List of people from Saint Petersburg

This is a list of famous people who have lived in Saint Petersburg, Russia (1914–1924: Petrograd, 1924–1991: Leningrad).

Born in Saint Petersburg 1701–1800 Peter II of Russia (1715–1730) Emperor of Russia from 1727 to 1730. Franz Moritz von Lacy (1725–1801), son of Count Peter von Lacy and a famous Austrian field marshal. Dmitri Alekseyevich Golitsyn (1728–1803), diplomat, art agent, author, volcanologist and mineralogist Johann Euler (1734–1800), Swiss-Russian astronomer and mathematician John Julius Angerstein (1735–1823) a London businessman and Lloyd's underwriter. Ivan VI of Russia (1740–1764), Emperor of Russia, 1740–1741. Ivan Lepyokhin (1740–1802), naturalist, zoologist, botanist and explorer Mikhail Kutuzov (1745–1813), Field Marshal of the Russian Empire. Nikolay Rumyantsev (1754–1826), Russia's Foreign Minister and Imperial Chancellor Mikhail Miloradovich (1771–1825), Russian general of Serbian origin Thomas Tooke (1774 in Kronstadt – 1858) an English economist. Catharina of Württemberg (1783–1835), second wife of Jérôme Bonaparte, Queen consort of Westphalia (1807–1813) Joseph Bové (1784–1834), Russian neoclassical architect with Italian roots Paul von Krüdener (1784–1852), Russian diplomat, the fourth Russian Ambassador to the United States Michael Lunin (1787–1845), political philosopher, revolutionary, Mason, Decembrist and a participant of the Franco-Russian Patriotic War of 1812 Catherine Pavlovna of Russia (1788–1819), the fourth daughter of Emperor Paul I of Russia, Queen consort of Württemberg (1816–1819) Sylvester Shchedrin (1791–1830), landscape painter Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna of Russia (1792–1795), Grand Duchess of Russia as the second youngest daughter and seventh child of Emperor Paul I of Russia Maria Danilova (1793–1810), Russian ballet dancer Nikolay Muravyov-Karsky (1794–1866), Imperial Russian military officer and General of the Russian Army Konstantin Thon (1794–1881), official architect of Imperial Russia during the reign of Nicholas I Sergey Muravyov-Apostol (1796–1826), Russian Imperial Lieutenant Colonel and organizer of the Decembrist revolt Nicholas I of Russia (1796–1855), Emperor of Russia, 1825–1855. Wilhelm Küchelbecker (1797–1846), Romantic poet and Decembrist Fyodor Litke (1797–1882), navigator, geographer and Arctic explorer Karl Bryullov (1799–1852), painter Countess of Ségur (1799–1874), French writer of Russian birth

1801–1830 Alexander Odoevsky (1802–1839), poet and playwright Alexis Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (1805–1851), French diplomat, historian, and Peer of France Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806–1858), painter, born and died in Saint Petersburg George Busk (1807–1886), British Naval surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist. Nestor Kukolnik (1809–1868), Russian playwright and prose writer of Carpatho-Rusyn origin Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky (1809–1881), statesman and diplomat Alexandre Remi (1809–1871), mayor-general, brother officer of Mikhail Lermontov, born in Saint Petersburg Ivan Panaev (1812–1862), publisher of the popular magazine Sovremennik Anatoly Demidov (1813–1870), industrialist, diplomat and arts patron of the Demidov family Nikolay Ogarev (1813–1877), poet, historian and political activist Vladimir Sollogub (1813–1882), writer Alexander von Stieglitz (1814–1884), philanthropist and financier Eugene Balabin (1815–1895), Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Society of Jesus Otto von Böhtlingk (1815–1904), German Indologist and Sanskrit scholar Alexander von Middendorff (1815–1894), zoologist and explorer Count Nikolay Adlerberg (1819–1892), Councilor of State, Chamberlain, governor of Taganrog, Simferopol and Finland Avdotya Panaeva (1820–1893), novelist, short story writer, memoirist and literary salon holder Alexander Serov (1820–1871), composer and music critic Mikhail Petrashevsky (1821–1866), thinker and public figure Boleslav Markevich (1822–1884), writer, essayist, journalist and literary critic Vladimir Stasov (1824–1906), the most respected Russian critic during his lifetime, born and died in Saint Petersburg Percy Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford (1825–1869) a British nobleman and man of letters. Aleksey Uvarov (1825–1884), archaeologist Otto Pius Hippius (1826–1883), Baltic German architect Pyotr Shuvalov (1827–1889), influential Russian statesman and a counselor to Emperor Alexander II Charles Sillem Lidderdale (1830–1895), British artist

1831–1850 Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev (1832–1908), statesman and diplomat. Mikhail Clodt (1832–1902), realistic painter, born and died in Saint Petersburg Alexander Borodin (1833–1887), composer and chemist. Viktor Hartmann (1834–1873), architect and painter Nikolai Pomyalovsky (1835–1863), writer Mitrofan Belyayev (1836–1904), Imperial Russian music publisher, philanthropist Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa (1836–1886), Russian prima ballerina, wife of Marius Petipa and mother of Marie Petipa John Codman Ropes (1836–1899) an American military historian and lawyer. Anna Filosofova (1837–1912), feminist Franz Overbeck (1837–1905), German Protestant theologian Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838–1906), chemist Dmitry Chernov (1839–1921), metallurgist Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf (1840–1913), Finnish-German composer Alexander W. von Götte (1840–1922), German zoologist Woldemar Kernig (1840–1917), internist and neurologist Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg (1841–1914), daughter of Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg Nikolai Menshutkin (1842–1907), chemist Friedrich Heinrich Stöckhardt (1842–1920), architect, born in Saint Petersburg, left it as a child about 1848 Mikhail Skobelev (1843–1882), general famous for his conquest of Central Asia and heroism during the Russo-Turkish War Alexander III of Russia (1845–1894), Emperor of Russia, 1881–1894. Georg Cantor (1845–1918), German mathematician Bogomir Korsov (1845–1920), baritone opera singer Vladimir Lamsdorf (1845–1907), statesman, Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire (1900–1906) Ella Adayevskaya (1846–1926), pianist and composer Alexander von Bilderling (1846–1912), general in the Imperial Russian Army Anna Dostoevskaya (1846–1918), memoirist, stenographer, assistant, and the second wife of Fyodor Dostoyevsky Peter Carl Fabergé (1846–1920), jeweller Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940), German geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist Rafail Levitsky (1847–1940), photographer, artist, professor Jean Béraud (1849–1935), French painter

1851–1860 Walter W. Winans (1852–1920), American marksman, horse breeder, sculptor, and painter Nikolai Reitsenshtein (1854–1916), career naval officer in the Imperial Russian Navy Vladimir Golenishchev (1856–1947), Egyptologist Marie Petipa (1857–1930), Russian ballerina and the daughter of Marius Petipa and Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa Leopold Engel (1858–1931), writer and occultist Princess Maria Tenisheva (1858–1928), Princess, a public person, artist, educator, philanthropist and collector Emanuel Nobel (1859–1932), Swedish-Russian oil baron Nikolai Essen (1860–1915), naval commander and admiral Victor Ewald (1860–1935), composer Maria Blumenthal-Tamarina (1859–1938), actress

1861–1870 Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937), Russian-born psychoanalyst and author Arvid Järnefelt (1861–1932), Finnish judge and writer Feodor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing (1861–1939), Russian geologist Konstantin Fofanov (1862–1911), poet Fyodor Sologub (1863–1927), poet and writer Vladimir Vernadsky (1863–1945), one of the founders of geochemistry Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936), composer. Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1866–1941) a Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker and literary critic. Mikhail Eisenstein (1867–1921), architect and civil engineer of Baltic German descent Nicholas II of Russia (1868–1918), Emperor of Russia, 1894–1917. Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869-1939), Russian revolutionary and wife of Vladimir Lenin Vasily Bartold (1869–1930), historian Nikolay Pushnitsky (1870–1921), sailor Vera Karelina (1870–1931), labour activist and revolutionary

1871–1880 Fyodor Dan (1871–1947), one of the founding leaders of Menshevism Olga Preobrajenska (1871–1962), Russian ballerina of the Russian Imperial Ballet and a ballet instructor Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952), revolutionary, writer and diplomat Mathilde Kschessinska (1872–1971), Russian ballerina from a family of Polish origin George Washington Lambert (1873–1930), Australian artist Vladimir Fyodorov (1874–1966), scientist, weapons designer, professor, lieutenant general of a corps of military engineers Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947), painter and writer Noë Bloch (1875–1937), film producer Carl Enckell (1876–1959), Finnish politician, officer and diplomat Herman Gummerus (1877–1948), Finnish classical scholar and diplomat Lev Urusov (1877–1933), Russian diplomat, member of International Olympic Committee Pavel Pototsky (1879-1932), Polish engineer, born in Saint Petersburg Agrippina Vaganova (1879–1951), legendary Russian-Armenian ballet teacher and the creator of Vaganova method Peter P. von Weymarn (1879–1935), Russian chemist Alexander Blok (1880–1921), lyrical poet Michel Fokine (1880–1942), choreographer and dancer, born in Saint Petersburg and worked there

1881–1890 Anna Pavlova (1881–1931), prima ballerina, born in Saint Petersburg, lived and performed in Russia Mikhail Avilov (1882–1954), painter and art educator Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), composer, pianist and conductor, born in a suburb of Saint Petersburg Viktor Bulla (1883–1938), photographer and cinema pioneer Rusudana Nikoladze (1884–1981), inorganic chemist and educator Leopold van der Pals (1884–1966), composer Stella Arbenina (1885–1976), Russian-born English actress Ivan Abramovich Zalkind (1885–1928), Soviet diplomat Sacha Guitry (1885–1957), French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter Naum Idelson (1885–1951), Soviet theoretical astronomer and expert in history of physics and mathematics Tamara Karsavina (1885–1978), renowned Russian prima ballerina Lydia Kyasht (1885–1959), Russian British ballerina and dance teacher Nikolai Gumilev (1886–1921), poet Elsa Brändström (1888–1948), Swedish nurse and philanthropist Alexander Friedmann (1888–1925), mathematician and physicist Varvara Brilliant-Lerman (1888–1954), plant physiologist Ludmilla Schollar (1888–1978), Russian-American dancer and educator Serge Elisséeff (1889–1975), Russian-French scholar and professor Joseph Ruttenberg (1889–1983), Russian-American photojournalist and cinematographer Vladimir Rosing (1890–1963), opera singer and director, born in Saint Petersburg, emigrated to England in 1913

1891–1900 Boris Morros (1891–1963), worked at Paramount Pictures, where he produced films and supervised the music department Alexander Rodchenko (1891–1956), artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer, born in Saint Petersburg Aleksei Uversky (1891–1942), football player Erté (1892–1990), designer and illustrator (born Roman Petrovich Tyrtov) Lydia Lopokova (1892–1981), Russian ballerina famous during the early 20th century. Xenia Makletzova (1892–1974), Russian ballet dancer Fyodor Raskolnikov (1892–1939), Bolshevik and Soviet diplomat Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893–1976), prince regent of Yugoslavia Robert Mertens (1894–1975), German herpetologist Vladimir Propp (1895–1970), folklorist and scholar Sasha Stone (1895–1940), Russian born artist, photographer Vera Vinogradova (1895–1982), composer and pianist Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895–1958), writer, satirist Felia Doubrovska (1896–1981), Russian dancer and teacher Cleo Nordi (1898–1983), Russo-Finnish ballerina Vladimir Fock (1898–1974), physicist Maria Vega (1898–1980), poet, artist and translator Pyotr Grigoryev (1899–1942), Soviet international footballer Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), writer, born in Saint Petersburg