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Prominent Russians: Literature

Chinghiz Aitmatov Literature Chinghiz Aitmatov was the most celebrated representative of Kyrgyzstan and is revered for bridging the traditional Kyrgyz folklore and modern Eurasian literature.

Bella (Izabella) Akhmadulina Literature Bella Akhmadulina is the Russian poet, short story writer and translator.

Anna Akhmatova Literature Anna Akhmatova’s works are Russia's finest poetry, a synthesis of femininity and manliness, displaying delicate feelings and deep thought.

Vasily Aksenov Literature Vasily Aksenov is the dissident, son of dissidents and one of the greatest writers of our time.

Boris Akunin Literature Boris Akunin is one of the best-selling suspense writers in Russia, famous for his detective stories set in tsarist Russia.

Leonid Andreev Literature Leonid Andreev was a Russian playwright and short story writer, one of the most prominent representatives of the Silver Age.

Viktor Astafiev Literature Viktor Astafiev is one of the best representatives of Russian literature of the second half of the 20th century, renowned for his truthful stories about World War II.

Isaac Babel Literature Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel was a Soviet Jewish writer, one of the few to achieve fame abroad.

Konstantin Balmont Literature Konstantin Balmont was a Russian poet, critic and translator. He was one of the first symbolist poets of the Silver Age of Russian literature.

Yevgeny Baratynsky Literature Yevgeny Baratynsky contributed to the Golden Age of Russian poetry, which reached its height in the 1820s.

Vissarion Belinsky Literature Vissarion Belinsky was a Russian literary critic who made great contributions to the development of Russian literature and laid the foundation of Russian literary criticism.

Andrey Bely Literature One of the most outstanding figures of Russian symbolism, Andrey Bely was truly representative of his own epoch, embodying it in his life and art.

B Isaac Babel Ivan Bagramyan Pyotr Bagration Leon Bakst Aleksandr Bakulev Mikhail Bakunin Miliy Balakirev Konstantin Balmont Yury Baluevsky Yevgeny Baratynsky Mikhail Barklay de Tolly (Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly) Mikhail Baryshnikov St. Basil Nikolay Basov Yelena Baturina Vasily Bazhenov Vladimir Bekhterev Timur Bekmambetov Vissarion Belinsky Faddey Bellinsgauzen Andrey Bely Aleksandr Benckendorff Aleksandr Benua Nikolay Berdyaev Boris Berezovsky Olga Berggolts Lavrentiy Beria Vitus Bering Mark Bernes Dima Bilan Aleksandr Blok Andrey Bogolyubsky Fyodor Bondarchuk Sergey Bondarchuk St.Boris & Gleb Aleksandr Borodin Pavel Borodin Evgeny Botkin Mikhail Botvinnik Viktor Bout Leonid Brezhnev Sergey Brin Joseph Brodsky Aleksey Brusilov Karl Bryullov Valery Bryusov Semyon Budenny Nikolay Bukharin Mikhail Bulgakov Ivan Bunin Nikolay Burdenko

D Vladimir Dahl Ekaterina Dashkova Denis Davydov The Demidov dynasty Anton Denikin Oleg Deripaska Gavriil Derzhavin Aleksandr Deyneka Semyon Dezhnyov Sergey Diagilev Dmitry Donskoy Yury Dolgoruky Fyodor Dostoevsky Sergei Dovlatov Pavel Durov Nadezhda Durova The Durovs Felix Dzerzhinsky

E Ilya Ehrenburg Sergey Eisenstein Aleksey Ermolov Sergey Esenin

F Afanasy Fet Viacheslav Fetisov Sergey Filatov Denis Fonvizin Mikhail Fradkov Mikhail Frunze Fyodor I “The Bellringer” Svyatoslav Fyodorov Ivan Fyodorov

H Aleksandr Herzen Zinaida Hippius Dmitry Hvorostovsky

I Igor the Brave Ilya Ilf & Evgeny Petrov Andrey Illarionov Ilya Muromets Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Sergey Ilyushin Abram Ioffe Ivan I Kalita Ivan III the Great Ivan IV the Terrible Sergey Ivanov Igor Ivanov Aleksandr Izosimov

K Alina Kabayeva Lazar Kaganovich Mikhail Kalashnikov Mikhail Kalatozov Mikhail Kalinin Lev Kamenev Vassily Kandinsky Pyotr Kapitsa Nikolay Karamzin Dmitry Karbyshev Anatoly Karpov Anatoly Kashpirovsky Garry Kasparov Mikhail Kasyanov Mstislav Keldysh Aleksandr Kerensky Yerofey Khabarov Konstantin Khabensky Aram Khachaturyan Chulpan Khamatova Aleksansdr Khanzhonkov Valery Kharlamov Daniil Kharms Aleksandr Khloponin Bohdan Khmelnitsky Mikhail Khodorkovsky Svetlana Khorkina Viktor Khristenko Nikita Khrushchev Sergey Kirienko Patriarch Kirill Sergey Kirov Vasily Klyuchevsky Viktor Kochubey Aleksandr Kolchak Aleksandra Kollontai Anatoly Komm Pyotr Konchalovsky Andrey Konchalovsky Ivan Konev Fyodor Konyukhov Ilya Kormiltsev Lavr Kornilov Sergey Korolev Mikhail Koshkin Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya Aleksey Kosygin Anna Kournikova Sofia Kovalevskaya Dmitry Kozak Ivan Kozhedub Ivan Kramskoy Ivan Kruzenshtern (Adam Johann von Krusenstern) Ivan Krylov Matilda Kshesinskaya Aleksey Kudrin Arkhip Kuindzhi Ivan Kulibin Aleksandr Kuprin Igor Kurchatov Mikhail Kutuzov

M Muslim Magomayev Anton Makarenko Nikolay Makarov Natalia Makarova Nestor Makhno Ekaterina Maksimova Georgy Malenkov Kazimir Malevich Rodion Malinovsky Savva Mamontov Osip Mandelstam Aleksey Maresyev Maria Feodorovna, Empress Consort of Russia Samuil Marshak Aleksandr Matrosov Denis Matsuev Valentina Matvienko Vladimir Mayakovsky Dmitry Medvedev Leonid Melamed Dmitry Mendeleev Aleksandr Menshikov Vsevolod Meyerhold Ivan Michurin Nikita Mikhalkov Sergey Mikhalkov Nikolay Miklukho-Maklay Artyom Mikoyan Anastas Mikoyan Kuzma Minin and Count Dmitry Pozharsky Andrey Mironov Sergey Mironov Igor Moiseev Vyacheslav Molotov Aleksey Mordashov Nonna Mordyukova Savva Morozov Vera Mukhina Modest Mussorgsky Anastasia Myskina

O Bulat Okudzhava Oleg Veshchy (The Prophet) Princess Olga of Kiev Grigory Ordzhonikidze Grigory Orlov Aleksey Orlov (Chesmensky) Lyubov Orlova Nikolay Ostrovsky Aleksandr Ostrovsky Alexander Ovechkin The Ovechkin Family Sergey Ozhegov

P Nikita Panin Ivan Papanin Boris Pasternak Paul I Ivan Pavlov Yakov Pavlov Anna Pavlova Viktor Pelevin Grigory Perelman Dmitry Peskov Peter II Peter III Peter I the Great Marius Petipa Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin Mikhail Piotrovsky Dmitry Pisarev Kira Plastinina Vyacheslav Plehve Georgy Plekhanov Fyodor Plevako Maya Plisetskaya Ivan Poddubny Nikolay Podgorny Aleksandr Pokryshkin Boris Polevoy (Kampov) Dzhokhan Pollyeva Georgy Poltavchenko Vladimir Potanin Grigory Potyomkin Vladimir Pozner Mikhail Prokhorov Sergey Prokofiev Emelyan Pugachev Alla Pugacheva Aleksandr Pushkin Vladimir Putin

S Viktor Sadovnichy Marat Safin Nikas Safronov Andrey Sakharov Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin Darya Saltykova Tanya Savicheva Aleksey Savrasov Alfred Schnittke Aleksandr Scriabin Dinara Safina Igor Sechin Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky Saint Seraphim of Sarov Anatoly Serdyukov Kirill Serebrennikov Valentin Serov Mintimer Shaimiev Varlam Shalamov Maria Sharapova Aleksey Shchusev Eduard Shevardnadze Yury Shevchuk Ivan Shishkin Sergey Shmatko Sergey Shoigu Mikhail Sholokhov Dmitry Shostakovich Sergey Shoygu The Shparos Vasily Shukshin Klavdia Shulzhenko Vasily Shuysky Igor Sikorsky Denis Simachev Nikolay Sklifosovsky Ksenia Sobchak Anatoly Sobchak Sergey Sobyanin Fyodor Sologub Sergey Solovyov Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Maria Spiridonova Sergius of Radonezh (Sergey Radonezhsky) Aleksey Stakhanov Joseph Stalin Konstantin Stanislavsky Pyotr Stolypin Igor Stravinsky Eduard Streltsov Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Pavel Sukhoi Vasily Surikov Ivan Susanin Aleksandr Suvorov Yakov Sverdlov Georgy Sviridov

U Galina Ulanova Fyodor Ushakov Vladimir Ustinov Tatyana Ustinova Leonid Utyosov

V Evgeny Vakhtangov Nikolai Valuev Viktor Vasnetsov Nikolay Vavilov Vasily Vereshchagin Aleksandr Vertinsky Galina Vishnevskaya Vladimir I Vladimir Monomakh (Monomachus) Anastassia Volochkova Kliment Voroshilov Mikhail Vrubel Pyotr Vyazemsky Vladimir Vysotsky

W Sergei Witte Ferdinand (Fyodor) Wrangel Pyotr Wrangel

Y Aleksandr Yakovlev Yaroslav the Wise Lev Yashin Evgeny Yasin Sergey Yastrzhembsky Grigoriy Yavlinsky Yegorov and Kantaria Grigory Yeliseev Boris Yeltsin Yermak Timofeevich Evgeny Yevtushenko Valentin Yudashkin Salavat Yulayev Valentin Yumashev Igor Yurgens Nikolay Yusupov