|
|
Persons
/
Gorky Maxim (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov)
hidden
|
Shishkov V.Y. (1873-1945), writer
SHISHKOV Vyacheslav Yakovlevich (1873-1945), writer. In 1891 he graduated from Vyshny Volochek technical school. He started to publish his works from 1908, although he personally considered his literary debut to have occurred in 1912
|
|
|
|
|
hidden
|
Simonov N.K., (1901-1973), actor
SIMONOV Nikolay Konstantinovich (1901-1973, Leningrad), actor, People's Artist of the USSR (1950), Hero of Socialist Labor (1971). Studied at the Industrial School of Art in Samara (1918-20). Lived in Petrograd (Leningrad) from 1921
|
|
|
|
|
hidden
|
Slonimsky M.L. (1897-1972), writer
SLONIMSKY Mikhail Leonidovich (1897, St. Petersburg - 1972, Leningrad), writer. He graduated from the Fourth Classic (Larinskaya) Gymnasium (15 Sixth Line of Vasilievsky Island), and went to the front line as a volunteer in 1915
|
|
|
|
|
hidden
|
Soviet Writer, the Leningrad Department of the Publishing House
SOVIET WRITER, the Leningrad Department of the publishing house (it was housed in the House of Books, from the 1980s it was situated on 36 Liteiny Avenue), was established in 1934
|
|
|
|
|
hidden
|
Stachek Square
STACHEK SQUARE, known as Narvskaya Square until 1923, at the intersection of Stachek Avenue, Narvsky Avenue and Staro-Petergofsky Avenue. The square assumed the present-day name in commemoration of the strike movement (the name of the square
|
|
|
|
|
hidden
|
Strzhelchik V.I., (1921-1995), actor
STRZHELCHIK Vladislav Ignatievich (1921, Petrograd - 1995, St. Petersburg), actor, People"s Artist of the USSR (1974), Hero of Socialist Labour (1988). In 1938-47, he studied at the school-studio of the Bolshoy Drama Theatre under B.A
|
|
|
|
|
hidden
|
Surf, the Publishing House, 1913, 1922
SURF, 1) the legal Bolshevik publishing house. It was established in 1913 under the management of M. S. Olminsky, A. I. Ulyanov-Elizarov, M. A. Savelyev, F. I. Drabkin et al. It was situated at 9 Izmaylovsky Avenue
|
|
|
|
|
hidden
|
Time, publishing house, 1922-1934
TIME, a co-operative publishing house established in 1922 (registered in January 1923). The publishing house was set up by publisher and editor I.F. Wolfson, who was also its first president, the editor-in-chief was literary critic G.P
|
|
|
|
|
hidden
|
Tovstonogov Bolshoy Drama Theatre
TOVSTONOGOV BOLSHOY DRAMA THEATRE (BDT), academic theater located at 65 Fontanka Embankment, founded in 1919 by the joint effort of A.A. Blok (director), M. Gorky (in 1932-92 bore his name) and M.F
|
|
|
|
|
hidden
|
Vienna Restaurant
VIENNA restaurant opened in the 1870s by entrepreneur F.I. Rotin in his house at the corner of 8 Gorokhovaya Street and 13 Malaya Morskaya Street (rebuilt in 1875-77, architect I.P. Maas)
|
|
|
|
|
hidden
|
Volodin A.M. (1919-2001), playwright
VOLODIN (real surname Lifshitz) Alexander Moiseevich (1919-2001, St. Petersburg), playright, poet, script and prose writer. Took part in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45
|
|
|
|
|
hidden
|
Vosstaniya Street
VOSSTANIYA STREET known as Znamenskaya (Holy Sign) Street until 1923, named after the Holy Sign Church. The street runs between Nevsky Prospect and Kirochnaya Street. The present-day name is in memory of the February Revolution of 1917
|
|
|
|
|
hidden
|
World of Literature, publishing house, 1918-1924
WORLD OF LITERATURE, a publishing house established in 1918 by M. Gorky, A.N. Tikhonov and I.P. Ladyzhnikov attached to the People's Comissariat for Education of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
|
|
|
|
|
hidden
|
Yavorskaya L.B. (1871-1921), actress
YAVORSKAYA (nee von Guebbenet, Princess Baryatinskaya by marriage) Lidia Borisovna (1871-1921), actress. She completed the Drama Courses at the Theatre School in St. Petersburg in 1893 and studied under E. Gaux in Paris
|
|
|
|
|
hidden
|
Zamyatin E.I. (1884-1937), writer
ZAMYATIN Evgeny Ivanovich (1884-1937) prose writer, playwright, literary critic. In 1902 entered the Ship-Building Faculty of the Polytechnical Institute; his studies were interrupted by an arrest and exile for revolutionary activities
|
|
|
|
|
hidden
|
Zhizn (Life), journal
ZHIZN (Life), social-political, literary and scientific journal, published in St. Petersburg from January 1897 to April 1901 (until April 1899 it appeared three times a month, subsequently monthly), at various times edited and published by S. V
|
|
|
|
|
hidden
|
Zvezda (The Star), journal
ZVEZDA (The Star) (20 Mokhovaya Street), a monthly literary and socio-political independent journal. It was founded in 1924, with I. M. Maysky as its first editor
|
|
|
|
|
|
hidden
|
|
hidden
|
|
hidden
|
|
hidden
|
|
hidden
|
|
hidden
|
|
hidden
|
|
hidden
|
|
hidden
|
|
hidden
|
|
hidden
|
|
hidden
|
|
hidden
|
|
