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Dates in History
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2007—First President of Russia Boris Yeltsin died The first Presedent of Russia Boris Yeltsin died of heart failure 
1891—Sergey Prokofyev, composer, is born. | At the age of six Sergey Prokofyev writes cycles of piano pieces, at the age of nine he writes a children opera. In 1922 he moves to Germany, and in 1923 to France. In 1933 he returns to Russia. Here he creates his best works: ballets “Romeo and Juliet” (1935) and “Cinderella” (1944); children fairy tale for an elocutionist and an orchestra “Peter and Wolf” (1936); soundtracks to the films “Lieutenant Kizhe” (1934), “Alexander Nevsky” (1938), and “Ivan the Terrible” (1945). |
