Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin

male, deceased (1837)
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian Romantic author who is considered to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian...

AleksandrPushkin

male
Aleksandr Pushkin was born in Moscow into a cultured but poor aristocratic family. On his father's side he was descended from an ancient noble...

AleksandrPushkin

male (Everett, Washington, United States)
Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

male, deceased (1977)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Russian-American author. Nabokov wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international...
T. J. Binyon

T. J. Binyon

male, deceased (2004)
Timothy John Binyon (February 18, 1936 - October 7, 2004) was an English scholar and crime writer. He was a distant relative of the poet, Laurence...
Abram Petrovich Gannibal

Abram Petrovich Gannibal

male, deceased (1781)
Major-General Abram Petrovich Gannibal, also Hannibal or Ganibal, (1696 - 14 May 1781) was an African slave who was brought to Russia by Peter the...
Alexander Dargomyzhsky

Alexander Dargomyzhsky

male, deceased (1869)
Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky (February 14 1813-May 17 1869) was a 19th century Russian composer. He bridged the gap in Russian opera...
Anna Petrovna Kern

Anna Petrovna Kern

female, deceased (1879)
Anna Petrovna Kern, nee "Poltoratskaya" (11 February, 1800 — 27 May, 1879), was a Russian socialite and memoirist, best known as the addressee of wh...
Tommaso Landolfi

Tommaso Landolfi

male, deceased (1979)
Tommaso Landolfi (August 9 1908 - 1979) was an Italian author and translator. Born in in Pico, province of Frosinone, he wrote numerous works of...