Zakharo Ivan Nikonovich
The name of Ivan Nikonovich Zakharo remained unknown to the general public during the period of the Russian Empire. However, he made a significant contribution to the development of domestic chemistry by inventing a safe…
Grigory Ivanovich Shelikhov
According to one version, the first Russians to see Alaska were sailors from Semyon Dezhnev's expedition in 1648. Soon, our compatriots began to explore the remote corners of the Russian Empire. A significant role in thi…
Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich
Alexander Griboedov once said about the commander Ivan Paskevich: "Here is a Russian general! Suvorov has risen again! Give him an army, and he would surely take Tsargrad." Paskevich indeed repeated Suvorov's fate, winni…
Osip Ivanovich Komissarov
On April 4, 1866, the Kostroma peasant Osip Komissarov, who worked as a hat maker in St. Petersburg, celebrated his name day. In honor of this event, the owner of the hat shop gave him a day off, and he, in good spirits,…
Zasyadko Alexander Dmitrievich
In 1813, during the fierce Battle of Nations near Leipzig, a French regiment was attacked by rockets fired by the English. This bombardment made such a strong impression on the soldiers that many of them began to surrend…
Stepan Stepanovich Apraksin
Stepan Stepanovich Apraksin, born on July 13, 1757, and died on February 8, 1827, was a general of cavalry from 1798 and served as the military governor of Smolensk in 1803. He was the only son of Field Marshal S. F. Apr…
Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy was born in 1817 in St. Petersburg into a noble family. Soon after his birth, his parents divorced, and his mother moved with him to Ukraine, where Alexei spent his childhood in the Chernig…
Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky
Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky was born on July 24, 1757, in Mirgorod, coming from a Cossack family. His father and older brothers were engaged in icon painting and worked in local churches.
Under his father's guidance, V…
Dmitry Egorovich Efimov
Dmitry Egorovich Efimov (1811, 1864) was a Russian architect and academic of architecture since 1839. He served as the architect of the Tsarskoye Selo Palace Administration from 1839 and of the Alexander Lyceum from 1845…
Lev Felixovich Lagorio
Artist Lev Felixovich Lagorio was born in December 1827 in Feodosia to a merchant family, which was from an aristocratic Genoese lineage and served as the vice-consul of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
He studied at th…
