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 9
Nikolay Mironovitsj Tsjepoernoy
Ivan Andreevitsj Borisevitsj
Jānis Vilhelms
Konstantin Vasilevitsj Kazatsjinskiy
Nikolay Vasilevitsj Krjukov
Stepan Ivanovitsj Popov
Anatoliy Nikolaevitsj Voytekaytes
Soviet military officer
Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov
Pyotr Danilov
Alexander Nudelman
Designer
Ivan Petrichenko
Pjotr Afanasevitsj Kasjpoerov
Makar Loekitsj Tkatsjjov
Gabriel Czechowicz
Former Polish Treasury Minister
Aukusti Sihvola
Olympic athlete
Yevgeny Zavoisky
Physicist
Ivan Mikhailovich Simonov
Russian astronomer
Viktor Ambartsumian
Soviet-Armenian astrophysicist
Mykola Chebotariv
Dimitrij Lvovič Abakumov
Military personnel
Aleksandr Sergeevich Akhmanov
Russian-Soviet philosopher
Nikolai Shvernik (Nikolay Şvernik)
Politician
Eugen Maximilianovich, 5th Duke of Leuchtenberg
Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg's son
Isaak Moiseevich Maergoĭz
Economist
Alexander Georgievich, 7th Duke of Leuchtenberg
Afanasy Razmaritsyn
Russian painter
Elie Cyper
French rabbi
Rose Pastor Stokes
American writer
Lewis Levitzki Lorwin
Alexander Riesenkampff
Lawyer
Leonid Arkadʹevich Kostandov
Soviet politician
Alexey Surkov
Poet
Aleksey Dimitrievich
Musician
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Popov
Historian
Näqi İsänbät
Writer
Nikolai Nikolajevich Gerhard
Politician
Hmayak Artsatpanian
Painter
Antons Martusēvičs
Military officer
Jan Falkowski
Oscar Ryvkin
Politician
Pyotr Smorodin
Former Secretary of the Stalingrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Iosif Krachkovsky
Artist
Stepan Fedorovich Balabin
Military officer
Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim
Russian botanist
Georges Lavroff
Sculptor
Vladimir Karlovich Menk
Artist
Nina Andreievskaya
Artist ‧ Wassily Kandinsky's wife
