Biographies

Biographies

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  • Ivan Krylov

    Fabulist, playwright, journalist. Born in Moscow (1769) in the family of Andrei Krylov (1736–1778). Educated at home. Moved to St Petersburg (1782). Founded the Krylov and Comrades publishing house. ...

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  • Alexander Herzen

    Philosopher, publicist, writer. Born in Moscow (1812) as the illegitimate son of Russian landowner Ivan Yakovlev (1767–1846) and sixteen-year-old Henriette Wilhelmina Luisa Haag from Stuttgart (1796–...

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  • Nikolai Gogol

    Writer, poet, playwright, teacher. Born in the Cossack village of Sorochyntsi in the Ukraine (1809) in the family of Vasily Gogol-Yanovsky (1777–1825) and Maria Kosyarovskaya (1791–1868). Studied at ...

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  • Alexander Griboyedov

    Poet, musician, playwright. Born in Moscow (1790) in the family of retired second major Sergei Griboyedov (1761–1814) and Anastasia Griboyedova (1768–1839). Studied at Moscow University (1790s). Volu...

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  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Writer, journalist. Born in Moscow (1821) in the family of physician Mikhail Dostoyevsky (1789–1839) and Maria Nechayeva (1800–1837). Studied at the Central School of Engineering in St Michael’s Cast...

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  • Gavrila Derzhavin

    Poet, writer, playwright, statesman. Born at the family estate in the village of Karmachi near Kazan in the family of Major Roman Derzhavin and Fyokla Kozlova (1743). Studied at Kazan Grammar School (...

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  • Mikhail Kuzmin

    Poet, writer, playwright, translator, art critic, composer. Uncle of Sergei Ausländer. Born in Yaroslavl (1872) in the family of nobleman Alexei Kuzmin (1812–1886) and Nadezhda Fedorova (1834–1904). S...

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  • Vissarion Belinsky

    Writer, critic, philosopher. Born at the Russian naval fortress of Sveaborg outside Helsinki (1811) in the family of naval physician Grigory Belynsky (1784–1835). Lived on Gryaznaya (now Marat) Stree...

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  • Konstantin Batyushkov

    Poet. Born in Vologda (1787) in the family of Nikolai Batyushkov (1753–1817). Studied at private boarding-schools on Vasilyevsky Island in St Petersburg (from 1797). Worked for the Ministry of Nation...

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  • Yevgeny Baratynsky

    Poet. Born in the family of Lieutenant General Abram Baratynsky (1767–1810) in the village of Mara in Tambov Province (1800). Joined the Corps des Pages in St Petersburg (1812). Expelled for theft. P...

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