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Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France
- Igor StravinskyIgor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia, on the 17th of June 1882. His father worked as a bass singer at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint…
- Joseph ConradOn the 3rd of December 1857, a boy named Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski drew his first breath in Berdychiv, Ukraine. The region belonged to the Russian…
- Marc ChagallIn 1887, Moishe Shagal was born into a Jewish family in Liozna, near the city of Vitebsk. The town held about 66,000 people at that time.
- Vladimir NabokovVladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov entered the world on the 22nd of April 1899 in Saint Petersburg. His family belonged to an ancient Russian nobility granted a…
- Sergei ProkofievSergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was born on the 23rd of April 1891 at a rural estate in Sontsovka, a village in the Bakhmut uezd of the Yekaterinoslav…
- Wassily KandinskyIn 1889, a twenty-three-year-old law student named Wassily Kandinsky joined an ethnographic research group traveling to the Vologda region north of Moscow.
- Peter KropotkinPeter Kropotkin was born in Moscow on the 9th of December 1842. He entered the Page Corps, an elite school for imperial attendants, at age eight after Tsar…
- Alexandre KojèveAleksandr Vladimirovich Kozhevnikov entered the world on the 28th of April 1902 within the borders of the Russian Empire.
- Nikolai BerdyaevNikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was born near Kiev in 1874 to an aristocratic military family. His father, Alexander Mikhailovich Berdyaev, came from a long…
- Igor SikorskyIgor Sikorsky was born on the 25th of May 1889 in Kiev, Russian Empire. He grew up as the youngest of five children in a household filled with intellectual…
- Natalia GoncharovaNatalia Sergeevna Goncharova entered the world on the 3rd of July 1881 in the village of Nagaevo. This rural location now sits within the Chernsky District…
- Élie MetchnikoffIlya Ilyich Mechnikoff entered the world on the 15th of May 1845 in a village within the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire.
- Lev ShestovYeguda Lev Shvartsman was born in Kiev during the year 1866. He later adopted the name Lev Shestov for his philosophical career.
- Konstantin BalmontOn the 13th of March 1890, Konstantin Balmont jumped from a third-storey window. He survived the fall but suffered a permanent limp and an injured writing…