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Russian saint. Born Yevstafy in the family of a merchant called Stefan and his wife Anna in the town of Kashin in the Grand Duchy of Tver (1412). Helped St Sergius of Balaam to found the Balaam Monas...
Clergyman, mason. Born Matvei in the family of a rural sexton called Mikhail Desnitsky in the village of Toporkovo in Moscow Province (1761). Graduated from the arts seminary of the Nikolai Novikov S...
Opera singer, amateur artist. Born in Kazan in the family of a poor clerk called Ivan Chaliapin (1873). Performed at Savva Mamontov’s Russian Private Opera (1896), Bolshoi Theatre (1899), Mariinsky T...
Granddaughter of Count Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov, sister of Count Alexander Pavlovich Stroganov. Born in Moscow in the family of Count Pavel Stroganov and Princess Sofia Golitsyna (1802). Marrie...
Grandson of Count Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov, brother of Princess Elizaveta Saltykova. Born in Moscow in the family of Count Pavel Stroganov and Princess Sofia Golitsyna (1794). Accompanied his ...
Mother of Count Alexander Pavlovich Stroganov. Born in Moscow in the family of Prince Vladimir Golitsyn and Countess Natalia Chernysheva (1775). Brought up abroad. Married Count Pavel Stroganov (1793...
Father of Count Alexander Pavlovich Stroganov. Born in Paris in the family of Count Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov and Princess Ekaterina Troubetzkaya (1774). Witness of the French Revolution (1789)...
Born in the family of Yakov Novosiltsev (1678). Second wife of Baron Grigory Stroganov (from 1697). Mother of Alexander Stroganov (1698–1754), Nikolai Stroganov (1700–1758) and Sergei Stroganov (1707...
Latvian conductor. Father of Mariss Jansons. Conducted the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra (from 1952). Accompanied the orchestra on tours of Europe and Japan and gave more than four hundred concert...
Latvian conductor. Son of Arvids Jansons. Born in German-occupied Riga in the Reichskommissariat Ostland (1943). Won the Herbert von Karajan Conductors Competition (1971) and began working with the L...