- Michael McFaul
Michael A. McFaul (born 1965 in Montana) is a professor of Political Science and director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. He earned his B.A. in International Relations and Slavic Languages and his M.A. in Slavic and East European Studies from Stanford in 1986. He was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford where he completed his Ph.D. in International Relations in 1991. He is an advisor on matters of democracy and Russia.
- Radovan
Radovan was a sculptor and architect who lived in Dalmatia (Croatia) in the 13th century. He is also referred as "Majstor Radovan" (eng. "Master Radovan"). Virtually no information exists about the personality and career of this artist, save for his opus, monumental Romanesque portal of the Trogir cathedral. Radovan has inscribed his name and the year of making of the main portal, 1240, …
- Dusko Goykovich
Dusko Goykovich [Dusan Gojkovic] (born October 14, 1931 in Jajce, Yugoslavia) is a trumpet and flugel horn player, and a jazz arranger and composer. A fine all-round player, Goykovich has combined elements from Slavic folk music, both rhythmic and melodic, to produce a highly individual synthesis. His main influences include Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Dorham, Clifford Brown and Miles Davis.
- Ivan Bilibin
Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin was one of the most influential 20th-century illustrators and stage designers who took part in the "Mir iskusstva" and contributed to the Ballets Russes. Throughout his career, he was strongly inspired by Slavic folklore. Ivan Bilibin was born in a suburb of St. Petersburg. He studied under Ilya Repin and furthered his education in Munich. In 1902-1904 Bilibin travelled in the Russian North, …
- Frederik Kortlandt
Frederik Herman Henri (Frits) Kortlandt (June 19 1946, Utrecht, The Netherlands) is a professor of descriptive and comparative linguistics at Leiden University. He is an expert on Baltic and Slavic languages, the Indo-European languages in general, and Proto-Indo-European, though he has also published studies of languages in many other language families. He has also studied ways to associate language families into super-groups such as Indo-Uralic.
- Jason Mraz
Jason Thomas Mraz (born June 23, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter, born and raised in Mechanicsville, Virginia, a suburb of Richmond. His last name is from the Slavic word "mraz", meaning "frost". Mraz is an eclectic artist with multiple and varied stylistic influences, including pop, rock, folk, jazz, country, and hip hop/rap. He has played with various artists, including The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Dave Matthews Band, Paula Cole, John Popper, Makana, …
- Pribislav
Pribislav Henry (ca. 1075 - 1150) was a Christian prince and the last ruler of the Slavic Hevelli tribe in the Northern March of Brandenburg. During Pribislav's reign, in which he cultivated close connections with the German nobility, Germans succeeded in binding to the Holy Roman Empire the Hevelli region from Brandenburg an der Havel to Spandau. Pribislav came to power at the castle of Brenna (Brandenburg an der Havel) in 1127.
- Andrzej Sapkowski
Andrzej Sapkowski, born June 21, 1948 in Łódź, is a Polish fantasy writer. Sapkowski studied economics, and before turning to writing, he had worked as a senior sales representative for a foreign trade company. His first short story, "The Witcher "("Wiedźmin"), was published in "Fantastyka", Poland's leading fantasy literary magazine, in 1986 and was enormously successful both with readers and critics.
- Christina Kramer
Christina Elizabeth Kramer is Professor of Slavic and Balkan languages and linguistics at the University of Toronto and Chair of the university's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures which is part of the Faculty of Arts and Science. Kramer is especially known as the author of "Macedonian: A Course for Beginning and Intermediate Students".
- Johannes Schmidt
Johannes Schmidt was a German linguist. He developed the "Wellentheorie" ('wave theory') of language development. Johannes Schmidt was born in Prenzlau (Kingdom of Prussia). He studied philology (historical linguistics) with the great Indo-Europeanist August Schleicher and specialized in Indo-European, especially Slavic, languages. He earned a doctorate in 1865 and worked from 1866 as a teacher at a "gymnasium" in Berlin.
- Radoslav Katičić
Radoslav Katičić is a Croatian linguist, historian and culturologist. After graduating at the University of Zagreb on the theme from the field of Indo-European comparative grammar, Katičić began extensive studies in general linguistics, ancient Balkan languages, indology and Croatian language history. He became the head of Slavic philology department at the University of Vienna in 1977 (position he was to hold until retirement).
- Michael Scammell
Michael Scammell is an academic, author and translator of Slavic literature. He was educated at the University of Nottingham and Columbia University where he is currently a professor of writing. Notable translations include Vladimir Nabokov's "The Gift" and "The Defense" (working with the author), Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment", and Leo Tolstoy's "Childhood, Boyhood and Youth".
- Kruto
Kruto or Cruto was a Slavic chieftain, the prince of the Rani people of Rugia during the last phase of Slavic paganism in the late eleventh century. Beginning in 1066, Kruto led the western Baltic Slavs, principally his own Rugians (Rani) and the Obodrite confederacy (Obodrites, Wilzi, and Wagri) against the expansionist Germans, especially Ordulf, Duke of Saxony, and his successor, Magnus. He made his capital out of a large palisaded fortress at Buku, …
- Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer
Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer (10 December 1790 - 26 April 1861) was an Tyrolean traveller, journalist, politician and historian, best known for his travel writings and for his controversial theories concerning the racial origins of the modern Greeks.
- Gero
Gero I (c. 900 - 20 May 965), called the Great (Latin "magnus"), ruled an initially modest march centred on Merseburg and which he expanded into a vast territory named after him the "marca Geronis". During the mid-10th century, he was the leader of the Saxon "Drang nach Osten".
- Eugen Kvaternik
Eugen Kvaternik was a Croatian politician. Krvaternik and Ante Starčević formed the Croatian Party of Rights together. He was born in Zagreb. He was educated in Senj and in Pest. After the abolition of feudalism in 1848 by ban Josip Jelačić, greater freedom from Austria-Hungary was granted. This encouraged proponents of Croatian independence such as Kvaternik. In 1858 he sought help in Russia.
- Mojmír I
Mojmír I was the first known prince of the Моravian principality (?830-833) and the first prince of Great Moravia (833-846). He is also the first known member of the Mojmirid dynasty, which was named after him. He appears in Frankish sources in 830 as a ruler of the Moravian principality, a Slavic state situated around the Morava River (encompassing the territories of present-day southeastern Czech Republic and westernmost Slovakia).
- Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn
Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn (August 28, 1612-October 3, 1653) was a Dutch scholar. Born in Bergen op Zoom, he was professor at the University of Leiden. He discovered the similarity among Indo-European languages, and supposed the existence of a primitive common language which he called 'Scythian'. He included in his hypothesis Dutch, Greek, Latin, Persian, and German, later adding Slavic, Celtic and Baltic languages.
- Radu Negru
Radu Negru ("Radu [the] Black") also known as Radu Vodă ("Voivode Radu"), Radu Negru, or Negru Vodă, was a mythical early ruler of Wallachia. According to Romanian traditions, Radu would have been the founder and ruler of Wallachia at a date around 1290. This is plausible, given that, in 1289, the Kingdom of Hungary forced all nobles (including those in Transylvania) to adhere to the Roman Catholic Church, …
- Gottschalk
Saint Gottschalk or Godescalc (Latin: "Godescalcus") (died 6 June 1066), a Prince of the Wends, a son of the Obotrite prince Udo, established a Slavic kingdom on the Elbe in northeastern Germany briefly in the mid-eleventh century. His object in life seems to have been to collect the scattered tribes of the Slavs into one kingdom, and to make that kingdom Christian.
- Ivan Fyodorov
Ivan Fedorov (later changed to Fedorovych), was the father of Russian and Ukrainian printing. He was also a master cannon maker and the inventor of a multibarreled mortar. In 1564–5 Fedorov and the Belarusian P. Mstsislavets published in Moscow several liturgical works in Church Slavonic. This technical innovation created competition for the Muscovite scribes, who persecuted Fedorov and Mstsislavets and finally caused them to flee to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
- Norbert Jokl
Norbert Jokl was an Austrian albanologist of Jewish descent who has been called the father of albanology. Jokl was born in Bzenec (then Bisenz), Southern Moravia, now the Czech Republic as the only son of a merchant. He left high school with praise and entered the law faculty at the University of Vienna. He received a degree there of doctor of law "summa cum laude" on June 23, 1901. For some time he acted as a probationer of law, …
- Constantine Manasses
Constantine Manasses (c. 1130 - c. 1187) was a Byzantine chronicler who flourished in the 12th century during the reign of Manuel I Comnenus (1143-1180). He was the author of a chronicle or historical synopsis of events from the creation of the world to the end of the reign of Nicephorus Botaniates (1081), written by direction of Irene, the emperors sister-in-law. It consists of about 7000 lines in the so-called political metre.
- Leontios
Leontios or Leontius, (d. 705), was Byzantine emperor from 695 to 698. His actual and official name was Leo (Λέων, "Leōn"), but he is known by the name used for him in Byzantine chronicles. Leontios was born in Isauria and was originally a successful general in the army of Byzantium; Emperor Constantine IV appointed him strategos of the Anatolic theme, …
- Roxelana
Roxelana, Roxolana, Roxelane, Rossa, Ruziac, known also by her Turkish name of Hürrem (or Khourrem or Karima), meaning "the cheerful one", (c. 1510 - April 18, 1558) was the Slavic wife of the Ottoman sultan Süleyman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire. Sixteenth century sources are silent as to her maiden name, …
- Gediminas Of Lithuania
Gediminas (Ruthenian: "Giedymin", Polish: "Giedymin", Belarusian: Гедымiн ("Hiedymin") and Гедзiмiн ("Hiedzimin"), Russian: Гедимин, "Gedimin"; ca. 1275 – winter 1341) was the Monarch of medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the title "didysis kunigaikštis" (in Belarusian: "вялікі князь") which would be translated as "High Duke" according to the contemporary perception.
- Adolf II of Holstein
Adolf II (c. 1128 - 6 July 1164) was the Count of Schauenburg and Holstein from 1130 until his death, though he was briefly out of Holstein from 1137 until 1142. He succeeded his father, Adolf I under the regency of his mother, Hildewa. After the death of the Emperor Lothair II (1137), the new king, Conrad III, granted the Duchy of Saxony to Albert the Bear. Adolf was consequently deprived of Holstein because he was a Welf supporter and refused to recognise Albert as duke.
- Helmold
Helmold of Bosau, a historian of the twelfth century, was a priest at Bosau near Plön. He was a friend of the two bishops of Oldenburg in Holstein, Vicelinus (d. 1154) and Gerold (d. 1163), who did much to Christianize the Slavs. He grew up in, Holstein (Germany), and received his instruction in Brunswick from Gerold, the future bishop of Oldenburg (1139-42). Later he came under the direction of Vicelinus, the Apostle of the Wends, …
- Svatopluk Čech
Svatopluk Čech was a Czech writer, journalist and poet. Čech studied gymnasium in Prague, then law and later worked in journals "Květy", "Lumír" and "Světozor". His first poem "Husita na Baltu" was published in the almanac "Ruch" in 1868. Similary to his work "Adamité" it is inspired by history (Hussite Wars). His poem "Evropa" (1878) takes its motive from revolutionary movements of the time, …
- Anton Aškerc
Anton Aškerc was a Slovene poet and priest, most famous after his epic poems. He was born in a family of a peasant in Globoko or Senožete by Rimske Toplice. His actual birthplace is unknown as migration of the family happened around the time of Aškerc's birth. After the graduation from the secondary school in Celje he entered the theological seminary in Maribor. He was ordained a priest in 1880.
- Kazimieras Būga
Kazimieras Būga, was a Lithuanian linguist and philologist. He was a professor of linguistics, who mainly worked on the Lithuanian language. He was born at Pažiegė, near Dusetos, then part of the Russian Empire. Appointed as personal secretary to Lithuanian linguist Kazimieras Jaunius he showed great interest in the subject, and during the period 1905-1912 studied at Saint Petersburg State University.
- Johann von Gardner
Johann von Gardner, was an Eminent Slavic musicologist, best known in the English language for his published work on Russian church singing. After 1917, he spent four years living in Subcarpathian Rus and was particularly amazed at the religious knowledge of the simple peasants, acquired simply by singing in church.
- Nikolaus von Falkenhorst
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst was a German General who planned 'Operation Weserübung', the invasion of Denmark and Norway in 1940. After the invasion he became Commander of the German troops in Norway between 1940 and 1944. Von Falkenhorst was born in Breslau to an old Silesian military family of Jastrzembski. He changed this Slavic name to German name Falkenhorst (Falcon's eyrie") early in his career.
- Hovhannes Bagramyan
Hovhannes Khachatury Bagramyan (September 21 1982) was a Soviet Armenian military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. During World War II, Bagramyan was the first non-Slavic military officer to become a commander of a Front. He was among several Armenians in the Soviet Army who held the highest proportion of high ranking officers in the Soviet military during the war, and one of fifty Armenians who attained the rank of General in the same period.
- Giovanna Of Italy
Tsaritsa Ioanna of Bulgaria, (13 November 1907 - 26 February 2000) was born Princess Giovanna of Savoy and was the last Tsaritsa of Bulgaria. Born in Rome, the third daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and Queen Elena of Montenegro, former Princess of Montenegro, Giovanna was raised in the Villa Savoia and from a young age was aware her aim in life was to further the House of Savoy's dynastic aspirations through marriage.
- Adaldag
Adaldag (c. 900 - 28 April 988) was a seventh archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen from 937 until his death. He was of noble birth, a relation and pupil of Bishop Adalward of Verden and became canon of Hildesheim. Otto I made him his chancellor and notary immediately after his accession, and on the death of Archbishop Unni of Bremen in 936 nominated him to the vacant see. None of the early incumbents of the see ruled so long a time; and none did so much for the diocese, …
- Briksa
Sergey Briksa is a Christian singer, producer, songwriter and musician. Probably most widely known among Slavic Christian youth. From 1986 Briksa played the drums in a Belarusian band "Verasy", which was very popular all over the Soviet Union. By 1989 he was known as a songwriter and singer when he became leader of Belarusian pop band "Reflex". In 1993 he recorded his first solo album as a Christian singer. The song "Star of Bethlehem" became a national hit in Belarus.
- Sophronius Of Vratsa
Saint Sophronius of Vratsa (or Sofroniy Vrachanski, born Stoyko Vladislavov, was a Bulgarian cleric and one of the leading figures of the early Bulgarian National Revival. Vladislavov was born in the town of Kotel in central Bulgaria in 1739 to the family of a cattle trader. He attended a monastery school in his home town and studied Slavic and Greek books.
- Magnus III of Sweden
Magnus III Birgersson (1240–1290), usually called Magnus Ladulås, was king of Sweden from 1275 until his death in 1290. He is the "first Magnus" to rule Sweden so that posterity recognizes him as legitimate king and not generally regarded as a usurper or a pretender (but third Magnus to have been proclaimed Sweden's king and ruled there).
- Hero Of Byzantium
Hero of Byzantium is believed to be the literary pseudonym of an otherwise anonymous Byzantine author of a poliorketikon, an illustrated manual of siegecraft, dating from "circa" 950. He is also credited with the "Geodaesia", a work in practical geometry and ballistics which makes use of locations around Constantinople to illustrate its points. His "Poliorketikon" was an adaptation of an earlier (c. 100) poliorcetic manual of Apollodorus, …