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Natalia Narochnitskaya – Russian politician, historian

Natalia Narochnitskaya - Russian politician

Natalia Narochnitskaya – Russian politician, historian


Natalia Narochnitskaya is a Russian politician, historian and political scientist, Doctor of Historical Sciences.
The girl was born on December 23, 1948 in Moscow into the family of an outstanding scientist-historian. Her grandfather was the director of the national school, the grandmother worked there as a teacher. Her father is an outstanding scientist, academician, historian. He was the largest specialist in foreign policy of Russia in the first third of the XIX century. Academician headed the authoritative scientific journal New and Contemporary History. For many years he was a head of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Natalia’s mother, another historian, was engaged in the foreign policy of Russia in the second half of the 19th century. In her youth, she participated in the partisan movement in Belarus, was captured and managed to escape from the concentration camp. In 1947, she became the wife of Narochnitsky, with whom she lived happily for more than 40 years. The couple had two daughters: Natalia and Elena. Both later became historians, continuing the family tradition.
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Aleksander Zaldostanov – best known Russian biker

Aleksandr Zaldostanov

Aleksander Zaldostanov – best known Russian biker


Aleksander Zaldostanov is the best known biker in Russia, leader of the biker club Night Wolves.
The boy was born on January 19, 1963. He doesn’t like to talk about himself. By the way, he is better known as the Surgeon. Alexander worked as a doctor in a dental clinic. During his medical practice, he managed to make beads from real human teeth, which were later presented to the fashion designer Yegor Zaitsev.
However, he gave up medicine and organized bikers’ movement.
Night Wolves is the first in the USSR and Russia biker club. It was founded on May 31, 1989 with the type MC – Moto Club in Moscow. Since 1992 it has been a Member of the International bike movement.
Sports team Wolf Racing was organized. Also they work with orphanages, boarding schools and a number of urban youth organizations.
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Marat Safin, politician and tennis player

Marat Safin, politician and tennis player

Marat Safin, politician and tennis player


Marat Safin is a Russian tennis player, Honored Master of Sports of Russia, former first racket of the world in singles. Actually, he was a Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (2011-2017). You know, he is a winner of two Grand Slam singles titles (US Open-2000, Australian Open-2005), two-time winner of the Davis Cup (2002, 2006), winner of 17 ATP tournaments (15 of them – in singles). His younger sister, Dinara Safina, is a professional tennis player and a silver medalist at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. To tell the truth, they are the first brother-sister tandem in tennis history to both achieve No. 1 rankings.
In addition, Marat is a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame since 2016.
Handsome boy was born on January 27, 1980 in Moscow, USSR. His mother, ten years before the birth of her son, was one of the most successful tennis players of the Soviet Union. Later she became a coach. Little Marat wanted to play football and wasn’t fond of tennis. Although, he played fine even in the early stages of his career.
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Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast

Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast

Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast


Svetlana Khorkina is a Russian gymnast, seven-time Olympic medalist, and a former deputy of the Russian State Duma (from 2007 to 2011). The athlete is Honored Master of Sports of Russia (1995). She is one of the most successful female gymnasts of her era. During her career, she won 47 World, Olympic and European medals. Khorkina won 10 (7 Gold, 3 Silver) medals at major All-Around Championships, more than any other gymnast. Also she was the first gymnast to win three all-around titles at the World Championships.
By the way, Khorkina is known for being a “diva,” but she has embraced such charges, stating “I don’t mind. I wouldn’t have been called a diva or a queen if I wasn’t creative.”
Pretty girl was born on January 19, 1979 in Belgorod. The parents of the sportswoman are from Mordovia. They came to Belgorod to work, but stayed there for a long time. Her father worked as a builder, and mother was a nurse in a kindergarten.
It was a neighbor who advised Svetlana’s mother to take her 4-year-old daughter to a sports school, recommending a gymnastics section. The woman liked the idea, and little Svetlana began to attend classes.
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Kate MUMU Gerasimova, Secret agent

Kate MUMU Gerasimova

Kate MUMU Gerasimova


Kate Gerasimova is a green-eyed part-time model with brown hair. This fun-loving girl calls herself Mumu.
She spends her nights seducing critics of the Russian government.
Katya Mumu is Anna Chapman’s scandalous forerunner.
Kate is famous for her compromising videos featuring popular Russian writers, bloggers and politicians.
Beautiful girl invites men to come to her apartment and unfortunately for her victims there are a lot hidden cameras there. She offered cocaine, marijuana and her body. There are several men who can refuse.
A lot of leading opposition figures, journalists and commentators have found themselves in a series of films posted on Russian websites.
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Anna Timiryova, Admiral Kolchak’s woman

Anna Timiryova Admiral Kolchak

Anna Timiryova, Admiral Kolchak‘s woman


Anna Timiryova (nee Safonova, in the second marriage Kniper) was a Russian poetess and painter, the daughter of a prominent musician Safonov.
Beautiful Anna Safonova was born in 1893 in Kislovodsk, into the family of the Terek Cossacks. She was the sixth child in a large family of Vasily Safonov, a music teacher, pianist and conductor, who for some time was the director of the Moscow Conservatory. In 1906 her family moved to St. Petersburg. The girl studied drawing and painting, was fluent in French and German.
In 1911 Anna married naval officer S.N. Timiryov. Three years later, in 1914, she gave birth to their son Vladimir, who became a painter. They divorced in 1918.
In 1915, Anna met Rear-Admiral Alexander Kolchak. Although Kolchak was her husband’s closest friend and commanding officer, and had a family of his own, they began a love affair. In 1917, Anna openly left her husband for the Admiral. She was 25 years old, and he was 43. Until January 1920 Anna was the wife of Admiral Kolchak. When he was arrested in January 1920 she followed him. After Kolchak’s execution, she was arrested several times. Anna paid a great price for 17 months of love – 37 years in prison and exile.
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Alexandra Kollontai

Alexandra Kollontai

Alexandra Kollontai


Noblewoman Kollontai had a love affair with the sailor Dybenko, but adored the revolution!

In the St. Petersburg district of Vesely Village there are two parallel streets: Kollontai Street and Dybenko Street. They are so close, because Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai and Pavel Efimovich Dybenko had a great feeling in life.
She was the friend of the famous translator Shchepkina-Kupernik and the second cousin of the salon poet Igor Severyanin, and he was a simple sailor.
Kollontai (Shura Domontovich) was born in 1872 into the happy family of General Mikhail Domontovich. But at the heart of the happiness of this family there was the rebellion of her mother Alexandra Alexandrovna, who took three children and left her first husband. Little Alexandra was born in love. From a tender child she turned into a pretty girl with cold blue eyes. So, people began to whisper behind her back. And the whisper of those who were shocked by her behavior, became a companion of Alexandra for the rest of her long life.
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