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  • Alexandra Ishimova

    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...

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  • Mikhail Lomonosov

    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...

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  • Princess Zinaida Volkonskaya

    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)....

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  • Alexei Suvorin

    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...

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  • Sergei Ausländer

    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...

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  • Jan Tadeusz Bułharyn

    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...

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  • Maximilian Voloshin

    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...

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  • Ippolit Bogdanovich

    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...

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  • Alexander Bestuzhev

    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...

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  • Leonid Andreyev

    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...

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