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Russian people of German descent

  • Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyOn the 7th of May 1840, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in the small town of Votkinsk within the Vyatka Governorate of the Russian Empire.
  • Fabian Gottlieb von BellingshausenFabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen entered the world on the 20th of July 1778 on the island of Saaremaa. This Baltic region belonged to the Russian Empire at…
  • Peter II of RussiaPeter II Alexeyevich arrived in Saint Petersburg on the 23rd of October 1715. His mother Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg died just ten days after…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • Vladimir NabokovVladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov entered the world on the 22nd of April 1899 in Saint Petersburg. His family belonged to an ancient Russian nobility granted a…
  • Nicholas RoerichOn the 9th of October 1874, Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerich was born in Saint Petersburg to a well-to-do Baltic German father and a Russian mother.
  • 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.
  • Alexander ScriabinAlexander Scriabin was born on Christmas Day 1871 in Moscow into a Russian noble family. His father Nikolai worked as a military attaché and later became an…
  • Alfred SchnittkeAlfred Schnittke was born in Engels on the 24th of November 1934. His family moved to Vienna in 1946 when his father received a posting there.
  • Richard SorgeRichard Gustavovich Sorge was born on the 4th of October 1895 in the settlement of Sabunchi, a suburb of Baku. His father worked as a German mining engineer…
  • Afanasy FetAfanasy Fet was born on the 5th of December 1820 to Afanasy Shenshin and Charlotte Becker. His father was a forty-four-year-old Russian landlord from Mtsensk…