- Anna Anderson
Anastasia Manahan, usually known as Anna Anderson (c. 1900 — 4 February 1984), was the best known of several women who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra, the last monarchs of Imperial Russia. Grand Duchess Anastasia was born on June 5th, 1901 and was, by most accounts, killed with her family on the night of July 17, 1918 by Bolsheviks in the town of Ekaterinburg, Russia. - Sokrates Starynkiewicz
Sokrates Starynkiewicz (1820-1902;) was a Russian general and the 19th President of Warsaw between 1875 and 1892. During his presidency he ordered the construction of municipal water works as well as the tramway and telephone network in Warsaw. - Ivan Paskevich
Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich was a Ukrainian-born military leader in the Russian service. For his victories, he was made Count of Erivan in 1828 and Namestnik of Kingdom of Poland in 1831. Born in Poltava to a well-known family of the Ukrainian Cossack gentry, he was educated at the imperial institution for pages, where his progress was rapid, and in 1800 received his commission in the Guards and was named aide-de-camp to the tsar. - Boris Akunin
Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili, born May 20, 1956, a Russian essayist, literary translator, and fiction writer. He was born in Tbilisi into a Georgian family, and since 1958 has lived in Moscow. "Akunin" (悪人) is a Japanese word that translates loosely to "villain". In his novel "Diamond Chariot", the author defines an "akunin" further as one who creates his own rules. The pseudonym "B. - House Of Fabergé
The House of Fabergé was a jewelry firm founded by the Russian jeweler Gustav Fabergé in 1842 in the Imperial Russian capital of Saint Petersburg. His son Peter Carl Fabergé greatly developed the business, and opened a Moscow branch in 1886. Further branches opened in Odessa (1890-1918), London (first at 415 Oxford Street 1904-1906, then 48 Dover Street 1907-1911 and lastly 173 New Bond Street 1911-1917) and Kiev (1906-1910). - Sholom Aleichem
Sholom Aleichem (May 13, 1916) was a popular humorist and Russian (geographically, Ukrainian) Jewish author of Yiddish literature, including novels, short stories, and plays. He did much to promote Yiddish writers, and was the first to pen children's literature in Yiddish. His work has been widely translated. The musical "Fiddler on the Roof" (1964), loosely based on Sholom Aleichem's stories about his character Tevye the Milkman, … - Tadeusz Kościuszko
Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko was a Polish, Lithuanian national hero, general and a leader of the 1794 uprising (which bears his name) against the Russian Empire. He fought in the American Revolutionary War as a colonel in the Continental Army on the side of Washington. In recognition of his dedicated and faithful service he was brevetted by the Continental Congress to the rank of Brigadier General in 1783, … - Giacomo Quarenghi
Giacomo Quarenghi (20 September or 21, 1744 - 1 March 1817) was the foremost and most prolific practitioner of Palladian architecture in Imperial Russia, particularly in Saint Petersburg. - Lewis Milestone
Lewis Milestone (born Lev Milstein was an accomplished, and award-winning motion picture director. He is known for directing "Two Arabian Knights" (1927), "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930), "The General Died at Dawn" (1936)"Of Mice and Men" (1940), "Ocean's Eleven" (1960) and "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962). Milestone was born in Kishinev (Bessarabia, Imperial Russia, now — Chişinău, Moldova), … - Ivan Osterman
Count Ivan Andreyevich Osterman was a Russian statesman, son of Andrei Osterman. After Ivan Osterman's father had fallen into disgrace, he was transferred from the Imperial Guards to the regular army and then sent abroad, where he would continue his education. In 1757, Ivan Osterman was in the Russian service again. He held diplomatic posts in Paris and Stockholm, where he would exercise big influence on Gustav III of Sweden. In 1774, Ivan Osterman was appointed senator. - Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Of Russia
Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia ("Anastasia Nikolayevna Romanova", (— July 17, 1918), was the youngest daughter of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna. Anastasia was a younger sister of Grand Duchess Olga, Grand Duchess Tatiana and Grand Duchess Maria, and was an elder sister of Alexei Nikolaievitch, Tsarevitch of Russia. - Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna Of Russia
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia ("Olga Alexandrovna Romanova") (June 13, 1882-November 24, 1960) was the last Grand Duchess of Imperial Russia under the reign of her elder brother, Czar Nicholas II. Her father was the 19th century reformer of Russia, Alexander III; her mother was the daughter of Christian IX of Denmark, Maria Feodorovna, formerly titled Princess Dagmar of Denmark. Raised at the Gatchina Palace of St. Petersburg, Russia, … - Konstantin Thon
Konstantin Andreyevich Thon, also spelled Ton (October 26 1794, St Petersburg - January 25 1881, St.Petersburg), was an official architect of Imperial Russia during the reign of Nicholas I. His major works include the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the Grand Kremlin Palace and the Armoury in Moscow. - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (September 19, 1935) was an Imperial Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of astronautic theory who spent most of his life in a log house on the outskirts of Kaluga, about 200 km (125 miles) southwest of Moscow. - Volodymyr Antonovych
Volodymyr Antonovych (1834-01-18, vil. Makhnivka, Kiev Guberniya - 1908-03-21, Kiev), was a prominent Ukrainian historian and one of the leaders of the Ukrainian national awakening in the Russian Empire. As a historian, Antonovych, who was longtime Professor of History at the University of Kiev, represented a populist approach to Ukrainian history. This approach, which earlier had been exemplified by another historian, Mykola Kostomarov (Nikolay Kostomarov), … - Yemelyan Pugachev
Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev, also transliterated Emelian Pugachev, born in 1740 or 1742 and executed in 1775, was a pretender to the Russian throne who led a great Cossack insurrection during the reign of Catherine II. Alexander Pushkin wrote a remarkable history of the rebellion, and he recounted some of the events in his novel "The Captain's Daughter" (1836). - Dmitry Milyutin
Count Dmitry Alekseyevich Milyutin (June 28, 1816, Moscow - January 25, 1912, Simeiz near Yalta) was Minister of War (1861-81) and the last Field Marshal of Imperial Russia (1898). He was responsible for sweeping military reforms that changed the face of the Russian army in the 1860s and 1870s. - Shneur Zalman Of Liadi
Shneur Zalman of Liadi (September 4, 1745 – December 15, 1812 O.S.), was an Orthodox Rabbi, and the founder and first Rebbe of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism, then based in Liadi, Imperial Russia. He was the author of many works, and is best known for "Shulchan Aruch HaRav", "Tanya" and his "Siddur Torah Or" compiled according to "Nusach Ari". He is also known as Shneur Zalman Baruchovitch, Reb Schneur Zalman, RaZaSh, … - Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel
Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (August 15, 1878, Zarasai, Lithuania (then Imperial Russia) - April 25, 1928, Brussels, Belgium), was an officer in the Imperial Russian army and later commanding general of the pro-monarchist White Army in Southern Russia in the later stages of the Russian Civil War. - Patrick Gordon
Patrick Gordon was general of the Imperial Russian army, of Scottish origin. He was descended from a Scottish family of Aberdeenshire, holders of the small estate of Auchleuchries, and were connected with the house of Haddo. After completing his education at the parish schools of Cruden and Ellon, he entered, at age fifteen, the Jesuit college at Braunsberg, Prussia; however, due to his character he did not tolerate well the strict and somber way of life at the school, … - Oliver Wardrop
Sir John Oliver Wardrop (1864-1948) was a British diplomat, traveller and translator, primarily known as the United Kingdom's first Chief Commissioner of Transcaucasus in Georgia, 1919-21, and also as the founder and benefactor of Kartvelian studies at Oxford University. After traveling to Georgia (then part of Imperial Russia) in 1887, Sir Oliver wrote his famous book "The Kingdom of Georgia", published in 1888. - Nikolay Kostomarov
Nikolai Ivanovich Kostomarov (May 16, 1817, vil. Yurasovka, Voronezh Guberniya, Russia - April 19, 1885, Saint Petersburg, Russia), of mixed Ukrainian and Russian origin, is one of the most distinguished Russian and Ukrainian historians, a Professor of History at the Kiev University and later at the St. Petersburg University, an author of many books, including his famous biography of the seventeenth century Ukrainian Cossack Hetman, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, … - Theodosius Dobzhansky
Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky (Ukrainian - Теодосій Григорович Добжанський; sometimes anglicized to Theodore Dobzhansky; January 25, 1900 - December 18, 1975) was a noted geneticist and evolutionary biologist. Dobzhansky was born in Ukraine (then part of Imperial Russia) and emigrated to the United States in 1927. - Vladimir Purishkevich
Vladimir Mitrofanovich Purishkevich (August 12, 1870, Kishinev - February, 1920, Novorossiysk, Russia), was a Russian politician before the Bolshevik revolution. Born in a family of poor nobleman in Bessarabia Purishkevich graduated from Odessa university with a degree in philosophy. Purishkevich was a far-rightist who in 1905 was one of the founders of the Union of the Russian People, … - Nicholas Repnin
Prince Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnin was an Imperial Russian statesman and general from the Repnin princely family who played a key role in the downfall of Polish statehood. - Leo Ornstein
Leo Ornstein (ca. December 2, 1893 - February 24, 2002), born in Russian-ruled Ukraine, was one of the leading American experimental composers and pianists of the early twentieth century. His performances of works by avant-garde composers and his own innovative and even shocking pieces made him a cause célèbre on both sides of the Atlantic. Ornstein was the first important composer to make extensive use of the tone cluster. - Antonina Miliukova
Antonina Ivanovna Tchaikovskaya née Miliukova was the wife (and after 1893, the widow) of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Miliukova, younger than the composer by nine years, had met Tchaikovsky while he was professor at the Moscow Music Conservatory as she, herself was a student there. Eventually she had to abandon her studies at that institution, probably as the result of financial troubles. She wrote to Tchaikovsky on at least two occasions. - Mikhail Bonch-Bruevich
Mikhail Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruevich was an Imperial Russian and Soviet military commander, Lieutenant General (1944). During the World War I Bonch-Bruevich was chief of staff and deputy commander of the Russian Northern Front. After the October Revolution he was chief of staff of the Supreme Commander (1917-1918), the military director (военный руководитель) of the Supeme Military Council, … - Vasily Balabanov
Vasily Vasilievich Balabanov (January 30, 1873, Bakhmut, Ukraine Balabanov - January 27, 1947, Vancouver, Canada) was an administrator and Provincial Governor of Imperial Russia. Vasily Balabanov went to the University of Moscow, graduated in 1894, married and took care of the family estate in Bakhmut until 1905 when under the Government of Russia he went to Turkistan on a fact finding mission. - Mikhail Borodin
Mikhail Markovich Borodin (July 9 1884, Yanovich, modern Belarus-May 29 1951, somewhere in Siberia) was the alias of Mikhail Gruzenberg; he was a Comintern agent. Borodin joined the Bolshevik party in Imperial Russia in 1903. In 1907, he was arrested and chose to depart for the United States in 1908. While there, he attended classes at Valparaiso University. After the October Revolution, he returned to his motherland in 1918, … - Starshina
Starshina, or Starshyna, had a number of meanings, all related to the position of chiefdom. Among Ukrainian Cossacks, "starshina" was a collective noun for categories of officership: junior starshina (младшый старшина), general starshina (Генеральный Старшина), military starshina (воинский старшина), substarshina (подстаршина). - Christian Rakovsky
Christian Rakovsky was a Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and Soviet diplomat; he was also noted as a journalist, physician, and essayist. Rakovsky's political career took him throughout the Balkans and into France and Imperial Russia; for part of his life, he was also a Romanian citizen. A lifelong collaborator of Leon Trotsky, he was a prominent activist of the Second International, … - Boris Souvarine
Boris Souvarine was an Imperial Russian-born French socialist and communist activist, essayist, and journalist. - Grigore Iv Ghica
Grigore IV Ghica or Grigore Dimitrie Ghica was Prince of Wallachia between 1822 and 1828. A member of the Ghica family, Grigore IV was the brother of Alexandru Ghica and the uncle of Dora d'Istria. Although his is ultimately an Albanian lineage and many of his relatives had occupied the throne in both Wallachia and Moldavia, the regime change after the Greek War of Independence, … - Pavel Krushevan
Pavel Aleksandrovich Krushevan (–) was a journalist, editor, publisher and an official in the Imperial Russia. He was an active Black Hundredist and was known for his far-right, ultra-nationalist and openly antisemitic views and was the first publisher of infamous fraud "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion". Born Pavolaki Krushevan into a family of impoverished Russianized Moldavian aristocrats in the village Gindeshty (now Ghindeşti, … - Noe Zhordania
Noe Zhordania (also transliterated as Jordania was a Georgian journalist and Menshevik politician. He played an eminent role in the Social Democratic revolutionary movement in Imperial Russia, and later chaired the government of the Democratic Republic of Georgia from July 24 1918 until March 18 1921, when the Soviet Russian Red Army invasion of Georgia forced him into exile to France where he led the government-in-exile until his death in 1953. - Arkady Gaidar
Arkady Petrovich Golikov ((October 26 1941), better known as Arkady Gaidar, was a Soviet writer, whose stories were very popular among Soviet children. He was born in Lgov town, Imperial Russia (now in Kursk Oblast, Russia), to a family of a teacher. Gaidar spent his childhood in Arzamas. In 1918 he volunteered for the Red Army. During the Russian Civil War, at the age of 16 he became commander of a regiment. - Anna Petrovna Of Russia
Anna Petrovna, Tsesarevna of Russia (27 January 1708, Moscow - 4 March 1728, Kiel) was the eldest daughter of Emperor Peter I of Russia and Catherine I of Russia. Her sister Elizabeth ruled as Empress between 1741 and 1761. Her son Peter ruled as Emperor between 1761 and 1762. Anna was born out of wedlock and was legitimized on the wedding of her parents in 1712. Her perceived illegitimacy caused several projects of matrimonial alliances to be turned down. - Nikolay Saltykov
Count Nikolay Ivanovich Saltykov was a Russian Field Marshal and imperial courtier. He was the head of the Russian Army as the president of the the War Collegium 1791 – 1802. He was also the Lieutenant Grand Master of the Order of Malta from 1801 - 1803. He is credited as the tutor of the eventual Tsar Paul I of Russia and his two sons, Konstantin Pavlovich Romanov, and Tsar Alexander I of Russia - Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky
Prince Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky was a Russian officer of Circassian origin who led the first Russian military expedition into Central Asia.
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