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Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
- 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…
- 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.
- Helena BlavatskyHelena Petrovna Blavatsky was born on the 12th of August 1831 in Yekaterinoslav, a town within the Russian Empire that is now known as Dnipro.
- Sergei RachmaninoffSergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff entered the world on the 28th of March 1873 in a family estate located near Staraya Russa.
- 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…
- Nicholas RoerichOn the 9th of October 1874, Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerich was born in Saint Petersburg to a well-to-do Baltic German father and a Russian mother.
- 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…
- Nicolas SlonimskyNikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy was born in Saint Petersburg during the final years of the Russian Empire. His family background included a grandfather named…
- Maurice PodoloffMaurice Podoloff was born to a Russian Jewish family in the Russian Empire on or about the 18th of August 1890. Doubt remains about his exact birthplace and…
- Boris PodolskyBoris Yakovlevich Podolsky entered the world on the 29th of June 1896 in Taganrog. This port city sat within the Don Host Oblast of the Russian Empire.
- 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…