Tag: Moscow

Michail Afanassjewitsch Bulgakow

Michail Afanassjewitsch Bulgakow

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаи́л Афана́сьевич Булга́ков, scientific transliteration: Mikhail Afanas'evič Bulgakov; May 3, 1891 in Kiev, Russian Empire – March 10, 1940 in Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Russian and Soviet writer. He is considered one of the great satirists of Russian literature. One of his major works is the novel The Master and Margarita, which was published posthumously in 1966 after heavy censorship. The excerpts were distributed Read more [...]
Wassili Pawlowitsch Aksjonow

Wassili Pawlowitsch Aksjonow

Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov (Russian: Василий Павлович Аксёнов, scientific transliteration: Vasilij Pavlovič Aksënov, born August 20, 1932 in Kazan; died July 6, 2009 in Moscow) was a Russian writer. He began his career in the Soviet Union and later had to emigrate to the United States. Wassili Aksjonow (left) with Viktor Nekrasov (in front of the equestrian statue of Joan of Arc, Place du Martroi, Orléans, 1983) From 1956 to 1960, he worked as a doctor, but had Read more [...]
Friedrich Joseph Laurentius Haass

Friedrich Joseph Laurentius Haass

Dr. Friedrich Joseph Haass (Russian: Фёдор Петрович Гааз, Fyodor Petrovich Gaaz; 10 August 1780 – 28 August [O.S. 16 August] 1853) was the "holy doctor of Moscow".[1][2] Born in Bad Münstereifel, as a member of Moscow's governmental prison committee, he spent 25 years until the end of his life to humanize the penal system.[1] During the last nine years before his death, he spent all of his assets to run a hospital for homeless people. He died in Moscow. Twenty Read more [...]
Anastasia Vasilyeva

Anastasia Vasilyeva

Anastasia publishes defects of the health system regarding the pandemy and becomes prosecuted. Here you see her playing the piano when she is being arrested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkymNP50heg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsTrZFsABAs web wikipedia ESwikipedia EN youtube - vimeo facebook - twitter - instagram work Read more [...]