1891 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)

1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist dies (b. 1799)

1783 - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter is born (d. 1873)

Today the Orthodoc church commemorates Saint Prochorus of the Kiev Caves Monastery (1107), Saints and Bishops of Novgorod: Joachim (1030), Luke (1059), Germanus (1095), Arcadius (1163), Gregory (1193), Martyrius (1199), Anthony (1232), Basil (1352), and Symeon (1421), Saint Anna, wife of Yaroslav I the Wise, of Novgorod and Kiev (1051), Saint Longinus of Koryazhemsk in Vologda, monk (1540), and New martyr Anatole of Odessa, Metropolitan bishop (1938)

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