The outgoing year has become a real test for the whole world. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, borders have been closed, concerts and entertainment events have been canceled. And celebrities, probably for the first time in many years, will have to celebrate the coming new year not with a series of endless performances. Due to restaurant restrictions, they may well be home before midnight. Many domestic stars already know exactly where and how they will meet the coming year
A sham marriage is not about starting a family at all. Rather, it is a commercial transaction in which one or both spouses receive some kind of benefit. For what reasons can people go to the conclusion of a fictitious marriage? Registration, citizenship, material benefit? Celebrities who have had a fake marriage experience are reluctant to be reminded of the circumstances under which they had to make a deal
He was born into a stellar family and, as it might seem, grew up as a completely prosperous child. Stas Piekha in childhood often appeared on television with his star grandmother, went on tour with her while his mother, Ilona Bronevitskaya, was building her career. No one could even imagine that already in adolescence he was a deeply dependent person. However, Stas Piekha admits today - his addiction has not gone anywhere, because the former fans of prohibited substances
During the Soviet Union, viewers often did not even know which of the republics this or that performer was from. Of course, the air most often sounded songs performed by Lev Leshchenko, Joseph Kobzon, Alla Pugacheva, Sofia Rotaru and other recognized and honored masters. But millions of people, along with them, listened with pleasure to those whose names were not so well known: Nikolai Hnatyuk, Roza Rymbaeva, Nadezhda Chepragu and others. After the collapse of a huge country, the destinies of these performers were
In 2009, he won the hearts of the audience with an enchanting performance at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. Violin mastery and unforgettable voice of the performer made him a real favorite. Alexander Rybak was then only 23 years old, and it seemed that new victories and achievements awaited him ahead. Now he is 35 and the path he has traveled since winning the competition was not at all as smooth as it once seemed. The stumbling block was the performer's serious problems
It's hard to imagine, but in the 1980s, when Zhenya Belousov took off to the musical Olympus of a huge country, there were only three songs in his repertoire! And behind him were an invented biography, an alien image and passionate dreams of enduring glory. He had millions of fans, he played the role of a sweet young boy and only in moments of rest, hiding from prying eyes, allowed himself to become himself again, not Zhenya, but Yevgeny Belousov
Today it is difficult to imagine how Irina Allegrova, Igor Talkov and Viktor Saltykov could perform on the same stage, as part of the same team. Each of them later embarked on a solo career, but in the 1980s. they performed with the Electroclub group and were very popular. This project was largely experimental - both for the artistic director, composer David Tukhmanov, and for the participants. But the project turned out to be successful: the songs "Chistye Prudy", "Horses in Apples", "Dark Horse" in
The Ukrainian serf Ustym Karmelyuk is associated with the rebellious liberation movement in the Ukrainian lands of the Russian Empire. But his personality is still seen by historians in different ways. In Ukrainian textbooks, he is designated as a fighter against the gentry, leader and protector of the peasants. Here are just some of the historians questioning the glorified heroism of Ustim. After all, both Poles and Jews were members of his group. And the chips flew not only at the robbed rich people, ordinary people also suffered from Karmelyuk's tricks
In the late 1980s, the entire vast country began to sing along with Alice Mon when she appeared on the screens with her hit "Plantain". She was bright, perky and seemed very independent. During the concerts, she easily held an audience of thousands and won over millions of listeners with her talent. From the outside, the life of Alice Mon seemed like a fairy tale, but as soon as the lights went out and the singer left the stage, a real nightmare began, which seemed to have no end
Black caviar has always been a symbol of Russia, along with fur, nesting dolls and a bear with a balalaika. It turns out that there was a scientist who dreamed of creating synthetic caviar from oil and feeding it to the entire population of the country. We are talking about Alexander Nesmeyanov, who headed the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in the fifties of the 20th century. Read in the article why he was preoccupied with creating artificial food, what were the pasta created from petroleum products, and why Nesmeyanov's idea collapsed