Ivan Sergeyevich Yarygin
Ivan Sergeyevich Yarygin was born on November 7, 1948, in the village of Ust-Kamzas, Kemerovo Oblast, in a family of a blacksmith with many children. Later, the family moved to the village of Sizaya in the Krasnoyarsk Kr…
Boris Yakovlevich Ryauzov
Boris Yakovlevich Ryauzov was born on July 1, 1919, in the village of Biruchya Kosa, Astrakhan region. From 1939 to 1941, he studied at the Omsk Art College under the guidance of T. P. Kozlov. Since 1940, he participated…
Gleb Maximilianovich Krzhizhanovsky
Gleb Maximilianovich Krzhizhanovsky was born into an intelligent family. At the age of thirteen, he began earning money by giving lessons. In Samara, he met revolutionary narodniks, from whom he adopted a hostile attitud…
Matvey Nikolaevich Khangalov
Matvey Nikolaevich Khangalov was born in 1858 in the Bulagat ulus of Zakul, which was part of the Ungin administration of the Balagansky district of Irkutsk province. Today, this village is located in the Nukutskiy distr…
Tsirenjap Sampilov
Tsirenjap Sampilovich Sampilov was born into a hunter's family in the ulus of Domno-Yeravna, located in the area of the Yeravninsky lakes. He was raised by adoptive parents. In his childhood, he worked as a shepherd. At …
Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov
The Stroganov family traces its origins to Veliky Novgorod. Spiridon, the progenitor of the family, was a contemporary of Dmitry Donskoy. His grandson Luka Kuzmich received the right to collect taxes from the Dvina land.…
Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev
Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev was born on September 28, 1863, in his grandfather's estate in the village of Klepinino, Rzhevsky district, Tver province. He was the second child in the family of staff officer Afanasy Ale…
Ivan Nikolayevich Kudryavtsev
After the October Revolution of 1917, many of our compatriots found themselves in exile, and one of the countries that accepted them was Finland. Among the Russian emigrants stood out architect Ivan Kudryavtsev. He was b…
Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov
Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov was born on July 31, 1881, in the city of Kozlov, now known as Michurinsk, Tambov region, in a merchant family.
He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture fr…
Ivanov Pyotr Petrovich
Pyotr Petrovich Ivanov was an artist, archaeologist, collector of antiquities, and local historian who founded the Morshansk Historical and Art Museum. He dedicated his life to science, striving to preserve cultural heri…
