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This is a list of people associated with Imperial Russia , the Soviet Union , and Russia of today. For a long time Russia has been a multinational country, and many people of different nationalities contributed to its culture, to its glory, and to its sorrow. They may be ethnic Georgians (like Stalin ), Jews (like Trotsky ), Poles (like Vaslav Nijinsky ), Tatars (like Rudolf Nureyev ), Ukrainians (like Nikolai Gogol ), Germans (like Catherine the Great )... Sometimes we don't know their exact ancestry. Sometimes their formal nationality was written down at random or for political or other reasons. They may have emigrated or immigrated , and thus may appear in other "Lists of...", but nevertheless their names are linked to the words "Russia", "Russian", whether with pride, with shame, or with pain.
Art
Architects
Artists Nikolay Andreyev (1873 -1932 ), sculptor, graphic artist and stage designer Mikhail Anikushin (1917 ), sculptor Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva (1858 -1884 , painter Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin , painter, Marc Chagall (1887 -1985 ), painter Pavel Chistyakov (1832 -1919 ), painter, Russian teacher Dionisy , medieval icon-painter Aleksandra Ekster (1882 -1949 ), painter, one of the founders of Art Deco Peter Carl Fabergé (1846 -1920 ), jewellery designer Wassily Kandinsky (1866 -1944 ), abstract painter Alexander V. Kuprin (1880 -1960 ), painter Isaac Levitan (1860 -1900 ), landscape painter Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi , (1837 -1887 ), painter and the art critic Kazimir Malevich (1878 -1935 ), suprematist painter, Black square Vera Mukhina (1889 -1953 ), sculptress Alexander Nikulin (1878 -1945 ), painter Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878 -1939 ), painter Vasily Polenov (1844 -1927 ), landscape painter Serge Poliakoff (1900 -1969 ), painter Liubov Popova (1889 -1924 ), cubist , abstract painter Ilya Repin (1844 -1930 ), painter Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891 -1956 ), designer, constructivist painter Nicholas Roerich (1874 -1947 ), painter Andrei Rublev (circa 1360 -1430 ), medieval icon-painter Valentin Serov (1865 -1911 ), painter Vladimir Tatlin (1885 - 1953 ), painter and architect. Vasily Tropinin (1776 -1857 ), painter Ivan Vishnyakov (1699 -1761 ), painter Apollinary Vasnetsov (1856 -1933 ), painter
Main article:List of Russian authors See also Russian literature
A-O Alexander Borodin (1833 -1887 ), composer Fyodor Chaliapin (1873 -1938 ), opera singer, bass Cesar Cui (1835 -1918 ) Valery Gergiev (1953 ), pianist, conductor Emil Gilels (1916 -1985 ), pianist Alexander Glazunov (1865 -1936 ), composer Reinhold Gliere (1875 -1956 ), composer Mikhail Glinka (1804 -1857 ), composer of Russlan and Ludmilla Nikolai Golovanov (1891 -1953 ), conductor Vladimir Horowitz (1903 -1989 ), pianist Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904 -1987 ) Aram Katchaturian (1903 -1978 ) Lena Katina (b. 1984 ), singer Yulia Volkova (b. 1985 ), singer Tikhon Khrennikov (b. 1913 ), composer Kyril Kondrashin (1914 -1981 ), conductor Leonid Kogan (1924 -1982 ), violinist Nikolai Medtner (1880 -1951 ), composer, pianist Viktoria Mullova (1959 ), violinist Modest Mussorgsky (1839 -1881 ), composer of Boris Godunov , Pictures at an Exhibition David Oistrakh (1908 -1974 ), violinist Igor Oistrakh (b. 1931 ), violinist
P-Z Sergei Prokofiev (1891 -1953 ), composer Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 -1943 ) Sviatoslav Richter (1915 -1997 ), pianist Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 -1908 ), composer Mstislav Rostropovich (b. 1927 ), cellist and conductor Anton Rubinstein , pianist, composer Nikolai Rubinstein (1835 -1881 ), pianist, conductor and composer Vasily Ilyich Safonov (1852 -1918 ), composer and music educator Alfred Schnittke (1934 -1998 ), composer Alexander Scriabin (1871 -1915 ), composer and pianist Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 -1975 ), composer Igor Stravinsky (1882 -1971 ), composer Sergey Taneyev (1856 -1915 ), composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840 -1893 ), composer Grigory Vasilyevich (1915 -1998 ), composer Vyacheslav Mescherin (-1995 ), Synthesizer music composer, audio engineer
Performing Arts Mikhail Baryshnikov (b. 1948 ), ballet dancer Sergei Bodrov, filmmaker Sergei Bodrov Jr. , actor Sergei Bondarchuk (1920 -1994 ), film director Boris Bruinov (1922 -1997 ), actor Sergei Diaghilev (1872 -1929 ), ballet impresario Sergei Eisenstein (1898 -1948 ), film director Michel Fokine (1880 -1942 ), choreographer, dancer Lila Kedrova (1918 -2000 ), actress Nikita Mikhalkov (b. 1945 ), filmmaker and politician Solomon Mikhoels , Soviet-Yiddish actor Vaslav Fomich Nijinsky (1890 -1950 ), ballet dancer, choreographer Ivan Novikoff (1899 -2002 ), ballet master Rudolf Nureyev (1938 -1993 ), ballet dancer Anna Pavlova (1882 -1931 ), ballerina Alexander Ptushko (1900 -1973 ), animation & film director Konstantin Stanislavsky (1868 -1938 ), actor Natalie Wood (1938 -1981 ), actress Galina Ulanova (1910 -1988 ), ballerina
(who wrote much of their poetry in the Russian language , see List of Russian language poets )
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A-S Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (1930 ), physicist Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov (1922 - 2001 ), laser inventor, Nobel Prize for Physics 1964 , together with Alexandr Prokhorov Vasily Degtyarev (1880 -1947 ), weapons designer Pyotr Kozmitch Frolov (1775 -1839 ), mining engineer and inventor Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin (1894 -1977 ), aircraft constructor Nikolai Kibalchich (1853 -1881 ) Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1907 -1966 ), rocket engineer and designer, Father of the space program Ivan Petrovich Kulibin (1735 -1818 ), mechanic Semyon Lavochkin (1900 -1960 ), aircraft designer Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin (1847 - 1923 ), electrical engineer and inventor Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (1905 -1970 ), aircraft designer Alexander Popov (1859 -1906 ), Russia's Marconi , an inventor of Radio Alexandr Prokhorov (1916 -2002 ), physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics 1964 , born in Queensland , Australia Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863 -1944 ), father of colour photography Boris Rosing (1869 -1933 ) Igor Sikorsky (1889 -1972 ), helicopter and aircraft designer Pavel Sukhoi (1895 -1975 ), aircraft constructor and designer
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Mikhail Bakunin (1814 -1876 ), anarchist Nicolas Berdyaev (1874 - 1948 ), philosopher of religion and politics Georges Florovsky (1893]] -1979 , theologian and philosopher Alexander Herzen , father of Russian socialism Nikolay Karamzin , father of Russian conservatism Mikhail Katkov (1818 -1887 ), reactionary journalist Peter Kropotkin (1842 -1921 ), anarchist Wassily Leontief , economist , Nobel Prize winner Alexei Losev (1893 -1988 ), philosopher Alexey Pavlovich Okladnikov (1908 -1981 ), archeologist, historian, and ethnographer Peter Ouspensky (1878 -1947 ), author of In Search of the Miraculous and Tertium Organum Yevgeny Polivanov (1891 -1938 ), linguist and orientalist Yevgeny Tarle (1874 –1955 ), historian of Western Europe Vasily Tatishchev (1686 –1750 ), first Russian historian Pavel Gavrilovich Vingradov (1854 -1925 ), history of English laws
A-K Alexei Abrikosov , physicist , Nobel Prize recipient Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov , mathematician Zhores Ivanovich Alferov Nobel Prize winner Boris Belousov , chemist / biophysicist Pafnuti Chebyshev (1821 -1894 ), mathematician Pavel Cherenkov (1904 -1990 ), physicist, Nobel Prize Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko (1945 -), mathematician, chronologist Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (1908 -1990 ), physicist, Nobel Prize winner Alexander Frumkin (1895 -1976 ), electrochemist Vitaly Ginzburg , physicist , Nobel Prize recipient Abram Ioffe (1880 -1960 ), physicist Pyotr Kafarov (1817 -1878 ), sinologist Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa , physicist, discoverer of superfluidity , Nobel Prize in physics Nikolai Kardashev (b. 1932 ), astrophysicist Julii Khariton (1904 -1996 ), physicist Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (1903 -1987 ), mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850 -1891 ), mathematician Igor Kurchatov (1903 -1960 ), atomic bomb physicist
L-P Lev Landau (1908 -1968 ), physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize in physics Mikhail Lavrentyev (1900 -1980 ), physicist and mathematician Petr Nikolaevich Lebedev (1866 - 1912 ), physicist Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792 -1856 ), mathematician Mikhail Lomonosov (1711 -1765 ), polymath Nikolai Nikolaevich Lusin , mathematician Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857 -1918 ), mathematician Trofim Lysenko , biologist Leonid Mandelshtam (1879 -1944 ), physicist Andrei Markov (1856 -1922 ), mathematician Dmitri Mendeleyev (1834 -1907 ), chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements Ivan Michurin , selectionist Aleksandr Fyodorovich Middendorf , zoologist Gennadi Nevelskoi (1813 -1876 ), captain and navigator Igor Novikov (b. 1935 ), theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky Aleksandr Oparin , biologist and biochemist Peter Simon Pallas (1741 -1811 ), a German-born Russian zoologist Ivan Pavlov (1849 -1936 ), physician and physiologist
S-Z Nikolay Semyonov (1896 -1986 ), physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry Iosif Shklovsky (1916 -1985 ), astronomer and astrophysicist Yulian Sokhotski (1842 -1927 ), mathematician Vladimir Steklov (1863 -1926 ), physicist and mathematician Georg Steller (1709 -1746 ), naturalist and ornithologist of German origin. Friedrich Wilhelm Struve (Vasily Yakovlevich Struve) (1793 -1864 ), astronomer Igor Tamm (1895 -1971 ), physicist, Nobel Prize Paul Samuilovich Urysohn (1898 -1924 ), a mathematician Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov , mathematician Nikolai Vavilov , biologist Yakov Zeldovich (1914 -1987 ), physicist, astrophysicist and cosmologist
Statesmen and military
Before 1917
Royal See also Tsar for the list of old Russian rulers
A-F Alexis (1629 -1676 ), "Aleksey Mikhaylovich the Quietest" Alexander I (1777 -1825 ), "Alexander the Blessed" Alexander II (1818 -1881 ), "Alexander the Liberator" Alexander III (1845 -1894 ), "Alexander the Peacemaker" Alexandra (1872 -1918 ), Tsarina of Russia Alexius Petrovich (1690 -1718 ) Anastasia (1901 -1918 ), youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II Anna (1693 -1740 ), empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740 Boris Godunov (1551 -1605 ) Catherine I (1683 -1727 ) Catherine II (1729 -1796 ), "Catherine the Great" Constantine Pavlovich (1779 -1831 ), vice-roy of Poland who abdicated the Russian throne Elizabeth (1709 -1761 ), daughter of Peter I the Great and Catherine I Fyodor I (1557-1598) Fyodor II (1589-1605) Fyodor III (1661-1682) Patriarch Filaret , father of the first Romanov tsar
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See also List of Russian Foreign Ministers
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