Curated category
Writers from Moscow
- 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…
- Bulat OkudzhavaBulat Okudzhava was born in Moscow on the 9th of May 1924. His parents were Georgian and Armenian communists who had moved to the capital from Tbilisi.
- 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…
- Andrei BelyBoris Nikolaevich Bugaev entered the world in Moscow on the 26th of August 1880. His father Nikolai Bugaev stood as a founder of the Moscow school of…
- Alexander PushkinAlexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born into the Russian nobility in Moscow. His father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, belonged to an old noble family that traced…
- Mikhail LermontovMikhail Yuryevich Lermontov entered the world on the 15th of October 1814 in Moscow. His paternal family traced its roots to a Scottish officer named Yuri…
- Peter KropotkinPeter Kropotkin was born in Moscow on the 9th of December 1842. He entered the Page Corps, an elite school for imperial attendants, at age eight after Tsar…
- 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.
- 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…
- Semyon FrankSemyon Lyudvigovich Frank was born in Russia on the 28th of January 1877. He entered the world within a Jewish family in Moscow.
- Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak was born on the 30th of May 1890 in Moscow into a wealthy Jewish family. His father Leonid Pasternak worked as a post-Impressionist painter…
- Alexander HerzenMoscow, 1812. The city burned as Napoleon's army advanced, and a child named Alexander Ivanovich Herzen was born into chaos.
- Ivan KrylovIvan Andreyevich Krylov was born on the 13th of February 1769 in Moscow. He spent his early years in Orenburg and Tver before moving to St.
- Victor PelevinVictor Olegovich Pelevin was born on the 22nd of November 1962 in Moscow. He grew up on Tverskoy Boulevard before moving to Chertanovo.
- Sergey MikhalkovSergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov entered the world on the 27th of August 1913 within a noble family in Moscow. His father was Vladimir Aleksandrovich Mikhalkov…
- Vladimir VysotskyVladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky entered the world on the 25th of January 1938 at the 3rd Meshchanskaya Street maternity hospital in Moscow.
- Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov was born in Moscow during the year 1853. He entered the Imperial Moscow University to study from 1869 until 1873.