Outstanding personalities of Russia

OUTSTANDING PERSONALITIES OF RUSSIA

А.С. Pushkin

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837) - great Russian poet, prose writer, playwright. The author of immortal works in verse and prose: the novels “Eugene Onegin”, “Dubrovsky”, the famous poems “Ruslan and Lyudmila”, “Prisoner of the Caucasus”, the story “The Queen of Spades” and many others, as well as fairy tales for children.

Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin December 6, 1878, Gori, Tiflis province - March 5, 1953, Near Dacha, - Soviet political, state, military and party leader, Russian revolutionary. The actual leader of the USSR. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) - CPSU (1922-1934), Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) - CPSU (1934-1953), Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943)[11], Generalissimo of the Soviet Union (1945)[12]. People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR (1941-1946), Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1941-1953), Chairman of the State Defense Committee of the USSR (1941-1945).

He also held the following positions: from November 1917 to July 1923 - People's Commissar for Nationalities of the RSFSR; from March 1919 to February 1920 - People's Commissar of State Control of the RSFSR, from February 1920 to April 1922 - People's Commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate of the RSFSR; from February 1946 to March 1947 - People's Commissar/Minister of the Armed Forces of the USSR.In 1912, at the suggestion of Lenin, he was included in the Central Committee of the RSDLP. At the same time, Joseph Dzhugashvili finally chose the pseudonym “Stalin”. During the October Revolution, the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets was elected a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars. In 1922, at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) he was elected a member of the Organizing Bureau and Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), as well as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) (while Lenin was in the position of Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR). In 1930, after the weakening and death of Lenin, Stalin finally emerged victorious from the internal party struggle, becoming the head of state

М.V. Lomonosov

Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711–1765) is a great Russian scientist, chemist, physicist, artist, historian, poet and writer, whose works have become known throughout the world. He became famous in such fields of knowledge as: astronomy, geology, instrument making, geography and many others.

Lomonosov's contribution to such sciences as physics, chemistry, geography, astronomy, mineralogy, soil science, geology, cartography, geodesy, meteorology is very great. Lomonosov's literary work contains works in different languages. These are “Russian History”, the tragedies “Tamara and Selim”, “Demophon” and many poems by Lomonosov.

In 1754, he developed a project for Moscow University, later named Lomonosov University in his honor. In addition, Lomonosov’s short biography is significant for the discovery of the law of conservation of matter, the writing of works on color theory, and the construction of many optical instruments.

Lomonosov also made a great contribution to history. The scientist created “A Brief Russian Chronicler with Genealogy,” where he described the main events of Russian history from 862 to 1725. This publication made it easier to work with historical documents and became very popular among readers.

Death overtook Mikhail Lomonosov at the age of 54 years. The great scientist died of pneumonia on April 4 (15), 1765 and was buried at the Lazarevskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg.

L.N. Tolstoy

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828–1910) is an outstanding Russian writer, publicist, thinker, one of the great novelists in world literature. The biography of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy is full of interesting facts and events; he was an extraordinary, unique personality. Studying his life and work will be useful for students of all grades.

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy died on November 7 (20), 1910, at the 83rd year of his life. The cause of death was a common cold, which gave rise to a severe complication - lobar pneumonia. The writer was buried, as he himself bequeathed, in Yasnaya Polyana, on the edge of a ravine in the forest. His happy years passed here, and here he and his brothers in childhood were looking for a “green stick” that could make all people happy.

М.Lermontov

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (1814–1841) is a great Russian poet and prose writer, as well as a talented artist and playwright, whose works had a huge influence on writers of the 19th–20th centuries. His work is known for a wide variety of themes and lyrical motifs. The poet made an invaluable contribution to the formation of the realistic novel of the 19th century.

July 15, 1841 Lermontov died in a duel against Martynov.