The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary is a comprehensive multi-volume encyclopaedia in Russian. It contains 121,240 articles, 7,800 images, and 235 maps. It was published in the Russian Empire in 1890–1907, as a joint venture of Leipzig and St Petersburg publishers. The articles were written by the prominent Russian scholars of the period, such as Dmitri Mendeleev and Vladimir Solovyov. Reprints have appeared following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Nikolai Dmitrievich Dmitriev-Orenburgsky or Nikolaj Dmitrievič Dmitriev-Orenburgskij was a painter from the Russian Empire who added to his surname, to distinguish him from other artists Dmitrievs, epithet: Orenburgsky. He spent 1875–1885 living and working in Paris.
Valerian Nikolayevich Maykov was a Russian writer and literary critic, son of painter Nikolay Maykov, brother of poet Apollon and novelist Vladimir Maykov. Valerian Maykov, once a Petrashevsky Circle associate, was considered by contemporaries as heir to Vissarion Belinsky's position of Russia's leading critic, and later credited for being arguably the first in Russia to introduce scientific approach to the art of literary criticism.
Kārlis Jēkabs Vilhelms Hūns, also known as Karl Jacob Wilhelm Huhn and Karl Theodor Huhn was a Baltic-German history, genre and landscape painter.
Under the Northern Sky is a collection of poetry by Konstantin Balmont featuring 51 poems, first published in the early 1894 in Saint Petersburg. Formally Balmont's second book, it is considered to be his debut, since all the copies of the Yaroslavl-released Collection of Poems have been purchased and destroyed by the author.
Mikhail Pavlovich Rosenheim was a Russian poet, editor, publicist and translator.
Zhivopisnoe obozrenie was a Russian illustrated weekly magazine published in Saint Petersburg in 1872–1900 and in 1902–1905.
Vasily Ivanovich Modestov was a Russian historian, philologist, publicist and translator.
Viktor Petrovich Klyushnikov was a Russian writer, editor and journalist, whose debut novel, Marevo, was considered by contemporary Russian critics to be one of the four 'great anti-nihilist' novels of the time, alongside Troubled Seas by Alexey Pisemsky, No Way Out by Nikolai Leskov and Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Both Ivan Turgenev and Alexey K. Tolstoy reacted positively, hailing the arrival of the original, even if erratic literary talent, "who [was playing] with his gift in acrobatic fashion," according to Tolstoy.
Pyotr Nikolayevich Petrov was a Russian writer, arts historian and critic, genealogist, bibliographer, an honourable member of the Imperial Academy of Arts and a member of the Russian Archeological Society.
Istorichesky Vestnik was a Russian monthly historical and literary magazine published in Saint Petersburg from 1880 to 1917, and relaunched in 2012.
Viktor Alexandrovich Goltsev was a writer, lawyer, journalist, literary critic, publisher, and editor from the Russian Empire. He was an editor of "Russian Courrier", Russkiye Vedomosti, Russkaya Mysl.
Russkaya Rech was a Russian fortnightly literary and political magazine which was launched in Moscow on 1 January 1861 by the writer and journalist Evgenya Tur who went on to become also its editor.
Russkiy Mir was a daily Russian newspaper published in Saint Petersburg in 1871–1880. Its publishers Mikhail Chernyayev, Vissarion Komarov, Pavel Viskovatov, and Fyodor Berg were also its co-editors, alongside Dmitry Stakheyev and later Evgeny Rapp.
Viktor Alexandrovich Krylov was a Russian playwright, theatre critic, librettist, Imperial Theatres official and one of the major contributors to the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
Ludwig Zinovievich Slonimsky was a Warsaw-born Jewish Russian journalist, publicist, economist and lawyer, the son of Hebrew scientist and publisher Hayyim Selig Slonimski.
Vissarion Vissarionovich Komarov was a Russian journalist, editor and an Imperial Russian Army colonel who in 1876 was promoted to the rank of the Serbian army general for his victories in several battles he conducted against the Turkish army during the Montenegrin–Ottoman War, in 1876.
Vladimir Feofilovich Botsyanovsky was a playwright, historian, journalist, literary critic and editor from the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union.
Alexander Fomich Petrushevsky was a Russian lieutenant-general and a well-known biographer of Suvorov.
Baron, Graf Hans Heinrich von Fersen or Ivan Yevstafyevich Fersen was an eminent Russian military commander and general of the infantry. Even in his younger years, as a lieutenant colonel, he rendered outstanding honours during the Turkish war in 1769–74. In 1790 he acted in Finland against the Swedes, where he assisted Vasily Chichagov's ships in the Bay of Vyborg with the fire of coastal batteries, increasing the confusion of the Swedish ships in the bay. He especially advanced in the war of 1792–94 against the Poles. In 1792 there was turmoil over the constitution of 3 May 1791; by skilful orders he managed to form here a general confederation, after the example of Targowica, which was accepted under the patronage of Empress Catherine II, and thus quickly pacified the whole region. Fersen gained notoriety with the defeat and capture of Kościuszko in the battle of Maciejowice. Then he took part in the capture of Praga by Suvorov. In 1797 he was appointed director of the First Cadet Corps; he soon retired and died in his Livonian estate.
