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...

Robert Hall

male
Robert Hall (1867-1949) was a founding member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) in 1901, and served as its President 1912-1913....
Inessa Armand

Inessa Armand

female, deceased (1920)
Inessa Armand was a French-born Communist who spent most of her life in Russia. She was rumored to have had an affair with Vladimir Lenin. She was...
Clemens Forell

Clemens Forell

male
Lt. Clemens Forell was a German POW, who, after WWII, was sentenced to the Siberian Gulag in Russia for 25 years. During this time, he escaped and...
Nikolai Chernyshevsky

Nikolai Chernyshevsky

male, deceased (1889)
Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (July 12, 1828 - October 17, 1889) was a Russian revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher, critic, and...
Olga Kharitidi

Olga Kharitidi

female
Olga Kharitidi is a Russian doctor and psychiatrist who emigrated to Minneapolis, Minnesota where she lives and works. She was born in Siberia and...
Ben Shahn

Ben Shahn

male, deceased (1969)
Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 - March 14 1969) was a Lithuanian-born American artist, muralist, social activist, photographer and teacher. He is...

Demidov

male
The Demidovs were probably the richest Russian people after the Tsar in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Their progenitor, Demid Antufiev,...
Vladimir Arsenyev

Vladimir Arsenyev

male, deceased (1930)
Vladimir Klavdiyevich Arsenyev (1872-1930) was a Russian explorer of the Far East who recounted his travels in a series of books ("По Ус...
Yegor Ligachev

Yegor Ligachev

male, 89 years old
Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev is a Russian politician, who was a high-ranking official in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Originally a protege of...