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Prominent Russians: The Romanov dynasty

Alexander I The Romanov dynasty One of the key statesmen of the 19th century, Alexander I is one of the most mysterious and controversial figures in Russian history.

Alexander II Liberator The Romanov dynasty Alexander II was one of Russia’s most liberal monarchs but was never popular among his people. His challenging reforms are what he’s remembered for – and what’s led him to a tragic death.

Alexander III the Peacemaker The Romanov dynasty Emperor Alexander III, dubbed as The Peacemaker, raised Russia’s prestige abroad and kept his country in peace and order.

Anna Ioannovna The Romanov dynasty Peter the Great's niece, who ruled the country from 1730-1740, putting Russia in the hands of her favorites, mostly foreigners.

Catherine I The Romanov dynasty Empress Catherine I was the second wife of Peter I the Great and the first Empress of Russia in power from 1725 to 1727.

Catherine II the Great The Romanov dynasty Recognized worldwide as a noteworthy historical figure, Catherine the Great made such progress in political power that it is hard to find similar examples in world history.

Maria Feodorovna, Empress Consort of Russia The Romanov dynasty Maria Feodorovna, was wife to Emperor Alexander III, Empress Consort of Russia – and mother of the last Russian monarch.

Nicholas I The Romanov dynasty Russian Emperor (1825-1855), under whom the country reached the height of its territories. He has been likened to Peter the Great for his militant and reactionary rule.

Nicholas II The Romanov dynasty Nicholas II was the last Emperor of Russia.

Grigory Orlov The Romanov dynasty Grigory Orlov was a Russian statesman and favorite of Catherine the Great who organized the coup to place her on the Russian throne and subsequently helped the Empress rule the country.

Paul I The Romanov dynasty Russian Emperor (1796-1801), the son and successor of Catherine II the Great, who was strangled to death in his own bedroom by conspirators displeased by his domestic policy limiting the rights of the nobility.

Peter II The Romanov dynasty Peter II was Emperor of Russia from 1727 to 1730, the only son of Prince Alexius, grandson of Peter the Great. His death ended the male line of the Romanov dynasty.

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