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Born July 23, 1826
Died October 5, 1871 (aged 45)
Notable Works “Narodnyye russkiye skazki” • “The Slav’s Poetical Views of Nature”
Pavel Milyukov
Pavel Nikolayevich Milyukov
Russian historian and statesman
Mikhayl Mikhaylovich Shcherbatov
Russian historian
Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky
Soviet historian
Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky
Russian historian
Sergey Mikhaylovich Solovyov
Russian historian
Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev
Russian historian
Claude-Carloman de Rulhière
French historian
Third False Dmitry
Russian pretender
Vladimir A. Kryuchkov
Soviet politician
Second False Dmitry
Russian pretender
Anatoly Chubais
Russian economist and politician
First False Dmitry
Russian pretender
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
prime minister of Soviet Union
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin
president of Russia
Peter I
Peter I
emperor of Russia
Nicholas I
Nicholas I
tsar of Russia
Alexander I
Alexander I
emperor of Russia
Catherine II
Catherine the Great
empress of Russia
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Russian revolutionary
Alexander II
Alexander II
emperor of Russia