Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky was born on July 2, 1918 in Poltava, Ukraine. He was a composer, known for Anton Iwanowitsch ärgert sich (1941), Ukradene shchastia (1952) and Vesyolka (1959). He died on March 3, 1985 in Kyiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union [now Kyiv, Ukraine].