Historical figures in Moscow
The atlas holds 129 people and 322 moments here, from 1672 to 2022. The most recorded lives are Vladimir Lenin, Alexei Navalny and Nikita Khrushchev. Among them Political Leaders, Writers and Educators, across the Space Age and the Cold War.
Notable people
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
in 2001
1 moment here
Algerian politician, diplomat, and president. Born in Oujda, he joined the National Liberation Army during the Algerian War, served as Algeria's…
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
in 2007
1 moment here
Malaysian civil servant and politician who served as Malaysia’s fifth prime minister from 2003 to 2009.…
Agostinho Neto
from 1976 to 1979
2 moments here
António Agostinho Neto was an Angolan physician, poet, anti-colonial leader, president of the MPLA, and the first president of independent Angola.…
Ahmed Sékou Touré
in 1959
1 moment here
Guinean nationalist, trade-union leader, and Guinea’s first president, serving from independence in 1958 until his death in 1984.…
Akhmad Kadyrov
in 1999
1 moment here
Chechen Islamic religious leader and politician. Born in Karaganda during his family’s deportation from Chechnya, he studied in Uzbekistan, returned…
Akira Kurosawa
from 1971 to 1975
3 moments here
Japanese filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, editor, and painter. Kurosawa directed 30 feature films between 1943 and 1993, including Rashomon, Seven…
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
from 1941 to 2008
7 moments here
Soviet and Russian novelist, essayist, historian, dissident, and Nobel laureate whose writings on Soviet political repression and the Gulag made him…
Alexander Prokhorov
from 1939 to 2002
3 moments here
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov was an Australian-born Soviet and Russian physicist whose work in quantum electronics helped lead to the maser and…
Alexander Pushkin
from 1799 to 1831
8 moments here
Russian poet, novelist, playwright, and foundational figure of modern Russian literature. This chronology traces documented physical presences from…
Alexandre Dumas
in 1858
1 moment here
French novelist, playwright, journalist, and travel writer, also known as Alexandre Dumas père.…
Alexei Leonov
from 1969 to 2019
5 moments here
Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, aviator, artist, and writer. Leonov became the first person to conduct a spacewalk on 18 March 1965 and commanded Soyuz…
Alexei Navalny
from 1998 to 2017
10 moments here
Russian opposition leader, anti-corruption activist, politician, and political prisoner. This chronology records supported locations of his birth,…
Amy Winehouse
in 2010
1 moment here
British singer and songwriter Amy Jade Winehouse was born in London and became internationally known for the albums Frank and Back to Black.…
Anatole France
in 1913
1 moment here
French poet, journalist, novelist, public intellectual, Académie française member, and 1921 Nobel laureate in Literature.…
Anton Chekhov
from 1879 to 1897
2 moments here
Russian playwright, short-story writer, and physician. Chekhov was born in Taganrog, studied and began his literary career in Moscow, undertook a…
Anwar Sadat
in 1971
1 moment here
Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat was an Egyptian army officer, Free Officer, politician, and president of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination in 1981.…
Aslan Maskhadov
in 1997
1 moment here
Aslan Maskhadov was a Soviet artillery officer, Chechen military commander, and president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.…
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
in 2003
1 moment here
Indian statesman, poet, journalist and Bharatiya Janata Party leader who served as India’s prime minister in 1996 and from 1998 to 2004.…
Bertrand Russell
in 1920
1 moment here
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was an English philosopher, mathematician, logician, writer, and public campaigner.…
Bob Hawke
in 1987
1 moment here
Australian trade-union leader and Labor politician who served as Australia’s 23rd prime minister from 1983 to 1991.…
Catherine II of Russia
from 1744 to 1762
4 moments here
Catherine II (Catherine the Great), born Sophie Auguste Friederike of Anhalt-Zerbst, was empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796.…
Che Guevara
in 1964
1 moment here
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928–1967) was an Argentine physician, Marxist revolutionary, Cuban government official, diplomat, and guerrilla commander.…
Chiang Kai-shek
in 1923
1 moment here
Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman. Chiang Kai-shek led the Nationalist government of China through the Northern Expedition,…
Chinghiz Aitmatov
from 1956 to 2006
5 moments here
Kyrgyz author, public intellectual, and diplomat who wrote in Kyrgyz and Russian. His documented life connects his native Sheker and Soviet-era…
Moments
- 1672 Birth in Moscow Peter the Great
- 1682 Exile at Preobrazhenskoye Peter the Great
- 1695 Return to Moscow after the first Azov campaign Peter the Great
- 1722 Triumphal entry into Moscow Peter the Great
- 1744 Meets Peter again in Moscow Catherine II of Russia
- 1762 Crowned at the Assumption Cathedral in Moscow Catherine II of Russia
- 1762 Crowned in the Assumption Cathedral Catherine II of Russia
- 1762 Enters Moscow for coronation Catherine II of Russia
- 1799 Born in Moscow Alexander Pushkin
- 1812 Enters Moscow Napoleon Bonaparte
- 1821 Born at the Mariinsky Hospital grounds Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- 1826 Summoned to the Moscow Kremlin Alexander Pushkin
- 1828 Met Natalia Goncharova in Moscow Alexander Pushkin
- 1829 Returned to Moscow from the war journey Alexander Pushkin
- 1829 Departed Moscow for Tiflis Alexander Pushkin
- 1830 Returned to Moscow after quarantine Alexander Pushkin
- 1831 Established a home on the Arbat Alexander Pushkin
- 1831 Married at Great Ascension Church Alexander Pushkin
- 1834 Studies at Chermak’s boarding school Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- 1836 Family moves to Moscow Leo Tolstoy
- 1848 Family move to Moscow Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 1849 Journey to Moscow for university admission Dmitri Mendeleev
- 1858 Visit to Moscow Alexandre Dumas
- 1866 Move to Moscow for music teaching Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 1877 Marriage at Saint George's Church Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 1879 Move to Moscow for medical school Anton Chekhov
- 1880 Arrived in Moscow for the Pushkin celebration Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- 1880 Attended the Pushkin monument unveiling Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- 1880 Delivered the Pushkin Speech Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- 1881 Performance before Alexander III in Moscow Sarah Bernhardt
- 1881 Moves family to Moscow Leo Tolstoy
- 1885 Moved into Nikolai Zverev’s Moscow household Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1887 Conducting debut at the Bolshoi Theatre Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 1889 Move to Moscow Mikhail Vrubel
- 1892 Graduation from Moscow Conservatory Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1896 Nicholas II coronation journey Yun Ch'iho
- 1897 Pulmonary hemorrhage during Moscow visit Anton Chekhov
- 1900 Imprisonment and marriage in Moscow Leon Trotsky
- 1902 Settled in Moscow after marriage Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1902 Hospitalization at Serbsky Center Mikhail Vrubel
- 1904 Conductor at the Bolshoi Theatre Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1904 Admission to Usoltsev clinic Mikhail Vrubel
- 1905 December uprising Mikhail Frunze
- 1911 Permanent conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic Society Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1912 Trans-Siberian transit through Moscow Yosano Akiko
- 1913 Postcard sent from Moscow Anatole France
- 1914 Visit to Moscow H. G. Wells
- 1914 Transfer to Moscow University Igor Tamm
- 1914 Moscow match with Bernstein José Raúl Capablanca
- 1916 Move to Moscow Mikhail Frunze