Goshkevich Joseph Antonovich (1814 – 10.05.1875), Russian diplomat and orientalist. Graduated from St. Petersburg Theological Academy (1839). In 1839-48 – in the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Beijing. In 1853-55 a translator from Chinese embassy Putyatin in Japan. In 1856-58 employee Asian Department of the MFA. Developed by Japanese Tachibana first Japanese-Russian Dictionary (St. Petersburg, 1857). [...]
Tyurin Yuri Petrovich (08/11/1938). Born in Moscow in the family business. He graduated from the film studies faculty of VGIK (1962). Candidate in Art. He worked as an editor at the publishing house "Sov. Russia" (1962 – 1974).
Kaisarov Andrew S. (1782 – 1813). He studied at Moscow University, then served in the Semenov regiment.
Jawaharlal Nehru (14/11/1889 – 27/05/1964), one of the leaders of the Indian national liberation movement, political leader and statesman of India. Son of Motilal Nehru. In 1905-12 he studied at Harrow and aristocratic school at Cambridge University (UK). During these years, met with the ideas of Indian nationalism.
Alexander I (12.12.1777 – 19.11.1825), Russian Emperor – son Paul Petrovich and Empress Maria Feodorovna, born in St. Petersburg on Dec. 12, 1777, succeeded to the throne March 12, 1801, died in Taganrog, November 19, 1825 PM Catherine the Great did not like his son Paul Petrovich, but about the education of his grandson, which [...]
Ostrogorsky Alexei (1840). Initial education received in the 2 nd Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg, which he graduated in 1858, sergeant with the production of an officer in the Finnish regiment.
Watchmen Basil Porfirevich (13 (25) .01.1853 – 03/04/1924), the Russian teacher, Methodist Primary School. Born in a family diocese guard. He studied at a religious school in Arzamas, then in Nizhny Novgorod Theological Seminary. During 15 years (1881-96), was inspector of schools (first in the province of Smolensk, and then in Moscow). He took an [...]
Friedrich Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767 – 1835) – the famous linguist and a Prussian politician, elder brother of Alexander von Humboldt. Frankfurt (Oder) and University of Göttingen thoroughly studied law, politics and history.
Peterson, Mikhail Nikolayevich (22.09 (04.10) .1885 – 22.11.1962), American linguist. Specializes in general and comparative Indo-European linguistics, a representative of the Moscow linguistic school. He graduated from Moscow University (1913), the same professor (since 1916), then professor (since 1919). He taught courses in comparative grammar of Indo-European languages, Sanskrit, Lithuanian language, linguistic, Russian syntax and [...]
Oswald Spengler (Spengler) (29.05.1880 – 08.05.1936), German idealist philosopher, the representative of the philosophy of life. He was born in Blankenburg, Harz. He became known after the sensational success of his chief work "Decline of the West" ("Der Untergang des Abendlandes", Bd 1-2, 1918-22, Russian. Per., V. 1, 1923). In the 20-ies. served as a [...]