Igor Severyanin, whose real name was Lotaryov, was born on May 4, 1887, in St. Petersburg and died on December 20, 1941, in Tallinn. He was a Russian poet of the Silver Age. Severyanin wrote his first poem at the age of …

Evgeny Karlovich Miller, born on September 25, 1867, in Dvinsk, Vitebsk province, and died on May 11, 1939, in Moscow, was a Russian military leader who attained the rank of lieutenant general in 1915. In 1919 and 1920, …

Arkady Averchenko: "The King of Laughter" in Exile Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko, born on March 15, 1880, and died on March 12, 1925, was a renowned Russian writer, satirist, playwright, and theater critic. His work was…

Boris Ivanovsky was a famous Russian race car driver of the first half of the 20th century and an officer of the Russian Empire's Guard. After the 1917 revolution, he emigrated to Paris, where in the 1920s he gained fame…

Fyodor Yakovlevich Alekseev was often called the "Russian Canaletto" and is considered one of the founders of the Russian urban landscape. Sometimes, looking at old paintings, it feels like you have traveled back in tim…

Vera Petrovna Fokina, née Antonova, was born on August 3, 1886, and passed away on July 29, 1958, in New York. She was a renowned Russian ballerina. Vera graduated from the Imperial Theatre School and joined the Mariins…

Alexander married a German princess for the first time. In March 1839, when he was still the heir to the throne, he met her in Darmstadt during a trip across Europe. There he got to know Princess Maximiliana Wilhelmina A…

170 years ago, on December 20, 1849, Prince Sergei Maximilianovich Romanovsky, Duke of Leuchtenberg, was born. He became the first member of the Russian Imperial House to die in war, serving as an officer at the front. S…

Lyudmila Ilyinichna Lopato, born on August 5, 1914, in Harbin, was a renowned cabaret singer among the Russian emigration and a guardian of the tradition of performing Russian romance. Her father, Ilya Lopato, owned a to…

Yulia Alexandrovna Zapolskaya, a renowned performer of Russian romances, was born in Moscow on the Old Arbat at the end of the Civil War. In her childhood, she often listened to folk songs and romances sung by her elderl…