Alexey Vasilyevich Koltsov
Alexey Vasilyevich Koltsov, born in 1809 and passed away in 1842, was an outstanding Russian poet of the Pushkin era. Among his well-known works are "Oh, Do Not Speak of Passionate Smiles!", "Betrayal of the Betrothed", …
Ivan Sergeyevich Bashkirtev
Ivan Sergeyevich Bashkirtev was one of the wealthiest merchants in Voronezh in the first half of the 19th century. He owned stores and a wool factory. He was related to the famous poet Alexey Koltsov, as Ivan Sergeyevich…
Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg
Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg was the only son of Prince Alexander of Oldenburg and Eugenia Maximilianovna, née Duchess of Leuchtenberg. His mother was the granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I and Eugenie de Beauharnai…
Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Oldenburg
Eugenia Maximilianovna of Oldenburg, born Romanovskaya, was born on March 20 (April 1) 1845. She was the fourth child and third daughter of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna and Duke Maximilian of Leuchtenberg from Bavaria.…
Vasily Vasilyevich Mikhailovsky
Vasily Mikhailovich Mikhailovsky, who served in the military engineering troops of the tsarist army, became the owner of the former estate of the Venivitinovs in the village of Gorozhanka, which he received from his wife…
Gardenin Potap
From 1744 to 1746, Potap Gardenin held the position of head of the Voronezh provincial magistrate. In 1735, he built a stone house for his family in the center of Voronezh, which has survived to this day and is located a…
Sergey Mikhailovich Somov
Sergey Mikhailovich Somov, born in 1853 and died in 1924, was born in the estate of the village of Gubarevo. He acquired the estate of Ternovoe in the late 1880s when Gubarevo passed to his brother Peter by inheritance. …
Afanasiy Nikolaevich Somov
A.N. Somov came from a family of hereditary nobles. He received his education at the Naval Cadet Corps and was commissioned to the 3rd Fleet Crew in December 1841.
In 1853, he was elected as a candidate for the position…
Vasily Alekseevich Chertkov
Vasily Alekseevich Chertkov, born on March 12, 1726, and died on October 5, 1793, in Khvoschevatka, Voronezh Governorate, was a lieutenant general from the Chertkov family and served as the governor-general of the Vorone…
Count Ivan Ivanovich Tolstoy
Count Ivan Ivanovich Tolstoy (1858, 1916) was an outstanding Russian statesman, archaeologist, and numismatist. In 1905 and 1906, he served as the Minister of Education of the Russian Empire, and in 1912 and 1916, he was…
