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Memoirists from the Russian Empire

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Ivan Bunin
Russian writer and poet (1870–1953)
Ilya Repin
Russian-empire painter of Ukrainian birth (1844-1930)
Alexander Herzen
Russian author, philosopher, and revolutionary (1812–1870)
Yekaterina Dashkova
Russian author and woman of letters (1743-1810)
Aleksandr Aleksandrov
Russian Army officer
Anna Dostoyevskaya
Russian memoirist (1846–1918)
Maria Bochkareva
Russian counter revolutionary (1889–1920)
Pavel Bermondt-Avalov
Russian Cossack warlord (1877–1974)
Alexander Izvolsky
Russian diplomat (1856-1919)
Olga Nikolaevna of Russia
German queen (1822-1892); second daughter of Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia
Grigory Gershuni
Russian revolutionary (1870–1908)
Feodor Rostopchin
foreign minister of the Russian Empire and governor of Moscow (1763-1826)
Anna Vyrubova
Friend of Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna of Russia; author of memoirs about the Romanovs (1884–1964)
Vladimir Sukhomlinov
Russian general (1848-1926)
Apollon Grigoryev
Russian writer (1822–1864)
Olga Forsh
Russian and Soviet writer (1873–1961)
Lyubov Dostoevskaya
Russian writer and memoirist (1869–1926)
Osip Bodyansky
Ukrainian writer (1808–1877)
Ivan Neplyuyev
Russian noble (1693-1773)
Ilya Tolstoy
Russian writer (1866–1933)
Margarita Morozova
Russian noble and philanthropist (1873–1958)
Aleksandr Roediger
Russian general (1854-1920)
Andrey Bolotov
Russian nobleman, memoirust and agriculturalist (1738-1833)
Natalia Sheremeteva
Russian writer
Anastasia Zuyeva
Soviet Russian actress (1896-1986)
Nikolai Tchaikovsky
Russian revolutionary (1850–1926)
Ekaterina Junge
born countess Tolstoy, Russian painter and memoirist (1843–1913)
Pauline Wengeroff
Russian writer (1833–1916)
Maksim Antonovich
Russian literary critic, essayist, memoirist, translator and philosopher (1835-1918)
Alexandra Smirnova
Russian Lady-in-waiting and memoirist
Lidia Veselitskaya
Russian writer (1857–1936)
Evgenii Petrovich Obolenskii
Russian military (1796-1856)
Praskovya Ivanovskaya
Russian writer and politician (1852–1935)
Aleksandra Nikolajewna Jakobi
editor
Jakub Gieysztor
Lithuanian politician (1827–1897)
Pavel Grabbe
Russian count and military officer (1789-1875)
Mikhail Nikitich Volkonsky
Russian general and statesman (1713–1788)
Olga Lyubatovich
Russian revolutionary (1853-1917)
Lili Dehn
Friend of Tsarina Alexandra of Russia, author of memoir ''The Real Tsaritsa''. (1888–1963)
Boris Vasilchikov
Russian prince (1860–1931)
Apollon Korinfsky
Russian writer and poet (1868-1937)
Dmitri Bantysh-Kamensky
Russian historian and statesman
Ivan Yanzhul
Russian financial law expert and statistician (1846–1914)
Adrian Moiseevich Gribovsky
Gavriil Gagarin
Russian politician and writer
Alexander Ossovsky
Musicologist, Russian writer (1871-1957)
Anna Brenko
Russian actor