18 December
Dates in History
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1921Yury Nikulin, actor, clown, is born. One of the most popular Soviet/Russian comic actors, all his life Nikulin works as a clown in the Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, and in 1982 he becomes its director. He is known to every Russian as a movie character called Booby who appeared in several comedies along with Coward and Experienced. ![]()
1878Joseph Stalin (Dzhugashvili), Soviet leader, is born. | Stalin is responsible for the USSR becoming the country, which frightens everybody in the world; country where people are just “screws”, and there is no freedom. The period of his reign is sometimes referred to as the Epoch of Stalinism. ![]()
1876The first Russian political demonstration is held. | Workers and intellectuals gather in the Square before Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg and raise a red flag, which later becomes a revolutionary sign, for the first time in Russian history. ![]()
1870Nikolay Lossky, philosopher, is born. | Lossky is the creator of intuitionalism. In 1922 he is expelled from the Soviet Russia, he lives in Prague till 1945, then moves to the USA. |