Biographies

Biographies

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  • Dmitry Rovinsky

    Leading Russian legal expert, collector, art historian who paved the way for the systematic study of Russian icons and engravings. Born in Moscow in the family of a policeman called Alexander Rovinsk...

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  • Philipp Kostsov

    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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  • Count Michał Wielhorski

    Polish composer, cellist, poet. Born in St Petersburg in the family of Count Jerzy Wielhorski (1753–1807), Polish envoy to the Russian court (1788). Lived in various houses on Mikhailovskaya Square (...

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  • Alla Shelest

    Ballerina. Born in Smolensk in the family of Yakov Shelest (1919). Performed at the Kirov Theatre in Leningrad. Winner of the Stalin Prize (1947, 1951), People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1957). Died in S...

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  • Nikolai Kostomarov

    Historian. Born in the village of Yurasovka in Voronezh Province in the family of Ivan Kostomarov (1817). Nineteenth-century Russian historian whose writings combined a breathtaking literary style wi...

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  • Georg Friedrich von Veldten

    Architect. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a German immigrant called Georg Veldten (1730). Worked for the Chancellery of Construction (from 1762). Designed the Old Hermitage, Çesme Palace, Çes...

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  • Auguste de Montferrand

    French architect, draughtsman. Born in the village of Chaillot (now part of Paris) in France (1786). Served in Napoleon’s Grande Armée. Studied architecture in Paris. Moved to St Petersburg (1816). C...

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  • Konstantin Thon

    Architect, founder of the Russo-Byzantine style. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a German jeweller called Andreas Thon (1794). Designed private houses and churches in and around St Petersburg ...

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  • Vasily Stasov

    Architect, full state councillor. Born in the family of Pyotr Stasov and Anna Priklonskaya (1769). Studied at Moscow University. Joined the Moscow Police Office (1783). Helped to decorate Moscow duri...

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  • Baron Fyodor Kolokoltsev

    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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