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unusual facts about Taras Bulba-Borovets


Taras Bulba-Borovets

From 1943 the Polisska Sich became known as the Ukrainian National Revolutionary Army and the insurgency was directed according to the plan of the General Command of the UNR.


Borovec

Borovets, a mountain resort situated in the Province of Sofia

Claudia Cassidy

She was unfailingly critical of the great Czech conductor Rafael Kubelík, described Janáček's orchestral work Taras Bulba as "trash" and even called Bartók's classic Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta a "potboiler".

Igor Kornelyuk

Igor Kornelyuk wrote more than 200 popular songs, many of which were recorded by popular Russian singers like Mikhail Boyarsky, Anne Veski, Edita Piekha and Philipp Kirkorov, and he wrote the soundtracks for some of the most renowned Russian films and TV-series directed by Vladimir Bortko like Gangsters of Saint-Petersburg, The Idiot, The Master and Margarita and Taras Bulba.

Mykola Lysenko

Lysenko wrote a number of operatic works, including Natalka Poltavka, Utoplena (The Drowned Woman, after Gogol's May Night) and Taras Bulba.

Sobor on the Blood

In fact Yevhen Konovalets and Andriy Melnyk, Stepan Bandera and Andrey Sheptytsky, Taras Bulba-Borovets and Roman Shukhevych lived and acted in a difficult situation of the grandiose geo-political conflict between Hitlerite Reich, Joseph Stalin Empire and the western democracies.

Vitina Marcus

She appeared in numerous television shows throughout the 1950s and '60s, sometimes billed as Dolores Vitina. She was cast in Irwin Allen's 1960 production of The Lost World, as well as Taras Bulba with Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner.

Vladimir Gilyarovsky

Gilyarovsky treasured his partly Cossack descent: as a young man, he posed for one of the Cossacks depicted on Repin's huge canvas Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks; he was also a model for Taras Bulba, whose figure is part of the Gogol Monument in Moscow.

Wilfried Pallhuber

in the 1993 World Championships in Borovets he won a gold medal with the Italian relay team together with Johann Passler, Pier Alberto Carrara and Andreas Zingerle


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