Domenico Trezzini

Domenico Trezzini

male, deceased (1734)
Swiss, Peter and Paul Fortress, summer house, Russian, Italian, tsar…SaintPetersburgUniversity
Domenico Trezzini (ca. 1670-1734) was a Swiss-Italian architect who elaborated the Petrine Baroque style of Russian architecture. Domenico was born...
Pyotr Pletnyov

Pyotr Pletnyov

male, deceased (1865)
Pyotr Alexandrovich Pletnyov, SaintPetersburgUniversity, Saint Petersburg State University, Academician, journalist, Literary critic…St. Petersburg University, Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Pyotr Alexandrovich Pletnyov was a minor Russian poet and literary critic, who rose to become the dean of the Saint Petersburg University (1840-61)...
Mikhail Zoshchenko

Mikhail Zoshchenko

male, deceased (1958)
lenin, Serapion Brother, Russian, writer, soviet, Victim of Soviet repressions…From Saint Petersburg, SaintPetersburgUniversity
Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko was the foremost Russian satirist of the Soviet period. Zoschenko's father was a mosaicist responsible for the...
Nikolai Chernyshevsky

Nikolai Chernyshevsky

male, deceased (1889)
novelist, Siberia, revolutionary, socialist, Utopian socialist, Russian…Saint Petersburg State University, Alumni of St. Petersburg State University, SaintPetersburgUniversity
Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (July 12, 1828 - October 17, 1889) was a Russian revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher, critic, and...
Nikolai Ge

Nikolai Ge

male, deceased (1894)
painter, French, Russian, the last supper, samuel, tsar…Kiev University, SaintPetersburgUniversity, studied at the Petersburg Academy of Arts
Nikolai Ge (or Ghe or Gay, ; -) was a Russian realist painter famous for his works on historical and religious motifs. Nikolai Ge was born in...
Ivan I. Ivanov

Ivan I. Ivanov

male, deceased (1939)
mathematician, Number theorist, Russian, chebyshev, Soviet mathematician, Russian Academy of Sciences…From Saint Petersburg, Alumni of St. Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University, SaintPetersburgUniversity
Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov was a Russian-Soviet mathematician who worked in the field of number theory. Together with Georgy Voronoy he continued...
Pyotr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky

Pyotr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky

male, deceased (1914)
Geographer, Statistician, Explorer of Asia, Russian, gregorian calendar, dostoevsky…SaintPetersburgUniversity
Pyotr Petrovich Semenov-Tyan-Shansky (2 January "<small>(New style: 14 January)</small>", 1827 - 26 February "<small>(New style: March...
Vladimir Bogoraz

Vladimir Bogoraz

male, deceased (1936)
writer, Anthropologist, Russian, leningrad, duma, chukchi…Petrograd University, SaintPetersburgUniversity
Vladimir Germanovich Bogoraz, best known under literary pseudonym N.A. Tan aimed at studying the ethnography, anthropology and archaeology of the...
Lev Semenovich Berg

Lev Semenovich Berg

male, deceased (1950)
Geographer, Biologist, Russian, soviet, ichthyology, leningrad…Moscow University, SaintPetersburgUniversity
Lev Semyonovich Berg (March 14, 1876, Tighina - December 24, 1950, Leningrad) was a leading Soviet geographer and biologist who served as President...
Vladimir Golenishchev

Vladimir Golenishchev

male, deceased (1947)
russian revolution of 1917, Russian, nice, Orientalist, egyptologist, egyptology…SaintPetersburgUniversity, University of Cairo
Vladimir Semënovič Goleniščev was one of the first and most accomplished Russian Egyptologists. Goleniščev came from an old noble family, of which...