Famous People with Name Slava

Slava Grigoryan            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Slava Grigoryan: is an Australian classical guitarist and recording artist. He was born in Kazakhstan to Edward and Irena Grigoryan, both professional violinists. His family emigrated to Australia in 1981 and he was raised in Melbourne

Slava Medvedenko            Origin/Culture/Country: Ukrainian

Slava Medvedenko: is a Ukrainian professional basketball player, who last played with the Atlanta Hawks in the National Basketball Association. His position is power forward.

Slava Kalistratovich Metreveli            Origin/Culture/Country: Armenian

Slava Kalistratovich Metreveli: was a Georgian football player and later a football manager.He played for Soviet Union national team (48 matches/11 goals), and was a participant at the 1962 FIFA World Cup, 1966 FIFA World Cup, 1970 FIFA World Cup and at the 1960 UEFA European Football Championship, where the Soviet Union won the gold medal. In the latter, Metreveli scored in the final against Yugoslavia as they won 2-1.

Slava Raškaj            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Slava Raškaj: was a painter considered to be the greatest Croatian watercolorist of the late 19th and early 20th century. Deaf since birth, Raškaj was schooled in Vienna and Zagreb, where her mentor was the Croatian painter Bela Cikoš Sesija. In the 1890s her works were exhibited around Europe, including at the 1900 Expo in Paris. In her twenties Raškaj was diagnosed with acute depression and was institutionalised for the last three years of her life before dying in 1906 from tuberculosis in Zagreb. The value of her work was largely overlooked by art historians in the following decades, but in the late 1990s and early 2000s interest in her work was revived. In the late 1890s she started painting en plein air, depicting outdoor scenes from the Zagreb Botanical Garden, Maksimir Park and other parks in the city, featuring somewhat lighter tones and colors. In 1899 she returned to her hometown of Ozalj and continued to paint outdoors, which was also unusual at the time. Her most valuable paintings were all created in the 1890s, including works such as Self-portrait, Spring in Ozalj, The Old Mill and others. Her works were first publicly exhibited at the Art Pavilion in Zagreb soon after it opened in 1898, where six of her watercolors were presented along with the works of renowned painters such as Menci Klement Crncic and Vlaho Bukovac. Her paintings were also exhibited in Saint Petersburg, in Moscow and at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900, where five of her paintings were shown.