Russia Biographies Samples For Students

Biography: Mikhail Lomonosov

Although relatively unknown in the Western World, Mikhail Lomonosov was one of the most prominent figures of the Russian Enlightenment. Lomonosov was born on November 19, 1711 in Kholmogory, Russia. His parents were considered peasants, and his mother died when he was young. His stepmother resented her stepson’s intelligence and reading ability, and attempted to get him to stop reading all the books in the village. She sided with the belief in Russia at the time that children were born to be a help to their parents, and though that Lomonosov should have been helping his father instead of ...

Biography of Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand was of Jewish ancestry and of Russian nationality but larger part of her life lived in the United States where became popular as a writer, philosopher, originator of objectivism movement and strong adherent to values of capitalism. Born on February 2, 1905 in St. Petersburg with a name of Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum she was a daughter of an ordinary merchant. Having started to read and write at the very early age, when she was 9 she realized that she would like to be a writer. Alisa`s childhood passed in fantasizing, writing of short stories, inventing of her own delusional world.
...

Mikhail Baryshnikov was born on 27th January, 1948 in Riga, Latvia. He is famous for dancing throughout the world. His dance is the sublime vision. Mikhail Nikolaevitch Baryshnikov began his ballet studies in 1960. He studied in Vaganova School the then Leningrad with Aleksander Pushkin. He won the top prize in the junior division of the international Varna Competition. His teacher described him as “the most perfect dancer I have ever seen”.
He made his debut at Maryinsky theatre where he danced the ‘peasant’ pas de deux in Giselle, in the group Kirov Ballet. A new instrument unique ...

There have been few people that have matched up to the scientific know how of the Curie family. The Curie family has received the most Nobel Prizes in history. Marie Curie, the matriarch of the family, was the first women to win a Nobel Prize and is the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two separate fields of science. Her accomplishments include describing the theory of “radioactivity” as well as coining the term; she also discovered to elements, polonium and radium. The theories of radioactivity helped during World War I where she assisted on the front lines in creating ...

In order to provide a successful bio-geography, one needs to go as much back in years as possible and provide their family’s events, regarding the changes the family members made to get a better life, as influenced by any external reasons, such as the economic situation at the time being, politics and culture. For that reason, my family’s bio-geography is shaped as followed:
My great great grandfather was a proud private school owner in Uzbekistan that also loved farming in the 1930’s. According to my father, being a farmer in this particular geographical spot was considered a great advantage that ...