Soldatenkov Kozma Terentyevich
Kozma Terentyevich Soldatenkov was a well-known Moscow entrepreneur and textile manufacturer, as well as a major book publisher and owner of an art gallery. He was born in 1818 in Moscow to a family of Old Believer merch…
Savva Timofeevich Morozov
Savva Timofeevich Morozov (February 3 (15), 1862 - May 13 (26), 1905) was a well-known textile manufacturer and manufacturing advisor, as well as a major patron and member of the board of the Moscow Art Theatre.
He was …
Bakhrushin Alexey Alexandrovich
Alexey Alexandrovich Bakhrushin, a Russian merchant and hereditary honorary citizen, was known as a manufacturing advisor, patron, and collector of theatrical relics, as well as the founder of a private literary and thea…
Savva Vasilyevich Morozov
Savva Vasilyevich Morozov, a renowned Russian entrepreneur and philanthropist, was the founder of the Morozov dynasty. His family came from an Old Believer lineage that lived in the village of Zuevo in the Bogorodsky dis…
Nikolai Leontievich Shustov
Shustov cognac became one of the most famous brands of the Russian Empire, successfully competing with the best French alcoholic beverages.
The Shustov family, rising from peasants to nobility, gained fame even before t…
Nikolai Yaroshenko
The famous painter Nikolai Yaroshenko was called a general among the traveling artists by his contemporaries. He skillfully combined two completely different spheres: military service, through which he rose to the rank o…
Fedor Fyodorovich Ushakov
Today marks 275 years since the birth of the outstanding naval commander Fedor Fyodorovich Ushakov (1745, 1817). He was born in the village of Burnakovo near Rybinsk to a family of a retired sergeant of the guard. Since …
Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev
Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev, a Russian admiral and navigator, was one of the pioneers of Antarctica.
In 1775, English navigator James Cook claimed to have circumnavigated the Southern Hemisphere ocean at high latitudes an…
Andrusov Nikolai Ivanovich
The Andrusovs, descendants of the famous Troy researcher
Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered Troy, could not inspire his Russian wife with his work, but his daughter Nadezhda (1861, St. Petersburg, 1935, Lausanne) conti…
Princess Kira Kirillovna
March 12 marks the name day of Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna, Princess of Germany and Prussia.
Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna was born on May 9, 1909, in Paris and passed away on September 8, 1967, in Saint-Briac. She wa…
