Mikhail Vorontsov
Count Mikhail Vorontsov was born on May 19, 1782, in St. Petersburg. He spent his childhood and youth in London, where his father, Semyon Romanovich, provided him with an excellent education. Even as an infant, Vorontsov…
Vasily Mikhailovich Dolgorukov-Krymsky
Vasily Mikhailovich Dolgorukov-Krymsky was born on July 1, 1722. He was the son of Senator Mikhail Vladimirovich Dolgorukov and Princess Yevdokiya Yuryevna Odoevskaya. During the reign of Empress Anna Ioannovna, his fami…
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Tolstoy Alexei Nikolaevich
The Soviet writer Alexei Nikolaevich Tolstoy was often called the "Red Count." An émigré and nobleman, he not only overcame the difficulties associated with the new regime but also became a favorite of the Soviet authori…
Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov
Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov was born on May 19, 1862, in Ufa into an intelligent merchant family with a religious-patriarchal lifestyle. His mother, Maria Mikhailovna, came from an old merchant family of Rostovtsevs fro…
Baroness Yulia Petrovna Vrevskaya
Among Russian sisters of mercy, there were many brave heroines, and one of them was Baroness Yulia Petrovna Vrevskaya. She dedicated her life to saving soldiers during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878.
Yulia Petrovna …
Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin
According to family legend, the Derzhavins and Narbekovs descend from one of the Tatar clans. Bagrym-murza, having left the Great Horde for Moscow, entered the service of Grand Duke Vasily Vasilyevich after his baptism.
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Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky, whose real name was Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, was born on March 16, 1868, in Nizhny Novgorod to a carpenter's family. After the early death of his parents, Alexei lived with his grandfather, and his grandmo…
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was born on July 7, 1893, in the village of Bagdadi in Georgia to a family of a forester. He had two sisters, and two brothers died in childhood.
From childhood, Vladimir spoke Georgian…
Maximilian Voloshin
Maximilian Voloshin was born on May 16, 1877, in Kyiv. His father, Alexander Maximovich Kiryenko-Voloshin, was a lawyer and collegiate advisor, while his mother, Elena Ottobaldovna Glazer, had German roots. His grandfath…
Aleksey Nikolayevich Beketov
Aleksey Nikolayevich Beketov was born on February 19, 1862, in Kharkiv, although some sources indicate Kyiv, in the family of Nikolai Nikolayevich Beketov, the founder of physical chemistry and an academician of the Impe…
