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• Andreyev, Leonid    b. August 21, 1871  d. September 12, 1919
  Author. Born in Oryol, Russia, he studied law at the universities of St. Petersburg and Moscow, but quickly abandoned the legal profession for a literary career. He was mentored by Maxim Gorky, who helped get his first collection of stories published in 1901, but their friendship later ended because of opposing political views. Andreyev's writing is marked by a brooding tone and deep pessimism. His best known works are the novel "The Seven Who Were Hanged" (1909), and the play "He Who Gets...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
  Plot: Literatorskie Mostki Section
   
• Beliayev, Alexander    b. March 16, 1884  d. January 6, 1942
  Author. He was known as "The Soviet Jules Verne" for his Science Fiction stories, which combined fantasy, humor, and political ideology. Among the technological advances he predicted were global satellites and radio-controlled missiles. His tales include "The Struggle in Space" (1928), "Leap Into Nothing" (1933), "Second Moon" (1934), and "The Anatomical Bridegroom" (1941). Beliayev was born in Smolensk, Russia. He became a writer in 1925 after a spinal ailment left him a semi-invalid...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Blok, Alexander Alexandrovich    b. November 16, 1880  d. August 7, 1921
  Poet, Playwright. Considered by many the greatest figure of Russia's Symbolist Movement. His experiments in rhythm and prosody broke new ground in his country's literature. Blok's masterpiece, the long poem "The Twelve" (1918), reflected his initial enthusiasm for the Russian Revolution. It depicts twelve Bolshevik soldiers on a winter night, raping, looting, and killing their way through St. Petersburg; at the end Jesus Christ appears as their leader. The poem caused a firestorm of...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Dudinskaya, Natalia Mikhailovna    b. August 21, 1912  d. January 29, 2003
  Ballerina. A well known Ukrainian-Soviet dancer and teacher, she studied with her mother and then at the Petrograd Ballet School under Vaganova. She made her debut as ‘Princess Florine' before graduating in 1931, and six months after joining GATOB (Kirov) she danced ‘Odette-Odile'. A brilliantly virtuoso dancer with a powerful jump, she danced all the classical roles but also created many new roles in new ballets including the title role (her most famous creation) in Chabukiani's 'Laurencia' (...[Read More] (Bio by: Medora)
  Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Eliasberg, Karl    b. June 10, 1907  d. February 12, 1978
  Conductor. As music director of the Leningrad Radio Orchestra (LRO) from 1937 to 1950, his fame rests on a single concert during World War II - one of the most dramatic in the history of classical music. Karl Ilyich Eliasberg was born in Minsk, Russia, and studied violin and conducting at the Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) Conservatory. He joined the LRO as associate conductor in 1931. When the German Army began its Siege of Leningrad in September 1941 - a 900-day blockade that would kill some...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Garshin, Vsevolod    b. February 14, 1855  d. April 5, 1888
  Author. Considered one of Russia's masters of short fiction. The son of a wealthy army officer, he served in the last of the Russo-Turkish Wars (1877 to 1878) and wrote his first story, "Four Days" (1877), while recovering from battle wounds. His subsequent stories, which were praised by Ivan Turgenev and Anton Chekhov, often dealt with the subject of evil. Garshin suffered from recurring bouts of mental illness and his masterpiece, "The Scarlet Flower" (1883), was based on his...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
  Plot: Literatorskie Mostki Section
   
• Goncharov, Ivan    b. June 18, 1812  d. September 15, 1891
  Author. The son of a wealthy grain merchant from Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk), Russia, he graduated from Moscow University in 1834 and spent 33 years as a minor government official. His fame rests on his humorous novel "Oblomov" (1859), one of the most remarkable works of 19th Century Russian Literature. The title character is a young nobleman so overcome by ennui that he cannot bring himself to make the simplest decisions. In one famous passage it takes him nearly 50 pages to move from his bed...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
  Plot: Literatorskie Mostki Section
   
• Kozintsev, Grigori    b. March 22, 1905  d. May 11, 1973
  Motion Picture Director. Born Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev in Kiev, Ukraine, he was stage crazy from boyhood and put on amateur shows with the help of friends. Two of them, Leonid Trauberg and Sergei Yutkevich, joined him in St. Petersburg to form the Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEX), a theatre troupe that scandalized audiences and critics alike with their avant-garde versions of the classics, often combining live performance with filmed interludes. In 1924 Kozintsev and Trauberg...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Kuprin, Alexander    b. September 7, 1870  d. August 25, 1938
  Author. Born in Narovchat, Russia, he published his first tales in 1894 and moved to St. Petersburg in 1901 to concentrate on writing. His style combined stark realism with romantic and even sentimental ideas. Leo Tolstoy admired Kuprin, and in the years before World War I Kuprin's short stories were nearly as popular as those of Anton Chekhov. His biggest success was his novel "The Pit" (1909), a controversial expose of prostitution in Odessa that still holds up today. Kuprin's stories...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
  Plot: Literatorskie Mostki Section
   
• Kurgapkina, Ninel Alexandrovna   b. February 13, 1929  d. May 8, 2009
  Ballet Dancer. As prima ballerina of the famed Kirov Ballet, she was the first partner of both Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshinikov. Raised in Leningrad by a working-class family, she studied at the Vaganova Ballet Academy where she was one of the last pupils of the legendary Agrippina Vaganova. During World War II she entertained Soviet troops under difficult conditions, and for two decades afterwards she was one of top stars of Russian dance. Having a physique that was a bit muscular for...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
  Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Leskov, Nikolai    b. February 16, 1831  d. March 5, 1895
  Author. A native of Russia's Orel province, he held odd jobs throughout the country until 1860, when he left his wife to become a writer in St. Petersburg. Although liberal-minded, Leskov's books attacking what he saw as the rigidity of Russian life and religion infuriated progressives as well as conservatives. He is most famous for the novella "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" (1865), in which social restrictions drive an illiterate woman to murder. It was adapted into an opera by Dimitri...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Literatorskie Mostki, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
  Plot: Literatorskie Mostki Section
   
• Mendeleyev, Dmitri Ivanovich    b. February 8, 1834  d. February 2, 1907
  Scientist. Last name also spelled Mendeleev. Russian chemist who developed the periodic classification of the elements. He was the youngest child out of 14 born in the small Siberian town of Tobolsk. His father became blind in the year of Dmitry's birth and died in 1847. To support the family, his mother ran a small glass factory owned by her family in a nearby town. After the factory burned down, the family moved to St. Petersburg, where Mendeleyev enrolled in the Main Pedagogical Institute...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
  Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich    b. September 14, 1849  d. February 27, 1936
  Scientist. A Russian physiologist, psychologist and physician, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904 for research pertaining to the digestive system. Pavlov was the first to describe the phenomenon now known as conditioning in his experiments with dogs. Due to his international fame, the Soviet government had to allow the scientist to continue his researches until he was a considerable age and even attend the church located closely to the place where he lived. The...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
  Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Popov, Alexander Stepanovich    b. March 16, 1859  d. January 13, 1906
  Scientist. Guglielmo Marconi became known as the inventor of the radio around the world, but it was Popov who on May 7, 1895, in a lecture before the Russian Physicist Society of St. Petersburg, stated he had transmitted and received signals at an intervening distance of 6 hundred yards. Marconi, using equipment very similar to Popov's, successfully transmitted and received signals within the limits of his father's estate at Bologna, Italy. Popov's radio system earned him a Grand Gold Medal for...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
  Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail    b. January 27, 1826  d. May 10, 1889
  Satirist. Born in Tula, Russia, he spent much of his life as a mid-level civil servant in the provinces, which gave him plenty of material for his writing. He left government service in 1868 and immediately set to work on "The History of a Town" (1870), a collection of sketches that brilliantly satirized Russian bureaucrats and the middle class. "The Golovyov Family" (1876), Saltykov's only novel, lacks the bite of his sketches but is a revealing look at the apathy of his time. With "...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
  Plot: Literatorskie Mostki Section
   
• Sergeyev, Konstantin    b. March 5, 1910  d. April 1, 1992
  Soviet dancer and choreographer. He took evening classes at the Lennigrad Ballet School and danced with the Joseph Kschessinsky company from 1928-1929 before going back to LCS full-time. In 1930 he joined the Kirov Ballet (known as GATOB back then) where he remained until 1961, revered as a 'poet of dance'. His lyrical, Romantic style showcased in all the major classical roles in which his was usaully partnered with Ulanova or his second wife, Dudinskaya. He created roles in many ballets...[Read More] (Bio by: Medora)
  Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Shelest, Alla    b. February 28, 1919  d. December 7, 1998
  Russian dancer and teacher born in Smolensk. She studied with E. Gerdt and Vaganova at the Leningrad Ballet School and graduated in 1937 into the Kirov Ballet where she danced until 1963. Her technique was characterized by her huge jumps, lyrical fluency and a classical purity of style. Combined with the boldness of her dramatic interpretations, these qualities made her one of the company's most popular ballerinas. 'She is a tragic and inspired ballerina. You can always recognise her by the...[Read More] (Bio by: Medora)
  Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Turgenev, Ivan    b. November 9, 1818  d. September 3, 1883
  Author. He was the first Russian writer to achieve wide recognition outside his country. Born in Oryol to a wealthy landowning family, he was raised by his mother, who was strict and often abused him. After a teenage fling with a servant girl that produced an illegitimate daughter, Turgenev was sent to Germany to study at the University of Berlin. While there he became convinced of the need for Westernization in Russia, and his subsequent ideas and polished writing style show a marked Western...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Literatorskie Mostki, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
  Plot: Literatorskie Mostki Section
   
• Ulyanova, Maria Aleksandrovna    b. March 6, 1835  d. July 25, 1916
  Folk figure. Mother of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, she was educated at home and was fluent in German, French and English. She had trained herself to become a school teacher but instead dedicated herself to her family after her marriage to Ilya Nikolaevich Ulianov, who died in 1886. Some of their children would become prominent revolutionaries. Son Aleksandr was executed in 1887 for conspiring to assassinate Czar Alexander III. She supported him and the rest of her children during numerous...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
  Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
   
• Vaganova, Agrippina    b. June 26, 1879  d. November 5, 1951
  Soviet dancer, teacher and ballet director. She trained at the Imperial Theatre School in St Petersburg, a student of Vazem, Pavel, Ivanov, Gerdt and Nikolai Legat and later studied with Preobrajenska. She graduated in 1897 and joined the Maryinsky Theatre, but the considerable technique she possessed she wasn't promoted to ballerina status until 1915 and it certainly didn't help her career that she was dancing the same time as some of the greatest dancers in history, Pavlova, Karsavina...[Read More] (Bio by: Medora)
  Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
  Plot: Actually Literatorskiye Mostki Cemetery
   

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