Pavel Andreyevich Bashenin
Pavel Andreyevich Bashenin was born into the family of Andrei Anisimovich Bashenin, a third guild merchant and timber industrialist. He studied at the Alekseev Real School and, along with his younger brother Pyotr, learn…
Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov
Mikhail Romanov was born on July 22, 1596, in Moscow. His parents, Fyodor Nikitich Romanov and Ksenia Ivanovna Romanova, belonged to a noble boyar family. His father was related to the last of the Rurik dynasty, Fyodor I…
Matvey Petrovich Gagarin
During the reign of Peter the Great, the name of Prince Matvey Petrovich Gagarin was widely known in Russia. He came from a noble family and was destined for a successful career in public service from a young age. At the…
Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky
Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky was one of the key political figures of Ancient Rus. He played an important role in moving the political and economic center of Rus from Kiev to the city of Vladimir, which later became the new …
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (1814, 1876) was a Russian revolutionary and publicist, one of the founders of anarchism and an ideologist of populism. He was born on May 30, 1814, in the village of Pryamukhino in the Tver…
Subbotin, Pyotr Ivanovich
Pyotr Subbotin was born on December 6, 1886, in the village of Kudymkar, which today is the capital of the Autonomous Okrug. His father, Ivan Vasilyevich Subbotin, was a serf of the Stroganovs and worked as a miller at t…
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was born on January 29, 1890, in Moscow to a family of an artist and a pianist. He had two sisters and a brother. Their apartment often hosted well-known figures in the arts, with small concer…
Pavel Ivanovich Syuzev
Pavel Ivanovich Syuzev was born on August 20, 1837, in Dobryanka to a serf family of the Stroganov estate. His father, Ivan Trefilovich Syuzev, was a serf of the Stroganovs and a graduate of a school in the village of Il…
Shuvalov Pyotr Pavlovich
The youngest son of Count Pavel Andreyevich Shuvalov and Princess Varvara Petrovna Shakhovskaya, the heiress of the Ural mining factories. On his father's side, he was the great-grandson of Field Marshal Count P. I. Shuv…
Alexander Yakovlevich Sozonov
Alexander Yakovlevich Sozonov was born on December 4, 1925, in the village of Chazhegovo into a peasant family. He was a Komi-Permyak and received primary education, after which he worked on a collective farm.
In Decemb…
