Marietta Shaginyan
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Marietta Sergeevna Shaginian ' onMouseout='HidePop("28438")' href="/topics/Moscow">Moscow
- March 20, 1982, Moscow
) was a Soviet writer and public activist. She was one of the outstanding communist female-authors with broad philosophical and social views.
Shaginian authored the novels Mess-Mend (1922), Three Looms (1929), Hydrocentral (1930–31), memoirs and encyclopedical works. For her novels about Lenin's life and activities she was awarded the Lenin Prize
in 1972. Marietta spent a lot of time in Koktebel, Crimea, where she had bought a summer house for her family. The Russian Bohemian Elite gathered in Koktebel every summer and stayed until September, spending time at the Voloshin house. Marietta's daughter Mirelle Shaginian is a painter. Her husband Victor Tsigal
was a famous Russian painter and sculptor. Their son Serega Tsigal is a celebrated artist in Moscow. His wife Lubov Polishuk was one of Russia's most famous actresses. The Shaginian-Tsigal family is well-known in Russia and the post Soviet Union Countries. Serega's daughter Marietta Tsigal followed her mother's steps into acting. She was named after her great grandmother. Marietta Shaginian has two great great grandchildren Anastasia Shaginian and her brother Andrei.
A minor planet
2144 Marietta
discovered in 1975 by Soviet
astronomer Lyudmila Chernykh
is named in her honor.
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
- March 20, 1982, Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
) was a Soviet writer and public activist. She was one of the outstanding communist female-authors with broad philosophical and social views.
Shaginian authored the novels Mess-Mend (1922), Three Looms (1929), Hydrocentral (1930–31), memoirs and encyclopedical works. For her novels about Lenin's life and activities she was awarded the Lenin Prize
Lenin Prize
The Lenin Prize was one of the most prestigious awards of the USSR, presented to individuals for accomplishments relating to science, literature, arts, architecture, and technology. It was created on June 23, 1925 and was awarded until 1934. During the period from 1935 to 1956, the Lenin Prize was...
in 1972. Marietta spent a lot of time in Koktebel, Crimea, where she had bought a summer house for her family. The Russian Bohemian Elite gathered in Koktebel every summer and stayed until September, spending time at the Voloshin house. Marietta's daughter Mirelle Shaginian is a painter. Her husband Victor Tsigal
Victor Tsigal
Victor Efimovich Tsigal was born into a Jewish family in Odessa in 1916.He became a noted painter and produced a large body of work in the socialist realist style.Tsigal was commissioned to design the new Soviet Rouble bank note which was issued in 1961...
was a famous Russian painter and sculptor. Their son Serega Tsigal is a celebrated artist in Moscow. His wife Lubov Polishuk was one of Russia's most famous actresses. The Shaginian-Tsigal family is well-known in Russia and the post Soviet Union Countries. Serega's daughter Marietta Tsigal followed her mother's steps into acting. She was named after her great grandmother. Marietta Shaginian has two great great grandchildren Anastasia Shaginian and her brother Andrei.
A minor planet
Minor planet
An asteroid group or minor-planet group is a population of minor planets that have a share broadly similar orbits. Members are generally unrelated to each other, unlike in an asteroid family, which often results from the break-up of a single asteroid...
2144 Marietta
2144 Marietta
2144 Marietta is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 18, 1975 by L. I. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. It is named for Soviet writer Marietta Shaginyan.- External links :...
discovered in 1975 by Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
astronomer Lyudmila Chernykh
Lyudmila Chernykh
Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh is a Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet astronomer.In 1959 she graduated from Irkutsk State Pedagogical University. Between 1959 and 1963 she worked in the 'Time and Frequency Laboratory' of the All-Union Research Institute of Physico-Technical and Radiotechnical Measurements...
is named in her honor.
Books
- Retracing Lenin's Steps, by Marietta Shaginyan, International Law and Taxational Publishers, USA, 2001, 244 p., ISBN 0898752310