Fyodor Stepanovich Nikitin was the youngest son of Stepan Yakovlevich Nikitin, one of the wealthiest merchants in Saratov. Stepan Yakovlevich became rich through the trade of bread and salted fish, and he is first mentio…

Ivan Alexandrovich Kuskov (1765, Totma, Vologda Province, Arkhangelsk Governorate, 1823, Totma, Vologda Governorate) was a Russian explorer who studied Alaska and California, as well as the founder and commandant of Fort…

Nadezhda Ladygina was born in the vicinity of Penza. Her father taught music and was the first in the family to receive an education, while her grandfather was a prosperous peasant who bought his freedom from serfdom bef…

Ioann Olenyevsky, in the world Ivan Vasilyevich Kalinin, was born on September 11, 1854, in Olenyevka, Penza Province, and died on August 6, 1951, in Solovtsovka, Penza Region. He was a confessor and one of the most reve…

Participant in the Central Asian conquests of the Russian Empire and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, liberator of Bulgaria, he entered history under the nickname "White General" (Turk. Ak-paşa, Ак-Паша). He received …

Serge Gainsbourg, whose real name was Lucien Ginsburg, was born on April 2, 1928, in Paris and died there on March 2, 1991. He was a renowned French poet, composer, singer, as well as a film actor, director, and screenwr…

Mikhail Fyodorovich Ananio (1866, 1940) was the commander of the 5th Caucasian Rifle Regiment and a hero of World War I, having risen to the rank of major general. In 1918, he led the Hellenic Caucasian Rifle Division. …

Elena Petrovna was born on February 10 (22), 1862, in St. Petersburg. Her father, Pyotr Petrovich Benar, was a military engineer with the rank of colonel. Her grandfather, Jean-Georges Benar, was a Huguenot and served in…

Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky, whose real surname was Alexeyev, was born on January 17, 1863, and died on August 7, 1938. He entered Russian history as an outstanding theater reformer, actor, director, theater mana…

Ekaterina Efimovskaya, known in the world as Evgenia Borisovna Efimovskaya, came from an aristocratic family and had a literary education. At a certain point, she decided to dedicate herself to monastic life. This decisi…