Egor Frantsevich was born on November 27, 1774, in Hanau. His father, Franz Ludwig Kankrin, moved to Russia after receiving a lucrative offer from the Russian government but left his son in his homeland. Later, he marrie…

Dmitry Semyavin was born in the estate of Komlevo in the Borovsky district of the Moscow province, which later became part of the Kaluga region. He came from the noble family of Semyavins, known for their traditions of s…

Vasily Vasilykovsky was born in 1778 in the provincial town of Sevsk in the Belgorod province. That same year, a theological seminary opened in Sevsk, where he received his education. After completing his studies in 1804…

Nikolai Nikolayevich Khokryakov was born on November 4, 1857, in Vyatka, now known as Kirov, into a family of modest merchants. From 1880 to 1882, he studied for free under Shishkin in St. Petersburg, focusing on drawing…

Georgy Semyonovich Shpagin, a future designer, was born on April 17, 1897, in the village of Klyushnikovo into a peasant family. In 1909, after finishing a three-year school at the age of 12, he began working in a carpen…

Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov was the illegitimate son of Prince Pavel Ivanovich Gagarin. His father initially served in the cities of Central Russia for 13 years and then became the librarian of the Rumyantsev Museum. F…

Mikhail Illarionovich Goleniщev-Kutuzov was born on September 16, 1745. His father was an officer, which allowed Mikhail to enroll in the artillery and engineering noble school, which he graduated from in 1761. From that…

Fyodor Alexeyevich Semyonov, born on April 20 (May 1) 1794 in Kursk, Russian Empire, and died there on April 18 (30), 1860, was a Russian amateur astronomer. He came from a merchant family and taught himself mathematics,…

Alexander Sergeyevich Lebedev was born on September 20, 1884, in St. Petersburg to a family of a doctor. In 1902, he graduated from the Vvedenskaya Gymnasium, and in 1908, from the Military Medical Academy, earning the t…

Prince Yuri Yurievich Trubetskoy (April 20, 1668, September 8, 1739) was a Russian statesman, senator, and actual privy councilor. He was the younger of the two Trubetskoy princes of the late 17th century and a common an…