The 2009 biographical film The Last Station starring Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren is about the last year in the life of which literary figure who died in 1910 at Astapovo train station?
"and an appearance in the 2003 Irish independent film ""Intermission"" with Cillian Murphy, Kelly Macdonald, and Colin Farrell. She was in the 2005 Jet Li action-thriller ""Unleashed"". She then appeared as Masha, a Tolstoian, in ""The Last Station,"" a film about the last months of Tolstoy's life with Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer before playing jockey Rosie Shanahan in 2012's ""Luck"". She voices the artificial intelligence F.R.I.D.A.Y., Tony Stark's replacement for J.A.R.V.I.S. in the Marvel Studios films """", """", """" and """". In 2005 Condon co-starred as Octavia of the Julii, sister of the Roman Emperor Augustus, in the HBO/BBC"
"village of Kochaki near the family burial of Tolstoys. In addition to the memoirs of Tolstoy, promotional pamphlets and essays on Tolstoyism, Bulgakov left a large correspondence, especially from the time of his Prague emigration, with, amongst others, Romain Rolland, Rabindranath Tagore, Albert Einstein and Nicholas Roerich. His personal archive is stored in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art and the Literary Archives of the National Museum of Prague. Valentin Bulgakov is one of the main characters (played by James McAvoy) in ""The Last Station"" (2009), a film about the last year in the life of Tolstoy. The"
"over Tolstoy's desire to give away all his private property — Leo left Sophia abruptly in 1910, aged 82, with their daughter Alexandra, and his doctor, Dushan Makovicki (Dušan Makovický). Tolstoy died 10 days later in a railway station, whilst Sophia was kept away from him (as depicted in the film, ""The Last Station""). Following the death of her husband, Sophia continued to live in Yasnaya Polyana and survived the Russian Revolution in relative peace. She died in 1919. With recent increased interest in Sophia Tolstaya some new biographical works, based on her memoirs and diaries, have been published: She"
"Mirror"", characters discuss his short story ""Ward No. 6"". Woody Allen has been influenced by Chekhov and reference to his works are present in many of his films including ""Love and Death"" (1975), ""Interiors"" (1978) and ""Hannah and Her Sisters"" (1986). Plays by Chekhov are also referenced in François Truffaut's 1980 drama film ""The Last Metro"", which is set in a theatre. A portion of a stage production of ""Three Sisters"" appears in the 2014 drama film ""Still Alice"". Biographical Works Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; ; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and"
"her performance. She was also nominated for Best Actress - Drama at the 67th Golden Globe Awards, as was Plummer for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Both actors also received nominations for their performances at the Academy Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 22 June 2010. One reviewer criticized the lack of special features on the disc. The Last Station The Last Station is a 2009 English-language German biographical drama film written and directed by Michael Hoffman, and based on Jay Parini's 1990 biographical novel of the same"
"Lev Tolstoy (rural locality) Lev Tolstoy () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Lev-Tolstovsky District of Lipetsk Oblast, Russia. Population: Astapovo railway station, built in 1890 on the intersection of the Kozlov–Volovo and Moscow–Yelets routes, was named after a nearby ""selo"" of Astapovo (), which was founded no later than the mid-17th century. The name derives from the masculine first name Ostap. On November 7, 1910, the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy fell ill at the Astapovo station and died here. To commemorate this event, the station was renamed Lva Tolstogo () in 1918. In 1932,"
"the name of the station and of the settlement was changed to its modern form. Lev Tolstoy (rural locality) Lev Tolstoy () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Lev-Tolstovsky District of Lipetsk Oblast, Russia. Population: Astapovo railway station, built in 1890 on the intersection of the Kozlov–Volovo and Moscow–Yelets routes, was named after a nearby ""selo"" of Astapovo (), which was founded no later than the mid-17th century. The name derives from the masculine first name Ostap. On November 7, 1910, the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy fell ill at the Astapovo station and died here."
"had real life prototypes, members of the Petrashevsky and Durov's circles (Rudkovsky as Durov, Slobodin as Fyodor Dostoyevsky). Palm's dramas ""Old Landlord"" (1873) and ""Our Friend Neklyuzhev"" (1879), staged by the Aleksandrinsky and Maly Theaters respectively, proved to be very popular with the public. Contemporary critics dismissed them, but in retrospect Russian literary historians see Palm's plays as superior to his prose and poetry. Alexander Palm Alexander Ivanovich Palm (Александр Иванович Пальм, 2 February [o.s. 21 January] 1822, Krasnoslobodsk, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire, - 22 [o.s. 10] November 1885, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright,"
"his mother at the Berdichev Ghetto. Chapter 18, a letter from Shtrum's mother, Anna, has been dramatized for the stage and film ""The Last Letter"" (2002), directed by Frederick Wiseman, and starring Catherine Samie. Chandler additionally suggests that aspects of the character and experience of Shtrum are based on the physicist Lev Landau. The late novel ""Everything Flows"", in turn, is especially noted for its quiet, unforced, and yet horrifying condemnation of the Soviet totalitarian state: a work in which Grossman, liberated from worries about censors, spoke honestly about Soviet history. Some critics have compared Grossman's novels to the work"
"Anatoly Sofronov Anatoly Vladimirovich Sofronov (, 19 January 1911, Minsk, Russian Empire, now Belarus, — 9 September 1990, Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet Russian writer, poet, playwright, scriptwriter, editor (""Ogonyok"", 1953-1986) and literary administrator, the Union of Soviet Writers' secretary in 1948-1953. Sofronov was a Stalin Prize laureate (twice, 1948, 1949) and a recipient of the Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour (1981). An ominous figure with the reputation of ""one of the most feared literary hangmen of the Stalinist era,"" Sofronov is best remembered for his play ""Stryapukha"" (Стряпуха, The Kookie) which was followed by three sequels and"
"ninety volumes, and was still in motion when Chertkov died in Moscow, after a series of strokes, in 1936. He is buried in Vvedenskoye Cemetery. Actor Paul Giamatti portrayed Chertkov in the 2009 film ""The Last Station"". Vladimir Chertkov Vladimir Grigoryevich Chertkov (; also transliterated as Chertkoff, Tchertkoff or Tschertkow ( – November 9, 1936) was the editor of the works of Leo Tolstoy, and one of the most prominent Tolstoyans. After the revolutions of 1917, Chertkov was instrumental in creating the United Council of Religious Communities and Groups, which eventually came to administer the Russian SFSR's conscientious objection program."
"HER FRIENDS Valentin Lyubimov A DANGEROUS LINE Scenario TYUT IT HAS HAPPENED IN MYULLYUPELTO Gleb Abakumov YOUNG BUGLER Scenario TYUT ROAD TO KOROBITSINO Rudolf Katz, Evgeny Sazonov LONG-DISTANCE TRAIN Evgeny Schwartz THE SNOW QUEEN Rudolf Katz, Evgeny Sazonov THREE SWORDS FOR THE THREE Matvey Dubrovin AN UNEXPECTED TURN Maxim Gorky OLD MAN Dubrovin died in Leningrad on 22 October 1974. He was 63. Matvey Dubrovin Matvey Grigor'evich Dubrovin (; born July 12, 1911 in Saratov, Russian Empire – died October 22, 1974 in Leningrad, USSR). He is the founder of the Theater of Youth Creativity (or TYUT for short) in"
"by Christopher Plummer and in a Russian language mini-series broadcast in 2006, he was played by Roman Madyanov. There is another fictional portrayal of him the novel Dust and Ashes by Anatoly Rybakov. Viktor Abakumov Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov (; 24 April 1908 – 19 December 1954) was a high level Soviet security official from 1943 to 1946, the head of SMERSH in the USSR People's Commissariat of Defense, and from 1946 to 1951, Minister of State Security or MGB (ex-NKGB). He was removed from office and arrested in 1951, ostensibly for failing to investigate the Doctors' plot, and executed in"
"past thirty-three years. His poetry had also been set to music by numerous musicians. His last writings were letters to his daughter from his sickbed while he lay dying of liver cancer from April to September 1984. A minor planet 3260 Vizbor discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1974 is named after him. Yuri Vizbor Yuri Vizbor (; June 20, 1934 – September 17, 1984) was a well-known Soviet bard and poet as well as a theatre and film actor. Yuri Vizbor was born in Moscow where he lived for most of his life. He worked as a teacher,"
"outspokenly opposed to many of his teachings, and in recent years had grown envious of the attention which it seemed to her Tolstoy lavished upon his Tolstoyan ""disciples"". Tolstoy died of pneumonia at Astapovo train station, after a day's rail journey south. The station master took Tolstoy to his apartment, and his personal doctors were called to the scene. He was given injections of morphine and camphor. The police tried to limit access to his funeral procession, but thousands of peasants lined the streets. Still, some were heard to say that, other than knowing that ""some nobleman had died"", they"
"Alexander Palm Alexander Ivanovich Palm (Александр Иванович Пальм, 2 February [o.s. 21 January] 1822, Krasnoslobodsk, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire, - 22 [o.s. 10] November 1885, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, who also used the pseudonym P. Alminsky. A member of the Petrashevsky Circle, Palm in 1847 was arrested, spent 8 months in the Petropavlovsk Fortress, had his death sentence changed to deportation and served 7 years in the Russian Army. Among his best known works are ""Alexey Slobodin. The History of One Family"" (1874, novel) and ""Our Friend Neklyuzhev"" (1879, drama). Alexander Ivanovich Palm"
"the film porduction company Filmhouse Germany AG along with its subsidiaries, Summerstorm Entertainment and Egolli Tossel Film. He is also the founder of the film and documentation production company Hallmann Entertainment Company GmbH. Several movies of the above mentioned production companies, as well as their contributing actors, have received prestigious awards and nominations. In 2010 Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer were nominated at the 82nd Academy Awards and the 67th Golden Globe Awards for their performance in the movie ""The last station"". The movie and its contributors were nominated an additional 15 times and received a total of 3 awards."
"Stalin, who admired their films (he reportedly gave a print of ""Volga Volga"" as a present to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt) but frequently harassed the pair. Paradoxically, Aleksandrov found it harder to work in the more politically relaxed atmosphere that followed Stalin's death. He taught directing at VGIK from 1951 to 1957 and made several films about the years leading up to the Russian Revolution, including several about Vladimir Lenin. His last narrative feature was ""Skvorets i Lira"" (""Starling and Lyre"") (1973), which starred Orlova in her last role and was not released. Orlova died in 1975. In 1983,"
"play that was greatly popular in Soviet theaters. He was executed in 1939 during the Great Purge, and some sources claim that as the wife of an ""enemy of the people"" she was arrested and sent to the gulag, released only after the death of Joseph Stalin. Other sources state that she remained free and living in Moscow, aiding the war effort. It was in that city that she died. Lidiia Seifullina Lidiia (sometimes transcribed as Lydia or Lidia) Nikolaevna Seifullina (March 23, 1889 – April 25, 1954) was a Soviet journalist, playwright, novelist, and short story writer. Born near"
"just a year). Aleksandr Misharin died on April 13, 2008. He was buried at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery. Aleksandr Misharin (screenwriter) Aleksandr Nikolaevich Misharin () also known in English as Alexander Misharin (born 6 April 1939 — died 13 April 2008) was a Soviet - Russian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, actor and senior editor of Russian periodicals. An Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2000), he was a close friend of Andrei Tarkovsky with whom he wrote several screenplays, including Tarkovsky's celebrated masterpiece ""Mirror"". Aleksandr Misharin was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR into a mixed Russian-German family. His father served in the"
"film was based on a 1990 biographical novel by American writer Jay Parini, who in turn based his novel on, amongst others, the memoirs of Bulgakov. Valentin Bulgakov Valentin Fyodorovich Bulgakov (; 25 November 1886 in Kuznetsk, Russian Empire – 22 September 1966 in Yasnaya Polyana, Tula Oblast, Soviet Union) was the last secretary of Leo Tolstoy and his biographer. He was director of a number of literary museums and was engaged in Tolstoyan, pacifist, and anti-communist activities. He was imprisoned by both the Tsarist and Soviet regimes and was a Nazi concentration camp survivor. During the final 20 years"
"railway carriages... everywhere I can hear only 'Have you read Dostoevsky's last novel?'"" In 1872, Dostoevsky wrote to Yanovsky a letter in which he expressed his gratitude to the doctor and to the mate of his youth: ""You are one of the unforgettable people, one of those who echoed sharply in my life... Because you are a benefactor, you loved me and spent your time with me, with the one who had a soul illness (now I realize this), before my trip to Siberia, where I was cured... Sincerely yours till death..."" In 1855, Stepan Dmitrievich married an actress, Alexandra"
"he was murdered by NKVD agents who staged his suicide. In the mini-series Yesenin was portrayed by Sergey Bezrukov. Sergei Yesenin's final poem was a major inspiration for the Bring Me the Horizon song ""It Was Written In Blood"" on their album ""Suicide Season"". Yesenin is used a pseudonym for a fictional poet in ""The Book of Laughter and Forgetting"" by Milan Kundera ""Anna Snegina"" (Yesenin's poem translated into 12 languages; translated into English by Peter Tempest) Collection of Sergey Yesenin's Poems in English: Sergei Yesenin Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin (; sometimes spelled as Esenin; ; – 28 December 1925) was"
"birthday here. The spot was also used to hold Alexander Bashlachev, Russian poet and rock singer, commemoration meetings. In 1999 the Palace of Culture was closed down for renovation, which never took place. Abandoned after a destructive fire in 2005, it was bought and restored to its glory days and will open as the one and only luxury hotel under the name of The Official State Hermitage Museum in summer 2013. Pravda 10, St. Petersburg Pravda 10 is a landmark building of the notable area of Saint-Petersburg often referred to as Dostoevsky's St. Petersburg by locals. Over time it has"
"is to speak about Stalinism, then we are still digging down to the roots of the poisonous tree of totalitarianism, of which Stalin was the gardener. But this film is not about the roots and not about the gardener but rather about the green shoots sprouting in the evil shade of that tree and yet straining toward the light - about our generation."" Stalin's Funeral Stalin's Funeral () is a 1990 Soviet drama film written and directed by the famous poet, Yevgeni Yevtushenko. The film stars the British actress, Vanessa Redgrave. 1953, USSR. Moscow bids farewell to Joseph Stalin. In"
"occasioned a sentimental poem by Vasily Zhukovsky. He was the father of Generals Sergei Kamensky and Nikolai Kamensky. The British actress Dame Helen Mirren is his great-great-great-great-granddaughter. Another well-known descendant was historian A. A. Zimin. Mikhail Kamensky Count Mikhail Fedotovich Kamensky (; 19 May 1738 – 12 August 1809) was a Russian Field Marshal prominent in the Catherinian wars and the Napoleonic campaigns. Mikhail Kamensky served as a volunteer in the French army in 1758-1759. He then took part in the Seven Years' War. In 1783, Kamensky was appointed Governor General of Ryazan and Tambov guberniyas. During the war with"
"a freer press, the awakening of public opinion, the Pan-Slavism movement, the woman question, volunteering to aid Serbia in its military conflict with the Ottoman Empire in 1876 etc. These contemporary developments are hotly debated by the characters in the novel. The suburban railway station of Obiralovka, where one of the characters commits suicide, is now known as the town of Zheleznodorozhny, Moscow Oblast. Writing in the year 2000, academic Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit compares the different translations of ""Anna Karenina"" on the market. Commenting on the revision of Constance Garnett's 1901 translation she says: ""The revision (1965) ... by Kent &"
"The Last Metro The Last Metro () is a 1980 historical drama, written and directed by François Truffaut, that stars Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu. Opening in 1942 during the German occupation of France, it follows the fortunes of a small theatre in the Montmartre area of Paris which keeps up passive resistance by maintaining its cultural integrity, despite censorship, antisemitism and material shortages, to emerge triumphant at the war’s end. The title evokes two salient facts of city life under the Germans: fuel shortages led people to spend their evenings in theatres and other places of entertainment, but the"
"buried in its Eastern Cemetery. In 2007, a memorial plaque was unveiled commemorating her. Aleksandra Klimova Aleksandra Klimova (1 October 1921 - 13 May 2005) was a Soviet actress. Klimova was born in Zatolobovka in what was then the Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic and now Kostanay District of the Kostanay Region of Kazakhstan. From 1942 until 1945 she worked at the Magnitogorsk Theatre and in 1949 she attended M.S. Shchepkina Theatre School while working in Odessa. From 1953 to 1956 she worked in the Kharkov Russian Theatre after which she joined the Maxim Gorky National Academic Drama Theatre in"
"to his actor’s talent Yuvan Kyrlya was also a poet. Three books of his poetry saw the light, in his lifetime. Little is known about the last years of his life. There is a version that on 23 April 1937 he was arrested and sentenced to 10 years on charge of the “counter-revolutionary activity”. According to official data, Yuvan Kyrlya died in one of the Ural prison camps in July 1943. One of the streets of Ioshkar Ola was named after Yuvan Kyrlya in March 1969. Yvan Kyrlya Yvan Kyrlya (real name Kirill Ivanovich Ivanov) (; 17 March 1909, Kupsola"
"was filmed by director Marleen Gorris in 2008. The film features actress Emily Watson as Yevgenia Ginzburg, with Pam Ferris and Ben Miller in other roles. It was released in 2010. Yevgenia Ginzburg Yevgenia Solomonovna Ginzburg (December 20, 1904 – May 25, 1977) () was a Russian author who served an 18-year sentence in the Gulag. Her given name is often Latinized to Eugenia. Born in Moscow, her parents were Solomon Natanovich Ginzburg (a Jewish pharmacist) and Revekka Markovna Ginzburg. The family moved to Kazan in 1909. In 1920, she began to study social sciences at Kazan State University, later"
"fantastic events of the plot. Joseph Brodsky considers the work deeply suspicious of the meaning of language, especially political language. This exploration of meaninglessness is a hallmark of existentialism and absurdism. Brodsky commented ""Woe to the people into whose language Andrei Platonov can be translated."" A minor planet 3620 Platonov, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina in 1981 is named after him. Andrei Platonov Andrei Platonov (, ; – 5 January 1951) was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov (), a Soviet Russian writer, philosopher, playwright, and poet, whose works anticipate existentialism. Although Platonov was a Communist, most"
"in Ventura, California on 8 July 1992, at the age of 92. Elena Miramova Elena Miramova (27 May 1901 – 8 July 1992) was a Russian-born actress and playwright. Miramova was born in 1901 in Tsaritsyn, Russian Empire (currently, Volgograd, Russia), and emigrated to New York City with a brother who died when she was eleven years old. She worked at a nightgown factory to support herself until a wealthy family with an interest in theatre discovered her and helped put her through school. Samuel James Hume, who discovered Miramova, had been director of the Arts and Crafts Theatre in"