Nikolai Petrovich Devitte (Russian: Николай Петрович Девитте, also: DeVitt, De Vitte; 20 September 1811, Moscow, Imperial Russia, — 20 April 1844, London, Great Britain) was a Russian harpist, composer, poet and songwriter, best remembered…
Russian oligarchs (Russian: олигархи, romanized: oligarkhi) are business oligarchs of the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth in the 1990s via the Russian privatisation that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Bogdanov-Belsky was active in St. Petersburg. After 1921, he worked exclusively in Riga, Latvia. He became a member of several prominent societies in including the Peredvizhniki from 1895, and the Kuindzhi Society [ru] from 1909 (of which he…
Maxim Sozontovich Berezovsky [note 1 ] (Russian: Максим Созонтович Березовский listen; Ukrainian: Максим Созонтович Березовський; c. 1745 – 2 April [O.S. 24 March] 1777) was a composer of secular and liturgical music, and a conductor and…