List of Russians

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Table of contents

1 Artists 2 Authors 3 Performing Arts 4 Poets: 5 Inventors: 6 Military: 7 Musicians/Composers: 8 Politicians: 9 Philosopherss 10 Royal Family 11 Scientists and Mathematicans 12 Sports Personalities: 13 Other

Artists

• Nikolay Andreyevich Andreyev (1873 - 1932), sculptor, graphic artist and stage designer
• Mikhail Konstantinovich Anikushin (born 1917), sculptor
• Mark Zakharovich Shagal (1887 - 1985), painter
• Carl Fabergé (1846 - 1920), jewelery designer
• Isaak Levitan (1860 - 1900), landscape painter
• Vera Ignat'evna Mukhina (1889 - 1953), sculptress
• Alexander O. Nikulin (1878 - 1945), painter
• Andrei Rublev (circa 1360 - 1430), painter
• Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov (1865 - 1911), painter
• Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (1776 - 1857), painter
• Ivan Yakovlevich Vishnyakov (1699 - 1761), painter

• Andrey Bely (1880 - 1934), poet and author
• Isaak Babel, (1894-1940), author
• Mikhail Bulgakov, (1891-1940), playwright and author
• Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870 - 1953), First Russian Nobel Prize Winner
• Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904), playwright
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881), Brothers Karamazov - Crime and Punishment
• Ilya Gregoryevich Ehrenburg (1891 - 1947), novelist and WWII war correspondent
• Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852), author, Dead Souls
• Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812 - 1891), Oblomov
• Maxim Gorky (1868 - 1936)
• Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), poet, author and painter
• Nikolai Leskov (1831 - 1895), storyteller, novelist, and journalist
• Nikolai Ogaryov (1813 - 1877), author
• Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711 - 1765), linguistic reformer
• Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977), wrote first in Russian, then in English, author of Lolita
• Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), refused Nobel Prize, Doctor Zhivago
• Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799 - 1837), Russian poet
• Alexander Radishchev (1749-1802), social critic
• Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, (1826 - 1889), Russian novelist
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (born 1918), Nobel Prize for Literature
• Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) War and Peace, Anna Karenina
• Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884 - 1937), author of We

• Mikhail Baryshnikov (born 1948), ballet dancer
• Sergei Bondarchuk (1920 - 1994), film director
• Boris Bruinov (1922 - 1997), actor
• Serge Diaghilev (1872 - 1929), ballet impresario
• Sergei Eisenstein (1898 - 1948), film director
• Nikita Mikhalkov (born 1945), actor, director, producer, writer, and politician
• Ivan Novikoff (1899 - 2002), ballet master
• Rudolf Nureyev (1938 - 1993), ballet dancer
• Anna Pavlova (1882 - 1931), ballerina
• Alexander Lukich Ptushko (1882 - 1931), film director
• Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky (1868 - 1938), actor
• Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova (1910 - 1988), ballerina

• Anna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966), poet
• Valeri Bryusov (1873 - 1924), poet, novelist, critic
• Denis Davydov (1784 - 1839), poet
• Osip Mandelstam, (1891 - 1938), (also spelt Mandelshtam), Russian poet
• Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893 - 1930), poet

• Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799 - 1837), Russian poet
• Marina Tsvetaeva, (1892 - 1941), Russian poet
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko, (born 1933), Russian novelist

• Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (born 1930), physicist
• Pyotr Kozmitch Frolov (1775 - 1839), mining engineer and inventor
• Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushiin (1894 - 1977), aircraft constructor
• Nikolai Kibalchich (1853 - 1881)
• Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1907 - 1966), rocket engineer and designer, "Father of the space program"
• Alexander Stepanovitch Popov (1859 - 1906), Russia's Marconi
• Alexandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov (1916 - 2002), physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics 1964
• Boris Lwowitsch Rosing (1869 - 1933)
• Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (1889 - 1972), helicopter and aircraft designer
• Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi (1895 - 1975), aircraft constructor and designer
• Leon Theremin (Lev Sergeivitch Termen) (1896 - 1993), inventor of one of the first electronic musical instruments, the Theremin
• Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky, (1857 - 1935), rocket scientist and pioneer of astronautics
• Andrei Nicholayevich Tupolev, (1888 - 1972), aircraft designer and builder
• Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (1899 - 1982), physicist and electrical engineer

• Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev (1925 - 1970), cosmonaut
• Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi (1921 - 1995), cosmonaut
• Lev Mikhailovich Dovator (1903 - 1941), WWII general and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Yuri Gagarin (1934 - 1968), pilot and cosmonaut
• Isai Ivanovich Panfilov (1893 - 1941), WWII general and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Victor Vasilyevich Talalikhin (1918 - 1941), WWII lieutentant and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Andrey Vlasov (1900 - 1946), general of Russian forces
• Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (1881 - 1969), marshal and politician
• Pyotr Klimentyevich Voroshilov (1914 - 1984), Red Army leader and commander
• Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov (1896 - 1974), marshal, commander of the general staff of the Red Army

• Alexander Borodin, (1833 - 1887), Russian composer
• Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin (1873 - 1938), opera singer, bass
• Cesar Cui (1835 - 1918),
• Valeri Gergiev (born 1953), pianist, conductor
• Alexander Glazounov (1865?1936), composer
• Reinhold Moritzovich Gliere (1875 - 1956), composer
• Mikhail Glinka (1804 - 1857), composer of Russlan and Ludmilla
• Nikolai Semyonovich Golovanov (1891 - 1953), conductor
• Emil Grygoryevich Gilels (1916 - 1985), pianist
• Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (1904 - 1987)
• Aram Ilyich Katchaturian (1903 - 1978)
• Lena Katina (born 1984) and Yulia Volkova (born 1985), members of t.A.T.u
• Kyril Kondrashin (1914 - 1981), conductor
• Leonid Kogan (1924 - 1982), violinist
• Viktoria Mullova (born 1959), violinist
• Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881), composer of Boris Godunov
• David Oistrakh (1908 - 1974), violinist
• Igor Davidovich Oistrakh (born 1931), violinist
• Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953), composer
• Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943),
• Sviatoslav Richter (1915 - 1997), pianist
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908),
• Mstislav Rostropovich (born 1927), cellist and conductor
• Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1835 - 1881), pianist, conductor and composer
• Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (1871 - 1915), composer and pianist
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), composer
• Igor Stravinsky, (1882 - 1971), Russian
• Sergey Taneyev (1856 - 1915), composer
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), composer
• Grigory Vasilyevich (1915 - 1998), composer

• Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, (1914 - 1984), General Secretary November 12, 1982 - February 9, 1984
• Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, (1888 - 1938), Bolshevik Leader
• Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko, (1911 - 1985), Soviet general secretary
• Boris Godunov (1551 - 1605), tzar
• Mikhail Gorbachev (born 1931), liberator, Nobel Prize winner
• Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (1908 - 1989), "Cold War" Foreign Minister
• Nikita Khrushchev, (1894 - 1971), Soviet general secretary
• Vladimir Lenin, (1870 - 1924),
• Vladimir Putin (born 1952)
• Joseph Stalin, (1879 - 1953), (a pseudonym) - Soviet leader
• Leon Trotsky, (1879 - 1940), (a pseudonym) - Russian Revolution leader
• Boris Yeltsin, (born 1931), President of Russia 1991-1999

• Mikhail Bakunin (1814 - 1876), anarchist
• Nicolas Berdyaev (1874- 1948), philosopher of religion and politics
• Peter Kropotkin (1842 - 1921), anarchist
• Peter D. Ouspensky (1878 - 1947), author of In Search of the Miraculous and Tertium Organum

• Ivan III of Russia, "Ivan the Great", (1440-1505)
• Ivan IV of Russia, "Ivan the Terrible", (1530 - 1584)
• Peter I of Russia, "Peter the Great", (1672 - 1725)
• Alexander I of Russia, "Alexandet I the Blessed" (1777 - 1825), Russian, Polish ruler
• Alexander II of Russia, "Alexander II the Liberator" (1818 - 1881)
• Alexander III of Russia, "Alexander III the Peacemaker" (1845 - 1894)
• Alexandra of Russia, (1872 - 1918)
• Princess Brassova, (1880 - 1952)
• Nicholas I of Russia, "Nicolas I the Unforgettable" (1825 - 1831)
• Nicholas II of Russia, "Nicholas II the Bloody" (1868 - 1918)
• Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova, (1901 - 1918)
• Maria Nicolaievna Romanova, (1899 - 1918)
• Marie Fyodorovna Romanova, (1848 - 1928)
• Olga Nicolaievna Romanova, (1895 - 1918)
• Olga Alexandrovna Romanova, (1882 - 1960)
• Tatiana Nicolaievna Romanova, (1897 - 1918)
• Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov (1878 - 1918), Grand Duke
• Aleksey I of Russia, "Alexey Michailovich the Quietest" (1629 - 1676)
• Catherine I of Russia, (1683 - 1727)
• Peter III of Russia, (1728 - 1762)
• Catherine II of Russia, "Catherine the Great" (1729 - 1796)
• Paul I of Russia (1754 - 1801)
• Alexius Petrovich, (1690 - 1718)
• Elizabeth of Russia, (1709-1761)

• Pafnuti Lvovich Chebyshev (1821 - 1894), mathematician
• Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (1904 - 1990), physicist
• Il'ja Mikhailovich Frank (1908 - 1990), physicist
• Alexander Naumovich Frumkin (1895 - 1976), electrochemist
• Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (1927 - 1967), cosmonaut
• Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (1903 - 1987), mathematician
• Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya, (1850-1891), mathematician
• Lev Davidovich Landau (1908 - 1968), physicist and mathematician
• Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky - (1792 - 1856), mathematician
• Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (1857 - 1918), mathematician
• Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam (1879 - 1944), physicist
• Andrei Andreevich Markov (1856 - 1922), mathematician
• Dmitri Mendeleev (1834 - 1907), chemist, creator of the Periodic Table of Elements
• Gennadyi I. Nevelskoi (1813 - 1876), captain and navigator
• Igor Dmitrievich Novikov (born 1935), theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist
• Ivan Pavlov (1849 - 1936), physician and physiologist
• Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov (1896 - 1986), physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry
• Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky (1916 - 1985), astronomer and astrophysicist
• Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski (1842 - 1927), mathematician
• Vladimir Andreevich Steklov (1863 - 1926) , physicist and mathematician
• Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (1895 - 1971), physicist
• Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (1914 - 1987), physicist, astrophysicist and cosmologist

• Yelena Davydova (born 1961), Olympic gymnast
• Valery Kharlamov (1948 - 1981), Russia's most popular international ice hockey player
• Anna Kournikova (born 1981), Professional tennis player
• Vladimir Petrov, ice hockey player
• Yelena Shushunova (born 1969), gymnast
• Vladislav Tretiak (born 1952), ice hockey goalie
• Alexander Yakushev (born 1947), ice hockey player
• Lev Yashin (1929 - 1990), football goalkeeper, capped 78 times for Russia

• Mikhail Khodorkovsky (born 1963), businessman
• Grigori Rasputin (1872 - 1919), friar, adventurer, mystic wonder-worker
• Roman Abramovich (born 1966), businessman, 49th richest person in the Forbes list
• Garry Kasparov (born 1963), chess grandmaster
• Anatoly Karpov (born 1951), chess grandmaster