Sergey Arsentyevich Vinogradov
Sergey Arsentyevich Vinogradov (1869, 1938) was a renowned Russian painter and graphic artist. He was born on July 1 (13), 1869, in the village of Bolshie Sali in the Kostroma province, now the settlement of Nekrasovskoy…
Vyacheslav Grigorievich Schwartz
Vyacheslav Grigorievich Schwartz, born on September 22 (October 4) 1838 in Kursk and died on March 29 (April 10) 1869 there, was a renowned Russian painter, academician, and honorary free member of the Imperial Academy o…
Denis Vasilyevich Davydov
Denis Vasilyevich Davydov, born on June 16, 1784, in Moscow and died on April 22, 1839, in the village of Verkhnyaya Maza, was a well-known ideologist and commander of the partisan movement during the Patriotic War of 18…
Ivan Mikhailovich Dolgorukov
We have all heard of the escapades of the Italian Casanova, but few know that Russia also had its own seducer, poet, and theater enthusiast, Ivan Mikhailovich Dolgorukov. He lived by the principle: "When I am not playing…
Pyotr Vasilyevich Kireyevsky
Pyotr Vasilyevich Kireyevsky, born on February 11 (23), 1808, in the Kaluga province and died on October 25 (November 6), 1856, in the Kireyevskaya sloboda of the Oryol province, was a renowned Russian writer, translator…
Osip Pavlovich Pestrikov
Osip Pavlovich Pestrikov was born in 1797 in Kaluga and became one of the first merchants of this city. Having earned capital, he engaged in trade and banking, achieving the status of a 1st guild merchant and investing i…
Sheremetev Pyotr Borisovich
Field Marshal and the first Russian count Boris Sheremetev long searched for a worthy bride for his son Pyotr. Unexpectedly, she turned out to be the only daughter of Prince Alexei Cherkassky, Varvara. As a dowry, the ge…
Timofey Nikolayevich Granovsky
Timofey Nikolayevich Granovsky, a renowned professor of history, was born in 1813 into a family of moderately wealthy landowners. His mother, from a wealthy Little Russian family, had a positive influence on him. Granovs…
Leonid Nikolaevich Andreyev
Leonid Nikolaevich Andreyev, a renowned Russian writer and founder of Russian expressionism, was born on August 9 (21), 1871, in Oryol to a land surveyor's family. From childhood, he attended the local gymnasium and show…
Nikolai Vladimirovich Stankevich
Nikolai Vladimirovich Stankevich was born on October 9, 1813, in Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh province, and died on July 7, 1840, in Novi Ligure, Sardinia. He was a Russian writer, poet, publicist, and thinker, as well as the o…
