Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Rostropovich

male, deceased (2007)
Colorectal cancer death, AIDS activist, KBE, music educator, Polish nobility, RussianofPolishdescent…Russian classical cellist, Russian-American, Prince of Asturias Award winner, naturalized citizen of the United States, Russian
Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich KBE, (March 27 1927 - April 27 2007), known to close friends as “Slava”, was a cellist and conductor. He was marr...
Victor Serge

Victor Serge

male, deceased (1947)
RussianofPolishdescent, Soviet expellees, Russian-French, Soviet regime, Victor Lvovich Kibalchich, Russian Communist Party…Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Russian, polish
Victor Lvovich Kibalchich (1890-1947) better known as Victor Serge was a Russian revolutionary. Originally an anarchist, he joined the Russian...
Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski

Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski

male, deceased (1927)
RussianofPolishdescent, Number theorist, From Warsaw, Alumni of St. Petersburg State University, algebra, integral calculus…polish, Doctor of Philosophy, Russian, University of St. Petersburg
Yulian Karl Vasilievich Sokhotsky was a Russian mathematician. Sokhotsky was born in Warsaw, Poland under the Russian domination to a Ruscified...
Ladislas Starevich

Ladislas Starevich

male, deceased (1965)
RussianofPolishdescent, Polish-French, white russian, Russian, Russian and Soviet film director, Animator…polish
Ladislas Starevich, born Władysław Starewicz, was a Polish, Russian and French stop-motion animator who used insects and animals as his pr...
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

male, deceased (1935)
astronautic theory, Early spaceflight scientist, Astronautics, Russian, science fiction writer, space travel…RussianofPolishdescent, polish
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (September 19, 1935) was an Imperial Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of astronautic theory who...