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Preeminent naval commander of the 18th century. Never lost a battle, and never lost a ship.

Ushakov joined the navy at age 15 and eventually shifted from the Baltic to the Azov and Black Sea fleets. After the annexation of Crimea in 1...

Member of the Academy of Sciences; founding member of the Moscow Archaeological Society; son of Sergei Semenovich, Minister of Education 1833-1849.

Uvarov led excavations in Tavrida province in 1853-1854.

Borzenko was a translator in the office of Prince M. S. Vorontsov. Later he served as vice-governor of Kutaisi. Borzenko was a corresponding member of the Odessa Society of History and Antiquities.

Vorontsov charged Borzenko with trans...

Taranov (1759-1819) was the son of a poor noble from Kharkov. He earned the rank of lieutenant before retiring from military service in 1779. Beginning in 1784 he held a variety of appointed and elected posts in Tavrida, including provincial procurat...

Heinrich Karl Ernst Köhler studied in Wittenburg and Leipzig. He came to St. Petersburg as a private tutor in 1790 and worked as a librarian at the Hermitage. He grew famous throughout Europe for his studies of classical art. A member of the Academ...