To know a country means to know its people. Use the information below to speak about some famous people of Russia

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), the greatest poet and writer.

- born in Moscow into a family belonging to the ‘cream’ of Moscow society

- received his early education at home

- at the age of eight composed his first poem

- published his first poem “Ruslan and Lyudmila” in 1820 and became famous

- created literary Russian, wrote a lot of poems

- had political views close to the “Decembrists”

- died after a duel

- buried in Svyatogorsk Monastery near his family estate Mikhaolovskoye

- the best known work is “Eugene Onegin” (1823-1831)

Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), a Russian composer.

- was born in a village near modern Izhevsk

- composed a lot of symphonies, created beautiful music for operas and ballets

- his most famous operas – “Eugene Onegin”, “Iolantha”, “The Queen of Spades”; his famous ballets – “Swan Lake”, “Sleeping Beauty”, “The Nutcracker”. 

- the Tchaikovsky House Museum in Klin was opened in 1894

Isaac Levitan (1860-1900), a Russian artist

- was born in August; had two sisters and a brother

- spent his childhood in the small village of Kibarty

- in 1873 began learning to paint

- had to earn his living after the death of his parents

- showed the poetic beauty of Russian nature in his paintings

- used the best traditions of Russian artists

- one of his famous works is “Autumn Day. Sokolniki Park”

- A. Chekhov called him “Russia’s best landscape painter”

Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), the first Russian cosmonaut

- was born in a village near Smolensk

- spent his childhood in a big family, had a sister and two brothers

- in 1951 finished a vocational school, then a school of aviation and an Airforce Academy in Moscow

- 12. 04.1961 made a space flight on board the spaceship “Vostok”

- made a tour around the Earth that lasted 1 hour 48 minutes

- was the first man on the Earth to fly into space

 

Литература

1. Wikipedia the free encyclopedia http;//wiki.org/

2. Luke Prodromou. Grammar and Vocabulary for First Certificate. Longman, 2001, 83c.

3. Lilia Raitskaya, Stuart Cochrane. Macmillan Guide to Economics. Macmillan, 2010, 109c.

4. O.V. Afanasyeva, I.V. Mikheeva English YII, Prosvescheniye, 2011, 3, 5, 8,14c.

5. Dictionary of Contemporary English. Longman, 2005.

 

 

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