Russia houses more than 100 different ethnic groups, representing a
multiplicity of national histories and cultures and distinct language
groups, including Indo-European Slavic, Turkic, Finno-Ugric and others.
Slavs account for about 75% of the total population.
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May 21, 1872: The birth date of Nadezhda Teffi, known simply as Teffi.
She was a Russian humorist writer.
Teffi is a pseudonym.
Her real name was Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lokhvitskaya.
Together with Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko she was one of the most prominent authors of the "Satiricon" magazine.
She had to leave Russia after the October Revolution, and died after the decades of immigration in Paris, France.
She is buried at Sainte-Genevive-des-Bois Russian Cemetery in France.
Margarita Borisovna Terekhova is a popular Russian actress best known for her roles
in "Zerkalo" (1975) by director Andrei Tarkovsky and in the popular TV series "The Dog in the Manger" (1977)
and "D'Artagnan and three musketeers " (1978).
She was born in Turinsk, Sverdlovsk region, USSR (now Russia).
From 1959 - 1961 she studied at Tashkent State University, then studied acting at Shchukin Theatrical School of Vakhtangov
Theatre in Moscow, graduating in 1964 as an actress.
Since 1964 Margarita Terekhova has been member of the troupe at Theatre of Mossoveta in Moscow.
There her stage partners were such actors as Faina Ranevskaya, Vera Maretskaya, Valentina Talyzina,
Olga Ostroumova, Larisa Kuznetsova, Rostislav Plyatt, Yuri Zavadsky, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Leonid Markov, Mikhail Kozakov, Sergei Yursky,
Valentin Gaft, Georgi Taratorkin, Anatoli Adoskin, 'Gennadi Bortnikov', Yevgeni Steblov and other notable Russian actors.
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