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Philipp Kostsov
Read more...Merchant of the first guild. Born in Ryazan Province in the family of Foma Kostsov (1737). Head of the largest community of schismatics in St Petersburg – the Old Believers of the Fedoseyev Persuasio...
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Baron Fyodor Kolokoltsev
Read more...Born in the family of Mikhail Kolokoltsev (1732). Public prosecutor of Admiralty Collegiate (1775), brigadier (1778), attorney general of the second department of the Senate (1781–93), full privy cou...
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