Georgy Alexandrovich Chavchavadze, born in 1905 in St. Petersburg, was a pianist and composer. He was the son of Prince Alexander Zacharievich Chavchavadze and Princess Maria Pavlovna Rodzyanko-Chavchavadze. At the age o…

Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov was born in Moscow. His father was a minor official of the Audit Chamber and died in 1871. His mother, the daughter of a Senate official, instilled in her son a patriarchal faith in God and a …

Zinaida Gippius was a renowned Russian poetess, playwright, prose writer, and critic, as well as one of the key figures of Russian symbolism. Her contemporaries called her a witch, a sylph, and a sataness. Some admired …

Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin, born in 1855 and passed away in 1888, was a Russian writer, poet, and art critic, distinguished by a keen sense of justice and compassion for the suffering of others. His biography and work…

Innocent Annensky (1855-1909) was one of the most educated people of his time, a talented poet and playwright, a renowned critic, translator, and expert on the history of the Russian language and literature. His biograph…

Prince Alexander Grigorievich Shcherbatov, born on October 10 (22), 1850, in St. Petersburg and died on April 24 (May 7), 1915, in Warsaw, was the president of the Moscow Society of Agriculture and a chamberlain since 18…

Teffi, a renowned Russian writer, poet, and translator, was born in 1872 and passed away in 1952. Behind this pseudonym was the noblewoman Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya, who possessed an incredible sense of humor an…

Maria Dmitrievna Krivopolenova was an outstanding Russian storyteller and writer. She was born in the remote village of Ust-Yezhuga in the Pinega region. At 24, Maria got married, but family life did not bring her happin…

The end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, during the reign of Peter I, is most known for the construction of St. Petersburg, reforms, and access to the Baltic Sea. However, it was also an era of active R…

Vasily Vladimirovich Petrov was a Russian experimental physicist and a self-taught expert in electrical engineering, becoming the founder of this science in Russia. He was an academician of the Petersburg Academy of Scie…