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Statesman, collector of coins, archaeologist. Great-grandson of Fieldmarshal Mikhail Kutuzov. Born in the family of Count Ivan Matveyevich Tolstoy and Elizaveta Tulinova (1858). Honorary member of th...
Mother of Count Ivan Ivanovich Tolstoy. Born Elizaveta Tulinova in the family of Vasily Tulinov (1826). Married Count Ivan Tolstoy. Died and buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in St Petersburg (1870)...
Courtier, statesman. Grandson of Fieldmarshal Mikhail Kutuzov, father of Count Ivan Ivanovich Tolstoy. Born (1806) in the family of Matvei Tolstoy (1772–1815) and Praskovia Golenischeva-Kutuzova (177...
Diplomat, statesman. Born in the village of Dikanka in the Ukraine (1768) in the family of Pavel Kochubey (1738–1786) and Ulyana Bezborodko (1742–1776). Served in the Preobrazhensky Regiment. Worked ...
Courtier, collector, patron. Father of Count Pavel Stroganov, grandfather of Count Alexander Pavlovich Stroganov and Princess Elizaveta Saltykova. Born in Moscow in the family of Baron Sergei Strogan...
Composer, musical critic. Born Naum Lourié in the village of Propoisk (now Slavgorod) in the family of Jewish engineer Israel Lourié and Anna Levitina (1891). Studied under Alexander Glazunov at the ...
Composer. Born in St Petersburg (1906) to engineer Dmitry Shostakovich (1875–1922) and pianist Sofia Kokoulina (1878–1955). Wrote the Leningrad Symphony during the Siege of Leningrad (1943). Died of ...
Composer. Born in Leningrad to surgeon Pavel Petrov and artist Olga Vaulina (1930). Wrote the music to the ballet The Creation of the World (1968). Winner of the State Prize (1967, 1976), People’s Ar...
Composer, founder of the Russian national school of opera. Born in the village of Novospasskoe in Smolensk Province in the family of retired army captain Ivan Glinka (1804). Director of the Court Cap...
Composer, pianist, conductor. Born in Nizhny Novgorod (1836) in the family of a poor clerk called Alexei Balakirev (1809–1869). Debuted as a pianist in St Petersburg (1855). Founding member of the Ru...