Russian Personalities

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Natasha Koroleva – Russian singer

Natasha Koroleva

Natasha Koroleva – Russian singer

Natasha Koroleva is a Russian singer, who became famous when she was only 16 years old. Beautiful Natasha is a Soviet, Ukrainian and Russian pop singer, actress and fashion model, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2004)
Natasha Poryvai (her real surname) was born on May 31, 1973. She grew up in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, in a creative family. Her father was a choirmaster of the Academic Choir, and mother was a choral conductor, Honored Artist of Ukraine. The singer has an older sister Ira.
The first song she sang was Cruiser Aurora at the annual congress of the Komsomol.
In 1987, Koroleva won the Golden Kamerton music prize.
At the age of 7 the girl entered music school, where she learned to play the piano.
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Alla Nazimova. Russian Queen of Hollywood

Alla Nazimova. Russian Queen of Hollywood

Alla Nazimova. Russian Queen of Hollywood


Alla Nazimova was a great and very bright Russian star of Hollywood silent films and theater, a screenwriter, and film producer.
Miriam Edez Adelaida Leventon (her real name) was born in 1879 in Yalta, Crimea, Russian Empire. She was the third child in a Jewish family. Her parents divorced in 1887 and the girl lived with her father, who in the same year married again. From 1890 to 1893, Adelaide Leventon studied at the Yalta Girls’ Gymnasium. In 1893, Adelaide moved to her mother’s family in Odessa, where she entered the gymnasium and the music classes of the Odessa branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Society. Three years later seventeen-year-old Adelaide went to Moscow, where under the pseudonym Alla Nazimova began taking lessons at the Moscow Art Theater. During the studies she had a love affair with a famous millionaire, and after a painful break up she left school and began to play in the regional theater.
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Lera Kudryavtseva, beautiful blonde

Lera Kudryavtseva, beautiful blonde

Lera Kudryavtseva, beautiful blonde

Lera Kudryavtseva is a Russian television and radio presenter, actress, singer and dancer. Charming blonde attracted the public’s attention with her provocative program The secret to a million, where the stars are telling about the most interesting details of their personal life.
Valeria Lvovna Kudryavtseva was born on 19 May 1971 in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakh SSR, USSR. The girl was born into the family of research associates Lev Nikolaevich and Alexandra Ivanovna Kudryavtseva. Her sister Oksana Lvovna Zhukova is engaged in business.
She graduated from GITIS. In fact, she danced in the groups of many singers, including Evgeny Osin, Bogdan Titomir, Igor Sarukhanov, Svetlana Vladimirskaya.
Since 1995 beautiful girl has been working on television. She worked for Muz-TV, TNT, TV-6 and NTV. In fact, pretty girl was a presenter of such programs as Party Zone, MuzOboz together with Otar Kushanashvili, Test of Loyalty.
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Anfisa Chekhova – TV presenter, actress

A. Chekhova - Russian TV presenter and actress

A. Chekhova – Russian TV presenter and actress


Russian TV presenter and actress Anfisa Chekhova was born on December 21, 1977 in Moscow. Now she is a sex symbol of the country, but as a child the girl dreamed of far more modest professions: nurse or teacher.
Her TV show Sex with Anfisa Chekhova is very popular in Russia. Soulful voice, a deep neckline, showing all the charm of the figure, made Anfisa an instant object of desire of millions men.
Her real name is Alexandra Korchunova. In 1994 the girl entered GITIS. At the same time, she began to perform with the band Mad Fireflies. After studying for two years Anfisa was expelled from the institute because the teachers didn’t like her singing activities. So, Chekhova decided to become a TV presenter. At first she was a presenter of the program Disc Channel. In 1998 she was a presenter of At Nightfall on Muz-TV, Starry Intelligence on M1.
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Elizaveta Boyarskaya

Elizaveta Boyarskaya

Elizaveta Boyarskaya


Elizaveta Boyarskaya is a Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2018). She is the daughter of famous Russian actors Mikhail Boyarsky and Larisa Luppian.
Elizaveta Mikhailovna Boyarskaya was born on December 20, 1985 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). In her childhood she was involved in jazz, classical dances. Later she graduated from modeling school for teens. Liza graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Theater Arts. Boyarskaya was one of the best students and even received the Presidential scholarship.
The young actress is engaged in charitable activities dealing with the problem of premature infants, rehabilitation of drug addicts.
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