Curated category
Male poets from the Russian Empire
- Alexander BlokAlexander Blok was born in Saint Petersburg on the 7th of August 1880. He grew up within an intellectual family that included a law professor and a famous…
- Alexander PushkinAlexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born into the Russian nobility in Moscow. His father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, belonged to an old noble family that traced…
- Sergei YeseninSergei Yesenin was born in the village of Konstantinovo, Ryazan County, Russian Empire, on the 3rd of October 1895. His parents spent most of their time…
- Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak was born on the 30th of May 1890 in Moscow into a wealthy Jewish family. His father Leonid Pasternak worked as a post-Impressionist painter…
- Maxim GorkyAlexei Maximovich Peshkov adopted the pseudonym Maxim Gorky in 1892. The name meant bitter, reflecting his simmering anger about life in Russia and a…
- Ivan KrylovIvan Andreyevich Krylov was born on the 13th of February 1769 in Moscow. He spent his early years in Orenburg and Tver before moving to St.
- Vasily ZhukovskyVasily Zhukovsky was born on the 24th of February 1783 in the village of Mishenskoe within the Tula Governorate. His mother Salkha had been captured during…
- Ivan BuninIvan Alekseyevich Bunin was born on his parental estate in Voronezh province, the third and youngest son of Aleksey Nikolayevich Bunin and Lyudmila…
- Mikhail LomonosovIn 1730, a nineteen-year-old fisherman named Mikhail Lomonosov walked one hundred miles from his village of Mishaninskaya to the city of Moscow.
- Nikolay KaramzinNikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin was born in the small village of Mikhailovka near Simbirsk. This location sits within what is now Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia.
- Aleksey Konstantinovich TolstoyAleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy was born in Saint Petersburg to the famed family of Tolstoy. His parents, Count Konstantin Petrovich Tolstoy and Anna…
- Dmitry MerezhkovskyDmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky was born on the 1st of August 1865 in Saint Petersburg, the sixth son in a family that included five brothers and three…
- Nikolay NekrasovIn January 1823 Alexey Nekrasov retired from the army and moved his family to an estate in Greshnevo, Yaroslavl province.