New PDF release: Best of Russian Life: Biographies

By Paul E. Richardson

We culled via 15 years of Russian lifestyles to pick readers’ and editors’ favourite tales and biographies for inclusion in a unique quantity assortment. Totalling over 1100 pages, those volumes surround the superior writing we've got released during the last twenty years, and contain the main undying tales and biographies – those who should be learn back and again.

This is quantity II: Biographies. It comprises seventy eight undying profiles of Russians who've formed the country’s heritage and tradition, from artists and poets, to marketers, rulers, spies and favorites, together with: Rudolph Abel, Ivan Aivazovsky, Anna Akhmatova. Isaac Babel, Mikhail Barclay de Tolly, Alexander Blok, Karl Bryullov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Catherine II, Anton Chekhov, Sasha Chyorny, Morris and Lona Cohen, Yekaterina Dashkova, fake Dmitry I, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Yekaterina Dzhugashvili, Sergei Eisenstein, Tsarina Elizabeth I, Nikolai Ge, Vladimir Gilyarovsky, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Alexander Griboyedov, Maria Hamilton, Fazil Iskander, Ivan the poor, Alexander Kolchak, Pavel Korin, Vladimir Korolenko, Ivan Kruzenshtern, Yuri Kuklyachov, Ivan Kulibin, Boris Kustodiev, Mikhail Kutuzov, Lev Landau, Mikhail Lermontov, Alexei Losev, Samuil Marshak, Ilya Mechnikov, Father Alexander males, Alexander Menshikov, Mikhail Nesterov, Bulat Okudzhava, Tsar Paul I, Victor Pelevin, Andrei Platonov, Georgy Plekhanov, Grigory Potemkin, Sergei Prokofiev, Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Radishchev, Marina Raskova, Nikolai Roerich, Andrei Sakharov, Boris Savinkov, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyanshansky, St. Sergius of Radonezh, Fyodor Shalyapin, Dmitry Shostakovich, Alexander Smirdin, Pyotr Stolypin, Igor Stravinsky, Alexander Suvorov, Peter Tchaikovsky, Valentina Tereshkova, Patriarch Tikhon, Fyodor Tolstoy, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Tyutchev, Galina Ulanova, Fyodor Volkov, Maximilian Voloshin, Vladimir Vysotsky, Sergei Yursky, Nikolai Zabolotsky.

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