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Ukrainian refugee - american style
Ukrainian refugee - american style
Depicted:
Nudie Cohn
Genre:
Documentary Photography
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Fair use
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Mura Zakrevska
Adventurer, double agent of the ODPU and English intelligence, countess, baroness, writer, diplomat, thief of hearts. An amazing woman who managed to live not one, but several lives at once. And she has several names: Maria Benckendorff, also known as Maria Budberg, also known as Mura Zakrevska.
Ivan Zavadsky
Born in 1780 near Hadyach in Poltava Oblast. He was a circumnavigator and polar explorer, cartographer, hydrographer, and collector of natural history collections. During 1819–1821, he served as deputy captain on the warship Vostok (Russian: Шкхид), which made a circumnavigation of the Southern Ocean in search of a route to the South Pole. This expedition was one of the first to discover Antarctica and the islands near it: the South Sandwich Islands, Alexander I, and Peter I. Since the days of Soviet historiography, Ivan Zavadovsky has been called a Russian, as has Lysyansky. Ivan Zavadovsky. Photo from open sources. One volcanic island was named in honor of Zavadovsky. In 2016, the government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands printed four postage stamps "Zavadovsky Island". Another island in the Western Ice Shelf near Antarctica was also named after him. In Oleksandr Dovzhenko's film story "Antarctica", Ivan Zavadovsky is one of the main characters.
Nudie Kon - Nudie and his Mandolin
Nudie Cohn on cover of Rolling Stone
Nudie Cohn and Elvis Presley
Nudie Cohn designed Elvis' famous gold suit featured on the album cover of "50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong."
Nudie Cohn and Roy Rogers
Nudie Cohn: The Rodeo Tailor
I greatly admire people that have designed creative lives for themselves. Customizing how you live, what you make, whom you make it for and with and especially— when it’s well crafted and beautifully designed.
Stoianov at the Batumi Classical Gymnasium
The first foreigner who boldly defended the rights of Georgians to their native language
A teacher, ethnographer, and defender of cultural heritage in the 19th century - Olexander Stoianov
Clarice Lispector
Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her distinctive and innovative works delve into diverse narrative forms, weaving themes of intimacy and introspection, earning her subsequent international acclaim. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine.