Novikov, Nikolai Ivanovich (27.04 (08.05) .1744 – 7.31.1818) – a famous public figure of the last century, was born in the village Avdotya (Bronnitsy district, Moscow province) in the family sufficient landowner, a few years he studied in Moscow at the university gymnasium, but in 1760 r "for laziness and nehozhdenie in class was excluded [...]