Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700-1771) was a Russian architect of Italian origin. He developed an easily recognizable style of late baroque, both sumptuous and majestic. His major works, including the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg and the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo, are famed for extravagant luxury and opulence of decoration. Bartolomeo went to Russia in 1715 with his father, Italian sculptor Carlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1675-1744).

Yelizaveta Petrovna (December 29, 1709 – January 5, 1762 (New Style); December 18, 1709 – December 25, 1761 (Old Style)), also known as Yelisavet and Elizabeth, was an Empress of Russia (1741 – 1762) who took the country into the War of Austrian Succession (1740 – 1748) and the Seven Years' War (1756 – 1763).

Prince Alexey Borisovich Lobanov-Rostovsky ((December 30, 1824-August 30, 1896) was a Russian statesman, probably best remembered for having published the "Russian Genealogical Book" (in two volumes). Descended from the legendary prince Rurik, Prince Lobanov-Rostovsky was educated at the famous lyceum of Tsarskoye Selo. At the age of twenty, he entered the diplomatic service and became minister at Constantinople in 1859.

Alexandre Nikolayevich Benois (May 4, 1870, St. Petersburg-February 9, 1960, Paris), was a prominent member of the St. Petersburg artistic intellectual Benois family, an influential art critic, artist, preservationist, and founding member of Mir iskusstva. His influence on the modern ballet and stage design is considered seminal. Alexandre's father Nicholas Benois and brother Leon Benois were noted Russian architects.

Gregory P. Tschebotarioff, (February 28, 1899 - 1985), was a Russian-born civil engineer and prolific author. His memoir "Russia, My Native Land" recounted his experiences as a boy and young man in Russia, where he served in the military during World War I. His mother, Valentina Ivanovna Chebotareva, served as a Red Cross nurse at a hospital in Tsarskoye Selo, Russia with Tsarina Alexandra. Tschebotarioff published his mother's wartime journal in "Russia, …

Valentina Ivanovna Chebotareva (? - April 23 (O.S.)/May 6 (N.S.), 1919), recorded her impressions of work in a military hospital in Tsarskoye Selo, Russia during World War I in her journal. Portions of the journal, which included her impressions of Tsarina Alexandra and of her daughters Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia were published in magazines, books, and in her son's memoirs after the war.

Joanna Grudzińska was a Polish noble, a Duchess of Łowicz and the second wife of Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia, the "de facto" viceroy of the Kingdom of Poland. This marriage cost Constantine the crown of Russia. One of three daughters of Antoni Grudziński, the last owner of the town of Chodzież, Grudzińska was known for her beauty. On May 27, 1820, she married Grand Duke Constantine after an affair that started in 1815.

Olga Konstantinovna Chekhova or Tchechowa ((14 April 1897, Aleksandropol (now Gyumri, Armenia) – 9 March 1980, Berlin) was a Russian actress who made a stunning career in the cinema of the Third Reich. Born Olga Knipper, she was the daughter of Konstantin Knipper, an imperial minister and the niece and namesake of Olga Knipper (Anton Chekhov's wife), both of whom were Lutherans of ethnic German descent.

Yury Matveyevich Felten (native name Georg Friedrich Veldten) (1730 - 1801) was a court architect to Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia. Felten was born to a family of immigrants to Russia. Felten worked on Palace Square in St. Petersburg, the Church of Saint John at Chesme Palace, and the Zubov wing of the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo. It may be argued that his best-known work is not a building but an iron-cast grille of the Summer Garden (1783).

Misia Sert born Maria Zofia Olga Zenajda Godebska was a Polish-French pianist, patron and friend of numerous artists. She is best-known as a host of a literary-artistic salon in Paris. Her father, Cyprian Godebski, was a Polish-born sculptor. Her mother, Zofia Godebska née Servais, was half-Belgian and half-Russian, daughter to a noted musician Adrien-François Servais. She died at giving birth to her March 30, 1872, in Tsarskoye Selo in Russia, …

Samedbey Sadykhbey oglu Mehmandarov was General of the Artillery of the Russian tsarist army and Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. Samedbey Mehmandarov was born on 16 October 1855 in Lankaran in a noble family from Shusha. He graduated from 2nd Constantine Military School in St. Petersburg in 1875, was conferred the rank of podporuchik and assigned to 1st Turkestan artillery brigade.

Alexander Tamanian (March 4, 1878, Krasnodar - February 20, 1936, Yerevan) was an Armenian neoclassical architect, who is remembered today for his work in the city of Yerevan. Born in the city of Yekatirinodar (modern Krasnodar) in 1878 in the family of a banker. He graduated from the Saint Petersburgh Academy of Arts in 1904. His works portrayed sensitive and artistic neoclassical trends popular in those years.

Ali-Agha Ismail-Agha oglu Shikhlinski was lieutenant-general of the Russian tsarist army and Deputy Minister of Defense and General of the Artillery of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. Ali-Agha Shikhlinski was born on April 23, 1865 in the village of Kazakhly of Kazakh uyezd. In August 1876 he entered Tiflis military school and graduated in 1883. He then finished Mikhaylovsky Artillery School in Sankt-Petersburg in 1886, …

Nicholas (Nikolai) Alexandrovich Romanov (September 20, 1843 - April 24, 1865) was Tsarevich of Imperial Russia from March 2 1855 until his death. He was also the Grand Duke of Russia and Grand Prince Thronfolger. He was nick-named Nixa. He was born at Tsarskoye Selo, the eldest son of Tsarevich Alexander Nikolaievich, eldest son of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, and Princess Maximilienne Wilhelmine Marie of Hesse and by Rhine.

Countess Yuliya Pavlovna Samoylova was a granddaughter of Count Martyn Skavronskiy and the last scion of Skavronskiy family. She was born to Pavel Pahlen and Mariya Skavronskaya, but grew up in the house of Count Yuliy Litta due to early death of her mother. Samoylova became an owner of Grafskaya Slavyanka manor (now Antropshino), near Tsarskoye Selo and a holder of several masterpieces. On January 25, 1825 she married Count Nikolai Samoylov, …

Nikolai Khristianovich Bunge was the preeminent architect of Russian capitalism under Alexander III of Russia. He was a distinguished economist, statesman, and academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Bunge was a professor of the Kiev University, of which he served as a dean between 1859 and 1880, when he was summoned to St. Petersburg to become a deputy minister and then (since 1881) Minister of Finance.

Mina Lukich Kolokolnikov (1708?-1775?) was a Russian painter and teacher. Mina was born in the village of Kravotyn in Tver gubernia. He was a serf of the Pafnutievo-Borovsky Monastery, and learnt the art of portrait painting from Ivan Nikitich Nikitin and Louis Caravaque; he also studied icon painting with Vasily Vasilevsky. He is known to have assisted in the decoration of the palace at Tsarskoye Selo, and to have lived for a time in St. Petersburg, …