Ivan Tchijevsky
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The Afro-Beat in Russia: The Influence of Black Music on Russian Popular Culture, 1890-2002
In the following article, Russian DJ Ivan Tchijevsky describes exclusively for BlackPast.org the long history of black music and black...
Marcel Pliat (ca. 1890-1917?)
Marcel Pliat was one of several French nationals who served in the Russian Imperial Army during World War I but...
Lydia Fedorovna Arkhipova (1914-1997)
Lydia Fedorovna Arkhipova was a prolific painter who achieved fame in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and abroad. She...
Sheikh Muhammad Ayyad al-Tantawi (1810-1861)
Egyptian Sheikh Muhammad Ayyad al-Tantawi, one of the youngest teachers of Arabic studies in Egypt (at that time the Ottoman...
Emma Harris (1871-1940)
Emma Harris was a multi-talented African American cultural influencer in Europe, the Russian Empire (later the Soviet Union) as well...
Ivan Hannibal (1737 – 1801)
Russian military leader, Chief Commander of the Kherson, and General-in-Chief, Ivan Hannibal, was the eldest of Abram Hannibal’s eleven children...
Olga (Ollie) Burgoyne (1879-1974)
Olga “Ollie” Burgoyne, also known as Ollie Burgoyne-Calloway, was a singer and dancer specializing in Russian and other ethnic dances....
George Tynes (1908-1982)
Soviet agricultural specialist and one of the first popularizers of turkey breeding in the USSR, George Tynes, was born in...