Philip was born on October 22, 1869, in the village of Kazanka, Orenburg region. His parents were poor peasants, and in a large family, education was not considered. His father believed that no scholars came from poor pe…

Maximilian von Vogau, born in 1807, had a sharp mind and commercial instinct. However, his affairs in his native Frankfurt am Main were not going well, and at the age of twenty, he decided to try his luck in the Russian …

Pavel Pavlovich von Derwiz (1870, 1943) was a hussar and staff captain who graduated from the Nikolaev Cavalry School. In 1893, he founded a horse breeding farm in Starozhilovo, designed by architect F.O. Shekhtel, and h…

Nikolai Romanovich Romanov, born on September 26, 1922, in Antibes and passed away on September 15, 2014, in Tuscany, was a great-great-grandson of Russian Emperor Nicholas I through the male line, belonging to the branc…

Rurik Ivnev, whose real name was Mikhail Alexandrovich Kovalev, was born in February 1891 in Tiflis into a noble family. His father, a captain in the Russian army, held the position of assistant military prosecutor in th…

Boris Zaitsev, a renowned Russian writer and translator, is considered one of the last significant figures of the Silver Age. His work is usually divided into two periods: before emigration and after. The latter period …

Stories about the kind doctor Fedor Petrovich Gaaz are still told in hospitals and prisons in Moscow, but the facts of his life are known to few. In his life, there was no foreign pain and no bad people. He did not star…

Prophetic Oleg was the first prince of Kievan Rus, primarily described in chronicles. His name is mentioned in the well-known "Tale of Bygone Years" as well as in lesser-known local sources. According to some of them, Ol…

Throughout history, bread has been treated with great respect, and this respect extended to millers. Their services, of course, were not free, and with constant demand, their labor brought good income. Poor millers, as a…

Anastasy Andreyevich Vonsyatsky, born on May 30 (June 12) 1898 in Warsaw and died on February 5, 1965 in St. Petersburg, was a Russian émigré politician. He became one of the founders of Russian fascism and led the All-R…