Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich
On June 17, 1931, in Antibes, France, the great duke Peter Nikolaevich passed away, the second son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (the elder) and grandson of Nicholas I. He was a lieutenant general and general adjuta…
Ilya Efimovich Repin
Ilya Efimovich Repin, born on July 24 (August 5) 1844 in Chuguev, Russian Empire, and died on September 29, 1930 in Kuokkala, Finland, was an outstanding Russian painter, educator, professor, and full member of the Imper…
Alexander Alexandrovich Golitsyn
Alexander Alexandrovich Golitsyn, born on February 28, 1908, and passed away on July 26, 2005, was an American art director from the renowned Russian noble family of Golitsyn. Throughout his career in Hollywood, he parti…
Mikhail Moiseevich Ovchinnikov
Mikhail Ovchinnikov was born in 1946 in Trekhrechye, in China near the Argun River, to the family of Transbaikal Cossacks Moisei and Ekaterina Ovchinnikov. His father's family moved from Russia to China in 1919. "They ha…
Durbach Nikolai Nikitich
Nikolai Nikitich Durbach, a renowned architect from Nakhichevan and Rostov-on-Don, was born in 1857 or 1858 to an Armenian family. His father was a merchant and lived in the village of Yelizavetinskaya. The exact birthpl…
Alexander Nikanorovich Pomerantsev
Alexander Nikanorovich Pomerantsev, one of the outstanding Russian architects, was born in Moscow and left a significant mark on the architecture of many cities in the Russian Empire, including Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ro…
Grigory Nikolaevich Vasilyev
Grigory Nikolaevich Vasilyev, a renowned architect of the early 20th century from Rostov-on-Don, was born in Moscow to a second-guild merchant and honorary citizen Nikolai Grigoryevich Vasilyev. He was the youngest child…
Mindow Ivan Alexandrovich
The Mindows were a dynasty of hereditary honorary citizens of the Russian Empire, known among merchants and textile manufacturers from Vichuga, now located in the Ivanovo region. This noble dynasty adhered to the ancient…
Lev Nikolaevich Kekushev
Lev Nikolaevich Kekushev was a Russian architect and educator, one of the first and most significant masters of the Art Nouveau style in Moscow. He specialized in the early Franco-Belgian variant of Art Nouveau and was d…
Zakiev Arutyun Khristoforovich
One of the well-known architects of Rostov-on-Don in the early 20th century was Zakiev Arutyun Khristoforovich, a Russian architect of Armenian descent, who held the position of city architect of Rostov-on-Don for severa…
