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Civil servants of the Russian Empire

  • Denis FonvizinDenis Ivanovich Fonvizin entered the world in Moscow during 1745. He was born into a noble Russian Orthodox family as the first of eight children.
  • Mikhail Saltykov-ShchedrinMikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov was born on the 27th of January 1826 in the village of Spas-Ugol. He entered the world as one of eight children within a large…