The chain of watches and city suit seemed like a masquerade to those who knew his character. Solzhenitsyn writes in the poem "Dorozhenka": "Grandfather began life with a shepherd's herding in scorched Tavrida, among thou…

Alekandr Ivanovich Polezhaev was born on August 30, 1804, in the estate of Struyskie Ruzaevka, located in the Insar district of the Penza province, now part of the Ruzaevsky district of Mordovia. He was the illegitimate …

Fyodor Vasilyevich Syichkov was born on March 1, 1870, in the village of Kochelaevo, Penza province, into a poor peasant family. Losing his father early, he faced many hardships and grievances in childhood. He studied a…

Alexander Vyazemsky was born on August 3 (14), 1727, and came from a princely family, tracing its roots to the grandson of Vladimir Monomakh, Prince Rostislav Mstislavich. At the age of twenty, he graduated from the Land…

Peter Mikhailovich Skarzhinsky was the founder of the noble branch of the Skarzhinskys in the Kherson province. From the 1770s of the 18th century, he served as a lieutenant in the cavalry units of the Russian army and p…

Dmitry Ivanovich Donskoy was born in 1350. After his father's death in 1359, nine-year-old Prince Dmitry came under the guardianship of Metropolitan Alexius, who became the de facto ruler of the Moscow principality due t…

Oleg Ivanovich Ryazansky was born in 1350. During the period of the "great turmoil" in the Golden Horde, before power concentrated with Mamai, Oleg, along with Vladimir Pronsky and Titus Kozelsky, achieved victory over t…

Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko was born on March 9, 1814 (according to the old style, February 25, 1814) in the village of Morintsy in the Kyiv province, now part of the Zvenyhorod district in the Cherkasy region of Ukrain…

Born in 1792 in Karasubazar, he came from Armenian nobility and was an Armenian Catholic. He took the surname Serebryakov, which is a translation of the Armenian surname Artsatagortsian, meaning "master of silver work" o…

Alexey Danilovich Bezkrvny was a descendant of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. In 1792, his ancestors moved to Kuban along with the Black Sea Army. His father, a senior officer of this army, owned a family estate in the villag…