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Moscow State University alumni

  • Anton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on the 29th of January 1860 in Taganrag, a commercial port city on the Sea of Azov. He lived at Politseyskaya street, which…
  • Lev VygotskyLev Semyonovich Vygotsky was born on the 17th of November 1896 in Orsha, a town within the Mogilev Governorate of the Russian Empire.
  • Mikhail GorbachevMikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on the 2nd of March 1931 in Privolnoye, a small village in the North Caucasus region of what is now Russia.
  • 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.
  • Ivan TurgenevIvan Sergeyevich Turgenev entered the world in Oryol, Russia, during 1818. His father Sergei Nikolaevich Turgenev served as a colonel in the Russian cavalry…
  • 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.
  • 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…
  • Andrei SakharovAndrei Dmitrievich Sakharov entered the world on the 21st of May 1921 in Moscow. His father, Dmitri Ivanovich Sakharov, worked as a physics professor at the…
  • Alexander HerzenMoscow, 1812. The city burned as Napoleon's army advanced, and a child named Alexander Ivanovich Herzen was born into chaos.
  • Pafnuty ChebyshevPafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev was born in the village of Okatovo, located within the district of Borovsk and the province of Kaluga.
  • Anatoly KhazanovAnatoly Mikhailovich Khazanov was born on the 13th of December 1937 in Moscow. He entered Moscow State University to begin his higher education journey.
  • Lev ShestovYeguda Lev Shvartsman was born in Kiev during the year 1866. He later adopted the name Lev Shestov for his philosophical career.
  • Alexander ZinovievAlexander Zinoviev was born on the 29th of October 1922 in Pakhtino, a village within the Kostroma Governorate. His family belonged to the state peasants…
  • Aleksey Konstantinovich TolstoyAleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy was born in Saint Petersburg to the famed family of Tolstoy. His parents, Count Konstantin Petrovich Tolstoy and Anna…
  • Fyodor TyutchevFyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev entered the world in 1803 at the Ovstug family estate near Bryansk. His father Ivan Nikolaevich Tyutchev served as a court…