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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: People from Belyov, People from Tula, Russia, Zinaida Gippius, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Alexander Bogdanov, Mikhail Illoukhine, Alexey Goloborodko, Vasily Zhukovsky, Ksenia Semenova, Vasily Chuikov, Alexandra Obolentseva, Pavel Grachev, Valeri Polyakov, Ksenia Afanasyeva, Valery Legasov, Maria Ouspenskaya, Matryona Nikonova, Yevgeny Grishin, Alexey Vorobyov, Aleksandra Chudina, Andrey Kuznetsov, Vasily Degtyaryov, Tatyana Ledovskaya, Vyacheslav Vedenin, Irina Kirillova, Yelena Posevina, Aleksandr Uvarov, Pavel Gerasimov, Sergei Kopylov, Ivan Filin, Elmira Zherzdeva, Oksana Grishina, Vyacheslav Dudka, Alexander Filatov. Excerpt: Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, (Russian: November 20, 1869, Belyov - September 9, 1945, Paris, France) was a Russian poet, playwright, editor, short story writer and religious thinker, regarded as a co-founder of Russian symbolism and seen as "one of the most enigmatic and intelligent women of her time in Russia." She was married to philosopher Dmitriy Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky. Their union lasted 52 years and is described in Gippius' unfinished book Dmitry Merezhkovsky (Paris. 1951; Moscow., 1991). Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius was born on November 20, 1869, in Belev, Tula, the oldest of four daughters. Her father, Nikolai Romanovich Gippius, a Geman-Russian (whose ancestor Adolphus von Gingst, later von Hippius) came to Moscow in XVI century) was a renown lawyer and a senior officer in the Russian Senate. Her mother, Anastasia Vasilevna (nee Stepanova), was a daughter of Ekaterinburg Chief of Police. Nikolay Gippius's job implying the need for almost continuous city-to-city traveling, his daughters received little formal education; taking lessons from governesses and visiting tutors, they attended schools sporadically in whatever city (Saratov, Tula, Kiev, etc.) the family happened to stay for more...
