Empire
Journalist Jeremy Paxman presents this five-part series that traces the complex story of the British empire. Paxman travels the globe in search of the characters, motivations and principles responsible for an empire that has influenced the modern world -- politically, technologically and socially. He investigates how the empire began and grew into a massive financial network; how the British made themselves at home wherever they settled; how Britain laid the groundwork for almost all the major sports of today; and the many ways in which Britain took and held power in the empire. … MORE
People born in Empire (First 49 people) - Page 7
Alexander Rodzyanko
Officer
Catherine Kousmine
Scientist
Mishka Yaponchik
Military leader
Platon Zubov
Sarah Sidis
William James Sidis' mother
Maksim Tank
Feodor Kuzmich
Russian starets
Vladimir Barmin
Russian engineer
Elżbieta Jackiewiczowa
Author
Alexander Labutkin
Eddie Ainsmith
Baseball player
Georgy Zelma
Photographer
Jalmari Sauli
Finnish writer
Jarl Jakobsson
Finnish olympic athlete
Nikolay Gorlov
Actor
Nikolay Mordvinov
Former Navy Minister of Imperial Russia
Olga Akhmanova
Lexicographer
Olga Chyumina
Russian poet
Arkadi Kuleshov
Poet
Axel Fredrik Londen
Olympic athlete
Ivan Fersen
Military commander
Ivan Ivanovič Barjatinskij
Diplomat
Ivan Krasnov
General
Yan Karlovich Berzin
Politician
Jānis Rozītis
Latvian football player
Janusz Żurakowski
Fighter pilot
Jerzy Tadeusz Kłopotowski
Polish engineer
Jerzy Różycki
Polish mathematician
Johan Kemp
Olympic athlete
Jacob Steinberg
Poet
Kirill Golovachevskiy
Russian painter
Duke Constantine Petrovich of Oldenburg
Jicchak Šamir
Former Prime Minister of Israel
Mikhail Kamensky
Russian general
Natalya Melik Melikyan
Armenian biological scientist
Nikolai Kolomeitsev
Explorer
Pavel Geraga
Actor
Alexander Georgievich, 7th Duke of . . .
Alexander Prozorovsky
Duchess Therese Petrovna of . . .
Eugen Maximilianovich, 5th Duke of . . .
Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg's son
İsmayıl Dağıstanlı
Russian-Soviet actor
Nikolai Sergeyevich Volkonsky
Pavel Alliluyev
vasiliy gryazev piotr goriunow
Designer
Piotra Sierhijevič
Polish-Russian painter
Pranas Liatukas
