Kozma Dmitrievich Frolov is undoubtedly one of the outstanding Russian engineers-inventors of the 18th century. He was born on July 29, 1726, in Polevskoy. His father, who worked as a craftsman, managed to provide his so…

Mikhail Osipovich Dolivo-Dobrovolsky was one of the first inventors in the field of electrical engineering, developing a method for transmitting electricity over long distances. This talented engineer was born in 1861 i…

In 1861, a new priest arrived at the recently established church at the Russian consulate in Hakodate, Hokkaido. For his work and missionary activities, he was glorified as Equal-to-the-Apostles Nicholas of Japan. Ivan …

In 1854, in Tsarskoye Selo, known for Pushkin, one of the founders of Russian sports, Georgy Ribopier, was born. He came from a noble family: his father Ivan was the son of the Swiss count Alexander Ribopier, and his mot…

Russian inventor Joseph Lazarovich Polyakov The early 20th century in Russia was a time of rapid scientific and technological progress, but revolutionary upheavals forced many talented compatriots to work abroad. A vivi…

The history of the Church in China spans many centuries, with the first official church opened in the 1680s in Beijing. Its founder and the first Orthodox priest in the country was Maxim Leontievich Tolstooukhov. The st…

In the early 1920s, about two million of our compatriots found themselves in exile, and many of them lived remarkable lives abroad. Olga Stepanovna Khokhlova was born on June 17, 1891, into a family of a colonel. She re…

The photographic works of Nizhny Novgorod resident M.P. Dmitriev (1858-1948) consistently received awards at Russian and foreign photo exhibitions before the revolution. His "Volga Collection," which became the pinnacle …

In the first half of the 20th century, the Orthodox Church gained more holy martyrs than in the entire previous millennium of Christianity in Russia. Among such ascetics was Bishop Nikifor of Pyatigorsk and the Prikum re…

Boys of the 1970s should thank the white guard midshipman for their red army tin soldiers, who served in the anti-Soviet Russian All-Military Union under General Kutepov. This man was the first in the USSR to start engra…