Australian writer
Kristina Maria Ohlson (Swedish. Kristina Ohlsson (born March 2, 1979, Kristianstad) is a Swedish political scientist and writer. The author of novels about the work of law enforcement agencies in Sweden. Among her books are "Cinderella", "Daisies", "Hostage", "Glass House".
Biography.
Born on March 2, 1979. Kristina Ohlson is a political scientist by profession. She worked in the Counter-terrorism Department at the OSCE, and even earlier - as an analyst in the Security Police and the Foreign Ministry. She published her first novel in 2009. Ohlson's books have been translated into many European languages, she was awarded the Stabilo Prize, elected a member of the Swedish Academy of Detective, which twice nominated Ohlson for the title of best author. Swedish television is shooting a series based on the first three novels of a young writer.
Christina Schroeder (née Koehler, born August 3, 1977) is a German politician who served as Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Seniors, Women and Youth in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2009 to 2013. She was a member of Parliament from 2002 to 2017.
Russian actor.
Childhood and youth
The actress was born under the zodiac sign Aries on April 14, 1988 in the city of Korolev. Her real name is Kristina Myasnikova, and she took the surname Asmus from her grandfather, a German by nationality. Father - Igor Myasnikov, mother - Rada Myasnikova. Four children were brought up in the family, Asmus has sisters Karina, Olga and Ekaterina.
The Myasnikovs lived modestly at first in a communal apartment, then in a 2-room "Khrushchev". Remembering his childhood, the star says that sometimes there was only a jar of horseradish in their refrigerator, they had to endure and wait for their parents' salary.
As a child, Kristina Asmus' life was connected with gymnastics, where the girl reached the degree of candidate for master of sports. Her parents wanted to see her as an athlete, the girl herself dreamed of becoming an actress, and such a desire appeared after the series "Wild Angel" starring Natalia Oreiro.
And her sister Karina, who is 4 years younger than the actress, followed in the "sports footsteps" of Kristina. Today she is a master of sports of international class, works as a coach.
The family reacted with understanding to the daughter's desire. Already in her school years, she studied at a theater studio, where she played roles in the plays "Chalk" and "And the dawns are quiet here ...".
After graduation, Asmus entered the Moscow Art Theater Studio School for the course of Konstantin Raikin. Nikita Efremov, Pavel Priluchny, Ivan Makarevich, Aristarchus Venes, Karina Andolenko, Grisha Dobrygin and Anya Chipovskaya studied with her. In one interview, Kristina said that she got lost against their background and was expelled from the university.
The girl was upset and asked to give her a chance to become a free listener on the course, but Raikin advised her to work on herself to achieve success and did not take Asmus back. This conversation with Raikin divided Kristina's life into before and after.
The next 2 years of Asmus' biography were a time of constant searches and trials, the artist had to show character in order to overcome life difficulties. The girl got a job in 2 theaters, she even had to sell tickets in one of them, there was also an attempt to create her own agency for organizing holidays.
In 2008, she entered the M. S. Shchepkin Theater School (Boris Klyuev's course), which she graduated from in 2012. There, the actress immediately began to manifest herself and found herself in the leaders of the course. Currently, Kristina is playing at the Moscow Drama Theater named after M. N. Ermolova.
Biography
Kristina Orbakaite is a singer, theater and film actress. The first fame came to her as a child, when she starred in the film "Scarecrow". Now her filmography includes about three dozen films and musicals. Her repertoire includes over 150 compositions.
Kristina Orbakaite, by her example, proves the fallacy of the notorious reasoning about the children of geniuses, on whom nature supposedly rests. She became no less popular than her star mom, although she could live quietly, reaping the fruits of her labors. Kristina proved that she is talented and bright, successful and original. Thanks to her patience and incredible hard work, she has achieved everything she has now - popularity, the love of fans, the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.
Childhood and youth
Kristina Edmundovna Orbakaite was born in Moscow on May 25, 1971, according to the zodiac sign Gemini. From a young age, she is surrounded only by creative people. Mother is the Prima Donna of the Russian stage Alla Pugacheva. The father of the future star was Mikolas Edmundas Orbakas, a circus worker and director, Lithuanian by nationality. Kristina spent her childhood in the village of Shvantoyi near the Baltic Sea. When she was 4 years old, her parents separated, but at the same time her father continued to participate in her daughter's life.
In Moscow, Orbakaite entered a special lyceum with a focus on learning English. In addition, the girl constantly studied vocals and played the piano, and after the first trip to the Bolshoi Theater, she asked Alla Borisovna to give her to the ballet. The admissions committee noted that Kristina has a natural plasticity, but ballet did not captivate the teenager, and a year later she left the dance school.
The skills acquired in ballet school still came in handy. In her youth, Orbakaite was a member of the dance group of the Recital collective. Choreographic training and external data (height 173 cm, weight 54 kg) help the singer even now. Every time she enters the stage, there is always a moment in which Kristina gracefully moves to the beat of the music, accompanied by the band "Limita Extreme". The team was created by her in 1995 and at first called "Scarecrow".
The aspiring artist received her higher education on the course of Vladimir Andreev at the Russian Academy of Theater Arts, in parallel she played on the Small Stage of the Moscow Art Theater. For her work in the entreprise "Monday after the Miracle" Orbakaite was awarded the award for best actress.
Russian pair skater.
Viktoria Vitalevna Borzenkova (Russian: Victoria Vitalevna Borzenkova; born 25 December 1981) is a Russian former pair skater. Together with Andrey Chuvilyaev, she won the 2001 and 2003 Winter Universiade, as well as the 2004 Bofrost Hockey Cup.
Career
Borzenkova started skating at the age of five, and at the age of 16 she switched from singles to doubles, teaming up with Andrey Chuvilaev.
At the beginning of their partnership, they were coached by Lyudmila Koblova in Moscow.
They finished seventh at the 2002 European Championships and 15th at the 2002 World Championships. In April 2003, they moved to St. Petersburg and began working with Oksana Kazakova and Tamara Moskvina. The couple withdrew from the competition in 2006.
Borzenkova appeared on Dancing on Ice in 2008 paired with Tim Vincent. She trains the figure skating school "Happy Ice" in Moscow.
Soviet and Russian pianist, People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
Russian musician
Soviet and Russian pianist, People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
Biography
Victoria Postnikova is a talented Russian pianist, the second wife of Vladimir Spivakov, the widow of the famous composer and conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, the mother of violinist Alexander Rozhdestvensky.
Childhood and youth
Victoria devoted all her free time to music as a child, she lived by it. She was no longer interested in anything else, she was fascinated only by the piano. Victoria spent her entire childhood in Moscow.
Music
The pianist Postnikova was talked about in Europe after she became the winner of the prestigious Viana da Motta music Competition in Lisbon in 1968. Victoria then shared the championship with Azerbaijani musician Farhad Badalbeyli. In 1970, Postnikova's luck smiled again at the International Tchaikovsky Competition. Victoria was in third place among pianists.
Interestingly, Postnikova's future husband, Vladimir Spivakov, took second place at the same competition among violinists.
The reviews of a competent jury, awards and personal charm helped Victoria become a successful international-class pianist in the late sixties of the last century. In rare photos of that time, Postnikova is always surrounded by famous colleagues.
Natural data and filigree technique allowed Victoria to choose an interesting and complex repertoire for herself. Postnikova is a performer of piano works by Glinka and Tchaikovsky, Chopin and Janacek, Brahms and Richard Strauss, Bruckner and Sibelius.
The performance of romantic music most accurately reflects Victoria's talent. Thanks to Prokofiev's complex works, Postnikova can demonstrate excellent technique and artistic taste.
In the eighties, Victoria successfully performed Sergei Sergeevich's Symphony No. 5 accompanied by a Large Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky. In 2014, together with her husband, Postnikova was on tour in Tallinn.
Gymnast
Russian rhythmic gymnastics
Victoria Gorbatova (English: Victoria Gorbatova, June 19, 2002) is a Russian rhythmic gymnast. Lives in Dzerzhinsk, coached by Irina Kolobova.
Career
Gorbatova won the bronze medal of the junior national team at the 2014 sports festival in Trnava. She will become the senior in 2018, therefore, she will become an age candidate for a place in the Russian national gymnastics team at the 2018 World Championships.
Estonian high jumper
Viktoria Lex (born September 28, 1987) is an Estonian high jumper and national indoor champion 2006-2007.
She participated in the 2007 European Indoor Championships before reaching the final round.
Her personal best jump outdoors is 1.89 m, achieved in June 2007 by Tyuri and 1.91 indoors (this time it was a national record), achieved in February 2007 by Tallinn.
Figure skater
Swedish figure skater.
Victoria Helgesson (Swedish. Viktoria Helgesson; b. September 13, 1988 in Tibro, Sweden) is a Swedish figure skater competing in singles. Champion of Sweden from 2007 to 2012, and Scandinavia 2008-2010. He trains with his mother. Joshi's younger sister is also a figure skater, Swedish junior champion from 2007 to 2009.
As of April 2012, he is ranked 7th in the ranking of the International Skating Union (ISU).
As of February 15, 2015, she was ranked 15th in the ranking of the International Skating Union (ISU).
In April 2015 , she announced her retirement from sports
Biography
Victoria Evgenievna Butsayeva (nee Volchkova). She was born on July 30, 1982 in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg).
A Russian figure skater who competed in single skating. Four-time bronze medalist of the European Championship (1999-2002). Figure skating coach. Victoria Volchkova was born on July 30, 1982 in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg).
From an early age she was engaged in figure skating. She started in St. Petersburg in Alexey Mishin's group, where she worked with his assistant Galina Kashina (Mishin was not engaged in singles at that time). In 1995, she moved to Moscow, where Viktor Kudryavtsev became her coach. Under his leadership, Volchkova won bronze at the European Championships four times in a row - 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002 (the only woman). In addition, she took bronze three times and silver once at the Russian championships. Victoria has two bronze medals at the World Junior Championships.
She participated in the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City and took 9th place there. In June 2002, she left to train in Chicago (USA) with Oleg Vasiliev. Under the leadership of Vasiliev, Victoria won the Moscow stage of the Grand Prix, sensationally beating Sasha Cohen and Irina Slutskaya on it, qualified for the finals of the series, where she took third place. But in the summer of 2003, the athlete returned to Moscow, claiming that Tatiana Totmyanina and Maxim Marinin, who did not want to share the coach's time and attention with her, "survived" from Vasiliev's group. With the new coach Elena Tchaikovsky, Victoria Volchkova started the season badly, took only 6th place at the Russian Championship.
Then the athlete began to pursue injuries and illnesses, and she could not find a common language with Tchaikovsky. Already in January 2004, Volchkova returned to Kudryavtsev's group, Marina Kudryavtseva began working with her. Thanks to the second place at the 2006 Russian Championship, she was included in the Russian Olympic team for the Turin Olympics, but before she left for the competition, she was forced to withdraw from participation due to a serious injury. After this injury and the subsequent operation to remove the meniscus, Victoria recovered for a long time, tried to return to the sport, but after taking 5th place at the 2007 Russian Championship, she decided to end her career.
After finishing her sports career, she began working with Viktor Kudryavtsev as a coach at the Moskvich skating rink. She worked with such athletes as Arina Martynova, Sergey Dobrin. After marriage, she took the surname of her spouse - Burtseva. He heads the figure skating department of the Sports School of the Olympic Reserve "Moskvich".
Sofya Biryukova, Polina Korobeynikova, Nikita Mikhailov, Alexey Erokhov and others train in Victoria Burtseva's group. In 2019-2020, a number of figure skaters who had previously trained with Eteri Tutberidze joined Victoria Burtseva's group.
Moldovan-Romanian singer, producer and DJ.
Life and career
Victoria Korneva was born in Cahul, in the USSR. In 2000, she moved to Timisoara, Romania and continued her studies there. She performed in various clubs in Bucharest. She appeared as a guest on various Romanian radio stations. In 2010, Vika became a full citizen of Romania. Currently he works as a disc jockey for Radio 21 Romania and VibeFM ru en.
Collaborated with such artists as, ATB, Tomcraft, Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso, etc. She is best known for her international hit "Stereo Love", made together with Romanian producer Edward Maia. On September 29, 2012, Vicky's debut solo single, "Memories", was released.
In March 2012, she appeared on the cover of the Romanian version of Playboy magazine.
Biography
Masha Bruskina was born in Minsk, in a Jewish family. She lived in Minsk with her mother, a senior commodity expert of the Book Trade Department of the State Publishing House of the BSSR. She studied well, read a lot, was distinguished by an active civic position. She was a pioneer leader and a member of the Komsomol committee of the school. In the newspaper "Pioneer of Belarus" dated December 18 (8?), 1938, a photo of Masha was placed with the caption: "Masha Bruskina is a student of the 8th grade of the 28th school in Minsk. She has only good and excellent grades in all subjects." In June 1941, Maria Bruskina graduated from Minsk Secondary School No. 28.
On June 28, Wehrmacht units entered the city, the period of occupation of Minsk began. The active life position of M. Bruskina did not allow her to do nothing. At first she went to the concentration camp "Drozdy", carried food and water to the prisoners. Then she got a job as a nurse in a hospital-camp for Soviet prisoners of war, located on the territory of the Belarusian Polytechnic Institute, and began to cooperate with an underground group for the rescue of commanders and political workers of the Red Army (who were in the hospital), headed by a worker of the Minsk Wagon Repair Plant. Myasnikova K. I. A coward (Coward) and a cultural worker of the 3rd city hospital O. F. Shcherbatsevich. Through friends of M. Bruskina, she obtained and brought medicines, bandages, civilian clothes, various documents to the hospital for prisoners. She managed to get and hand over to the hospital a camera (for failure to deliver and storage of which was supposed to be shot). With the help of a camera, documents were produced with which prisoners of war were supplied. In addition, Masha distributed Information Bureau reports on the situation on the fronts.
Biography
Maria Drokova was born on October 26, 1989 in Tambov.
She graduated from high school with a gold medal. She studied at the Faculty of Public Administration of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Political Analysis.
Since September 2005, she has been a member of Nashi. She rose to the status of "federal commissioner".
Since June 2006, she has been involved in Vyacheslav Surkov's youth ideological group. Since March 2007 - Head of the Moscow headquarters of the movement.
Drokova Maria Alexandrovna
While working at Nashi, she was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, I degree.
In parallel, she worked as an assistant to a State Duma deputy from the LDPR and her fellow countryman, Sergei Abeltsev.
In 2008, she was engaged in the promotion of an Internet channel Russia.ru .
In 2009, Maria Drokova held a PR campaign to throw boots and boots at American politicians.
"Bush left, and the shoe of Iraqi journalist Muntazer Al-Zeidi flew after him. He didn't hit. Our shoes will fly at those Bush's henchmen who made their political capital on pouring mud on Russia, inciting anti-Russian sentiments and ridiculous provocations against our country. And we will get there," Maria Drokova, the commissioner of the Nashists, said at the time.
It should be noted that Drokova threw her shoes at photographs of George Bush, Mikhail Saakashvili, Viktor Yushchenko, as well as portraits of Estonian President Andrus Ansip and Boris Nemtsov.
Drokova Maria Alexandrovna
After leaving Nashi, Drokova stated that she went into business, joining the management of Acronis, and later engaged in international PR.
She worked as Vice President of Communications at Acronis and PR Director of the Runa Capital venture fund.
Drokova also consulted on projects such as Gettaxi, Lingualeo, Webinar, Bookmate and Pyrus.
Currently, Maria Drokova lives in San Francisco, USA.
Early life
Early life
Introduction to tennis
Introduction to tennis
Start of professional training
Start of professional training
Childhood and youth
Anastasia Aleksandrovna Mironova was born on August 3, 1994 in the village of Trubnikov Bor, Leningrad region. The girl grew up in a poor family and knew from childhood that she was responsible for her own fate.When Nastya was 6, her parents divorced. Mironova stayed with her mother, who soon remarried and gave birth to a son. So Anastasia had a younger brother and stepfather, who showed the girl what can be achieved with hard work. Even then, she aspired to more than life in a small village, and after graduation decided to move to St. Petersburg.
At first it was difficult for Mironova, she studied at the correspondence department of the University of Economics, where she studied accounting, and worked in the office, earning 25 thousand rubles a month. The parents did not have the opportunity to help their daughter, so she was forced to huddle in a small room of a communal apartment, which she rented with a friend.
During this difficult period, Nastya became interested in fitness. Although she was not athletic during her school years, the girl wanted to radically change her life and transform herself. In parallel, the girl kept a blog on Instagram, where she shared her successes with subscribers.
Soon Anastasia realized that she wanted to connect her life with coaching. Then she took the documents from the university and entered the Ben Vader College. After finishing the course, the celebrity decided to open her first studio and announced it on the Instagram page.
Biography
Anastasia Zavorotnyuk (according to her passport, from 1999 to 2017 she bore the surname of her husband Stryukov) was born on April 3, 1971 in Astrakhan. Mother - People's Artist of Russia Valentina Borisovna Zavorotnyuk, worked in the Astrakhan Youth Theater. Father - Yuri Andreevich Zavorotnyuk (09.01.1945 - 01.10.2014), TV director, member of the Academy of Russian Television. The elder brother Svyatoslav worked as a director of editing in Astrakhan, died of peritonitis at the age of 52.
Since early childhood, Anastasia decided to play in the theater and stubbornly aspired to her dream: in her free time she studied music and dance, participated in the dance ensemble "Lotus".
Graduated from the children's music School No. 1 in Astrakhan.
In 1988-1989, she studied at the Faculty of History of the Astrakhan State Pedagogical Institute, but dropped out and entered the Moscow Art Theater Studio School (the course of Avangard Nikolaevich Leontiev). In 1991, the first film with her participation was released — "Masha" by Tamara Pavlyuchenko based on the novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov).
In 1993, Zavorotnyuk, after graduating from the Moscow Art Theater School, became an actress of the studio theater under the direction of Oleg Tabakov and for ten years of work in the theater, she played in 29 performances.
In the same 1993, in addition to working in the theater, Zavorotnyuk voiced the character Christopher Robin from the animated series "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh", and also played the role of a priest's daughter in Vladimir Lyubomudrov's drama "The Heir", however, due to financial problems, the film was released only in 2002, remaining almost unnoticed.
The actress was widely known for the series "My Beautiful Nanny", in which she got into by pure chance: she just got a call and was offered a role in a series that she had no idea about. The characteristic Ukrainian accent was borrowed from her colleague in the theater — Olga Blok-Mirimskaya.
In 2007, director Georgy Jungwald-Khilkevich approved Anastasia Zavorotnyuk for the role of d'Artagnan's daughter Jacqueline in his film "The Return of the Musketeers, or the Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin", but the actress refused this project, ostensibly so as not to offend Elizabeth Boyarskaya, who was originally offered this role.
In 2005, Anastasia Zavorotnyuk replaced Tina Kandelaki as the host of the program "Good Songs" on the channel "STS". She led the programs "Kitchen for dummies", "Dancing with the Stars", "Dancing on Ice". The presenter of the "Ice Age" on Channel One together with Marat Basharov (2008), Irina Slutskaya (2009) and Peter Chernyshev (2014). Co-host of Dmitry Dibrov in the TV show "Marriage Games" (Channel One, 2010), co-host of Marat Basharov in the TV show "Ice and Flame" (Channel One, 2010). Anastasia was repeatedly invited as a member of the jury of the television show "Narodnaya Zvezda" on "TRK Ukraine", the third season of the magic show "Surprise me" on "TV-3", as well as the theater award "Golden Leaf". Participated in the first season of the project "Two Stars" paired with Mikhail Boyarsky, reached the final, took 2nd place.
Motor rally St. Petersburg - Kiev. twothousandten
On September 30, 2012, Anastasia Zavorotnyuk had a humorous talk show of the same name on Channel One - Nastya. On December 18, 2012, the channel decided to close the program due to low ratings.
In 2013 and 2014, she was the host of the show "Two Stars".
From February to December 2016, together with her husband Peter Chernyshev, she hosted the morning TV channel "New Morning" on NTV.
On December 31, 2016, she hosted the New Year's show together with Dmitry Kolchin "All Stars in the New Year" on NTV. On December 31, 2016, she was one of the hosts of the show "New Year's Billion" on the same TV channel.
During the presidential elections of 2018, Zavorotnyuk joined the Putin Team movement, which supported Vladimir Putin.
Since mid-August 2019, she has stopped participating in theatrical productions. On October 15, 2019, the actress' inner circle announced that Zavorotnyuk was undergoing treatment.
On May 14, 2020, it became known that Anastasia Zavorotnyuk had a malignant neoplasm of the brain. Alexander Makarov, Director of the V. A. Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told about this during a meeting on the development of genetic technologies with the President of Russia.