Jean-Claude van Damme is a famous actor. When he was a child, he took ballet lessons, won different ballet competitions. Then a Paris ballet company gave him a job as a dancer, but he decided he wanted to work in films, so he didn't take the job. Instead, he went to the USA. In 1981 he travelled to Hollywood. He had English lessons and worked for a pizza house. That was how he made money. One night he met a film producer outside the restaurant. "Hello, I'm Jean-Claude van Damme, " he said. "I'll be an actor soon." The producer didn't believe him then. And he was wrong. Now there are few people in the world who don't know this actor.
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin is considered to be one of the greatest Russian poets of all times. He was a famous writer of Romantic era. Pushkin was born in 1799 and has lived a short but bright life. Many people regard him as the founder of Russian modern literature.
Pushkin was born in a noble family and his first poem was published when he was only 15. Although he was born in Moscow, he spent most of his youth in the village near St Petersburg, in Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. As a teenager he was already a recognized by the literary establishment of his lyceum. Some of Pushkin’s famous literary works have been numerously screened not only in Russia but also in some other countries.
