Intelligentsia
Aleksey Lukich Khvoshchev was a personal nobleman (a kind of knight) in the rank of State Councilor, a candidate of theology and an outstanding teacher. He was well known among educated people of the Sura…
Vladimir Kirillovich Trofimov – Doctor of Medicine, a surgeon. He was born on August 5, 1872 in the village of Sorokino, Ostrovsky district of the Pskov province, in a peasant family. Vladimir Kirillovich Trofimov. Penza, 1905 Trofimov…
Tarkhov is the surname which is exclusively typical for the city of Penza. It comes from the village of Tarkhovo; actually there were two villages with the same name in our province (one in Nizhnelomovsky…
