexander Nevsky'' was the first and most popular of Eisenstein's three sound films. Eisenstein, Pavlenko, Cherkasov and Abrikosov were awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941 for the film. In 1978, the film was included in the world's 100 best motion pictures according to an opinion poll conducted by the It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainbow (1944 Film)
''Rainbow'' (, ), is a 1944 Soviet World War II film directed by Mark Donskoy and written by Wanda Wasilewska based on her novel, ''Tęcza''. The film depicts life in a German-occupied village in Ukraine from the viewpoint of the terrorized villagers. Cast * Elena Tyapkina as Feodosya * Hans Klering as Captain Kurt Werner * Nina Alisova as Pusya * Natalya Uzhviy as Olena Kostyuk * Anna Lisyanskaya as Malyuchikha * Nikolai Bratersky as Petr Gaplik, collaborator mayor * Vitya Vinogradov as Mishka Malyuchik * Anton Dunaysky as ''Grandfather'' Evdokim Okhabko * Vera Ivashova as Olga, ''Pusya's sister'' * Vladimir Chobur as Lt. Kravchenko Plot The German conquerors are above nothing, not even the slaughter of small children, to break the spirit of their Soviet captives. Suffering more than most is Olena (Nataliya Uzhviy), a Soviet partisan who returns to the village to bear her child, only to endure the cruelest of arbitrary tortures at the hands of the Nazis. Eventua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sorochinskaya Yarmarka
Sorochinsky (masculine), Sorochinskaya (feminine), or Sorochinskoye (neuter) may refer to: * Sorochinsky District, a district of Orenburg Oblast, Russia * Sorochinsky Urban Okrug, a municipal formation in Orenburg Oblast, Russia {{Geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Ekk
Nikolai Vladimirovich Ekk (; 14 June 1902 – 14 July 1976) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. "Ekk" was in fact a pseudonym; his real surname was Ivakin ().Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978) // 3rd edition. Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia Born in Riga, he studied acting and directing in the theater of Vsevolod Meyerhold. He directed six feature films between 1929 and 1967. Among them was the first Soviet sound film ''Road to Life (1931 film), Road to Life'' and the first Soviet color motion picture film ''The Nightingale (1936 film), The Nightingale''. Filmography * ''How Should and How Shouldn't (Как надо и как не надо)'' (1929) * ''Road to Life (1931 film), Road to Life (Путёвка в жизнь)'' (1931) * ''The Nightingale (1936 film), The Nightingale (Груня Корнакова)'' (1936) * ''The Fair of Sorochyntsi (Сорочинская ярмарка)'' (1938) * ''When the Snow Is Falling... (Когда падает с� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 Births
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January *January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 ** WWI: British Royal Navy battleship HMS Formidable (1898), HMS ''Formidable'' is sunk off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by an Imperial German Navy U-boat, with the loss of 547 crew. **WWI: Battle of Broken Hill: A train ambush near Broken Hill, Australia, is carried out by two men (claiming to be in support of the Ottoman Empire) who are killed, together with four civilians. * January 5 – Joseph E. Carberry sets an altitude record of , carrying Capt. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois as a passenger, in a fixed-wing aircraft. * January 12 ** The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote. ** ''A Fool There Was (1915 film), A Fool There Was'' premières in the United States, starring Theda Bara as a '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
