Fyodor Yakovlevich Bursak
Fyodor Yakovlevich Bursak was born in 1750 in the noble family of Antonovichs in Kharkiv region. In his youth, he studied at the Kyiv seminary but soon fled to the Zaporizhian Sich, where he earned the nickname Bursak.
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Pavel Alexandrovich Katenin
Katenin received a home education and in 1806 began his service in the Department of Public Education as a junker. Two years later, he became a titular counselor. In 1808 and 1809, he attended A. N. Olenin's salon, where…
Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev
Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev was born in 1749 in Verkhne Ablyazovo and spent his childhood in his father's estate in the village of Nemtsovo, Borovsky district of Kaluga province. His father, a devout and educated m…
Alexander Alexandrovich Bestuzhev-Marlinsky
Alexander Alexandrovich Bestuzhev, son of Alexander Fedoseevich Bestuzhev, who in 1798 published the "Saint Petersburg Journal" together with I. P. Pnin and wrote "An Essay on Military Education for Noble Youth." Alexand…
Konstantin Ivanovich Zhuravlev
Konstantin Ivanovich was born on November 2, 1901, in the village of Varvarovka, Nikolaevsky district, now Pugachevsky region, in a priest's family. He graduated from a rural school and the Nikolaev Spiritual School, the…
Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev
He was born in the village of Budayka in the Cheboksary district, which is now within the city limits of Cheboksary, into a peasant family. After moving to the village of Balakovo, he studied at a parish school but did n…
Lev Abramovich Kassil
Lev Abramovich Kassil was born on June 27, 1905, in Pokrovskaya Sloboda, now the city of Engels in the Saratov region, to doctor Abram Grigoryevich Kassil and Anna Iosifovna Perelman, who was initially a music teacher an…
Konstantin Apollonovich Savitsky
Konstantin Apollonovich Savitsky was born in 1844 in Taganrog to a military doctor and began his education at the Taganrog Classical Male Gymnasium. After the early death of his parents, his relatives sent him to a priva…
Aleksey Vasilyevich Mozaev
Aleksey Vasilyevich Mozaev was born on October 5, 1918, in the village of Vtoraya Sosnovka, Saratov Province, in a family of teachers.
In 1933 and 1936, he studied at the Penza Art and Pedagogical College under N. F. Pe…
Ivan Vasilievich Panfilov
Ivan Vasilievich Panfilov was born on December 20, 1892, in Petrovsk, Saratov province, in a family of a minor clerk. He was of Russian nationality. His father, Vasily Zakharovich Panfilov, was a retired military clerk, …
