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Russian Orthodox Christians from Russia
- Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky was born on the 11th of November 1821 in Moscow. His father, Mikhail Dostoevsky, served as a senior physician at the Mariinsky Hospital for…
- Catherine the GreatOn the 2nd of May 1729, a girl named Sophia Augusta Frederica was born inside the Ducal Castle in Stettin. Her father held the rank of Prussian general while…
- Andrei TarkovskyAndrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was born on the 4th of April 1932 in the village of Zavrazhye. His father, Arseny Aleksandrovich Tarkovsky, worked as a poet and…
- Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born on the 7th of October 1952 in Leningrad. He grew up as the youngest of three children during a time when his family…
- Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born on the 11th of December 1918 in Kislovodsk. His father Isaakiy Semyonovich Solzhenitsyn died in a hunting accident…
- 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.
- Sofia GubaidulinaOn the 24th of October 1931, a girl named Sofia Gubaidulina was born in the city of Chistopol within the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- Nicolas SlonimskyNikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy was born in Saint Petersburg during the final years of the Russian Empire. His family background included a grandfather named…
- Alexei NavalnyAlexei Anatolyevich Navalny was born on the 4th of June 1976 in Butyn, a rural locality within the Odintsovsky District of the Moscow Oblast.
- Nikolay LosskyNikolay Onufriyevich Lossky was born in Kreslavka, a town within the Russian Empire. His father Onufry Lossky carried Belarusian roots and served as an…
- Nikolai BerdyaevNikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was born near Kiev in 1874 to an aristocratic military family. His father, Alexander Mikhailovich Berdyaev, came from a long…
- Semyon FrankSemyon Lyudvigovich Frank was born in Russia on the 28th of January 1877. He entered the world within a Jewish family in Moscow.
- Valentina TereshkovaValentina Tereshkova was born on the 6th of March 1937 in Bolshoye Maslennikovo, a small village along the Volga River. Her father Vladimir died in the…
- Alla PugachevaOn the 15th of April 1949, a girl named Alla Borisovna Pugacheva was born in Moscow. Her parents were Boris Mikhailovich Pugachyov and Zinaida Arkhipovna…