Nikolai Fyodorov (philosopher)
Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (russian: link=no, Николай Фёдорович Фёдоров; 9 June 1829 – 28 December 1903 http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/bio_f/fedorov_nf07.php), known in his family as Nikolai Pavlovich Gagarin, was a Russian Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox Christian philosopher, Religious philosophy, religious thinker and Futurist, futurologist, library science figure and an Novation, innovative Pedagogy, educator. He started the movement of Russian cosmism'':ru:Гиренок, Фёдор Иванович, Гиренок Ф. И.'Космизм/ / :ru:Новая философская энциклопедия, Новая философская энциклопедия / :ru:Институт философии РАН, Ин-т философии РАН; Нац. обществ.-науч. фонд; Предс. научно-ред. совета :ru:Стёпин, Вячеслав Семёнович, В. С. Стёпин, заместители предс.: :ru ...
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Leonid Pasternak
Leonid Osipovich Pasternak (born ''Yitzhok-Leib'', or ''Isaak Iosifovich, Pasternak''; russian: Леони́д О́сипович Пастерна́к, 3 April 1862 ( N.S.) – 31 May 1945) was a Russian post-impressionist painter. He was the father of the poet and novelist Boris Pasternak. Biography Pasternak was born in Odessa to an Orthodox Jewish family on 4 April 1862. The family claimed to be distantly descended, in one line, from Isaac Abrabanel, the 15th-century Jewish philosopher and treasurer of Portugal, although no independent evidence of this exists. Leonid's father made an income by renting out a guest house. The courtyard of the guest house, with its adjoining coach-house, first awakened Leonid's artistic imagination. He was the youngest of six children. He started to draw very early, but his family tried to discourage him, as they feared that his drawing would interfere with his studies. His first sponsor was the local street cleaner who began buying Pasterna ...
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