Ivanovich Shubin Fedot (17 (28) .05.1740 – 05.12.1805) – sculptor, son of a peasant, was born in Kuroostrovskoy parish. Against Kholmogory. In winter 1759 came, like his fellow countryman, Lomonosov in St. Petersburg. a wagon train of cod. At the request of University, noticed an unusual ability of youths to the sculpture on samples of his carving of bone, he enrolled in a stoker in the household and in 1761 by imperial order is defined in the Academy of Fine Arts, where he soon became the best of the students of Professor Gilles. During the passage of an academic course has been awarded two silver medals, maloyu in 1763 and more in 1765, and in 1766 graduated from this course with a gold medal and the following year sent for further improvements in its Paris, as a pensioner of the Academy . In Paris, Shubin attracted the attention of the French Academy, which sought before the Empress Catherine II through Falconet extension of his pensionerstva to enable him to visit Rome. In 1772, NA Demidov took with him a trip to Italy and commissioned him to his marble bust. Returning from there to St. Petersburg. He played by the will of Catherine II, her bust from life, which is considered the most similar of all (nahod. in Imperial. Hermitage) and after constantly, for 20 years, worked in marble for the highest court and for the book. GA Potemkin, in the person of whom he found himself a hot patron. In 1774, the Academy elected him to the Academy, but the intrigues of his comrades Shubin, specialty, and Gordian Shchedrin, a long time, all the while managing the Academy I. Betsky, prevented Shubin get a higher artistic rank, although he gained a reputation as a master, not unparalleled among Russian sculptors, and only in 1794, erected it in the Academy professors.
Dovator Lev (07 (20) .02.1903 – 19.12.1941), Hero of the Soviet Union (21/12/1941, posthumously), Major-General (September 1941).
Member of the CPSU since 1928. Born into a peasant family. In 1924, voluntarily joined the Red Army, he graduated from the Cavalry School (1926) and the Military Academy. Frunze (1939).
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, commanded a cavalry group, who in August-September 1941 raid on the enemy's rear in the Smolensk region, and then actively participated in the defense of Moscow in the Volokolamsk direction.
Since November, commanded the 3 rd, then 2-m Guards Cavalry Corps.
Killed in battle on the outskirts of Ruza.
Moskalenko, Kirill Semenovich (28.04 (11.05) .1902), Soviet commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1955), Hero of the Soviet Union (23.10. 1943), Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (03.10. 1969).
Member of the CPSU in 1926. In the Red Army in 1920. Member of the Civil War 1918 – 1920, Private. He graduated from the Ukrainian Union School kraskomov (1922), artillery refresher courses commanders WPRA (1928) and the Faculty of the higher command the Artillery Academy. Dzerzhinsky (1939).
During the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939 – 1940 was the chief of artillery, infantry division. In 1940 the commander of the artillery corps, the commander of an anti-brigade.
In the Great Patriotic War 1941 – 1945 Commander of small arms and cavalry corps, the commander of the Army's mobile force of troops and the deputy.
Pischalkin Andrei Andreyevich (1817 – 1892) – engraver on copper, he studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts under the guidance of Professor N. Utkin, and received in 1836 a small gold medal for the print from the painting by C. Dolci, praying Virgin, was released from the Academy with the rank neklassnogo artist. In 1839, for an engraving of Raphael's Madonna with the Beardless Joseph (located in the Imperial. Hermitage) was awarded a large gold medal and soon after went to Rome as a pensioner of the Academy. He stayed in that city until 1864, engaged in the execution of a large engraving of the "capture of the Virgin into heaven" with the altarpiece of K. Bryullova in the Kazan Cathedral and undertaking other work, but throwing them at the outset. Last shed a print with Bryullova Academy awarded him in 1855, an academician, and in 1862, for the same product, recognized professor.
Starov Ivan Ye (1743 – 1808) – architect, in 1755 was admitted to the students of Moscow University, a year later transferred from his school in St. Petersburg. Academy of Sciences and in 1758 entered the Academy of Art students. After graduating in her course from 1762 to 1768 traveled abroad as a pensioner of the Academy and longer just stayed in Rome. On his return to St. Petersburg. For the project of building for the Cadet Corps Gentry was recognized in 1769 by the academician, in pursuing and then I won the Academy Adjunct Professor, from which in 1770 promoted to professors, and in 1794 Associate Provost.
Konstantin Ton (1794 – 1881) – architect; in 1803 was admitted to the Imperial students. Acad. Hood. and in 1808 a special study in her architecture, part of which his chief mentor was Voronikhin. In 1815 he graduated from the academic course with the title of the artist 1-th degree and maloyu gold. Medal awarded to him for the building project of the Senate, and retained by the academy, to be subsequently sent to foreign lands. But in 1817 there was a change of the authorities of the academy and TV, leaving the academy, determined to serve in the newly established committee to bring the building and hydraulic works in St. Petersburg.
Kuropatkin Alexei (1848) – Lieutenant General, was born in 1848, completed the course in the Pavlovsk Military School and the Nicholas General Staff Academy, and participated in Samarkand hike in 1868, was sent to Algeria, where he lived for about a year and participated in expedition of French troops in B. Sakharov; at the same time it was published a book on Algeria.
Participated with distinction in Kokand campaign, under the command of MD Skobelev. In 1876 – 1877 years. Kuropatkin was headed embassy in Kashgariyu, which contracted with Yaqub Beg. On this journey, written in his essay: "Kashgar".
As Chief of Staff of Detachment gene. Skobelev, was in the battle of Lovcen and the attack of 30 th and 31 th August at Plevna, in what was wounded in the head.
In the transition unit Skobelev through the Balkans, December 25, 1877, Kuropatkin was seriously wounded and forced to leave the theater of war.
Later managed the Asian part of the Chief of Staff and was an associate professor of statistics in the military General Staff Academy. Has described the action teams Skobelev the Turkish war, under the title: "more agile, Plevna, Sheinovo.
In 1879 he was appointed head Kuropatkin Infantry Brigade in Turkestan, as the spring of 1880 sent a detachment to Kul'dzha for organizing defense ridge Borohoro; for settling affairs with the Chinese, he was required to establish a special department in the Amudarya team and lead them to the General Skobelev in Akhal Tekin oasis.