Alexander Matveyevich Ponyatov, born on March 25, 1892, and died on October 24, 1980, was an outstanding electrical engineer who made significant contributions to the development of magnetic sound and video recording tec…

Pyotr Nikolaevich Nesterov, born on February 15, 1887, in Nizhny Novgorod, was a Russian military pilot and staff captain, known as the founder of aerobatics for performing the "Nesterov loop." He died on August 26, 1914…

Alexander I Karageorgevich, born on December 4, 1888, and died on October 9, 1934, was the king of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes from 1921 to 1929, and then king of Yugoslavia until his death in 1934. He was assassinated i…

Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (May 3, 1848, Lopyal, Vyatka Province, July 23, 1926, Moscow) was a Russian painter and architect, specializing in historical and folklore painting. He became the founder of the "Neo-Russian…

John of Shanghai is one of the key figures of the first wave of Russian emigration. Archbishop John, in the world Mikhail Borisovich Maximovich, was born on June 4, 1896, in the village of Adamovka, Izium district of Kha…

Gala, whose real name was Elena Ivanovna Dykhanova, was born on August 26, 1894, in Kazan and died on June 10, 1982, in Port Lligat, Cadaqués, Spain. She was the wife of Paul Éluard, the lover of Max Ernst, and later bec…

Nikolai Alekseevich Klyuev, born on October 22, 1884, in the Koshtug volost of the Olonets province, was a Russian poet representing the new peasant direction in 20th-century poetry. His literary talent, often considered…

Nadezhda Vasilyevna Pleviskaya, born Vinnikova, was born on September 17, 1879, in the village of Vinnikovo, Kursk province, and passed away on October 1, 1940, in Rennes, Brittany. She was a Russian singer with a mezzo-…

Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov (November 13, 1810, Moscow, November 23, 1881, the village of Vishnya, now within the Vinnytsia region, Podolia province) was an outstanding Russian surgeon, anatomist, naturalist, and educator.…

Prince Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Tenishev, a renowned Russian ethnographer, archaeologist, and sociologist, was also a jurist and the founder of the Tenishev Real School in St. Petersburg. He came from the princely family o…