Julius Fritsche
Many discoveries of Julius Fedorovich Fritsche, a renowned Russian chemist and botanist, began to be applied in practice during his lifetime, and this was initiated by him.
Julius was born in 1802 into a family of a phy…
Ivan Grigoryevich Myaseedov
Everyone who starts to tell about the life of Ivan Myaseedov first mentions him as a counterfeiter and an agent of Nazi intelligence. It is also known that he dyed his eyes and walked the streets naked. His life is full …
Vera Kirillovna Meshcherskaya
Varvara Meshcherskaya was born on January 21 (February 4 in the new style) 1876 in a noble family. She was a cousin of P.B. Struve. She spent most of her youth in Japan, where her father served. She married Prince Peter …
Monk Vladimir
Monk Vladimir, in the world Vsevolod Vladimirovich Putiata, was born on October 2 (14), 1869, in Moscow and died on February 5, 1936, in Kirov. He was defrocked as a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1918, disagr…
Vsevolod Meyerhold (Karl) Emilevich
Karl Theodor Kazimir Meyerhold was born on January 28, 1874, in Penza and died on February 2, 1940, in Moscow. He was a director and actor who received the title of People's Artist of the Republic in 1923. Meyerhold came…
Anna Alexandrovna Vyrobova
Anna Alexandrovna Vyrobova, born Taneeva, was born on July 16, 1884, in St. Petersburg. She was a close friend of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna and a well-known memoirist. Anna came from a noble family: her father, Alexan…
Emmanuel Ivanovich Borel
Emmanuel Ivanovich Borel, an industrialist from the ancient family of barons Borel of French origin, was born in 1839. His ancestors fled from the St. Bartholomew's Night of 1572, moving from the French commune of Otriv …
Tatiana Illarionovna von Metternich-Vinneburg
Tatiana von Metternich was born in Petrograd on January 1, 1915, into the family of Prince Illarion Sergeyevich Vasilychikov, a member of the IV State Duma, and Lydia Leonidovna, née Princess Vyazemskaya. She and her sis…
Yakov Shapiro
Pseudonym: Jacques Shapiro. Artist (1897-1972). Yakov Shapiro was born on June 13, 1897, in Daugavpils to a woodcarver, Avraham Shapiro. He received a traditional Jewish religious education and began studying the basics …
Lev Platonovich Karsavin
Lev Platonovich Karsavin, a renowned Russian religious philosopher, cultural historian, and medievalist, was born on December 1, 1882, in St. Petersburg. He was the son of ballet actor of the Mariinsky Theatre Platon Kon…
