Victoria Lopyreva (photo model, TV presenter, Miss Russia 2003) – Aphrodite (goddess of beauty, love, pleasure and procreation)

Russian stars as Gods of Olympus – is a Calendar 2011 by Michele Ceppi. Italian said that “The gods are closer than you think”. Photographer – Natalie Vine and stylist – Olga Povolyaeva.
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Emperor Alexander I was famous not only for his military exploits. You know, he is called one of the most amorous Russian rulers. He had a beautiful wife and several mistresses. His love affair with Maria Naryshkina was the longest and most serious. They spent together 15 years, Maria gave birth to three his children. In some sources she is described as a modest, silent beauty, in others – as a self-confident and impudent femme fatale.
Alexander I was the grandson of Catherine II and the eldest son of Paul I. His grandmother chose a wife for him – Princess Louise of Baden, later known as Elizabeth Alexeievna. The girl was meek, delicate, and very beautiful.
Masha Naryshkina (nee Princess Sviatopolk-Chetvertinskaya) was not the first favorite of the emperor, but many called her the only strong passion of Alexander I. All of his previous love affairs were short-lived, and this lasted for 15 years. By the way, her elder sister Jeanette had “a shadow family” with the younger brother of the emperor, Konstantin.
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Kazimir Malevich was a Russian painter and art theoretician. He was a pioneer of geometric abstract art, the founder and leading artist of the Suprematist movement, and one of Russia’s best-known modern painters. His paintings are known to millions, but are understandable not to many. Some people are frightened and irritated by simplicity, others are admired and fascinated by depth and secret meanings. The artist did not leave anyone indifferent. Paradoxically, his paintings look more modern than those drawn by his followers.
During his life time Malevich invented a new direction in art, gave it up, and most importantly – created one of the most controversial paintings in the history of painting.
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich was born in Kiev on February 23, 1879. There were fourteen children in the family, but only nine of them survived – five sons and four daughters. Kazimir was the eldest child.
16-year-old Kazimir painted his first picture Moonlit Night. It was sold for 5 rubles and lost.
At the age of 17 the boy entered the Kiev Art School, founded by the Russian painter Nikolai Murashko. But a year later, in 1896, the family moved to Kursk.
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Nadezhda Khodasevitch Leger was a Russian muse, student and wife of French artist Fernand Leger. Very often talented, successful women are forced to remain in the shadow of the great men. Despite the fact that Nadezhda dedicated her life to the work of her beloved husband, she remained as an independent personality in history who was appreciated by her contemporaries.
Talented girl was born on October 4, 1904 in the village near Vitebsk. Her family was large and poor. They had to wander from one village to another because of the First World War. Since the early childhood she had a passion for painting. At the age of 15 the girl left home and entered the state artist workshop in Smolensk. There she had a chance to meet Russian artist Kazimir Malevich.
Later Nadezhda was in Warsaw, where she entered the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. The girl lived in a convent orphanage. At the Academy Nadia met artist Stanislaw Grabowski, the son of a wealthy Polish official. Stanislaw and Nadia got married despite the protests of the groom’s parents. The young couple decided to continue their studies in Paris.
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Victoria Bonia, TV presenter.
Photo project called Star phobia was presented by creative producer from Italy Michele Ceppi. This project was presented at Volvo Fashion Week.
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Konstantin Kryukov is a Russian actor, film producer, artist and jeweler.
He was born on February 7, 1985 in Moscow into the family of actress Elena Bondarchuk (1962-2009) and Doctor of Philosophy Vitaly Kryukov. Kostya is the grandson of legendary Russian film director and actor Sergei Bondarchuk and actress Irina Skobtseva. You know, the boy spent his childhood in Switzerland and graduated from the art school in Zurich.
In 2001, at the age of 16 he became one of the youngest graduates of the American Institute of Gemology (GIA) (Moscow branch). And in the same year he entered the Moscow State Law Academy.
At the age of 18 Konstantin began his acting career. His film debut was in 2005, when he appeared in the film The 9th Company.
The next Kryukov’s work was the role of writer Pavel Gushchin in the film The Three Half-Graces. His character, positive and charming, was warmly received by the audience. However, his role in the youth film Heat was not so successful.
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Lydia Delectorskaya was a Russian translator, model, studio assistant and secretary of the great French artist Henri Matisse (1869 – 1954). She translated all works by Konstantin Paustovsky from Russian into French.
Pretty girl was born on June 23, 1910 in Tomsk. When she was 13 years old, Lydia became an orphan, because her parents died during the Civil War. Her relative took her to Harbin and then Lydia came to France. At the age of 19 she married a Russian emigrant. But their marriage was short-lived.
In the autumn of 1932 she got a job in the Henri Matisse household. To tell the truth, Lydia took care of seriously ill Madame Matisse. In October 1933, Delectorskaya moved into Matisse’s house and lived there for almost 22 years before the last breath of the great master. Somehow unnoticed, Madame Lydia became irreplaceable for the artist: a nurse, a punctual and careful secretary, she even scraped paints from the canvas.
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