These biographic essays were published about one hundred years back in series "Life of remarkable people", realizable Ф.Ф.Павленковым (1839-1900). Written in the new for that time genre of poetic chronicle and историко-культурного research, these texts save a value and till today. Written "for simple people", for the Russian province, today they can be recommended not at all only to the bibliophiles, but by the widest reader audiences: and those, whoever not nearly experiences in history and psychology of great people, and that, for whom these objects are a profession.