Ivan Petrovich Myatlev
Ivan Petrovich Myatlev was born on January 28 (February 8) 1796 in St. Petersburg into a wealthy noble family. His father, P. V. Myatlev, was a well-known Petersburg millionaire and headed the State Assignation Bank, as …
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born into a Moscow noble family, where he had a brother, Lev, and a sister, Olga. In the summer, he often visited his grandmother in the village of Zakharovo near Moscow, where his upbri…
Natalia Nikolaevna Goncharova
Natalia Nikolaevna Goncharova, also known as Pushkina Lansky, was born on September 8, 1812, in the Karyan estate of the Tambov province. Her family, the noble Goncharovs, was forced to leave Moscow due to Napoleon's inv…
Natalia Petrovna Golitsyna
Princess Natalia Petrovna Golitsyna, born Chernyshova, was born on January 17, 1741 or 1744 in Berlin and died on December 20, 1837 in St. Petersburg. She was a lady-in-waiting at the court of five emperors, a stately da…
Pyotr Dmitrievich Yeropkin
Pyotr Dmitrievich Yeropkin (1724, 1805) was a significant Russian military and state figure from the Yeropkin family. He participated in the Seven Years' War and held the position of senator. In 1786 and 1790, he was the…
Vladimir Platonovich Sukachyov
Vladimir Platonovich Sukachyov was born on July 14, 1849, in Irkutsk, into the family of a civil servant of the Main Administration of Eastern Siberia, Collegiate Councillor Platon Petrovich Sukachyov and Agrafena Nikano…
Vladimir Alexandrovich Sokolovsky
Vladimir Alexandrovich Sokolovsky (May 1, 1874 - February 24, 1959) was a Russian and Soviet engineer-architect. He was born in May 1874 in the Vitebsk province to a Polish family. After losing his parents at an early ag…
Vasily Shukshin
Outstanding Russian actor, director, and writer Vasily Makarovich Shukshin was born on July 25, 1929, in the Altai village of Srostki. He lost his father, Makar Shukshin, early on; his father was shot in 1933 on false po…
The Military Path of M.I. Platov
Matvey Ivanovich Platov was born on August 19, 1753, in Cherkassk, the capital of the Don Cossacks, now known as the stanitsa of Starocherkasskaya. He was baptized in the Church of Peter and Paul, which has survived to t…
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy, one of the most famous classics of Russian literature, was not only a novelist but also a thinker. He was born on August 28 (September 9) 1828 in a noble family at the estate of Yasnaya Polyana, located in t…
