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Memoirists from the Russian Empire

  • Fyodor RostopchinFyodor Vasilyevich Rostopchin was born in the Kosmodemyanskoe village, now part of the Livensky District in Oryol Oblast.
  • Ilya RepinIlya Yefimovich Repin was born on the 5th of August 1844 in the town of Chuguev, then part of the Russian Empire. His father, Yefim Vasilyevich Repin, had…
  • Alexander HerzenMoscow, 1812. The city burned as Napoleon's army advanced, and a child named Alexander Ivanovich Herzen was born into chaos.
  • Ivan BuninIvan Alekseyevich Bunin was born on his parental estate in Voronezh province, the third and youngest son of Aleksey Nikolayevich Bunin and Lyudmila…