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Lupanova Elizaveta Nikolaevna – artist of figurine painting

Lupanova Elizaveta Nikolaevna artist.

Lupanova Elizaveta Nikolaevna artist.

Lupanova Elizaveta Nikolaevna (1910-1973) – artist of figurine painting. Leningrad Porcelain Factory.

She was born in the town of Detskoye Selo (now Pushkin, formerly Tsarskoye Selo). Having quite good drawing abilities, she already knew from her school years in which direction she would receive professional education. In the late 1920s, she entered the ceramics department of the Leningrad Art and Industrial College. After receiving her diploma in 1931, she began her creative path as an artist in the Izobretatel artel. In 1932, she changed her place of work and for two years improved her artistic skills in the Household Commune of the Theater of Working Youth (“TRAM”). In 1937, fate linked Lupanova with the legendary Leningrad Porcelain Factory (LPF), where she painted porcelain products before the Great Patriotic War.

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Ballerinas of Elena Aleksandrovna Yanson-Manizer

Sculptor Elena Aleksandrovna Yanson Manizer.

Sculptor Elena Aleksandrovna Yanson Manizer.

The cycle of works by the remarkable sculptor Elena Aleksandrovna Yanson-Manizer (1890-1971), dedicated to Soviet ballet, is evidence of the highest cultural level of both Soviet ballet and Soviet sculpture. Why did she become such a sculptor?

It’s very simple: she studied with the remarkable, highly professional sculptor M.G.Manizer, who, in turn, received a good academic education at the end of the existence of the Imperial Academy of Arts.

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Nikolai Karachentsov

Actor Nikolai Karachentsov

Actor Nikolai Karachentsov

Nikolai Karachentsov worked for almost 40 years at Lenkom (now the Moscow State Theater Lenkom Mark Zakharov). World fame brought him the role of Count Rezanov in the rock opera Juno and Avos. Films with the participation of Karachentsov were popular among domestic viewers: “The Elder Son”, “The Adventures of Electronics”, “The Man from the Capuchin Boulevard”. And the actor also learned to play the guitar with Vladimir Vysotsky and played tennis with Boris Yeltsin.

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Yuri Petrovich Kugach

Yuri Petrovich Kugach

Yuri Petrovich Kugach

Yuri Petrovich Kugach was born in 1917 in Suzdal.

In 1936 he graduated from the Moscow Fine Art School in memory of 1905. He studied under N. P. Krymov and K. F. Morozov. In 1942 he graduated from the Moscow State Art Institute, in the same place in 1945 postgraduate studies with S. V. Gerasimov, N. K. Maksimov, I. E. Grabar.

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Natasha Koroleva Soviet, Ukrainian and Russian pop singer

Natasha Koroleva

Natasha Koroleva

Natasha Koroleva biography

In 1990, the singer toured the United States with the children’s rock opera Peace Child. In the same year, Natalia moved to Moscow, where she began her creative collaboration with the composer Igor Nikolaev: the very first song of Nikolaev “Yellow Tulips” brought her real fame and success. It was Nikolaev who suggested that Natasha take the name of the Queen.

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Tatyana Mikhalkova

Tatyana Mikhalkova

Tatyana Mikhalkova

Biography of Tatyana Mikhalkova

Tatyana Evgenievna Mikhalkova, the wife of the famous director Nikita Sergeevich, is a recognized public figure. She heads the Russian Silhouette Charitable Foundation, the organization of which was to support national fashion designers. Tatyana Mikhalkova is engaged in the preparation and implementation of a large-scale project “New Russia – XXI century”, issues of providing young fashion designers with the opportunity to interns in the legendary foreign high fashion houses – “Yves Saint Laurent”, “Lecoane-Eman”, as well as in domestic enterprises working in the field fashion industry. She has repeatedly emphasized that fashion is her profession and life.

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