Isaac Yakovlevich Pavlovsky, a friend of Anton Chekhov, was born in 1853 in the city of Taganrog, studied at Taganrog's Boys Gymnasium, was an activist at the Taganrog revolutionary circle and was arrested and tried at the so-called Trial of the 193. He became a political immigrant in 1878. He made his debut as journalist in Le Temps in 1880 with the story about his imprisonment En Cellule.
In 1888, Isaac Pavlovsky returned to Russia and worked for the Novoye Vremya, where he published his Paris correspondence.
Among his publications are: Little people with great sorrow ("Маленькие люди с большим горем", Saint Petersburg, 1889), Sketches of Contemporary Spain ("Очерки современной Испании", Saint Petersburg, 1889), There and Back ("Туда и обратно", Saint Petersburg, 1891), Paris Sketches ("Парижские очерки") and other works.
The Russian Imperial Guard, officially known as the Leib Guard were military units serving as personal guards of the Emperor of Russia. Peter the Great founded the first such units in 1683, to replace the politically motivated Streltsy. The Imperial Guard subsequently increased in size and diversity to become an elite corps of all branches within the Imperial Army rather than Household troops in direct attendance on the Tsar. Numerous links were however maintained with the Imperial family and the bulk of the regiments of the Imperial Guard were stationed in and around Saint Petersburg in peacetime. The Imperial Guard was disbanded in 1917 following the Russian Revolution.
Achilles Nikolayevich Alferaki was a Russian composer and mayor of Greek descent. His brother was Sergei Alphéraky.
Mark Matveyevich Antokolsky was a Russian Imperial sculptor of Lithuanian Jewish descent.
Konstantin Apollonovich Savitsky was a Russian realist painter born in the city of Taganrog in the village Frankovka or Baronovka, named after former governor Otto Pfeilizer-Frank. Today this area is occupied by the Taganrog Iron and Steel Factory TAGMET.
Dmitri Minaevich Sinodi-Popov was a Russian Empire artist of Greek descent.
Nikolay Ivanovich Krasnov was a lieutenant general of the Imperial Russian Army.
Andrei Ivanovich Stakenschneider, also spelled Stackenschneider and Stuckenschneider, was a Russian architect. His eclectic approach and competence in period styles is manifest in ten palaces built to his design in St. Petersburg. He is often credited for turning Russian architecture from Neoclassicism to Romanticism.
Yevgeny Mikhailovich Garshin was a Russian teacher, novelist, publisher, director of the Commercial College in Taganrog (1901), younger brother of the Russian writer Vsevolod Garshin.
The Chekhov Gymnasium in Taganrog on Ulitsa Oktyabrskaya 9 is the oldest gymnasium in the South of Russia. Playwright and short-story writer Anton Chekhov spent 11 years in the school, which was later named after him and transformed into a literary museum. Visitors can see Anton's desk and his classroom, the assembly hall and even the punishment cell which he sometimes visited.
Ippolit Konstantinovich Vogak was an Imperial Russian Navy admiral and the 17th and last governor of Taganrog.
Gleb Ivanovich Uspensky, was a Russian Empire writer, and a prominent figure of the Narodnik movement.
Abram Borisovich Grushko was a Soviet painter and art teacher that lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation and was one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting. He was most famous for his many landscape paintings.
Alexei Vasilievich Mozhaev was a Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist, and art teacher, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, regarded as a representative of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his portrait painting.
Nikolai Antonovich Mukho was a Soviet, Russian painter who lived and worked in Leningrad, and was regarded as a representative of the Leningrad school of painting. He was best known for his portraits.
Lev Nikolaevich Orekhov was a Russian Soviet painter, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Boris Mikhailovich Lavrenko was a Russian Soviet realist painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, professor of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg, regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Boris Borisovich Glinsky was a writer, publicist, publisher, editor and politician from the Russian Empire. A prominent historian and biographer, Glinsky published numerous articles and essays, mainly in Istorichesky Vestnik, which he was also the editor of in 1913–1917, Severny Vestnik, and Russkaya Budushchnost. Described as a 'progressive nationalist', Glinsky supported both the 1917 February Revolution and the Kornilov affair. As a result, in August 1917 he was arrested on the counter-revolutionary charges, but in October 1917 was released. Glinsky died in Petrograd on 30 November 1917.
Kārlis Jēkabs Vilhelms Hūns, also known as Karl Jacob Wilhelm Huhn and Karl Theodor Huhn was a Baltic-German history, genre and landscape painter.
Dmitry Vlasyevich Aynalov was a Soviet and Russian art historian, a university professor, a corresponding member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1914), and a member of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society. Penned more than 200 scholarly publications, including articles, lectures, reviews.
"The Teacher of Literature" or "The Russian Master" is an 1894 short story by Anton Chekhov.
