David McDuff

male
David McDuff, a Scottish publicist, was born in Sale, Cheshire, England in 1945. He attended the University of Edinburgh, where he studied German...
Ivan Goncharov

Ivan Goncharov

male, deceased (1891)
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (–) was a Russian novelist best known as the author of "Oblomov" (1859). He was born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk); hi...
Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson

male, 78 years old
Colin Henry Wilson (born June 26, 1931) is a prolific British writer. Wilson was born and brought up in Leicester. He left school at 16 and worked...
Fritz Eichenberg

Fritz Eichenberg

male, deceased (1990)
Fritz Eichenberg (October 24, 1901-November 30, 1990) was a German-American illustrator who worked primarily in wood engraving. His best-known...

Michael Scammell

male
Michael Scammell is an academic, author and translator of Slavic literature. He was educated at the University of Nottingham and Columbia...
Ilya Glazunov

Ilya Glazunov

male, 79 years old
Ilya Glazunov, contemporary Russian artist from Saint Petersburg, born in 1930. Ilya Glazunov is a founder of the Russian high realism artistic...
Aleksey Khomyakov

Aleksey Khomyakov

male, deceased (1860)
Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov was a Russian religious poet who helped found the Slavophile movement and became one of its most distinguished...
Konstantin Leontiev

Konstantin Leontiev

male, deceased (1891)
Konstantin Nikolayevich Leontyev (1831-1891) was a conservative, monarchist reactionary Russian philosopher who advocated closer cultural ties...

Fédor Dostoïevski (FyodorDostoyevsky)

male
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born on November 11, 1821, in Moscow, Russia. He was the second of seven children in the family of Mikhail and...

León Klimovsky

male, deceased (1996)
León Klimovsky was an Argentine film director. A trained dentist, born in Buenos Aires, his real passion was always the cinema. He pioneered A...