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Bunin, Ivan b. October 22, 1870 d. November 8, 1953
Author. He won the 1933 Nobel Prize for Literature, the first Russian to receive the award. Conservative in style, his fiction has a closer kinship to the 19th Century Russian masters (especially that of his friend Anton Chekhov) than to the modernist experiments of his own period. He is best known for his tale "The Gentleman from San Francisco" (1914), about a businessman who sacrifices everything for material success and is then unable to enjoy it. His other works include the novels "The...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Cimetière de Sainte Genevieve Des Bois, Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, Departement de l'Essonne, Ile-de-France, France
Gippius, Zinaida b. November 20, 1869 d. September 9, 1945
Author. Last name also spelled Hippius. The wife of writer Dmitri Merezhkovsky, she forged her own reputation as a prominent member of the Russian Symbolists. The principal subject of her fiction and poetry was the duality of nature, occasionally expressed in terms of gender-reversal and in a hothouse style influenced by Dostoyevsky. Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius was born in Belev, Tula Province, Russia. Largely self-educated, she was already a published poet when she entered the Kiev...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Cimetière de Sainte Genevieve Des Bois, Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, Departement de l'Essonne, Ile-de-France, France
Plot: Plan II, Grave 440
Kschessinska, Mathilde b. September 1, 1872 d. December 6, 1971
Dancer. Mathilde Kschessinska (Kschessinskaya) was born in Ligova, Russia, in 1872. She studied at the St Petersburg Imperial Ballet School with Ivanov, Johansson and Cecchetti. Graduated into the Mariinsky Theatre in 1890. Prima Ballerina Assoluta in 1895. She was a dancer of brilliant technique, dramatic gifts and great personal charm and beauty. She had close links with the Imperial family and later she married the Grand Duke Andrei, nephew of Tsar Nikolai II. She was the first Russian...[Read More] (Bio by: Medora)
Cimetière de Sainte Genevieve Des Bois, Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, Departement de l'Essonne, Ile-de-France, France
Lifar, Serge b. April 2, 1904 d. December 15, 1986
French-Russian choreographer and dancer. Director of dance at Paris Oprea Ballet.
Cause of death: Cancer
Cimetière de Sainte Genevieve Des Bois, Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, Departement de l'Essonne, Ile-de-France, France
Merezhkovsky, Dmitri b. August 14, 1865 d. December 9, 1941
Author, Critic. A leader of the Russian Symbolists. Deeply influenced by religious mysticism, his writings were concerned with the duality of flesh and spirit in human history. Merezhkovsky's major work is "Christ and Antichrist", a trilogy of historical novels comprising the volumes "The Death of the Gods" (1896), "Leonardo Da Vinci" (1901), and "Peter and Alexei" (1905). He also used antithetic analysis in his important critical study "Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky" (1902). His other novels...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Cimetière de Sainte Genevieve Des Bois, Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, Departement de l'Essonne, Ile-de-France, France
Plot: Plan II, Grave 440
Mosjoukine, Ivan b. September 26, 1889 d. January 18, 1939
Actor. One of Russia's great stage and silent film stars. He also wrote screenplays and directed a movie. He emigrated in 1920 to France and gained even greater fame in French Cinema as exotic leading man. One of the roles he played was Casanova. He worked occasionaly in Germany and Hollywood. He married and later divorced the Russian actress Nathalie Lissenko. His career ended abruptly with the invention of sound in the movies. His voice did not fit the roles he was playing. (Bio by: Steen)
Cause of death: Tuberculosis
Cimetière de Sainte Genevieve Des Bois, Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, Departement de l'Essonne, Ile-de-France, France
Plot: Tomb 3299, plan II
Nekrasov, Viktor Platonovich b. June 17, 1911 d. September 3, 1987
Soviet-era Russian Author, Dissident. He won a Stalin Prize for his novel "Front Line Stalingrad" (1946), but after Stalin's death in 1953 he grew increasingly critical in his views. Nekrasov's novels "In the Hometown" (1954) and "Kira Georgievna" (1961) are notable works of the "Thaw" period of Soviet Literature. In the late 1960s he attacked the Brezhnev regime for trying to restore Stalinism and he was expelled from the Communist Party in 1973. The following year he settled in Paris. The...[Read More]
Cimetière de Sainte Genevieve Des Bois, Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, Departement de l'Essonne, Ile-de-France, France
Nureyev, Rudolf Hametovich b. March 17, 1938 d. January 6, 1993
Legendary Ballet Star. The son of a Red Army commissar, he was encouraged to dance in Bashkir folk festivals, where his talent became apparent. He enrolled in the Vaganova Choreographic Institute in 1955, where he was quickly recognized as one of the greatest dancers the school had seen in many years. He became one of Russia's biggest stars, and was allowed the privilege of travel abroad. During a tour of Paris in 1961, he broke the rule against mingling with foreigners, and was told he would...[Read More] (Bio by: VampireRed)
Cimetière de Sainte Genevieve Des Bois, Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, Departement de l'Essonne, Ile-de-France, France
Pevsner, Antoine b. January 18, 1884 d. April 12, 1962
Sculptor, Painter. Along with his brother, Naum Gabo, he was a co-founder of Constructivism, a pioneering movement in abstract art. Their creative goal was to symbolize the social and technological advances in modern society. Pevsner was born in Orel, Russia, and studied art in Kiev and St. Petersburg. Starting out as a painter, he was influenced by Cubism after visits to Paris in 1911 and 1913. In the wake of the 1917 Russian Revolution he joined his brother in helping Vladimir Tatlin...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Cimetière de Sainte Genevieve Des Bois, Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, Departement de l'Essonne, Ile-de-France, France
Plot: Plan III, Grave 5860
Poplavsky, Boris b. June 6, 1903 d. October 9, 1935
Russian Poet. He was born in Moscow but settled in Paris after the Revolution. He was regarded as one of the most talented young poets of his generation. During his life he published only one book Flags (1931). His posthumous collections include Snowy Hour (1936), From a Garland of Wax (1938) and Airship of an Unknown Direction (1965). He also completed one novel, Apollo Unformed and started another, Home from the Heavens along with writing extensive journals. (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Cimetière de Sainte Genevieve Des Bois, Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, Departement de l'Essonne, Ile-de-France, France
Plot: Grave 1447. (Plan I)
Preobrajenska, Olga b. February 7, 1871 d. December 27, 1962
Ballet Dancer. Olga Preobrajenska (Preobrazhenskaya) was born in St. Petersburg in 1871. She studied at the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg. Her teachers included Petipa, Ivanov and Anna Johansson, and later Cecchetti and Beretta. She graduated in 1889 to join the Mariinsky Theatre. Promoted to soloist in 1896 and prima ballerina in 1900. Danced all the leading roles at the Mariinsky. Her best roles were in Coppelia, Raymonda, Sleeping Beauty, La Fille mal gardée and Don Quixote. From...[Read More] (Bio by: Medora)
Cimetière de Sainte Genevieve Des Bois, Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, Departement de l'Essonne, Ile-de-France, France
Remizov, Aleksei b. July 6, 1877 d. November 26, 1957
Author. One of the leading Russian modernists of the early 20th Century. A great experimenter in prose, he blended archaic, formal and colloqial Russian into an ornate style. Most characteristic were his contemporary reworkings of old religious and folk legends, with their bizarre flights of fancy and violent humor. Aleksei Mikhailovich Remizov was born in Moscow. As a university student he got involved in Socialist activities and was banished to Siberia for eight years, where he acquired...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Cimetière de Sainte Genevieve Des Bois, Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, Departement de l'Essonne, Ile-de-France, France
Plot: Plan V, Grave 5466
Tarkovsky, Andrei b. April 4, 1932 d. December 29, 1986
Filmaker.
Cimetière de Sainte Genevieve Des Bois, Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, Departement de l'Essonne, Ile-de-France, France
Plot: Section J1, Grave 7259
Tcherepnin, Nikolai b. May 15, 1873 d. June 27, 1945
Composer, Conductor. He is best known for his stage music, which blended a robust Russian spirit with the delicacy of French Impressionism. His ballet "Le Pavillion d'Armide" (1907) was the first ever staged by Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1909. The son of a prominent physician, Tcherepnin was born in St. Petersburg and studied with Rimsky-Korsakov at the Conservatory there. He gained initial notoriety for his colorful orchestral pieces "Prelude por la Princesse Lointaine" (1898) and "...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Cimetière de Sainte Genevieve Des Bois, Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, Departement de l'Essonne, Ile-de-France, France
Teffi (Lokhvitskaya), Nadezhda (Nadezhda) b. May 21, 1872 d. October 6, 1952
Humorist. She is regarded as the foremost chronicler of Russian emigre life in Paris in the years following the 1917 Revolution. Her sharply comic tales feature Field Marshals reduced to driving taxicabs, ex-noblemwomen dressing up as gypsies to serve tea in cafes, and other castaway members of Russia's former elite, all of whom absurdly cling to the affectations of their old way of life. Because she satirized the aimlessness and sterility of Russian life in exile, Teffi was one of the very...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Cimetière de Sainte Genevieve Des Bois, Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, Departement de l'Essonne, Ile-de-France, France
Plot: Grave 3059
Vyroubova, Nina b. June 4, 1921 d. June 24, 2007
Ballerina. French dancer considered to be one of the finest ballerinas of the 20th Century. Born in Gurzuf, in the Crimea, she came to France at age three with her mother to escape the Russian Revolution and studied with émigré Russian ballerinas who had also relocated to Paris. Her first leading role came at age 16, when she played Swanilda in "Coppélia" at Caen. She was well-known for her ability to fit into almost any style while imparting her personal interpretations. Equally successful...[Read More] (Bio by: Fred Beisser)
Cimetière de Sainte Genevieve Des Bois, Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, Departement de l'Essonne, Ile-de-France, France
Youssoupov, Felix b. March 23, 1887 d. September 27, 1967
Russian Prince. He killed Rasputin.
Cimetière de Sainte Genevieve Des Bois, Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, Departement de l'Essonne, Ile-de-France, France

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