Olga Dmitrievna Mendeleeva
Olga Dmitrievna Mendeleeva, in marriage Triorogova, was the daughter of a marriage with Feozva Nikitichna. She barely survived the revolutionary events of 1917 and, leaving her plundered Aryash estate, took her daughter …
Nikolai Alexandrovich Bugrov
Nikolai Alexandrovich Bugrov (1837, 1911), the younger representative of a well-known family of Nizhny Novgorod merchants of the Old Believers, descended from the peasant class of the Semenovsky district, was a grain ind…
Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov
Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov was born on January 15, 1826, into an old noble family in his parents' estate in the village of Spas-Ugol, Kalazin district, Tver province. In 1844, he graduated from the lyceum, taking seco…
Alexander I Pavlovich Romanov
Alexander I was born on December 12, 1777. His father was Emperor Paul I. Immediately after his birth, the Empress took her grandson for upbringing, deciding that she would make him an ideal ruler. Initially, Alexander b…
Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Lermontov was born in Moscow into the family of a landowner, Captain Yuri Petrovich Lermontov and Maria Mikhailovna, née Arsenyeva. After the early death of his mother, his upbringing was taken over by his matern…
Varvara Dmitrievna Rimskaya-Korsakova
Varvara Dmitrievna Rimskaya-Korsakova, who served as the prototype for one of the heroines in Leo Tolstoy's novel "Anna Karenina," was a vibrant figure in the high society of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Even haughty Paris…
Nikolai Lvovich Galsky
Nikolai Lvovich Galsky was twice elected as the head of the county nobility, chaired the county zemstvo assembly, and was the chairman of the county school council. In 1900, he married Maria Alexeyevna Shitova, the daugh…
Apolinary Vasnetsov
Apolinary Mikhailovich Vasnetsov was born on August 6, 1856, in the village of Rubtsovo. His father, Mikhail Vasilyevich Vasnetsov, was an Orthodox priest from an ancient Vyatka family. At the age of 13, Apolinary became…
Romanov Sergey Alexandrovich
He was born in Tsarskoye Selo to Alexander II and Maria Alexandrovna as their fifth son. He participated in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 and 1878. From February 1887, he headed the Life Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment. F…
Andrei Grigoryevich Gagarin
Alexander Grigoryevich Gagarin was born on December 22, 1855, in St. Petersburg. His father, Grigory Grigoryevich Gagarin, was a well-known amateur artist, court chamberlain, and vice-president of the Imperial Academy of…
