Kapnist
Kapnist is a surname of the noble family of of the Russian Empire. Notable people with the surname include: *Maria Kapnist Maria Rostyslavivna Kapnist (), née Marietta Rostyslavivna Kapnist-Sirko (9 (22) March 1913, St. Petersburg – 25 October 1993, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian actress, and an Merited Artist of Ukraine, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1988). During ... * Pyotr Kapnist * Vasily Kapnist References

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Maria Kapnist
Maria Rostyslavivna Kapnist (), née Marietta Rostyslavivna Kapnist-Sirko (9 (22) March 1913, St. Petersburg – 25 October 1993, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian actress, and an Merited Artist of Ukraine, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1988). During her nearly forty-year acting career, from 1956 to 1993, she played more than a hundred roles. Early life and education Marietta Kapnist-Sirko was born on 22 March 1913 in St. Petersburg in Ukrainian family. Her father, Count Rostyslav Kapnist, was a direct descendant of Myrhorod and Kyiv colonel of the Zaporizhian Army Vasily Kapnist, Vasyli Kapnist, and her mother, Anastasia Baydak – a great-great-granddaughter of Zaporozhian Sich, Zaporizhian Ataman, Otaman Ivan Sirko. Kapnist received her first vocal lessons from an Opera singer Feodor Chaliapin who was the first to draw attention at her talent during her first stage performance in a home play. The Kapnists lived in St. Petersburg until 1917 when they had to flee to Sudak, Crimea ...
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Pyotr Kapnist
Count Pyotr Alekseyevich Kapnist (Russian: Пётр Алексе́евич Капни́ст; 7 September 1839 – 2 December 1904) was a Russian diplomat and ambassador. In late 1884 and early 1885 he participated as the Russian representative in the Berlin Conference The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 was a meeting of colonial powers that concluded with the signing of the General Act of Berlin,

Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughly one-sixth of the world's landmass, making it the list of largest empires, third-largest empire in history, behind only the British Empire, British and Mongol Empire, Mongol empires. It also Russian colonization of North America, colonized Alaska between 1799 and 1867. The empire's 1897 census, the only one it conducted, found a population of 125.6 million with considerable ethnic, linguistic, religious, and socioeconomic diversity. From the 10th to 17th centuries, the Russians had been ruled by a noble class known as the boyars, above whom was the tsar, an absolute monarch. The groundwork of the Russian Empire was laid by Ivan III (), who greatly expanded his domain, established a centralized Russian national state, and secured inde ...
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