Vasily Ivanovich Bazhenov
Vasily Ivanovich Bazhenov (1737-1799) was an outstanding Russian architect and Freemason, holding the position of actual state councilor. He became the first educated architect in Russia and a significant figure in 18th-…
Fyodor Andreyevich Shcherbina
Fyodor Andreyevich Shcherbina (February 13, 1849, Novoderevyankovskaya, October 28, 1936, Prague) was a prominent Russian and Kuban Cossack politician, public figure, historian, and poet. He is also considered the founde…
Felitsyn Yevgeny Dmitrievich
Yevgeny Felitsyn was born on March 17, 1848, in Stavropol. His father was a senior officer in the Russian army. In 1864, he graduated from the Stavropol provincial gymnasium and entered military service as a non-commissi…
Ivan Grigorievich Shcheglovitov
Born on February 13 (25), 1861, in the village of Valuets, located in the Starodub district of the Chernigov province, now part of the Pochep district of the Bryansk region. He came from the Little Russian nobility of th…
Mikhail Alekseevich Radishchev
Mikhail Alekseevich Radishchev was born in 1859 and was the great-grandson of the famous Russian writer and democrat Alexander Nikolaevich Radishchev, who was born in 1749 in Verkhne Ablyazovo, Saratov Province, and died…
Anton Golovaty
Anton Golovaty was born in 1732 in Novy Sanzhary, Poltava province, into a wealthy family of a Little Russian Cossack elder. He studied at the Kyiv Academy but did not complete his education, fleeing to the Zaporizhian S…
Alexander Andreyevich Kozlov
Alexander Andreyevich Kozlov was born on August 30, 1880. Left without parents at an early age, he was raised in a foster family. In 1902, he graduated from the Moscow Architectural and Construction School, obtaining the…
Filipp Matveyevich Akulov
Filipp Matveyevich was born in 1857. After receiving a secondary education, he served in the Russian Imperial Army and, after retiring with the rank of ensign, took up contracting work. He built the ataman's palace, whic…
Odoevsky Alexander Ivanovich
Odoevsky was born in St. Petersburg to Major General Ivan Sergeyevich Odoevsky and Princess Praskovya Alexandrovna Odoevskaya, who was his father's cousin. He received a home education and was interested in literature fr…
Evgeny Mikhailovich Dyakov
Evgeny Mikhailovich Dyakov was born in 1859 in Balashov, Saratov province, which was a quiet county town in pre-revolutionary times. Here, Boris Pasternak and Elena Vinograd met, and the poet described Balashov as "big a…
