Andrei Rublev

Andrei Rublev

male, deceased (1430)
Andrei Rublev (c.1360 or 1370 - 1427 or January 29, 1430) is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of icons and frescoes. There is...
Theophanes The Greek

Theophanes The Greek

male, deceased (1410)
Theophanes the Greek or Feofan Grek (ca. 1340-ca. 1410) was one of the greatest icon painters, or iconographers, of Muscovite Russia, and was noted...
Kuzma Minin

Kuzma Minin

male, deceased (1616)
Kuzma Minich Minin (? - 1616) was a merchant from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, who, together with Prince Dmitry Pozharsky, became a national hero for...
Pietro Antonio Solari

Pietro Antonio Solari

male, deceased (1493)
Pietro Antonio Solari, also known as Pyotr Fryazin (b. after 1450, Milan(?) - 1493, Moscow) was an Italian architect. Pietro Solari's teacher was...
Bartolomeo Rastrelli

Bartolomeo Rastrelli

male, deceased (1771)
Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700-1771) was a Russian architect of Italian origin. He developed an easily recognizable style of late baroque,...
Metropolitan Peter

Metropolitan Peter

male, deceased (1326)
Saint Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia was the Russian metropolitan who moved his see from Kiev to Vladimir and then to Moscow. Later...
Matvey Kazakov

Matvey Kazakov

male, deceased (1812)
Matvey Fyodorovich Kazakov (b. 1738 Moscow - d. 1812 Ryazan) was a Russian Neoclassicist architect. Kazakov was one of the most influential...
Mathias Rust

Mathias Rust

male, 41 years old
Mathias Rust (born 1968) is a German man known for his illegal landing near the Red Square in Moscow in 1987. As an amateur aviator, he flew from...
Patriarch Hermogenes

Patriarch Hermogenes

male, deceased (1612)
Hermogenes, or Germogen (before 1530 - February 17, 1612), was the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia from 1606. It was he who inspired the popular...
Sophia Alekseyevna

Sophia Alekseyevna

female, deceased (1704)
Sophia Alekseyevna (September 17 (27), 1657 - July 3 (14), 1704) was a regent of Russia (1682-1689) who allied herself with a singularly capable...