On this day

On this day

Birthday anniversary of Ivan I. Pushchin, poet and Decembrist

15 May 1798

4 (15) May, 1798, in Moscow, in a big family, Ivan Pushchin, future poet and Decembrist was born. His grandfather, Peter Ivanovich was a senator, his father Ivan Petrovich - Navy Quartermaster-General and Senator, his uncle Paul Petrovich - also a senator. Pushchins had a noble coat of arms and old ancestry.

The Society of Red Cross was founded in Russia

15 May 1867

On May 3 (15), 1867 after Geneva convention ratification (May 10, 1867) Emperor Alexander II approved the Regulation of the Society for care of sick and wounded under the patronage of his wife, Empress Maria Alexandrovna.