hidden Polonsky, Yakov Petrovich (1819-1898), a writer Polonsky, Yakov Petrovich (1819-1898), a writer, Corresponding Member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1886). Polonsky graduated from the Moscow University Faculty of Law in 1844. He served in Odessa and Tiflis at Governor-General M.S.... more

hidden Pustunka, a country estate Pustunka, a country estate (the town of Nikolskoye, the Tosno district). Since 1817 a part of the waste ground on the River Tosna right bank belonged to the literary man A.D. Kopyev which built a small estate there and gave it the name Pustinka. In... more

hidden Tolstoy, Aleksey Konstantinovich (1817-1875), Count, writer Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy(1817-1875), Count , writer, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg (1873). In 1834 he was accepted as a "student" to Moscow's archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; in... more