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07.10.2004 - Mikhail Ilarionovitch Kutuzov, Prince of Smolensk
Mikhail Ilarionovitch Kutuzov, Prince of Smolensk, Russian field marshal Saint Petersburg, 1745 Bunzlau (Silesia), 1813 In 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia, seeking to fight. Kutuzov, commander in chief of the Russian army, sneaked away from him. Kutuzov, son of a military engineer, embraced a military career ...
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07.10.2004 - Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin was born in Moscow on May 26, 1799 (Old Style). In 1811 he was selected to be among the thirty students in the first class at the Lyceum in Tsarskoe Selo . He attended the Lyceum from 1811 to 1817 and received the best education available in Russia at the time. He soon not only be ...
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07.10.2004 - Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944)
born Dec. 4 [Dec. 16, New Style], 1866, Moscow, Russia died Dec. 13, 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Fr. Russian in full Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky Russian-born artist, one of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting. After successful avant-garde exhibitions, he founded the influential Munich gr ...
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07.10.2004 - Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
Chekhov is one of Russia’s many important literary figures, and one of the greatest playwrights of modern times. He won the Pushkin Prize and he is known for his short stories and his plays, works which often combine elements of both comedy and tragedy. While works reflect the frequently turbulent development ...
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07.10.2004 - Vladimir Putin
He was born Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, on October 1, 1952, in Leningrad, the son of Vladimir Spirdonovich Putin, a factory foreman, and his wife, Maria. A brother had died years earlier, during the Nazi siege of Leningrad. It is said that both Putin’s parents were decorated for heroism during the war. Hi ...
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07.10.2004 - Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev was born (March 02, 1931) in the village of Privolnoye near Stavropol, Russia. From the age of 13 he worked on a collective farm, where his father was a mechanic. He was an exceptional student and earned a law degree at Moscow University where he joined the Communist party and bec ...
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07.10.2004 - Peter Iliich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Peter Iliich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Russian composer, the foremost of the 19th century. Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk, in the western Ural area of the country. He studied law in Saint Petersburg and took music classes at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. There his teachers included Russian composer and ...
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07.10.2004 - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky’s Early Years Before the man comes the child, and before the child comes the parents. Russia’s greatest novelist, Fyodor Mikhailevich Dostoevsky, was born in Moscow on October 30, 1821, to parents of remarkably different character. Dostoevsky’s father was a stern man who held his son to rigorous s ...
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07.10.2004 - Tolstoy, Leo, Count
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoi, 1828–1910, Russian novelist and philosopher, considered one of the world’s greatest writers. Early Life Of a noble family, Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, his parents’ estate near Tula. Orphaned at nine, he was brought up by his aunts and privately tutored. At 16 he wa ...
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07.10.2004 - Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin, was born in Gori, Georgia on 21st December, 1879. He was his mother’s fourth child to be born in less than four years. The first three died and as Joseph was prone to bad health, his mother feared on several occasions that he would also die. Understandably, given this background, Joseph’s mothe ...
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