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The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod, featuring the statues and reliefs of the most celebrated people in the first 1000 years of Russian history Men of enlightenment at the Millennium of Russia Statesmen at the Millennium of Russia Military men and heroes at the Millennium of Russia Writers and artists at the Millennium of Russia
1801–1850. Aleksey Khomyakov (1804–1860), theologian, philosopher and poet. Dmitry Venevitinov (1805–1827), Romantic poet. Alexandre Dubuque (1812–1898), Russian pianist, composer and teacher of French descent; he was born and died in Moscow. Alexander Herzen (1812–1870), a Russian writer and thinker. [25]
Michele Merkin (born 1975), model and television host, also of Swedish and Russian Jewish descent. Anya Monzikova (born 1984), model and actress born in Vologda. Irina Pantaeva (born 1972), model and actress born in Ulan-Ude. Kristina Pimenova (born 2005), child model and actress.
t. e. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev [f] [g] (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 and additionally as head of state beginning in ...
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin ( / ræˈspjuːtɪn /; Russian: Григо́рий Ефи́мович Распу́тин [ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲɪj jɪˈfʲiməvʲɪtɕ rɐˈsputʲɪn]; 21 January [ O.S. 9 January] 1869 – 30 December [ O.S. 17 December] 1916) was a Russian mystic and faith healer. He is best known for having befriended the imperial ...
This is a list of Russian artists. In this context, the term "Russian" covers the Russian Federation , Soviet Union , Russian Empire , Tsardom of Russia and Grand Duchy of Moscow , including ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities living in Russia.
A souvenir balalaika. Oleg Antonov. (1906–1984) Russian Empire. Soviet Union. An -series aircraft, including Antonov A-40 winged tank and Antonov An-124 (the largest serial cargo aircraft, later modified to world's largest fixed-wing aircraft Antonov An-225) [16] An-124-100. Lev Artsimovich.
Other Germanic languages with which Old Norse still retained some mutual intelligibility. The Rus ', [a] also known as Russes, [2] [3] were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe. [4] The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norsemen, mainly originating from present-day Sweden, who settled and ruled along the river-routes ...