Fyodor Mikhailovich Reshetnikov was born in Yekaterinburg. He lost his mother early, who left her husband and moved with her 9-month-old son to Perm, where they lived under the care of her uncle and aunt. In 1851, he ent…

Ernst Unknown studied at school No. 16 in Sverdlovsk and was friends with Vladimir Vinnichevsky during his school years. From 1939 to 1942, he participated in All-Union children's creativity competitions. In 1942, he ent…

Academician Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky, an outstanding historian of the Russian Empire, was known not only as a talented teacher and scholar. He was distinguished by his brilliant sense of humor, phenomenal memory, and…

Alexey Petrovich Bondin worked as a locksmith in the factories of the Urals for over thirty years and participated in revolutionary workers' circles. He began his literary activity in the 1910s, creating several plays. …

Alekandr Evgenievich Fersman was born on October 27, 1883, in St. Petersburg. His father, Evgeny Alexandrovich Fersman, was a military architect and professor who participated in the Turkish campaign. His mother, Maria E…

For many years, the name of the outstanding Russian general Anton Ivanovich Denikin was banned, his reputation was distorted, and he was forgotten. However, time has passed, and now in Saratov, one can see a memorial pla…

Mikhail Mikhailovich Naryshkin was a representative of the noble Naryshkin family from the Moscow province. He was born on February 4, 1798, to Colonel Mikhail Petrovich Naryshkin and his wife Varvara Alexeyevna, daughte…

Vladimir Pavlovich Biryukov was born on July 10, 1888, in the family of a secretary-accountant of a loan and savings association in the village of Pershinskoye, which is now the administrative center of the Pershinsky ru…

Wilhelm Ludwig von Küchelbecker was born on June 10, 1797, in St. Petersburg to a family of Russian-German nobility and was a Lutheran. His childhood was spent in Livonia, at the Avenorm estate, where he did not speak Ru…

Terenty Mal'tsev was born on October 29, 1895, into a poor peasant family in the village of Mal'tsevo, which at that time was located in the Krivskaya volost of the Shadrinsk district of the Perm province, and is now the…