Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration
Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration was born on November 11, 1765, probably in Kizlyar (Dagestan), into a family of Georgian princes from the Bagrationi dynasty. At 17, he joined the military and participated in expeditions agains…
Sergey Mironovich Kirov
Sergey Mironovich Kostrikov was born on March 15, 1886, in the city of Urzhum, Vyatka province. His parents moved there from Perm province shortly before his birth. The family had four children who died in infancy before…
Arsenyev Konstantin Ivanovich
Konstantin Ivanovich Arsenyev was born in the village of Mirokhanovo in the Kostroma province to a family of Orthodox priests. In 1799 and 1806, he studied at the seminary, after which he moved to St. Petersburg. In 1810…
Andrei Vasilyevich Pastukhov
Among the pioneers of the Caucasus, military topographer Andrei Vasilyevich Pastukhov holds a special place, also regarded as the first Russian mountaineer. Pastukhov was born on August 18, 1858, in the village of Novo-D…
Ivan Ivanovich Polyashov
Ivan Ivanovich Polyashov, known to the people as Polyash, came from a peasant family. He acquired basic reading and counting skills, which helped him manage accounting and sign contracts when he engaged in a seasonal tra…
Pyotr Nikolayevich Pertzov
Pyotr Nikolayevich Pertzov (1857-1937) was born in Kazan into an ancient Russian noble family. His uncle, poet and satirist Erast Pertzov, had a friendly relationship with A.S. Pushkin. The family preserved memories of a…
Alexander Vasilyevich Galitsky
Alexander Vasilyevich Galitsky was born on February 21, 1863, in the village of Russkiye Krai in the Yaran district, into the family of a hereditary village priest, Vasily Petrovich Galitsky. From 1884 to 1889, he studie…
Nikolai Vasilievich Igumnov
Nikolai Vasilievich Igumnov (1855, 1924), a Russian merchant and philanthropist, was a co-owner of the trading and industrial partnership "Yaroslavl Large Manufactory" and owned gold mines in Siberia. He also owned a man…
Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili-Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili, known as Stalin, was born on December 21, 1879, in the Georgian city of Gori to a shoemaker's family. In 1888, he entered a theological school, and in 1894, after successfully graduatin…
Timofey Evseev
Timofey Evseevich Evseev was born on February 1, 1887, in the village of Az'yel, in the Morokinsky volost of the Tsarevokokshay district of the Kazan province, now part of the Morokinsky district of the Republic of Mari …
