Did Benjamin Stoloff and Karel Kachyňa come from the same country?
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Benjamin Stoloff Benjamin "Ben" Stoloff (October 6, 1895 – September 8, 1960) was an American film director and producer. He began his career as a short film comedy director and gradually moved into feature film directing and production later in his career. Stoloff was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died in Hollywood, California.
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Karel Kachyňa Karel Kachyňa (1 May 1924 – 12 March 2004) was a Czech film director. His career spanned over five decades. Kachyňa was part of the Czech wave of liberal filmmakers in the 1960s which included Miloš Forman and Jiří Menzel. He was married to Alena Mihulová. They had one daughter, Karolína, together. He was born in Vyškov, Czechoslovakia and died in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Pavel Svinyin Pavel Petrovich Svinyin or Svinin (Павел Петрович Свиньин; 19 June 1787 - 21 April 1839) was a prolific Russian writer, painter, and editor known as a "Russian Munchausen" for many exaggerated accounts of his travels. He was Appolon Maykov's brother-in-law and Aleksey Pisemsky's father-in-law.
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Władysław Santarius Władysław Santarius (also known as Vladislav Santarius) (12 November 1915 in Stonava, Austrian Silesia – 5 June 1989 in Havířov, Czechoslovakia) was a Polish Lutheran Evangelical pastor, one of the most significant Christian leaders in Czechoslovakia during the Communist era. He was leader of revivalist movement in Cieszyn Silesia and because of it he was persecuted (but never jailed).
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Joe Karafiát Joe Karafiát (born 1957 in Prague) is a Czech singer and guitarist. In 1980, he emigrated from Czechoslovakia to London and he left England after two years. Settled in Canada, he played with various musicians and also recorded an album with another Czech musician Vratislav Brabenec. After the Velvet Revolution, he returned to Prague, where became a member of Garage. In 1997, he joined The Plastic People of the Universe. In 2014, he released debut EP called "Zodiak", which was produced by Boris Carloff. Same year, he guested on "Dva divoký koně" by Czech singer Dáša Vokatá.
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Karin Smirnov Karin Smirnov or Smirnoff, née Strindberg (26 February 1880 – 10 May 1973) was a Finland-Swedish writer. She was the daughter of August Strindberg and Siri von Essen.
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Benjamin Ziervogel Benjamin Ziervogel, born on April 1983 in Klagenfurt, Austria, is an Austrian violinist. Since 2002, he is a concertmaster of RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra. He performs as concert soloist and a chamber musician as well.
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Petro Stojan Petro Evstaf'evic Stojan (Russian: Пётр Евстафьевич Стоян , also known by the pseudonyms Ribaulb, Radovich and Šulerc) (June 22, 1884 in Izmail, Bessarabia — May 3, 1961 in Nice) was a Russian esperantist, bibliographer and lexicographer and a member of the Esperanto Language Committee ("Lingva Komitato") from 1914.
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Jan Svochak Jan Svochak (July 7, 1925 – September 6, 2006) was a master animator who worked in the animation industry from the late 1940s through the 1990s. He was born in Czechoslovakia in 1925. He started out as an inbetweener for Martin Taras on the "Baby Huey", "Little Audrey", and "Herman & Katnip" shorts. Some of the studios he worked with were: Famous, Pelican, Elektra, Zanders, Perpetual Motion Pictures, Buzzco, J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc. His biggest success came in the 1960s when he began animating the "Punchy" character for the Hawaiian Punch ad campaign.
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Karel Absolon Karel Absolon (June 16, 1877 – October 6, 1960) was a Czech archaeologist, geographer, paleontologist, and speleologist. He was born in Boskovice.
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George de Godzinsky George de Godzinsky (5 July 1914, Saint Peterburg, Russia — 23 May 1994, Helsinki, Finland) was a Russian-Finnish composer and conductor. Godzinsky is known from his Schlager music although he composed music for movies and operettas.
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Kārlis Hūns Kārlis Jēkabs Vilhelms Hūns, also known as Karl Jacob Wilhelm Huhn (Russian: Карл Фёдорович Гун; 13 November 1831, Madliena, Governorate of Livonia – 28 January 1877, Davos, Switzerland) was a Baltic-German history, genre and landscape painter.
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Alexander Elenkin Alexander Alexandrovich Elenkin (1873–1942, Russian: Еленкин, Александр Александрович ) was a Russian lichenologist. He was born in Warsaw and took his degree in Botany at the University of Warsaw, graduating in 1893. He became an assistant there in 1898. The next year he became conservator and director of the Cryptogamic Department at the Imperial Botanic Garden of St Petersburg. In 1931 the Botanic Garden was merged into the Botanical Institute and he became a professor there. He is known as the "father of Russian lichenology" and wrote many works on the subject. He died in Russia, either in Kazan or St Petersburg.
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Karel Franta Karel Franta (1 May 1928 – 19 July 2017) was a Czech painter and illustrator.
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Alexander Stolbov Alexander Sergeevich Stolbov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Столбо́в ; born 5 June 1929) is a Soviet Russian painter and art teacher, living and working in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad). He is a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 named as the Leningrad branch of the Union of Artists of Russian Federation), regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most known for his portraits.
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Benjamin Vanninen Benjam "Benjamin" Vanninen (29 June 1921 – 22 July 1975) was a Finnish cross-country skier. He won a bronze medal in the 50 km event at the 1948 Winter Olympics, 20 seconds ahead of his elder brother Pekka. Vanninen never won a Finnish title, but won the 50 km race at the Lahti Ski Games in 1946 and 1948 and at Ounasvaara in 1946 and 1947. After retiring from competitions he worked as a customs officer, merchant, and manufacturer of skating equipment and ski wax.
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Boris Souvarine Boris Souvarine, also known as Varine (born Boris Konstantinovich Lifschitz, Russian: Бори́с Константи́нович Ли́фшиц ; 1895 in Kiev – 1 November 1984 in Paris), was a French Marxist, communist activist, essayist, and journalist.
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Elina Kahla Elina Kahla is a Finnish philologist and academic who works at the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki. She was the former President of the St. Petersburg EUNIC in 2015-2016 and Director of the Finnish Institute in St. Petersburg in 2012-2016.
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Teffi Teffi (Russian: Тэ́ффи ) (21 May [O.S. 9 May] 1872 , Saint Petersburg – 6 October 1952, Paris) was a Russian humorist writer. Teffi is a pseudonym. Her real name was Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya (Наде́жда Алекса́ндровна Лoхви́цкая), and after her marriage Nadezhda Alexandrovna Buchinskaya (Бучи́нская). Together with Arkady Averchenko she was one of the most prominent authors of the magazine "Satiricon". Her year of birth varies in the range 1871–1876 in various sources. The most recent findings suggest May 1872. Teffi's sister Mirra Lokhvitskaya (1869–1905) was a notable Russian poet.
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Vsevolozhsk Vsevolozhsk (Russian: Все́воложск ; ] ; Finnish: "Seuloskoi" or "Rääpyvä ") is a town and the administrative center of Vsevolozhsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Karelian Isthmus 24 km east of St. Petersburg. Population:  (2010 Census) ;  (2002 Census) ;  (1989 Census)
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František Křižík František Křižík (July 8, 1847, Plánice, Bohemia – January 22, 1941, Stádlec; ] ) was a Czech inventor, electrical engineer, and entrepreneur.
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Anatoli Vasiliev Anatoli Ilych Vasiliev (Russian: Анато́лий Ильи́ч Васи́льев ; 18 March 1917, Petrograd (former Saint Petersburg), Russian Empire – June 4, 1994, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation) was a Russian and Soviet realist painter, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 named as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), and regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his historical paintings and etudes done from nature.