Yevgeny Ponasenkov

In 2018, Ponasenkov got the popular Russian mocking award VRAL, presented "for outstanding contribution to the development and dissemination of pseudoscience". While working on the award, the organizers were faced with attacks by bots and trolls.

He is starred in Boris Godunov and Shadowboxing 3: Last Round (2011).

Since 2004, he regularly gives concerts as a singer (tenor), and as a reader of poetry and prose. In addition, he participates in concerts as a host and a presenter.

In 1999–2004 he studied history at Moscow State University (by his own words did not graduate), specializing in the history of the Napoleonic Wars, under guidance from Elena Fedosova.

Yevgeny Nikolayevich Ponasenkov (Russian: Евгений Николаевич Понасенков ; born March 13, 1982, Moscow, Russia) is a Russian self-proclaimed historian, political writer, journalist, theater director, television host, actor and singer. He was a member of the public organization Russian Academy of Sciences and Arts (fringe organization, liquidated in 2018; not to be confused with the Russian Academy of Sciences). He is the author of works on the Napoleonic Wars (especially book The first scientific history of the War of 1812). Ponasenkov is an organizer of cultural events.

Born March 13, 1982 in Moscow, in the family of a military doctor, his mother worked as an engineer.

He makes presentations at scientific conferences. He and wrote a book about the War of 1812. Due to a scheduling conflict, he did not defend his diploma at the university; therefore it was not issued.

The views of Ponasenkov on the Patriotic War of 1812 were almost unanimously rejected by the Russian scientific community.