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Composer of spiritual music. Born in the Ukrainian Cossack town of Hlukhiv in the family of Lemko-Rusyn refugee Stefan Škurat (1751). Graduated from the Hlukhiv School of Music and Choral Singing (17...
Composer. Born in Karevo in Pskov Province in the family of landowner Pyotr Mussorgsky (1839). Wrote the operas Boris Godunov (1872) and Khovanshchina (1880). Member of the Russian Five. Performed in...
Pianist, conductor. Born in Moscow in the family of Jewish factory-owner Grigory Rubinstein (1835). Founded the Moscow branch of the Russian Musical Society (1860) and the Moscow Conservatoire (1866)...
Composer, violinist, musical theorist. Born in Reval in the family of writer and poet Fyodor Lvov (1799). Composed the music to the Imperial Russian national anthem God Save the Tsar with words by Va...
Composer, conductor. Born in St Petersburg in the family of publisher Konstantin Glazunov (1865). Wrote orchestral works and the ballets Raymonda (1898) and The Four Seasons (1900). Professor (1899)....
Philosopher, theologian, poet, mystic. Born in Moscow (1853) in the family of historian Sergei Solovyov (1820–1879) and Polyxena Romanova (1828–1909). Attempted a synthesis of religious philosophy, sc...
Diplomat, writer, literary historian. Son of Prince Pyotr Vyazemsky. Born in Warsaw (1820). Chairman of the St Petersburg Foreign Censorship Committee (1860s–70s) and head of the Board of Printing (1...
Children’s writer, translator. Born in Kostroma in the family of collegiate assessor and headmaster Josif Ishimov (1804). Lived and worked in St Petersburg (from 1825). Personally acquainted with Nik...
Scholar, encyclopaedist, chemist, historian, poet, artist. Born in the village of Denisovka (now Lomonosovo) on an island in the Northern Dvina near Kholmogory (1711) in the family of ship-owner Vasi...
Writer, poetess, opera singer, composer, patroness, collector. Born in Turin in the family of Russian ambassador Prince Alexander Beloselsky-Belozersky (1752–1809) and Varvara Tatischeva (1764–1792)....