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David Daniel Kaminsky
Danny Kaye, a famous American actor, singer, and comedian, was born on January 18, 1911, and passed away on March 3, 1987. His real name was David Daniel Kaminsky. He was born in Brooklyn to Jewish immigrants from the Ru…
Georgian Pyotr Nikolaevich (1837-1892)
Pyotr Nikolaevich Georgian (1837-1892) was an artist and academic of the Imperial Academy of Arts. Despite his surname, he was not born in Georgia, but in the Kursk province, in the family of a poor Russian landowner. Ac…
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Nikolai Kobelkov
On July 22, 1851, a joyful event occurred in the family of a mining engineer in Voznesensk, Orenburg province: a long-awaited son was born. However, the boy, named Nikolai Kobelkov, was born without limbs due to a rare d…
Ermil Ivanovich Kostrov
Ermil Ivanovich Kostrov was a Russian translator and poet who was the first in Russia to translate Homer's "Iliad" and Apuleius' "Golden Ass." His translation of Apuleius remained the only one until the early 20th centur…
Alexander Petrovich Sokolov
Alexander Sokolov lived a long and eventful life. He was born in 1827, shortly after the Decembrist uprising, during the era of Romanticism in art, and died in 1913, on the eve of World War I, when Russian Modernism had …
Mikhail Osipovich Menshikov
“Do not extinguish the spirit! Do not lose your nationality, for in it lies our beginning, and without it, an end...” A nation is when people feel like owners of their country, its masters. However, only citizens who pos…
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Moshnin Prokhor Isidorovich
On January 15, or January 2 according to the Julian calendar, the Russian Orthodox Church honors the memory of St. Seraphim of Sarov, one of the most revered monks in its history.
Seraphim of Sarov, known in the world a…
Nikolai Ivanovich Ashinov
Descriptions of Nikolai Ashinov's appearance given by different people do not match. The Frenchman Jean-Robert de Constanten recalls him as a man with a high forehead, a kind face, and gentle hands. Russian journalists d…
Yakov Fyodorovich Dolgorukov
In the height of summer in 1711, a mysterious schooner appeared at the entrance to the Reval Bay. Without a flag, it cautiously maneuvered closer to the shore and dropped anchor. The commandant watched in surprise as a b…
Nikita Lomovsky
Russian strongmen have always been held in high regard. There were few of them, but tales of incredible strength were passed down from generation to generation. One such famous strongman was Nikita Lomovsky.
He was affe…
