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Guillaume Apollinaire

Author: Newsmaker added 13-08-2013, 16:50

Guillaume ApollinaireGuillaume Apollinaire (26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a famous poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist and art critic.


His real name was Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Alexander Apolinary Vonzh-Kastrawicky. His mother Angelika Kastrawickaya was born near Navahrаdak (Grodno region, Belarus). 

Isaac Asimov

Author: Lida added 7-10-2012, 09:13
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards.

Writer Isaac Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in the village Petrovichi, Mogilev region (Belarus) and at birth was named Isaac Ozimov.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Author: Lida added 26-08-2012, 22:45
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Russian novelist, journalist, short-story writer, whose psychological penetration into the human soul profoundly influenced the 20th century novel.

On his father’s side Dostoevsky is one of the branches of the genus Rtishchev, who were the beginners of the calculus of the Dostoevsky’s family history researchers believe. October 6, 1506, when Daniel I. Rtishchev received from Pinsk Prince Theodore Yaroslav granted charter "forever and for good" on the estate Polkotichi and part of the village in the Pinsk Dostoevo county. The village Dostoevo was located to the north-east of Pinsk, between the rivers Pina and Yaselda.