Биография Константина Циолковского на английском языке. Biography of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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4. Биография Михаила Лермонтова на английском языке. Biography of Mikhail Lermontov One of Russia’s most celebrated poets of all times, Michael Lermontov was born in Moscow in the family of a nobleman. He spent his childhood and youth at Tarkhany, his grandmother’s estate in the province of Penza. In 1830 Lermontov entered Moscow University, but very soon had to leave it. Then he entered St. Petersburg […]...
5. Биография Эдгара Аллана По на английском языке. Biography of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Poe is one of the most brilliant and original writers and poets in American literature. He was born in Boston in 1809 in a family of artists. When he was two years old, his mother and father died. His godfather and his wife raised him. He entered the University of Virginia but didn’t stay […]...
6. Биография Уолта Уитмена на английском языке. Biography of Walt Whitman Walt Whitman is considered by many to be one of the greatest American poets. He was born in 1819; early in his life he worked as a printer, a teacher, a newspaper editor, and a carpenter. By 1841 he had become a full-time journalist, editing successfully several papers and writing prose and verse for different […]...
7. Биография Наполеона Бонапарта на английском языке. Biography of Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon I, also called Napoleon Bonaparte was the greatest military genius of his era and maybe the greatest general in history. He created an empire that covered most of western and central Europe. Early life Napoleon was born on August 15, 1769 on the island of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea. Because the island belonged […]...
8. Биография Мэри Кассат на английском языке. Biography of Mary Cassatt Mary Cassatt is the most popular women artist in the USA. She was born in 1845 in a town near Pittsburgh. She began her career at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied from 1861 until 1864. She studied in Paris, too. Mary Cassatt began her career as a realistic painter. Later she […]...
9. Биография Вольфганга Амадея Моцарта на английском языке. Biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of the greatest composers of the world. Schubert said that “the magic of his music lights the darkness of our lives”. Haydn believed him to be “the greatest composer”. His music enchants and amazes music lovers. He was only 35 when he died in 1791. He had composed some 626 […]...
10. Биография Пабло Пикассо на английском языке. Biography of Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He experimented in many different styles and changed the world of art during his time. Early life Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881. His father was a drawing teacher. At 10 Pablo became his father’s pupil and at the age […]...
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12. Биография Томаса Эдисона на английском языке. Biography of Thomas Edison Most people know that Thomas Edison invented the first working light bulb, but they don’t know anything else about him. Edison had almost no formal schooling, yet he invented over 1,000 different things. Among Edison’s inventions are: the phonograph, the movie camera and the movie projector. Thomas Edison invented his electric light bulb in 1879, […]...
13. Биография Томаса Мора на английском языке. Biography of Thomas More Sir Thomas More, an outstanding public figure of the 16th century was a brilliant lawyer, a royal favourite and Chancellor of England. He was a son of a lawyer. A the age of 12 he went to serve in the household of Cardinal Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of England; at 14 he went […]...
14. Биография Юлия Цезаря на английском языке. Biography of Julius Caesar Julius Caesar was a Roman general and dictator who lived from 100 BC to 44 BC. He helped to make Rome a great empire. He was also a talented writer. Early life of Caesar His father, Gaius Caesar died when Caesar was 16. Caesar’s mother, Aurelia, influenced her son greatly. Although Caesar came from a […]...
15. Биография Александра Пушкина на английском языке. Biography of Alexander Pushkin Pushkin is the most important Russian writer of all time, like Shakespeare in England or Dante in Italy. Pushkin provided the standards for Russian arts and literature in the 19th century. Pushkin was born in Moscow in 1799 into an upper-class family. In 1811 he entered a lyceum at Tsarskoye Selo. The education offered at […]...
16. Биография Чарльза Диккенса на английском языке. Biography of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens was born in 1812 in Portsmouth, where his father was the oldest of a large family, eight in all. He got his education at a small day-school and from his mother, who was a well-educated woman. In 1821 the Dickens family moved to London. Mr. Dickens was heavily in debt. The few possessions […]...
17. Биография Александра Македонского на английском языке. Biography of Alexander the Great Alexander the Great was king of Macedonia and one of the greatest generals in history. He conquered the Persian Empire which stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to India. Although he died at the age of 33 he conquered most of the known world at that time and spread Greek ideas and customs to western Asia […]...
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19. Биография Ивана Грозного на английском языке. Biography of Ivan the Terrible Probably one of the most famous figures in Russian history is Ivan IV, called the Terrible because of his cruelty. He ruled in the period when boyars, Russian hereditary landlords, were fast losing their political power, their lands, and sometimes, due to Ivan IV, their lives. On the other hand, more and more power was […]...
20. Биография Эндрю Уайета на английском языке. Biography of Andrew Wyeth Andrew Wyeth, one of the prominent American painters, was born in 1917. The son of illustrator N. C. Wyeth, Andrew is the leading member of the dynasty of painters that included his sisters, their husband and his own two sons. He won fame at the age of 12 for his illustrations of “Robin Hood”. He […]...
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23. Биография Барака Обамы на английском языке. Biography of Barrack Obama Barack H. Obama is the 44th President of the United States. His story is the American story – values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others. With […]...
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27. Биография Джона Кеннеди на английском языке. Biography of John Kennedy On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin’s bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die. Of Irish descent, he was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May […]...
28. Биография Уильяма Хогарта на английском языке. Biography of William Hoggarth William Hoggart is one of the greatest of English artists of the 18th century. He made his name as an artist painting “conversation pieces”. These little pictures were very popular in England during the 18th century. They represented members of the same family or close friends having tea, playing cards, or simply talking to one […]...
29. Биография Оливера Кромвеля на английском языке. Biography of Oliver Cromwell One of the chief tendencies of the English history is the struggle between the king and the people. This is a struggle to decide which of them is supreme. One of the most important moments in this long struggle came in the seventeenth century. During this period the political parties as we know them began […]...
30. Биография Джорджа Вашингтона на английском языке. Biography of George Washington On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. “As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent,” he wrote James Madison, “it is devoutly wished […]...
31. Биография Билла Клинтона на английском языке. Biography of William Clinton / Bill Clinton During the administration of William Jefferson Clinton, the U. S. enjoyed more peace and economic well being than at any time in its history. He was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term. He could point to the lowest unemployment rate in modern times, the lowest inflation in 30 […]...
32. Биография Клеопатры на английском языке. Biography of Cleopatra Cleopatra was a famous queen of ancient Egypt. She was beautiful, intelligent and self-confident. She was not Egyptian but belonged to a Greek dynasty, that started with Ptolemy I. Cleopatra became a well-known because of her love affairs with two Roman rulers, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Cleopatra was born in 69 B. C. in […]...
33. Биография Мартина Лютера Кинга на английском языке. Biography of Martin Luther King Martin Luther King was a clergyman and one of the most prominent members of the civil rights movement in the 20th century. He was born on January 15, 1929. He became famous in the 1950 and 1960’s through opposition to racial segregation in the United States of America. King promoted non-violent methods of opposition such […]...
34. Биография Юрия Гагарина/ The Biography of Yuri Gagarin На английском языке Перевод на русский язык The Biography of Yuri Gagarin Биография Юрия Гагарина Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a prominent Russian cosmonaut. He was the first man who dared to make a journey into outer space. Gagarin was born on March 9th 1934, in a small village called Klushino, near Gzhatsk. Today this town […]...
35. Sergey Korolev Sergey Pavlovich Korolev was the Founder of Practical Cosmonautics. Academician Korolev is a famous scientist and a founder of practical cosmonautics. He was the chief constructor of the first Earth sputniks and spaceships. Korolev was born in 1906 in the small Ukrainian town of Zhitomir into a family of teachers. He spent his childhood with […]...
36. Моя биография/ My Biography На английском языке Перевод на русский язык My Biography Моя биография Let me introduce myself. My full name is Irina Nikolayevna Snatkina. I’m 16 years old. I was born on November 11th, 1996 in Rostov-on-Don. It is a large city in southern Russia. I grew up and studied in this city. Many young people would […]...
37. Биография Чарльза Диккенса/ The Biography of Charles Dickens На английском языке Перевод на русский язык The Biography of Charles Dickens Биография Чарльза Диккенса Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s most memorable fictional characters and is considered to be one of the greatest novelists. He was born on February 7th, 1812 in Portsmouth, England. His […]...
38. René Descartes Biography Philosopher and mathematician René Descartes is regarded as the father of modern philosophy for defining a starting point for existence, “I think; therefore I am.” Synopsis René Descartes was born on March 31, 1596, in La Haye en Touraine, France. He was extensively educated, first at a Jesuit college at age 8, then earning a […]...
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40. Биография Федора Достоевского/ The Biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky На английском языке Перевод на русский язык The Biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky Биография Федора Достоевского Fyodor Michaylovich Dostoevsky was an outstanding Russian write and is now regarded as one of the best novelists in the world. He was born on November the 11th 1821 in Moscow. His father was a physician and he was a […]...