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Cherkasov, Nikolai b. July 27, 1903 d. September 14, 1966
Actor. Last name also spelled Cherkassov. One of the most popular Russian movie stars of his era, he won international fame for playing the title roles in director Sergei Eisenstein's classics "Alexander Nevsky" (1938) and "Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II" (1944-1946). His rugged charisma led Western critics to dub him "The Russian Gary Cooper." Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov was born in St. Petersburg. He started working at the Mariinsky Theatre as a stagehand in 1918, and made his...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Alexander Nevsky Monastery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
Plot: Tikhvin Cemetery
Cui, Cesar [original burial site] b. January 18, 1835 d. March 24, 1918
Composer, Critic, Military Officer. A member of "The Five", a group of Russian composers whose ambition was to create a distinctive musical language derived from their nation's culture. He was their principal spokesman through his activities as a journalist. Cesar Antonovich Cui was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, where his French father, a former soldier in Napoleon's invading army, had settled as a schoolteacher. His mother was a local woman of Polish descent. As a child he had piano lessons...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Smolenskoe Lutheran Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
Cui, Cesar b. January 18, 1835 d. March 24, 1918
Composer, Critic, Military Officer. A member of "The Five", a group of Russian composers whose ambition was to create a distinctive musical language derived from their nation's culture. He was their principal spokesman through his activities as a journalist. Cesar Antonovich Cui was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, where his French father, a former soldier in Napoleon's invading army, had settled as a schoolteacher. His mother was a local woman of Polish descent. As a child he had piano lessons...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Alexander Nevsky Monastery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
Danzas, Konstantin Karlovich b. 1800 d. 1870
General. Boyhood friend of Pushkin and acted as his second in the poet's fatal duel with D'Anthes.
Alexander Nevsky Monastery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
Plot: Artist's Cemetery
Dargomyzhsky, Alexander b. February 14, 1813 d. May 17, 1869
Composer. He and Mikhail Glinka were the founders of Nationalism in Russian music. In his operas "Rusalka" (1856) and "The Stone Guest" (1872), Dargomyzhsky replaced traditional arias and ensembles with what he called "melodic recitative", a pioneering attempt at setting Russian speech in a dramatic yet natural manner. This had a great influence on the "Mighty Five" composers, especially Mussorgsky. Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky was born in St. Petersburg. He studied music on his own...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Alexander Nevsky Monastery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
Plot: Tikhvinskoye Cemetery
de Betancourt y Molina, Augustine b. March 1, 1758 d. July 14, 1824
Engineer, Artist. Regarded by many historians to be the Spanish Leonardo da Vinci. He studied at the École des Ponts et Chaussées (School of Bridges and Roadways) in Paris and founded the Escuela de Ingenieros de Caminos y Canales (School of Road and Canal Engineering) in Madrid and the Corps of Civil Engineering in St. Petersburg. He travelled to England, and visited the Watt & Boulton company in Birmirgham, which marketed the new steam engine which was however not shown to him. On his way...[Read More]
Alexander Nevsky Monastery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
Plot: Lazarus Cemetery
Delvig, A. A. b. August 17, 1798 d. January 26, 1831
Poet and friend, since schooldays, of Pushkin, one of whose poems is addressed to him ('O, Delvig!').
Alexander Nevsky Monastery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
Plot: Artist's Cemetery
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor b. November 11, 1821 d. February 9, 1881
Russian novelist, journalist, short-story writer. Born in Moscow, as the second son of a doctor. He was educated at home and at a private school. Shortly after the death of his mother in 1837, he was sent to St. Petersburg, where he entered the Army Engineering College where he graduated as a military engineer. With the help of a small income from the estate, he resigned in 1844 his commission to devote himself to writing. His first novel, Poor Folk (1846) gained a great success with the...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
Cause of death: Hemorrhage
Alexander Nevsky Monastery, 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
Efremov, Ivan Antipovich b. April 22, 1908 d. October 5, 1972
Author, Scientist. Born in Vyritsa, Russia, he studied in St. Petersburg and earned a navigator diploma from a nautical school. In 1924, he became the senior sailor of a vessel on the Pacific Ocean in the town of Vladivostok, Russia. He returned to St. Petersburg and entered Leningrad State University where he began doing paleontology work. The hard work forced him to drop out so he joined the Leningrad College of Mines. He graduated in 1935 with a Ph.D degree. In 1940 he published an article...[Read More] (Bio by: Heather from VA)
Komarovo Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
Ekunina, Avdotia Ilyinichna b. January 17, 1799 d. June 26, 1848
Ballerina. Born in Russia she studied at the Imperial School of Ballet and graduated in 1815. While still in school she danced solo parts in many performances. According to contemporary writers Istomina was very beautiful, medium height, dark, had a excellent figure and firey black eyes veiled by long eyelashes. Several people were killed duelling for her heart, and her honour was defended in the fourfold duel in 1817. Count Zavadovsky killed Count Sheremetev, while the Decembrist Yakubovich...[Read More] (Bio by: Medora)
Bolsheohtinskoe Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
Eliasberg, Karl [original burial site] 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)
Piskariovskoye 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
Ermler, Friedrich b. May 13, 1898 d. July 12, 1967
Motion Picture Director. An important Soviet filmaker of the late silent and early sound periods. Friedrich (or Fridrikh) Markovich Ermler was born in Rechitsa, Latvia. His initial training as a pharmacist was interrupted by World War I service, and he fought with the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. He then enrolled at Leningrad's Fine Arts Institute. A committed Communist (he joined the party in 1922), he deplored what he saw as the stylistic excesses of Soviet silent cinema and his...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Bogoslovskoe Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
Euler, Leonhard b. April 15, 1707 d. September 18, 1783
Scientist. His father had some mathematical training and was able to teach his son elementary mathematics along with other subjects. Euler's father wanted his son to follow him into the church and sent him to the University of Basel to prepare for the ministry. He entered the University in 1720, at the age of 14, first to obtain a general education before going on to more advanced studies. In 1723 Euler completed his Master's degree in philosophy having compared and contrasted the philosophical...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
Alexander Nevsky Monastery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
Plot: Lazarus cemetery
Gannibal, Gen. Abram Petrovich b. 1697 d. May 14, 1781
Russian Military Commander, Politician. Put into slavery while still a young boy, Gannibal (Hannibal in English) was an African native presented as a gift to Czar Peter I in November 1704. He was baptized in 1705 with the name Abraham Petrov and soon assumed the duties as the Czar's valet and secretary. In 1716, he enrolled at the Ecole d'Artillerie in France where he received his military training and fought with the army of King Louis XV. Upon his return to St. Petersburg in 1723, his...[Read More] (Bio by: Samuel Taylor Geer)
Suida Estate Museum, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
Gardin, Vladimir b. January 18, 1877 d. May 29, 1965
Actor, Director, Screenwriter. An important pioneer of Russian Cinema. Born Vladimir Rostislavovich Gardin in Moscow, he made his performing debut in 1898 and was associated with the Kommissarzhevskaya and Meyerhold theatrical troupes. In 1907 he formed the Free Theatre in Terioki for the purpose of producing plays banned by the Czar's censors, an enterprise that nearly landed him in prison. His liberal creative tendencies eventually drew him to films as a director in 1913. Specializing in...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Bogoslovskoe 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
Glazunov, Alexander b. July 29, 1865 d. March 21, 1936
Composer, Educator. He is sometimes called "The Russian Brahms" because his music expresses a romantic spirit through rigorous classical form. He was particularly successful in synthesizing Russian nationalist and Western influences. The ballets "Raymonda" (1898) and "The Seasons" (1900), both with original choreography by Marius Petipa, are his most popular works. Critics consider his Symphony No. 5 (1896) and Symphony...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Alexander Nevsky Monastery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
Plot: Tikhvin Cemetery
Glinka, Mikhail b. June 1, 1804 d. February 15, 1857
Composer. He is considered the father of Russian classical music. His style combined European techniques with the melodies, harmonies, and rhythms of his native folk songs. Glinka's opera "A Life for the Tsar" (1836) marked the first time music of a Russian character was heard on the operatic stage. It initiated a long series of patriotic music dramas by Russian composers. His second opera, "Ruslan and Ludmilla" (1842), was adapted from a fairy tale by his friend, the poet Alexander Pushkin. He...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Alexander Nevsky Monastery, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation

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