Peter Simon Pallas

Peter Simon Pallas

male, deceased (1811)
Peter Simon Pallas was a German zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia. Pallas was born in Berlin, the son of a Professor of Surgery. He...
Kostya Tszyu

Kostya Tszyu

male, 40 years old
Konstantin Tszyu (Russian: Константин (Костя) Цзю, pronounced in Australian English) (born September 19, 1969) is a Russian- born boxer of mixed Rus...
Yermak Timofeyevich

Yermak Timofeyevich

male, deceased (1585)
Yermak Timofeyevich, Cossack leader and explorer of Siberia. His exploration of Siberia marked the beginning of the expansion of Russia towards...

Edouard de Verneuil

male, deceased (1873)
Phillippe Edouard Poulletier de Verneuil (February 13, 1805 - May 29, 1873) was a French paleontologist. He was born in Paris and educated for the...

Boris Grakov

male, deceased (1970)
Boris Nikolaevich Grakov (in Onega - September 14 1970 in Moscow) was a Soviet Russian archaeologist, who specialized in Scythian and Sarmatian...
Lera Auerbach

Lera Auerbach

female, 36 years old
Lera Auerbach (b. October 21, 1973 in Chelyabinsk, Russia) is one of the most widely performed composers of the new generation. She was born in...

Jessica Smith

female, deceased (1983)
Jessica Smith (fl. early 20th century) was an American editor and activist. Daughter of the painter Walter Granville-Smith of New York, Jessica...

Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak

male, deceased (1912)
Dmitri Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak was a Russian author most famous for his novels and short stories about life in the Ural Mountains.
Tamara Moskvina

Tamara Moskvina

female, 68 years old
Tamara Nikolayevna (Bratus) Moskvina (b. June 26 1941) is a Russian pairs figure skating coach. She was born in Leningrad. During the Siege of...

Harold Ware

male, deceased (1935)
Harold Ware was a United States communist and head of the "Ware group", a covert organisation of Communist Party operatives within the United...