Alexandre Benois

Alexandre Benois

male, deceased (1960)
Scenic designer, painter, Bronze Horseman, Art Nouveau, Russian, artist…Saint Petersburg State University, Alumni of St. Petersburg State University, St. PetersburgUniversity, From Saint Petersburg, born in St. Petersburg, Russia
Alexandre Nikolayevich Benois (May 4, 1870, St. Petersburg-February 9, 1960, Paris), was a prominent member of the St. Petersburg artistic...
Pyotr Stolypin

Pyotr Stolypin

male, deceased (1911)
agrarian reforms, death by firearm in Ukraine, aristocracy, duel, agrarian reform, saratov…St. PetersburgUniversity
Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin served as Nicholas II's Chairman of the Council of Ministers - the Prime Minister of Russia from 1906 to 1911. He became...
Ilia Chavchavadze

Ilia Chavchavadze

male, deceased (1907)
Assassinated Georgian, Georgian historical novelist, pater patriae, Publisher, Humanist, Imperial Russian politician…St. PetersburgUniversity
Prince Ilia Chavchavadze (October 27, 1837 - August 30, 1907) was a prominent figure of new Georgian literature, world-renowned writer, famous...
Max Vasmer

Max Vasmer

male, deceased (1962)
Etymologist, West Berlin, Heidelberg University, Russian, tartu, linguistics…Columbia University, St. PetersburgUniversity, University of Tartu, graduated from the St. Petersburg University
Max Vasmer (February 28, 1886-November 30, 1962) was a Russian-born German linguist who studied problems of etymology of Indo-European, Finno-Ugric...
Vazha-Pshavela

Vazha-Pshavela

male, deceased (1915)
poet, writer, georgian, tbilisi, pen-name, Georgian language…St. PetersburgUniversity
Vazha-Pshavela (July 26, 1861-July 10, 1915) is the pen-name of the Georgian poet and writer Luka P. Razikashvili, a classic of the new Georgian...
Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov

Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov

male, deceased (1953)
politician, executed, georgian, KGB officer, St. PetersburgUniversity, Soviet execution…St.Petersburg University
Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov, was the head of NKGB from February to July 1941, and again from April 1943 to March 1946. He was a member of the...
Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

male, deceased (1970)
Probability theorist, St. PetersburgUniversity, Petrograd University, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Erdős number 2, Alumni of St. Petersburg State University…Saint Petersburg State University, University of Cambridge, LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY
Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (Besikovitch) was a Russian mathematician, who worked mainly in England. He was born in Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov...

Jüri Uluots

male, deceased (1945)
never recognized by the United States, prime minister in the duties of the president, Narva, puppet government, Alumni of St. Petersburg State University, Riigikogu…University of Tartu, St. PetersburgUniversity
Jüri Uluots was an Estonian prime minister, journalist, and prominent attorney. Uluots was born in the Kirbla municipality in 1890 and studied law a...
Ants Piip

Ants Piip

male, deceased (1942)
estonian, Prime Minister of Estonia, Victim of Soviet repressions, politician, Tartu University, Constituent Assembly…Berlin University, St. PetersburgUniversity
Ants Piip VR III/1 (February 28 1884, Tuhalaane Parish, Estonia - October 1 1942, Nõrõbi camp, Perm Oblast, Soviet Union) was an Estonian lawyer, di...

Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai

male, deceased (1888)
civil engineer, Biologist, architect, papua new guinea, Anthropologist, Explorer of Asia…St. PetersburgUniversity, Moscow-Saint Petersburg Railway
Nicholai Nicholaevich Miklukho-Maklai was a Russian ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist. Miklukho-Maklai was born in a temporary workers camp...