Everything seemed to me to see the famous cartoon "Shrek", the main character of the box, an ogre named Shrek.
This cartoon really liked my children. Therefore, we often watched and laughed at it and I didn’t even guess that this funny hero had a prototype.
On October 23, 1903, a boy was born into a Russianized French family living in the Urals, who was nicknamed “Angel” by his beautiful angel-like face, and was officially named Maurice by the name of Tiyet. His father was a railway engineer who moved to faraway Russia for a lucrative contract, and his mother was a school teacher.
This boy, at the age of 19, was diagnosed with acromegaly https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BA%D1%80%DBB%%00BB % D0% B0% D0% BB% D0% B8% D1% 8F . “Peers called me a monkey, and I was very upset. Who would like that? In order to escape from ridicule, I often went to the pier and spent all my free time near the water. The people who lived there didn’t care how I looked. ”
The disease progressed and the young man had to leave the law school. Then he decided to go to the fleet, where he mastered the engineering specialty.
“Maybe with such a face I could have become a lawyer, but my voice, like a donkey's roar, is simply impossible to listen to, so I went to the Navy.”
In 1937, Maurice met a professional wrestler, Carl Poglello, who persuaded him to take up this sport and later became a promoter of Tiye and a close friend.
Traveling around the countries, he still found his place in the US, in a short time, Maurice became a local celebrity, acting under the pseudonym "French Angel". This celebrity was distinguished by other talents, he played chess beautifully, acted in films, spoke fluently in 14 languages and had a great sense of humor.
Over time, health problems, constant headaches, excessive fatigue, and weakening of vision have been felt.
The best friend and promoter of Maurice Tiye, died of cancer on September 4, 1954, on the same day Tiye died of a heart attack, failing to survive the loss of a close friend.
There is a monument on their common grave: "And death is not able to separate friends." They are both buried in the Lithuanian National Cemetery in Justice, Cook County, Illinois, twenty miles from Chicago.
