Ivan Andreevich Blitsyn
Ivan Andreevich Blitsyn, born in the 1780s and died after 1841, was an architect who lived in Voronezh from the mid-1810s. He held the position of city architect from 1819 to 1831, and then provincial architect from 1831…
Nikitin Ivan Savvich
Ivan Savvich Nikitin was born on October 3, 1824, in Voronezh to the merchant Savva Eftikhievich Nikitin and was their only child. Thanks to his intelligence and business acumen, Savva Eftikhievich achieved significant m…
Count Dmitry Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Count Dmitry Nikolaevich Tolstoy, born on March 12, 1806, and died on March 14, 1884, was a prominent statesman, writer, archaeologist, and church historian from the Tolstoy family. He was also a secret advisor and used …
Alexander II the Liberator
Alexander II Nikolaevich, known as "the Liberator" (1818, 1881), was the Emperor of All Russia from February 19, 1855. He was the eldest son of Emperor Nicholas I and Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna.
Alexander was born on …
Anatoly Leonidovich Durov
Anatoly Leonidovich Durov was born on November 26 (December 8) 1864 in Moscow and died on January 7, 1916 in Mariupol. He was a famous Russian circus performer, clown, and animal trainer, the younger brother of Vladimir …
Sholokhov Pyotr Ivanovich
Pyotr Ivanovich Sholokhov (October 5, 1898, Borisoglebsk, February 14, 1988, Moscow) was a Soviet realist artist, painter, and graphic artist, a student of Abram Arkhipov. He became a member of the Union of Artists in 19…
Andrei Ryabushkin
Andrei Ryabushkin was born on October 17 (29), 1861, in the village of Stanichnaya Sloboda in the Borisoglebsky district of the Tambov province. His father, Pyotr Vasilyevich, and older brother Fyodor were engaged in ico…
Alekandr Vasilyevich Kuprin
Alekandr Vasilyevich Kuprin (March 10 [22], 1880, Borisoglebsk, Voronezh Province, March 18, 1960, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet landscape painter. He was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1956 and b…
Nikolai Mikhailovich Chernyshov
Nikolai Mikhailovich Chernyshov (1885, village of Nikolskoye, Tambov province, 1973, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet artist and art historian, as well as a participant in the group "Makovets." In 1970, he was awarded th…
Alexander Borisovich Buturlin
Son of Captain of the Guard Boris Ivanovich Buturlin, who died in 1708, and grandson of Boyar Ivan Vasilyevich Buturlin, he was raised by his older brother Pyotr Ivanovich Buturlin, known as "Prince Papa" under Peter I.
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