"""Cocotina"" ('cocos' being the Spanish word for grinning face and applied to the coconut because of the three marks on its shell). Michael's Coco the Clown was inducted into the International Clown Hall of Fame in 1991. As well as Michael, Poliakoff had five other children with wife Valentina: Helen, Nadia, Sascha, Olga, and Tamara. Tamara was the founder, along with her husband Ali Hassani, of the first circus in the UK not to use performing animals. Nicolai Poliakoff Nicolai Poliakoff OBE (2 October 1900 – 25 September 1974) () () was the creator of Coco the Clown, arguably the"
"I am sure he would have done so much more."" President Shimon Peres stated ""Generations upon generations watched him and fell captive to his charm"". Yisrael Poliakov Yisrael ""Poli"" Poliakov (Hebrew: ישראל פוליאקוב) (July 7, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was an Israeli comedian and actor. Poliakov was born in Jerusalem, and grew up in Tel Aviv. He became one of the three members of the Israeli comedy group, HaGashash HaHiver (The Pale Tracker). Poliakov originally chose a career as a farmer and studied at the Kfar HaYarok agricultural high school. This changed when he was spotted at a school"
"Michael Polakovs Michael Polakovs (23 February 1923 – 6 December 2009), born in Riga, Latvia, was a circus clown who performed in the US under the name of Coco the Clown, a moniker that his father, Nicolai Poliakoff, had made famous in Europe. Michael was the eldest of Nicolai and his wife Valentina's two sons; they also had four daughters. Nicolai was offered a contract to tour the UK with the Bertram Mills Circus in 1930, which allowed him to bring his wife and their two elder children, Michael and his sister Helen, to England. The rest of the family"
"Yisrael Poliakov Yisrael ""Poli"" Poliakov (Hebrew: ישראל פוליאקוב) (July 7, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was an Israeli comedian and actor. Poliakov was born in Jerusalem, and grew up in Tel Aviv. He became one of the three members of the Israeli comedy group, HaGashash HaHiver (The Pale Tracker). Poliakov originally chose a career as a farmer and studied at the Kfar HaYarok agricultural high school. This changed when he was spotted at a school party by members of Nahal Brigade's entertainment troupe, and he was soon recruited by the group. In 1961, he joined the original singing band Hatarnegolim"
"2009 Michael Polakovs Michael Polakovs (23 February 1923 – 6 December 2009), born in Riga, Latvia, was a circus clown who performed in the US under the name of Coco the Clown, a moniker that his father, Nicolai Poliakoff, had made famous in Europe. Michael was the eldest of Nicolai and his wife Valentina's two sons; they also had four daughters. Nicolai was offered a contract to tour the UK with the Bertram Mills Circus in 1930, which allowed him to bring his wife and their two elder children, Michael and his sister Helen, to England. The rest of the"
"the playwright Stephen Poliakoff. He was appointed OBE in the 1982 New Year Honours. Alexander Poliakoff Alexander Poliakoff OBE (; 20 August 1910 – 26 July 1996) was a Russian-born British electronics engineer, inventor and businessman, the chairman of Multitone Electronics for over 40 years. Alexander Poliakoff was born in 1910 at his parents' country house at Losino-Ostrovskaya, near Moscow, the only son of Joseph Poliakoff, a Russian telephone and sound engineer and inventor, and Flora Shabbat, a granddaughter of a textile millionaire. In 1946, Poliakoff married Ina Montagu (died 1991), granddaughter of the banker Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling."
"Alexander Poliakoff Alexander Poliakoff OBE (; 20 August 1910 – 26 July 1996) was a Russian-born British electronics engineer, inventor and businessman, the chairman of Multitone Electronics for over 40 years. Alexander Poliakoff was born in 1910 at his parents' country house at Losino-Ostrovskaya, near Moscow, the only son of Joseph Poliakoff, a Russian telephone and sound engineer and inventor, and Flora Shabbat, a granddaughter of a textile millionaire. In 1946, Poliakoff married Ina Montagu (died 1991), granddaughter of the banker Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling. Their elder son is the chemist Sir Martyn Poliakoff, and their younger son is"
"of electrical devices whose many inventions included a selenium photograph telephony shutter in 1899 (US patent 700,100, 26 August 1901), which, along with electrical sound amplification, allowed for synchronised audio on film, the radio volume control, a magnetic induction loop that allowed hearing-impaired people to hear in auditoriums or theatres, and the paging beeper. He also founded the Multitone Electric Company of London in 1931 that produced hearing aid devices with their most prestigious client being Winston Churchill. All London except where otherwise stated: All (originally) made for British television unless otherwise stated. Poliakoff has received the following awards: Stephen"
"Joseph Poliakoff Joseph Lazarevich Poliakoff (; 24 April 1873 – 24 November 1959) was a Russian-born British telephone and sound engineer and inventor, particularly of hearing aids. Poliakoff was a Russian Jew who experienced first-hand the communist revolution in Russia from the family's Moscow flat across from the Kremlin. Near starvation after the revolution, he was given a government job as a district telephone inspector from an admiring commissar and he helped build Moscow's first automatic telephone exchange. He then fled with his family from the newly Stalinist Soviet Union to the UK in 1924. Poliakoff was a renowned inventor"
"Serge Polyanichko Serge Polyanichko (born September 12, 1974, Rostov-on-Don, USSR) is a Russian conductor, horn player and TV presenter, artistic Director and chief conductor of the unique in the world of (HOR), revived and enriched huge reservoir of Russian culture of the 18th and 19th centuries - s, which can be safely attributed to Russian national creativity along with well-known Russian Matryoshka doll. The son of the honored artist of Russia, conductor Maestro . Serge Polyanichko was born in September 12, 1974 in Russia. Serge Polyanichko began his training at (with professor Vitaly Bujanovsky), Polyanichko studied the French horn (with"
"it at the first opportunity. He participated repeatedly in the scoring works by contemporary composers, in particular, St. Petersburg composers of the ""Association of Russian Tradition"" he became the first performer of many works of Mikhail Zhuravlev, Vladimir Anisimoff, and others. At the moment widely known these records in the performance of the conductor Serge Polyanichko: Serge Polyanichko Serge Polyanichko (born September 12, 1974, Rostov-on-Don, USSR) is a Russian conductor, horn player and TV presenter, artistic Director and chief conductor of the unique in the world of (HOR), revived and enriched huge reservoir of Russian culture of the 18th and"
"had seven daughters, most from women he has not been married to. Three were born in Bulgaria and bear his family name, two were born in the United States, one in France and one in England. He died on 23 April 2012 in Sofia. Hacho Boyadzhiev Hacho Kirilov Boyadzhiev () (20 January 1932 – 23 April 2012) was a Bulgarian television and film director. He was probably best known as the director of the popular TV musical ""The Phoney Civilization"" (1974) as well as the director of the New Year's evening TV Variety-Shows broadcast by the national television. Boyadzhiev was"
"Samuel Polyakov Samuel (Shmuel) Polyakov (also Poliakoff, Poliakov, ) was a Russian businessman, informally known as the ""most famous railroad king"" of the Russian Empire, the senior member of the Polyakov business family, a philanthropist and a Jewish civil rights activist, co-founder of World ORT. Polyakov's business interests concentrated in southern Russia and Ukraine. By the time of his sudden death at the age of 50 he was credited with the construction of one quarter of Russia's railroads, his personal net worth was estimated at 31.4 million roubles. Samuel and his brothers, future bankers Lazar Polyakov and Yakov Polyakov, were"
"""The Periodic Table of Videos"". Poliakoff was born to an English mother, Ina (""née"" Montagu), and Russian-born father, Alexander Poliakoff (), both Jewish. His brother is the screenwriter and director, Stephen Poliakoff. Poliakoff's paternal grandfather, Joseph, was a prolific inventor of electrical devices who experienced the communist revolution in Russia first-hand, and later emigrated to the United Kingdom. Poliakoff was educated at Westminster School followed by King's College, Cambridge graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1969, and a PhD in 1973, for research supervised by J.J. Turner. While an undergraduate at Cambridge, Poliakoff met and became close friends with Tony"
"was chairman of Multitone Electronics for over 40 years, and his grandsons are the chemist Sir Martyn Poliakoff and the dramatist/director Stephen Poliakoff. Joseph Poliakoff Joseph Lazarevich Poliakoff (; 24 April 1873 – 24 November 1959) was a Russian-born British telephone and sound engineer and inventor, particularly of hearing aids. Poliakoff was a Russian Jew who experienced first-hand the communist revolution in Russia from the family's Moscow flat across from the Kremlin. Near starvation after the revolution, he was given a government job as a district telephone inspector from an admiring commissar and he helped build Moscow's first automatic telephone"
"Serge Poliakoff Serge Poliakoff (January 8, 1900 – October 12, 1969) was a Russian-born French modernist painter belonging to the 'New' Ecole de Paris (Tachisme). Serge Poliakoff was born in Moscow in 1900, the thirteenth of fourteen children. (Some sources claim that he was born in 1900, which in fact fits in better with his later history - 1906 would have him leaving home and earning his living as a musician at the age of 12.) His father, a Kyrgyz, supplied the army with horses that he bred himself and also owned a racing stable. His mother was heavily involved"
"Stephen Poliakoff Stephen Poliakoff, CBE, FRSL (born 1 December 1952) is a British playwright, director and scriptwriter. Poliakoff was born in the Holland Park district in west London to Anglo-Jewish and Russian-Jewish parents, Ina (née Montagu), and Russian-born Alexander Poliakoff. The second of four children, he was sent at a young age to boarding school, which he hated. He then proceeded to Westminster School where he attracted sufficient attention for ""Granny"", a play written and directed by him, to be reviewed in ""The Times"" newspaper. After Westminster, he went to King's College, Cambridge but never took a degree. Poliakoff continued"
"He told Block, ""I am a bad pianist and my voice is raspy. Why should one eternalize it?"" Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( ; , ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893), was a Russian composer of the romantic period, whose works are among the most popular music in the classical repertoire. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally, bolstered by his appearances as a guest conductor in Europe and the United States. He was honored in 1884 by Emperor Alexander III, and awarded a lifetime pension. Although musically precocious, Tchaikovsky"
"Yuri Nikolaev Yuri Alexandrovich Nikolaev (; born December 16, 1948, Chisinau) was a Soviet and Russian TV and radio host, actor. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia in 1998, and since 2007 has been a member of the Academy of Russian Television. On May 9, 2007 he was awarded the Order of Friendship via presidential decree, and was awarded the Order of Honour on January 14, 2014 ""for his great contribution in the development of national television, radio, print and many years of fruitful activity"". Nikolaev supports the Russian anti-LGBT propaganda law, which prohibits the ""propaganda"
"of non-traditional sexual relationships"". Yuri Nikolaev Yuri Alexandrovich Nikolaev (; born December 16, 1948, Chisinau) was a Soviet and Russian TV and radio host, actor. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia in 1998, and since 2007 has been a member of the Academy of Russian Television. On May 9, 2007 he was awarded the Order of Friendship via presidential decree, and was awarded the Order of Honour on January 14, 2014 ""for his great contribution in the development of national television, radio, print and many years of fruitful activity"". Nikolaev supports the Russian anti-LGBT propaganda law,"
"Dmitri Polyakov Dmitri Fyodorovich Polyakov () (6 July 1921 – 15 March 1988) was a Soviet Major General, a ranking GRU officer, and a prominent Cold War spy who revealed Soviet secrets to the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency. In the CIA, he was known by code names BOURBON and ROAM, while the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) knew him as TOPHAT (Top Hat). Born in Soviet Ukraine in 1921, he graduated from Sumy Artillery School in June 1941 and served as an artillery officer during World War II and was decorated for bravery. After the war and his"
"of electrical devices whose many inventions included a selenium photograph telephony shutter in 1899 (US patent 700,100, 26 August 1901), which, along with electrical sound amplification, allowed for synchronized audio on film, the radio volume control, a magnetic induction loop that allowed hearing-impaired people to hear in auditoriums or theatres, and the paging beeper. He also founded the Multitone Electric Company of London, England in 1931 that produced hearing aid devices, with their most prestigious client being Winston Churchill. Poliakoff was managing director until 1938. He married Flora Shabbat, a granddaughter of a textile millionaire. His son, Alexander Poliakoff (1910–1996)"
"Beecham, Fritz Reiner, Monteux and Ernst Ansermet. As assistant conductor to Andre Kostelanetz, Poliakin produced a series of albums for Everest Records in the 1950s. As overall music director, he planned the classical repertoire and supervised the actual recording sessions. In addition, he conducted his own fifty-four piece orchestra and twenty voice chorale, The Poliakin Orchestra and Chorale, which recorded arrangements of light orchestral music. In addition, he was a licensed amateur radio (ham radio) operator under the call sign K2AOS. Raoul Poliakin Raoul Poliakin (1917–1981) was an Egyptian-born American arranger and conductor of popular orchestral music. He appeared on"
"November 2016, its Foreign Secretary and vice-president. He is also the presenter of a YouTube educational series on chemistry, ""The Periodic Table of Videos"". Poliakoff's paternal grandfather, Joseph, was a Russian Jew who experienced first-hand the effects of the communist revolution in Russia from the family's Moscow flat across from the Kremlin. Near starvation after the revolution, he was given a government job as a district telephone inspector from an admiring commissar and he helped build Moscow's first automatic telephone exchange. He then fled with his family from the Soviet Union to the UK in 1924. Poliakoff was an inventor"
"so that he who doesn't know them doesn't know a large part of the culture that has sprouted here. Phrases such as, 'Drive in peace, the keys are inside,' 'There was an engine?' [referring to a mechanic who cheats a client], 'Israbluff' and many others that became part of our everyday language. Yisrael Poliakov died of cancer at the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in Petah Tikva on October 30, 2007, at the age of 66, following a two-week hospitalization for heart problems. Poliakov's coffin was taken to Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv for a public memorial service, and was buried"
"in person only once, leaving the protagonist disgusted and wishing to quit work for Polyakov forever. Mikhail Danilov, Polyakov's project manager, is a key supporting character of the plot. Samuel Polyakov Samuel (Shmuel) Polyakov (also Poliakoff, Poliakov, ) was a Russian businessman, informally known as the ""most famous railroad king"" of the Russian Empire, the senior member of the Polyakov business family, a philanthropist and a Jewish civil rights activist, co-founder of World ORT. Polyakov's business interests concentrated in southern Russia and Ukraine. By the time of his sudden death at the age of 50 he was credited with the"
"Boris Nikolaevich Poliakov Boris Nikolaevich Poliakov (; born May 17,1938 in Nizhny Tagil, Russia) is a Russian scientist, professor of Mechanical Engineering, and member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of the Russian Federation. Boris N. Poliakov is known for his work in the field of ferrous metallurgy. His areas of expertise include the theory and technologies of metal forming, metal elasticity and plasticity, and application of computer technology and mathematical modeling in computer-aided design and process optimization of hot rolling mills. Poliakov pioneered several advances in the metallurgy of the USSR, including the development and application of the first"
"trouncing the work of other composers. Of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto he wrote, ""Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, like the first pancake, is a flop."" Nicolai Soloviev Nicolai Feopemptovich Soloviev (Russian: Никола́й Феопе́мптович Соловьёв; Petrozavodsk, 9 May [O.S. 27 April] 1846 – 27 December [O.S. 14 December] 1916 in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg)), sometimes Solovyov, was a Russian music critic, composer, and teacher at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. His notable composition students include Samuel Maykapar, Mihkel Lüdig, Artur Lemba, and Peeter Süda. Soloviev composed several operas, an overture, the symphonic poem ""Russians and Mongols"", and assisted in the completion of"
"Nikolai Nikolev Nikolay Petrovich Nikolev (), (21 November 1758 – 5 February 1815), was a Russian poet and playwright. He was brought up and educated in the family of Princess Ekaterina Dashkova, his distant relation. As President of the Russian Academy, Dashkova secured his admission into the academy and helped popularize his tragedies and folk songs among the Russian elite. The poet went blind at the age of 20, after which his popularity soared and he came to be sentimentally styled a Russian Milton. Emperor Paul also treated Nikolev kindly and referred to him as ""L'aveugle clairvoyant"". Five volumes of"
"of the mountains and gorges of the Caucasus and the angelic and demonically seductive power of the title character. The narrative employs a wide musical range, with the composer supplying great subtlety within a satisfying structure. Mily Balakirev Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (, ; 2 January 1837 – ) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian composers, notably Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He began his career as a pivotal figure, extending the fusion of traditional folk music and experimental classical music practices begun by composer Mikhail"
"Nicolai Ghiaurov Nicolai Ghiaurov (or ""Nikolai Gjaurov"", ""Nikolay Gyaurov"", ) (September 13, 1929 – June 2, 2004) was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous basses of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful, sumptuous voice, and was particularly associated with roles of Mussorgsky and Verdi. Ghiaurov married the Bulgarian pianist Zlatina Mishakova in 1956 and Italian soprano Mirella Freni in 1978, and the two singers frequently performed together. They lived in Modena until Ghiaurov's death in 2004 of a heart attack. Ghiaurov was born in the small mountain town of Velingrad in southern Bulgaria."
"and television, he was leading at major concerts, including events, including the Muz-TV Award. Participates in advertising Tide. Aleksandr Pryanikov Aleksandr Alekseevich Pryanikov (; born November 19, 1969, Orenburg) is a Russian television and radio personality, showman. The winner of Ovation Award. He was born on November 19, 1969 in Orenburg. Mother Faina Yuryevna Pryanikova, pianist-accompanist; father Aleksei Ivanovich Pryanikov, teacher in the class of pipe. Both served in the Moscow Operetta Theater. He studied in high school, as well as in a music school for piano, which he did not finish (he left after the third grade). After graduation"
"enrichment. The theater takes pride in upholding the standards of creativity in the region and preserving the moral and aesthetic values through its theater productions. Nikolai Pogodin Nikolai Fyodorovich Pogodin () (pseudonym of Nikolai F. Stukalov) ( - 19 September 1962) was a Soviet playwright. His plays were recognized in Soviet Union theater for their realistic portrayals of common life combined with socialist and communist themes. He is most widely known as the author of a trilogy about Lenin, the first time Lenin was used as a character in any theatrical works. Pogodin was born Nikolai Stukalov in modern day"