Russian poet, radio and TV presenter Andrei Dementyev died on June 26 at the age of 89. The writer died in a Moscow hospital, where he was hospitalized after feeling worse, writes Lenta.ru. According to the poet's wife Anna Pugach, Dementyev died of complications after a cold, writes RIA Novosti. "90 ...

79 years since the birth of Vladimir Vysotsky. On January 25, 1938, a Soviet actor, poet and bard was born. For 16 years he was an actor of the Taganka Theater, where he performed more than 20 roles, including the role of Hamlet, which made him famous. Besides,…

The well-known leader of the human rights movement in the USSR, poet, philosopher, mathematician, son of Sergei Yesenin, Alexander Yesenin-Volpin, died on Wednesday in the United States at the age of 92, his friends said on Wednesday. Yesenin-Volpin was born on May 12, 1924 in Leningrad. His father, Sergei Yesenin, ...

In the Russian city of Orenburg, the house where the famous Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko was during exile was destroyed, Ukraine turned to UNESCO for help. Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Vyacheslav Kirilenko announced this at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, writes Ukraine Today. “In the city of Orenburg, Russian Federation,...

  The great Soviet and Russian filmmaker Eldar Ryazanov died in a hospital in Moscow at the age of 88. Eldar Ryazanov has been in the hospital for the last week. When the director's condition worsened, doctors hooked him up to a ventilator. The state of the medical filmmaker ...

Patricia Thompson, the only daughter of the Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), living in New York, wants to relearn the Russian language and obtain Russian citizenship. “I spoke Russian until I was five years old. Of course, even now I remember some words that I heard as a child, “yes”, “no”, “thank you”, “please”...