- Boris Godunov
Boris Feodorovich Godunov was "de facto" regent of Russia from 1584 to 1598 and then the first non-Rurikid tsar from 1598 to 1605. The end of his reign saw Russia descending into the Time of Troubles. - Alexander II of Russia
Alexander (Aleksandr) II Nikolaevich was the Emperor of the Russian Empire and Tsar of Russia from 3 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881. He was also the Grand Duke of Finland. Born in 1818, he was the eldest son of Tsar Nicholas I and Charlotte of Prussia, daughter of Frederick William III of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. His early life gave little indication of his ultimate potential; until the time of his accession in 1855, … - Alexander I of Russia
Aleksandr I Pavlovich, was Emperor of Russia from 23 March 1801-1 December 1825 and Ruler of Poland from 1815-1825, as well as the first Grand Duke of Finland. He was born in Saint Petersburg to Grand Duke Paul Petrovich, later Emperor Paul I, and Maria Feodorovna, daughter of the Duke of Württemberg. Alexander succeeded to the throne after his father was murdered, and ruled Russia during the chaotic period of the Napoleonic Wars. - Alexander III of Russia
Alexander III reigned as Emperor of Russia from 14 March 1881 until his death in 1894. - Grigori Rasputin
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic who is perceived as having influenced the later days of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II, his wife the Tsaritsa Alexandra, and their only son the Tsarevich Alexei. Rasputin had often been called the "Mad Monk", while others considered him a "strannik" (or religious pilgrim) and even a starets (ста́рец, "elder", a title usually reserved for monk-confessors), believing him to be a psychic and faith healer. - Alexandra Fyodorovna
Alexandra Fyodorovna, born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine 6 June 1872 – 17 July 1918, was Empress consort of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of the Russian Empire. Born a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, she assumed the name Alexandra Feodorovna upon blessing into the Russian Orthodox Church, which canonised her as Saint Alexandra in 2000. Alexandra is best remembered as the last Tsaritsa of Russia, … - Anna Vyrubova
Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova, née Taneyeva, was a lady-in-waiting, best friend and confidante to Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna. - Yakov Yurovsky
Yakov (Yankel) Mikhailovich Yurovsky (in Tomsk, Siberia, Russia - before 2 August 1938 in Moscow) is best known as the chief executioner of Russia's last emperor Tsar Nicholas and his family after the Russian Revolution of 1917. - George Kennan
George Kennan (February 16, 1845 - 1924) was an American explorer noted for his travels in the Kamchatka and Caucasus regions of Russia. He was diplomat and historian George F. Kennan's cousin twice removed, with whom he shared his birthday. Kennan was born in Norwalk, Ohio, and was keenly interested in travel from an early age. Family finances, however, meant he began work at the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad Company telegraph office aged twelve. - Sarah
Sarah, Theodora or Sarah-Theodora was the second wife of Tsar Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria. A Jewess, the daughter of a Venetian banker, she later converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity and accepted the name Theodora to become the second consort of Ivan Alexander. - Felix Yussupov
Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston (March 23, 1887, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire - July 27, 1967, Paris, France), (variously transliterated from Russian as "Yussupov", "Yossopov", "Iusupov", "Youssoupov", "Youssoupoff", or as "Feliks, Graf Sumarrokow-Elston" (граф Сумароков-Эльстон)), was a Russian nobleman best known for participating in the murder of Grigori Rasputin, … - Samuil Of Bulgaria
Samuil (also Samuel) ruled as Emperor ("Tsar") of First Bulgarian Empire from 997 to 6 October 1014, having prior to that co-ruled with Roman between 976 and 997. In practice, Samuel executed a monarch's functions from 976, as Roman bestowed the command of the army and the actual authorities to the talented general. An energetic ruler, Samuil devoted his life to the struggle to preserve his country's independence from the Byzantines. - George Buchanan
Sir George William Buchanan, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC was born in Copenhagen in 1854. He was the son of British Ambassador Sir Andrew Buchanan, Bt. and would himself later become a diplomat. In 1908 he was appointed as minister in The Hague, The Netherlands. In 1910 Buchanan was appointed as the British Ambassador in Russia. He kept abreast of the political developments in Russia and met some of the leading liberal reformists in the country. - Dmitry Pozharsky
Dmitry Mikhaylovich Pozharsky (November 1, 1578 - 20 (?) April, 1642) was a Rurikid prince who helped bring the Time of Troubles to an end and obtained from the tsar an unprecedented title of the "Saviour of Motherland". Pozharsky was descended from a dynasty of sovereign princes which ruled the town of Starodub-on-the-Klyazma near Suzdal. At one point in the 15th century their family patrimony burned to the ground, … - Domenico Trezzini
Domenico Trezzini (ca. 1670-1734) was a Swiss-Italian architect who elaborated the Petrine Baroque style of Russian architecture. Domenico was born in Astano, near Lugano, in the Italian speaking Ticino (at that time administered by the German speaking cantons). He probably studied in Rome. Subsequently, as he was working in Denmark, he was offered by Peter I of Russia, among other architects, to design buildings in the new Russian capital city, St. Petersburg. - Kuzma Minin
Kuzma Minich Minin (? - 1616) was a merchant from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, who, together with Prince Dmitry Pozharsky, became a national hero for his role in defending the country against the Polish invasion in the early-17th century. A native of Balakhna, Minin was a prosperous butcher (meat trader) in the city of Nizhny Novgorod. When the popular patriotic movement to organize volunteer corps in his native city was formed, the city merchants chose Minin, … - Patrick Gordon
Patrick Gordon was general of the Imperial Russian army, of Scottish origin. He was descended from a Scottish family of Aberdeenshire, holders of the small estate of Auchleuchries, and were connected with the house of Haddo. After completing his education at the parish schools of Cruden and Ellon, he entered, at age fifteen, the Jesuit college at Braunsberg, Prussia; however, due to his character he did not tolerate well the strict and somber way of life at the school, … - Emperor Jovan Nenad
Emperor Jovan Nenad was a leader of Serb mercenaries in the Kingdom of Hungary who took advantage of a struggle over the Hungarian throne to create his own state and crown himself emperor (tsar). He was born in town Lipova near the Mureş River in northern Banat (today in Romania). - Sophia Alekseyevna
Sophia Alekseyevna (September 17 (27), 1657 - July 3 (14), 1704) was a regent of Russia (1682-1689) who allied herself with a singularly capable courtier and politician, Prince Vasily Galitzine, to install herself as a regent during the minority of her brothers, Peter I and Ivan V. The activity of this "bogatyr-tsarevna" (as Sergey Solovyov called her) was all the more extraordinary, as Muscovite women usually kept themselves aloof from politics. - Fyodor Rostopchin
Count Fyodor Vasilievich Rostopchin (3.12(23).1763 - 1.18(30).1826) was a controversial Russian statesman. He appears as a character in Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace", in which he is presented very unfavorably. Fyodor Rostopchin had great influence over the tsar Paul I, who made him in 1796 adjutant general, grand-marshal of the court, then Foreign Minister. In 1799, he received the title of count. He was disgraced in 1801 for his opposition to the French alliance, … - Anastasia Of Russia
Anastasia Romanovna Zakharyina (died August 7, 1560) was the first wife of the Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible and the first Russian tsarina. She was the daughter of boyar Roman Zakharyin, who gave his name to the Romanov Dynasty of Russian monarchs. She was selected as the best bride for Ivan from a large number of suitable mates, brought to the Kremlin specifically for the selection process. - Ivan Paskevich
Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich was a Ukrainian-born military leader in the Russian service. For his victories, he was made Count of Erivan in 1828 and Namestnik of Kingdom of Poland in 1831. Born in Poltava to a well-known family of the Ukrainian Cossack gentry, he was educated at the imperial institution for pages, where his progress was rapid, and in 1800 received his commission in the Guards and was named aide-de-camp to the tsar. - Constantine Bodin
Constantine Bodin, was a king of Duklja (1081-1101), and for a short time in 1072 he was emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria by name Peter III (Bulgarian:"Petăr III"). The date of his birth is unknown; that of his death is uncertain, and may be as late as 1108. - Lazar Of Serbia
Stefan Lazar (Стефан Лазар), Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović or "Knez Lazar" (1329 – June 28 1389), also known as "Tsar Lazar", was a Serbian noble who fought and perished at the Battle of Kosovo, to which his name and life are inextricably tied. He is a heroic figure in Serbia, and a saint of the Serb Orthodox Church. - Meglena Kuneva
Meglena Shtilianova Kuneva (born 22 June 1957) is a Bulgarian and EU politician. Born in Sofia, Kuneva graduated in Law from Sofia University in 1981. In 1984 she became a Doctor of Law. She worked as a journalist for the Law Programme of the Bulgarian National Radio while being an Assistant Professor at Sofia University. In 1990 she took a job as Senior Legal Advisor at the Council of Ministers and held it until 2001. - Ivan Bolotnikov
Ivan Isayevich Bolotnikov was the leader of the uprising of 1606-1607 (Bolotnikov rebellion, Восстание Ивана Болотникова), which was part of the Time of Troubles in Russia. Bolotnikov was a fugitive "kholop" (a kholop, also chlop in Polish is a serf, slave), who joined the Cossacks, was captured by Crimean Tatars, sold in Turkey to galleys, escaped to Venice, … - Boris Morozov
Boris Ivanovich Morozov was a Muscovite statesman and boyar who led the Russian government during the early reign of Tsar Alexis, whose tutor and brother-in-law he was. During his long career at the Kremlin court, Morozov supervised a number of government departments (called prikazy) – Grand Treasury, Streltsy, Pharmacy, and Payroll. Aspiring to increase treasury’s income, Morozov reduced salaries of state employees and introduced a high indirect salt tax. - Vladimir Korolenko
Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko (July 27, 1853-December 25, 1921) was a Ukrainian-Russian short story writer, journalist, human rights activist and humanitarian. His short stories were known for their harsh portrayal of nature based on his experience of exile in Siberia. Korolenko was a strong critic of the Tsarist regime and in his final years of the Bolsheviks. - Patriarch Joseph
Patriarch Joseph - Ivan Alexander Of Bulgaria
Ivan Alexander, also known as John Alexander, ruled as Emperor ("Tsar") of Bulgaria from 1331 to 1371, during the Second Bulgarian Empire. The date of his birth is unknown. He died on February 17 1371. The long reign of Ivan Alexander is considered a transitional period in Bulgarian medieval history. Ivan Alexander began his rule by dealing with internal problems and external threats from Bulgaria's neighbours, the Byzantine Empire and Serbia, … - Agrippina Vaganova
Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova was an outstanding Russian ballet teacher who developed the Vaganova method - the technique which derived from the teaching methods of the old "Imperial Ballet School" (today the "Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet") under the "Maître de Ballet" Marius Petipa throughout the mid to late 19th century, though mostly throughout the 1880s and 1890s. - Patriarch Adrian
Patriarch Adrian was the last pre-revolutionary Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. Adrian caught the eye of Patriarch Joachim, when he was still an archmandrite at Chudov Monastery. In 1686, Joachim appointed him metropolitan of Kazan and Sviyazhsk. On August 24, 1690, Adrian was chosen to replace Joachim on his post. Patriarch Adrian was a staunch adherent of traditional norms and opposed Peter the Great's reforms (e.g., … - Ignacy Hryniewiecki
Ignacy Hryniewiecki (Polish name; ; ; pseudonym "Kotik", Russian for "Kitten"; August 1855 or autumn 1856 – 1881) was a Polish revolutionary and the assassin of Tsar Alexander II of Russia. - Aleksandr Dugin
Aleksandr Gel'yevich Dugin ("Russian": Александр Гельевич Дугин is a Russian political activist and ideologue of the contemporary Russian school of geopolitics often known as "neo-Eurasianism". He is often seen to be an advocate of National Bolshevism and is well known for his anti-Semitism, Russian nationalism and chauvinism. Dugin comes from a military family. - Henry Of Flanders
Henry (c. 1174-1216), was the second emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople. He was a younger son of Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (later Baldwin VIII, count of Flanders), and Margaret I of Flanders, sister of Philip of Alsace, count of Flanders. Having joined the Fourth Crusade about 1201, he distinguished himself at the siege of Constantinople in 1204 and elsewhere, and soon became prominent among the princes of the new Latin Empire. - Nikita Romanovich
Nikita Romanovich also known as Nikita Zakharyin-Yuriev (d. 23 April 1586) was a Muscovite boyar whose grandson Mikhail Feodorovich founded the Romanov dynasty of Russian tsars. He was son of the boyar Roman Zakharyin and the brother-in-law of Ivan IV of Russia. Nikita Romanovich is first recorded in 1547, when, on account of the tsar's wedding with Anastasia Zakharyina, he was promoted to "spalnik" and "stolnik". - Boris Sheremetev
Boris Petrovich Sheremetev was a Russian count (1706), military leader and diplomat, and a general-field marshal during the Great Northern War. In his youth, Sheremetyev was a page to Tsar Alexis I of Russia before starting his military career. From 1671 he served at the imperial court. In 1681 he was Tambov leader, commanding the armies working against the Crimean Tatars, and from 1682 he was a boyar. - Antonio Possevino
Antonio Possevino (Antonius Possevinus) (1534 or 1534 - February 26 1611) was an Italian clergyman who acted as papal legate and the first Jesuit to visit Moscow. Born in Mantua, Possevino joined the Society of Jesus in 1559 and served as the secretary to one of the Jesuit generals from 1572 to 1578. Pope Gregory XIII in 1578 sent him to Sweden in order to influence the course of the Livonian War. - William III of the Netherlands
William III (February 19, 1817 - November 23, 1890) was King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1849-1890). =Early life= William was born in Brussels as son of William II of the Netherlands and Queen Anna, daughter of Tsar Paul I of Russia and Empress Maria Fyodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg). In his early years, he served in the military. - Abraham Cahan
Abraham Cahan (July 7, 1860 - August 31 1951) was an Russian-American novelist and labor leader. He was born in Podberezhye, Lithuania, into a Jewish Orthodox family. His grandfather was a rabbi and preacher in Vidz, Vitebsk; and his father was a teacher of Hebrew and Talmud. The family, which was devoutly Orthodox, moved in 1866 to Wilna; there young Cahan received the usual Jewish preparatory education for the rabbinate.
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