The Scarlet Sails (Russian: Алые паруса ) is a celebration in St. Petersburg, Russia, the most massive and famous public event during the White Nights Festival.
 The tradition is highly popular for its spectacular fireworks, numerous music concerts, and a massive water show.
 The Scarlet Sails show celebrating the end of the 2007 school year was attended by more than one million people.
 In 2010, public attendance grew to 3 million, and entertainers were such stars as the Cirque du Soleil, Mariinsky Ballet and Antonio Banderas, among others.
Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Rus', the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union.
 The roots of Russian literature can be traced to the Middle Ages, when epics and chronicles in Old Russian were composed.
 By the Age of Enlightenment, literature had grown in importance, and from the early 1830s, Russian literature underwent an astounding golden age in poetry, prose and drama.
 Romanticism permitted a flowering of poetic talent: Vasily Zhukovsky and later his protégé Alexander Pushkin came to the fore.
 Prose was flourishing as well.
 The first great Russian novelist was Nikolai Gogol.
 Then came Ivan Turgenev, who mastered both short stories and novels.
 Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky soon became internationally renowned.
 In the second half of the century Anton Chekhov excelled in short stories and became a leading dramatist.
 The beginning of the 20th century ranks as the Silver Age of Russian poetry.
 The poets most often associated with the "Silver Age" are Konstantin Balmont, Valery Bryusov, Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Nikolay Gumilyov, Osip Mandelstam, Sergei Yesenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak.
 This era produced some first-rate novelists and short-story writers, such as Aleksandr Kuprin, Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin, Leonid Andreyev, Fyodor Sologub, Aleksey Remizov, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Andrei Bely.
Natalya Sergeyevna Bondarchuk (Russian: Наталья Серге́евна Бондарчук ) (born May 10, 1950) is a Soviet and Russian actress and film director, best known for her appearance in Andrei Tarkovsky's "Solaris" as "Hari".
 She is the daughter of the Ukrainian director and actor Sergei Bondarchuk and the Russian actress Inna Makarova.
 Her half-brother is the film director and actor Fedor Bondarchuk; her half-sister is the actress Yelena Bondarchuk.
Soldiers of Freedom (Russian: Солдаты свободы ) is a four-part 1977 film epic directed by Yuri Ozerov and starring Mikhail Ulyanov, Yevgeny Matveyev, Vasily Lanovoy.
 It is a World War II historical drama and the sequel to "Liberation".
Gia Skova (born July 13, 1991) is a Russian actress and model, now living in the United States.
 She has appeared on numerous fashion magazine covers around the world, adorned the runway for designers such as Stella McCartney and Marc Jacobs, been featured in print and commercial advertisements for internationally recognized brands such as L'Oreal and Red Bull, and been cast in television series, films and theatrical productions.
 In 2012 she was noted in a celebrity magazine as the most recognized Russian actress in Hollywood.
Anastasiya Alexandrovna Vertinskaya (Russian: Анастаси́я Алекса́ндровна Верти́нская , born 19 December 1944, Moscow, Soviet Union), is a Soviet and Russian actress, who came to prominence in the early 1960s with her acclaimed performances in "Scarlet Sails", "Amphibian Man" and Grigori Kozintsev's "Hamlet".
 In the 1990s, disillusioned with the state of cinema at home, she went abroad to teach and spent 12 years in France, England, the United States and Switzerland.
 In 1988 Vertinskaya was designated a People's Artist of Russia.
 She is also a recipient of the Order of Honour (2005) and the Order of Friendship (2010).
Scarlet Sails (Russian: Алые паруса, "Alye parusa" ) is a 1961 Soviet film produced by Mosfilm and directed by Alexandr Ptushko.
 It is based on Alexander Grin's 1923 adventure novel of the same name and stars Vasily Lanovoy and Anastasiya Vertinskaya.
 The story is a romantic fantasy and is described as a "fairy tale", though it contains no overtly supernatural elements.
Vasily Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (Russian: Васи́лий Ива́нович Немиро́вич-Да́нченко , born 23 December (4 January), 1845, Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia), Russian Empire – died 18 September 1936, Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a Russian writer, essayist, journalist, memoirist, and the brother of famous theater director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko.
 Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko, the most prolific Russian Empire writer of the late 19th-early 20th century, published more than 250 books; he was widely popular among the general reading public, but had little success with mainstream critics.
Vasily Semyonovich Lanovoy (Russian: Василий Семенович Лановой ; born 16 January 1934) is a popular Soviet and Russian actor who works in the Vakhtangov Theatre, Moscow.
 He is also known as the President of Artek Festival of Films for Children.
 Lanovoy's honours include the KGB Prize, the Lenin Prize, and the title of People's Artist of the USSR.
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina (Russian: Лидия Николаевна Федосеева-Шукшина ) (born 25 September 1938 in Leningrad) is a Russian actress and widow of writer, actor and director Vasily Shukshin.
 She is the mother of actress and TV presenter Maria Shukshina.

Question: Scarlet Sails stars Vasily Lanovoy and this Russian actress who came was born in what year?
Answer: 1944