Mariinsky Theatre
Ballet and opera theatre in St Petersburg.  Named after the Empress Maria Alexandrovna, wife of Tsar Alexander II. Many of the works of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov were premiered he...
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Leonide Massine
Born Moscow. Ballet dancer and choreographer. Principle choreographer of Diaghilev's Ballet Russes. Appeared in films The Red Shoes (1948) and The Tales of Hoffman (1952). Died in Cologne.
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Dmitri Mendeleev
Born Siberia. Earlier versions existed but in 1869 he published the first widely recognized periodic table of elements.
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Venera Minakhmetova
From London24: "Ms Minakhmetova, a former City financial analyst from Bethnal Green, set up her own business in June 2013 called Simple2Connect, a location-based professional networking application...
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Alderman Samuel Morris
Samuel Morris was Mayor of Doncaster in 1920-21 and 1936-37, with his wife, Anna, as the Mayoress each time. We found this at Commercial Motor Archive, 11 March 1938: "The haulage industry has an...
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Boris Nemtsov
Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov was a Russian physicist, liberal politician, and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Early in his political career, he was involved in the introduction of reforms into the ...
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Mary Nieman
Mary Nieman was born in April 1874 in Velini, Russia. She was married to Benjamin Nieman (c.1873-1915) and they came to England in circa 1902. The census return form completed by her husband on 2 ...
War dead non-military, WW2
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Rudolf Nureyev
Ballet dancer. Born Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev on a Trans-Siberian train near Irkutsk, Siberia, while his mother was travelling to Vladivostok. In 1958, he joined the Kirov (later renamed as Mariin...
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Piotr Ouspensky
Philosopher. Born in Moscow. He became a pupil of George Gurdjieff who taught that most humans live their lives in a state of hypnotic "waking sleep", but that it is possible to transcend to a high...
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