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Journalist, writer, publisher. Born in the village of Korshevo in Voronezh Province in the family of a peasant called Sergei Suvorin (1834). Lived in St Petersburg (from 1863). Wrote for the St Peter...
Writer, playwright, critic. Nephew of Mikhail Kuzmin. Born in Siberia in the family of Abram Ausländer and Varvara Kuzmina (1888). Graduated from the Seventh Grammar School in St Petersburg (1906) an...
Journalist, writer, critic. Born at the estate of Pieryszewo in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1789). Studied at the St Petersburg Military Academy. Joined the Uhlan Life Guards Regiment. Served in Fi...
Poet, artist, translator, critic. Born in Kiev (1877) in the family of Alexander Kirienko-Voloshin (1838–1881) and Helene Glaser (1850–1923). Studied law at Moscow University (1895–99). Lived in Pari...
Poet. Born in the town of Perevolochna near Kiev in the family of Ukrainian nobleman Fyodor Bodganovich (1743). Studied at college of justice and school of mathematics in Moscow. Translated for the C...
Writer, critic, revolutionary. Wrote under the pseudonym of Marlinsky. Born in St Petersburg (1797) in the family of publisher Alexander Bestuzhev (1761–1810). Studied at the Corps de Mining (1810–15...
Writer, playwright, publicist, amateur artist. Born in the town of Oryol (1871) in the family of Nikolai Andreyev (1847–1889) and Anastasija Paczkowska (daughter of a ruined Polish landowner). Studie...
Poetess. Born at the resort of Bolshoi Fontan on the Black Sea (1899) in the family of Andrei Gorenko (1848–1915) and Inna Stogova (1856–1930). Studied in Tsarskoe Selo and lived in St Petersburg/Pet...
Poet, critic, memoirist. Father of Prince Pavel Vyazemsky. Born in Moscow (1792) in the family of Prince Andrei Vyazemsky (1754–1807) and Jenny O’Reilly (1762–1802). Studied at boarding schools run b...
Poet, writer, founder of modern Russian literature and literary Russian. Great-grandson of Abram Hannibal (1696–1781), an African slave adopted by Peter the Great (1704). Born in Moscow (1799) in the...