Sergey Sergeyev-Tsensky was born on September 18, 1875, in the village of Babino, now called Preobrazhenye, located in the Rasskazovo district of the Tambov region. His father, Nikolai Sergeyevich Sergeyev, participated …

Anastasia Tsvetaeva was born on September 15, 1894, in Moscow to the family of professor and museum figure I. V. Tsvetaeva. Like her older sister Marina, she received initial home education and then studied at the privat…

Nikolai Zakharovich Biryukov was born on February 1, 1912, in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, now in the Moscow region, in a family of a textile worker. In 1919, when the factory where his father worked ceased production, the family mo…

The great painter was born on January 12, 1848, in Krasnoyarsk into a Cossack family. After the early death of his father, the family faced difficulties, and Vasily's mother was forced to rent out the second floor of the…

Sergey Timofeevich Aksakov was born in 1791 in Ufa to Timofey Stepanovich Aksakov, who worked as a prosecutor in the zemstvo court. Timofey Stepanovich came from an old but not wealthy family and was married to Maria Nik…

Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, son of Pavel Nikolaevich Demidov and Aurora Karlovna Shernval, was the godson of P. Ya. Ubri, his daughter E. Marchenko, E. M. Frolova-Bagreyeva, and A. N. Demidov. Losing his father at an early …

Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak was born on October 25, 1852, in the village of Visimo-Shaitansky factory, now called Visim. His father, Narkis Matveevich Mamin, was a factory priest. Dmitry's sister, Elizabeth, was ad…

Onisim Egorovich Kler was born in the commune of Corsel, located in the canton of Neuchâtel, to a family of civil servants. In 1862, he graduated from the Neuchâtel Industrial School in Switzerland. That same year, due t…

Pavel Petrovich Bazhov was born in January 1879 in the village of Sysert Factory to a worker named Peter Bazhov. He spent his childhood in Sysert, where he attended the local zemstvo school from 1886 to 1889 and was noti…

Stepan Petrovich Shchipachev was born in the village of Shchipachi, which is now located in the Bogdanovich urban district of the Sverdlovsk region, into a peasant family. In 1913 and 1917, he worked as a clerk in a book…