Kaminsky Alexander Stepanovich
Alexander Stepanovich Kaminsky was a Russian architect known for his works in the style of late eclecticism from the 1860s to the 1880s. He designed the first building of the Tretyakov Gallery, Tretyakovsky Passage, and …
Timofey Yashchik Xenofontovich
Timofey Yashchik was born on April 20, 1878, in the village of Novominskaya in Kuban. In 1900, he was drafted into the Yeisk regiment, stationed in Tiflis. Due to his impressive appearance, he was soon appointed to the E…
Ryabov Vasily Timofeevich
Hunter-scout Vasily Timofeevich Ryabov was born in 1871 and grew up in the village of Ivanovka in the Penza district of the Penza province. Although almost a century and a half has passed, his memory lives on. After bein…
Klement Arkadyevich Timiryazev
Klement Arkadyevich Timiryazev was an outstanding Russian naturalist, specializing in plant physiology and photosynthesis. He became one of the first popularizers of Darwin's theory of evolution in Russia, as well as a w…
Nikolai Leontovich
Born on December 13, 1877, in the village of Monastyrk in the Bratslav district of Podolia province to a rural priest's family. He spent his early years in the village of Shershni in the Tyvrov volost of the Vinnytsia di…
Petr Dmitrievich Baranovsky
Petr Dmitrievich Baranovsky was a renowned architect and restorer of ancient Russian architecture. He founded the first open-air museum in Russia in Kolomenskoye and the museum named after Andrei Rublev at the Andronikov…
Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya
Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya, born on June 18, 1884, in Yasnaya Polyana, Tula Province, and died on September 26, 1979, in Welly Cottage, New York, was the youngest daughter and secretary of Leo Tolstoy, as well as an autho…
Alexander Alekseevich Lokalov
Alexander Alekseevich Lokalov, born in 1831 and died in 1891, was a well-known manufacturer and entrepreneur. He was the eldest son of the serf peasant Alexei Vasilievich Lokalov from Velikoye. After his father's death, …
Alexey Vasilyevich Lokalov
Alexey Vasilyevich Lokalov was born into a serf family in the village of Velikoye in the Yaroslavl province. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but the confession records of the Nativity of the Mother of God Church …
Nikolai Nikitich Nikonov
Nikolai Nikitich Nikonov was one of the outstanding architects of St. Petersburg at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. He actively worked in the field of church architecture and held the position …
