He noticed the talented peasant boy Fedot Sychkow and paid for his education at an art school in St. Petersburg. Later, Sychkow became a famous artist in Russia. Arapov built schools, hospitals, and educational instituti…

On January 26 and 31, 1918 (according to the old style) in Kyiv, after the city was captured by the Bolsheviks, mass killings of officers occurred. About two thousand officers who came for "registration" were brutally ki…

In the Serbian village of Bačevci, a monument has been erected to a nurse, and a memorial plaque has been placed on the local school building with the inscription: "To our fearless nurse, daughter of Tsarist Russia, brig…

He was a man of many talents. He began his career as an army artist during the war in the Caucasus and later became a photographer at the Imperial court. He took most of the photographs of Alexander II. In 1854, this out…

The matryoshka seems to be an intrinsic symbol of Russia, however, by historical standards, it appeared relatively recently, at the end of the 19th century. The classic image of this toy was invented by carpenter Vasily …

Alexander Stepanovich Kuchin, a Russian researcher of polar regions, participated in Roald Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole and was the captain of the ship of the Rusanov expedition, which went missing. Kuchin wa…

Father of Television In 1918, a young man wandered through an abandoned factory in Yekaterinburg, carefully studying the area and collecting seemingly useless radio parts. He was putting his finds in his pocket and was …

Boris Rubashkin, whose real surname is Chernorubashkin, was born on June 17, 1932, in Sofia. He is known as an Austrian and Russian opera singer (baritone), as well as a performer of Russian songs and romances. His fath…

Maria Krzhizhevskaya, known in Sakhalin as the "Sakhalin Advocate," was recognized by almost all the island's residents in the late 19th century. A young nurse dedicated to serving people, she was respected by both high-…

Vatslav Nijinsky, known as the Bird Man, king of the air and the eighth wonder of the world, left a significant mark in choreography and male dance, despite his brief creative career. He opened new horizons in body plast…