Govorov Leonid Alexandrovich
Leonid Alexandrovich Govorov was born on February 10, 1897, in the village of Butyrki in the Yaran district of the Vyatka province into a peasant family. His father, Alexander Grigorievich Govorov, worked as a burlak, a …
Jan Krišjānovičs Pliekšan
Jan Krišjānovičs Pliekšan was born into the family of the tenant Krišjānis Pliekšans. He first studied at a German school in Daugavpils, which is now named after Rainis, and then graduated from the Riga City Gymnasium in…
Bogdan Khmelnytsky
Bogdan Khmelnytsky was born on December 27, 1595, in the village of Subotiv, which is now a village in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine. His parents were the centurion of the Zaporozhian Host, Mykhailo Lavrynovych Khmelny…
Savva Ivanovich Belyaev
In 1812, Savva Ivanovich Belyaev worked as a secretary in the Maloyaroslavets lower zemstvo court. During the Patriotic War, he served as the supervisor of military cordons and helped escort army transports with supplies…
Anna Leopoldovna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Anna Leopoldovna was born on December 7, 1718, in Rostock. She was the daughter of Duke Karl Leopold of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Princess Ekaterina Ivanovna, the niece of Peter I. In 1731, after Anna Ivanovna ascended to…
Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov
In childhood, the young prince was raised by an English nanny. The emperor's children usually spent time in Gatchina. Alexander III especially loved spending time with his younger son: they walked together around the roy…
Vasily Nikolayevich Lavrov
Vasily Nikolayevich was born on April 27 (May 9) 1837 in the family of a service nobleman in the Epifany district of Tula province. In 1855, he graduated with honors from the school of guard ensigns and cavalry cadets, r…
Bishop Joasaph of Belgorod
Joasaph of Belgorod, in the world Ioakim Andreevich Gorlenko, was born on September 8, 1705, in Pryluky, Kyiv province, to Colonel Andrei Dmitrievich Gorlenko of the Pryluky Cossack regiment. His mother, Maria Danilovna,…
Ivan Stepanovich Konev
Ivan Stepanovich Konev was born on December 16, 1897, in the village of Lodeyno, Nikolsky district of Vologda province, now part of the Podosinskoe district in Kirov region, into a peasant family. He was of Russian natio…
Nikolai Vasilyevich Otrakov
Nikolai Vasilyevich Otrakov was born in 1858 in a priest's family in Veliky Ustyug, located in the Vologda province. After graduating from the Vologda gymnasium, he enrolled in the medical faculty of Moscow University, w…
