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  • Anna Akhmatova

    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...

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  • Prince Pyotr Vyazemsky

    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...

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  • Alexander Pushkin

    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...

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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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