Oleg Ryaskov is a director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Moscow into a family of engineers. Oleg Ryaskov studied at Moscow architecture University. During his studies, he began to work in cinema and TV. His career began with Vladislav Listyev in the TV show TEMA. In 1992 he made the TV Show Nostalgie. He worked as a chief Director of the TV channel Stolica, then chief Director at the morning channel TV6, conducted a survey as directed more than 20 ballet performances in the theater of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich Danchenko. Supervised cycle of documentary films Mysteries of the Century channel 1 (Russia). From 2002 Oleg Ryaskov specializes in historical movies. The most famous of his movies is The Sovereign's Servant, shown in more than 20 countries and has participated in international festivals in presenting his films in Italy, Sweden, Holland, Russia. Now he started new historical movie The king of Madagascar.