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2 days ago · This is a list of people associated with the modern Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, Imperial Russia, Russian Tsardom, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Kievan Rus', and other predecessor states of Russia.
3 days ago · Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet, novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer who has often been considered his country’s greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Learn more about his life, both in and out of exile, his major works, and his influential legacy.
2 days ago · Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff [a] [b] (1 April [ O.S. 20 March] 1873 – 28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music.
- 28 March 1943 (aged 69), Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
22 hours ago · Leo Tolstoy at age 20, c. 1848. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, a family estate 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Tula, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) south of Moscow. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy (1794–1837), a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and Princess Mariya Tolstaya (née Volkonskaya; 1790 ...
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- 1847–1910
- Writer, religious thinker
- Imperial Kazan University (not graduated)
3 days ago · Kirill Kallinikov/Sputnik. Some of the first foreigners to visit the Soviet Union were famous writers, artists and other public figures. Theodore Dreiser came in 1927, Bernard Shaw in 1932 and...
2 days ago · On a larger scale, the reader of the Hughes volume is almost certain to conclude that Peter was one of the "great men of history," that he was personally involved in most of the significant events of his era, and, more controversially, that he was personally responsible for many or even most of the differences observable in Russia between, say, ...
3 days ago · AUGUST 13, 2021 — A new study by Douglas Wilbur, a visiting scholar in the UTSA Department of Communication, examines the claims made by the fact-checking website Prop or Not that Russian propaganda targets the American public. He found evidence that popular sites such as Zero Hedge, a Wall Street-focused site, echoes Russian propaganda in ...
