Dmitry Filippovich Tsaplin
Dmitry Filippovich Tsaplin was born on February 8, 1890, in a peasant family. He studied at the Saratov Higher Artistic Workshops, where his mentor was A. M. Lavinsky. Since 1920, Tsaplin began participating in exhibitio…
Olga Vasilyevna Kovaleva
Olga Vasilyevna Kovaleva was born in 1881 in the village of Lyubovka, Atkarsky district of Saratov province, where her childhood took place.
At the age of sixteen, she left her home and went to the city. In Samara, Olga…
Tverskoy Alexander
Years of reign: Grand Duke of Tver (1326, 1327, 1338, 1339); Grand Duke of Vladimir (1326, 1327).
Alexander, the second son of Grand Duke Mikhail Yaroslavich of Tver, was born in 1301 and received the lands of Kholm and…
Alexey Alekseevich Achair
Alexey Alekseevich Gryzov, known by the pseudonym Alexey Achair, was a talented Russian poet and a significant figure in Russian emigration. Born into the family of a colonel of the Siberian Cossack army, he graduated fr…
Nikolai Galaktionovich Kudryavtsev
The school of Russian architecture has long been renowned for its masters, and Nikolai Galaktionovich Kudryavtsev, a hereditary architect, was no exception. Born on February 14, 1856, he received a good education and fol…
Grigory Vasilyevich Mormonenko
Film director and screenwriter Grigory Vasilyevich Alexandrov, People's Artist of the USSR, was born on January 23, 1903, in Yekaterinburg. In 1915, he began working at the Yekaterinburg Opera Theater, where he was a mes…
Boris Mikhailovich Artsybashev
He was born in 1899 in Kharkiv and studied at the studio of Princess Tenisheva in St. Petersburg. Later, he enrolled at Kyiv University, planning to study law, but the events of 1917 disrupted his plans. In 1918, Boris s…
Olga Vladimirovna Baklanova
Honored Artist of the RSFSR since 1925.
She was born on August 19, 1896, in Moscow. Her mother, being a well-known theatrical actress, fully supported her daughter's desire to become an actress. The girl received a clas…
Bородин Alexander Parfenevich
Engineer of communications and one of the pioneers of locomotive construction in Russia, professor.
In 1879, he organized the first laboratory in the country for studying fuel, water, and lubricants on the Southwestern …
Boris Alekseevich Suvorin
The Russian literary school has always stood out even among the most talented European writers. One of the outstanding pre-revolutionary writers was Boris Alekseevich Suvorin, born in St. Petersburg and the son of the fa…
