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People from the Russian Empire of Tatar descent

  • Anna AkhmatovaAnna Andreyevna Gorenko was born at Bolshoy Fontan, a resort suburb of the Black Sea port of Odessa in present-day Ukraine.
  • 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…
  • Nikolay KaramzinNikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin was born in the small village of Mikhailovka near Simbirsk. This location sits within what is now Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia.
  • Gavrila DerzhavinGavrila Romanovich Derzhavin entered the world on the 14th of July 1743 within the Kazan Governorate. His family belonged to a landed but impoverished branch…