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…
Dunin-Barkovsky Vasily Dmitrievich
Vasily Dmitrievich was born on March 26, 1819, in the village of Maloye Listveno. He was the younger brother of the famous Bryansk landowner Yakov Dmitrievich, the owner of the estate Nova Romanovka.
In 1836, Vasily Dmi…
Count Pyotr Vasilyevich Zavadovsky
Count Pyotr Vasilyevich Zavadovsky, born on January 10 (21), 1739, in the Kiev Governorate, was a Russian statesman of Ukrainian descent. He served as cabinet secretary and was a favorite of Catherine II, becoming the fi…
Lev Nikolaevich Engelhardt
Lev Nikolaevich Engelhardt, born on February 10, 1766, in the village of Zaitsevo in the Smolensk province, died on November 4, 1836, in Moscow. He was a major general from the renowned Smolensk family of Engelhardt and …
Peter Ivanovich Cherkasov
Baron Peter Ivanovich Cherkasov, born on September 22 (October 3) 1796 and died on February 12 (24) 1867, served as a colonel in the Russian Imperial Army. He was the brother of the Decembrist Alexei Ivanovich Cherkasov.…
Pyotr Alexandrovich Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky
Pyotr Alexandrovich Rumyantsev, also known as Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky, was born on January 4 (15), 1725, in Stroentsy, Moldova, and died on December 8 (19), 1796, in Tashan, Ukraine. He was a count, general field marshal, …
Savva Lukich Raguzinsky-Vladislavich
Count Savva Lukich Raguzinsky-Vladislavich, also known as Sava Vladislavić Raguzinski, was born on January 16, 1669, in Ragusa and died on June 17, 1738, at the Matoksa estate in the Saint Petersburg province. He was a R…
Yuri Matveyevich Felten
Yuri Matveyevich Felten was born in 1730. His father, Matthias Felten, arrived in Russia from Germany and was appointed an economist at the newly established St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1725. He named his son G…
Peter I the Great
Peter I the Great, the last Tsar of all Russia and the founder of the Russian Empire, was one of 16 children of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and the first son from his second wife, Natalia Naryshkina. After the death of his …
Maria Vladimirovna Voieykova
Princess Maria Voieykova, born Golitsyna, was one of the largest landowners, owning more than 30 thousand desyatins of land only in the Sevsk district.
By her order, the Lopandinsky sugar factory was built, which began …
