There are many famous people in our republic. Among them you can find the names of politicians and public figures, intellectuals and scientists, heroes of war and labour, sportsmen and artists. First of all I'd like to mention the name of our outstanding national writers Yanka Kupala and Yakub Kolas. They created a new Belarusian Literature and a Belarusian literatury language. Both are considered to be the classics of Belorusian literature. These names are followed by a number of other well-known writers and poets, such as K. Krapiva, Chorny, Brovka, Shamyakin, Tank, Bykov, Korotkevich, Gilevich, Loyka, Adamovich known both in our country and abroad. Their works are translated into many European languages.
Maya Plisetskaya was born on 20th of November in1925, in Moscow. When she was young she wanted to become a dramatic actress like her mum. In addition, she loved to participate in different perfomances as a child. When she was five years old she first visited theatre and she was very impressed by a play of actors. Her first visit to the theatre, when she was five, However, her destiny was to become a legend of ballet. As she wrote in her book, when she was already an adult, that ballet for her was work and her hobby was architecture. Maya Plisetskaya was the first woman who invented a jump in ballet terminology called "ring". If I am not wrong, she was the first ballerina in the world who danced 70 years on the stage. She was a phenomenon.
