Alexander Vladimirovich Bykov is a Russian historian and ethnographer, one of the leading Russian specialists in numismatics. Publisher, founder of the first Russian private museum of political history, the Museum of Diplomatic Corps in Vologda, Russia; he is the author of multiple articles, books, and popular science publications.
Alexander Vladlenovich Shubin is a Russian historian and politician.
Doctor of Sciences in Historical Sciences (2000), Professor at the State Academic University for the Humanities and the Russian State University for the Humanities .
He's also Principal Researcher at the Federal State Institution of Science Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Prince Alexandr Mikhailovich Volkonsky was Russian military attaché and writer, who in later life, was ordained a priest by the Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church.
Alexander Melentyevich Volkov was a Soviet novelist, playwright, university lecturer. He was an author of novels, short stories, plays and poems for children, mostly remembered for the Magic Land series of books, based on L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Konstantin Alexander Karl Wilhelm Christoph Graf von Benckendorff was a Baltic German Cavalry General and statesman, Adjutant General of Tsar Alexander I, a commander of partisan units during the War of 1812–13. However, he is most frequently remembered for his later role, under Tsar Nicholas I, as the founding head of the Gendarmes and the Secret Police in Imperial Russia.
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography, while his advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement pioneered modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring.
Alexander Wilhelm Andreas Freiherr von Kaulbars was a Baltic German military leader who served in the Imperial Russian Army during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A noted explorer of Central Asia, he was also regarded as one of the original organisers of the Russian Air Force.
Alexander Theodor von Middendorff was a zoologist and explorer of Baltic German and Estonian extraction. He is known for his expedition 1843–45 to the extreme north and east of Siberia, describing the effects of permafrost on the spread of animals and plants.
