Lev Navrozov

Lev Navrozov

male, 81 years old
Lev Navrozov is a Russian author, historian, polemicist. Was born to playwright Andrei Navrozov, a founding member of the Soviet Writers’ Union, wh...
Clemens August Graf von Galen

Clemens August Graf von Galen

male, deceased (1946)
Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen was a German count, Bishop of Münster, and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. An outspoken critic of the N...
Galaktion Tabidze

Galaktion Tabidze

male, deceased (1959)
Galaktion Tabidze (November 17, 1891 – March 17, 1959) was a leading Georgian poet of the twentieth century whose writings profoundly influenced al...

Naftaly Frenkel

male, 126 years old
Naftaly Aronovich Frenkel, Soviet citizen and Chekist (member of the Soviet secret police). Frenkel is best known for his role in the organization...
Wolf Messing

Wolf Messing

male, deceased (1974)
Wolf Gregorevich Messing was an alleged psychic who became a stage performer. Born to a Jewish family, Messing fled from Germany to the USSR before...
Anatoly Rybakov

Anatoly Rybakov

male, deceased (1998)
Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov was a Russian writer, the author of the anti-Stalinist "Children of the Arbat trilogy", novel "Heavy Sand", and many...
Boris Vladimirski

Boris Vladimirski

male, deceased (1950)
Boris Eremeevich Vladimirsky, (1878 - 1950), was a Soviet painter of the Socialist Realism school. Vladimirski was born in Kiev, Ukraine. He began...
Lyubov Orlova

Lyubov Orlova

female, deceased (1975)
Lyubov Petrovna Orlova, (January 26, 1975) was the first recognized star of Soviet cinema, famous theatre actress and a gifted singer. She was born...
Marek Halter

Marek Halter

male
Marek Halter is a French-Jewish novelist. He was born in Poland in 1936. During World War II, he and his parents escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and...
Sergei Tretyakov

Sergei Tretyakov

male, deceased (1937)
Sergei Mikhailovich Tretyakov (Riga, 1892 - September 10, 1937) was a Russian constructivist writer, playwright and special correspondent for...