Authors from Russia

Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
Authors

Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century German philosopher from the Prussian city of Königsberg . He is regarded as one of the...

David Hilbert
David Hilbert
Authors

David Hilbert /ˈdaːfɪt ˈhɪlbʌt/ (January 23, 1862 – February 14, 1943) was a German mathematician, recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and...

Algis Budrys
Algis Budrys
Authors

Algis Budrys was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He was also known under the pen names "Frank Mason", "Alger Rome", "John A. Sentry",...

W. B. Henning
W. B. Henning
Authors

Walter Bruno Henning (August 26, 1908—January 8, 1967) was a scholar of Middle Iranian languages and literature, especially of the corpus discovered by the Turpan expeditions of the early...

Yevgeniy Yevtushenko
Yevgeniy Yevtushenko
Musical Artists, Authors

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (Russian: Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Евтуше́нко) (also transliterated as Evgenii Alexandrovich Evtushenko, Yevgeniy Yevtushenko, or Evgeny Evtushenko) (born...

Nathalie Sarraute
Nathalie Sarraute
Authors

Nathalie Sarraute (French pronunciation: [natali saˈʁot]; July 18, 1900, Ivanovo, Russia – October 19, 1999, Paris, France) was a French lawyer and writer of Russian Jewish origin. Sarraute...

Yuri Averbakh
Yuri Averbakh
Authors

Yuri Lvovich Averbakh (born February 8, 1922 in Kaluga, Russia) is a Soviet and Russian chess player and author. He is currently the oldest living chess grandmaster. His father was German...

Paul Vinogradoff
Paul Vinogradoff
Authors

Sir Paul Vinogradoff (Russian: Па́вел Гаври́лович Виногра́дов, transliterated: Pavel Gavrilovich Vinogradov; 18 (30) November 1854, Kostroma, Russia– 19 December 1925, Paris, France) was a...

Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya
Authors, Politicians

Nadezhda Konstantinovna "Nadya" Krupskaya (Russian: Наде́жда Константи́новна Кру́пская, scientific transliteration Nadežda Konstantinovna Krupskaja) (26 February [O.S. 14 February] 1869...

Daniil Kharms
Daniil Kharms
Authors

Daniil Kharms (Russian: Дании́л Ива́нович Хармс; 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1905 – 2 February 1942) was an early Soviet-era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist. One of...

George Sanders
George Sanders
Authors, TV Actors & Actresses, Actors & Actresses

George Henry Sanders was an Academy Award-winning English film and television actor. Sanders was born at 6:00 am in Saint Petersburg, Russia at number 6 Petroffski...

Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Musical Artists

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich ; 25 September [O.S. September 12] 1906 – 9 August 1975 was a Russian composer of the Soviet period. After...

Nicolas Slonimsky
Nicolas Slonimsky
Authors

Nicolas Slonimsky was a Russian-American composer, conductor, musician, music critic, lexicographer and author. He described himself as a "diaskeuast";...

Viktor Korchnoi
Viktor Korchnoi
Authors

Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (also Korchnoy, Kortchnoy, Kortschnoi, etc.; pronounced in the original Russian as "karch NOY"; Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й, born March 23, 1931, in Leningrad, USSR...

Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky
Authors, Musical Artists

Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Russian poet, essayist, and Nobel Laureate in Literature. He was appointed Poet...

Lou Andreas-Salomé
Lou Andreas-Salomé
Authors

Lou Andreas-Salomé (born Louise von Salomé or Luíza Gustavovna Salomé, Луиза Густавовна Саломе; 12 February 1861 – 5 January 1937) was a Russian-born psychoanalyst and author. Her diverse...

Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart
Authors

Gary Shteyngart is an American writer born in Leningrad, USSR . Much of his work is satirical and relies on the invention of elaborately...

Sergei Obolensky
Sergei Obolensky
Authors

Sergei (Serge) Platonovich 5th Knyaz Obolensky-Neledinsky-Meletzky (Tsarskoye Selo, 20 September/3 October 1890 - Grosse Pointe, Wayne County, Michigan, 29 September 1978) was a Russian...

Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
Authors

Ayn Rand , born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum , was a Russian-born American novelist, philosopher,...

Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky
Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky
Musical Artists

Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky was a Russian Soviet composer. Kabalevsky is regarded as one of the great modern...

Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Authors

Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy (Russian: Алексе́й Константи́нович Толсто́й) (September 5 [O.S. August 24] 1817 – October 10 [O.S. September...

Tee Corinne
Tee Corinne
Authors, Artists

Tee Corine (1943–2006) was a lesbian visual artist notable for the portrayal of sexuality in her artwork. Tee was born and grew up in Florida. Her mother introduced her to principles and...

Leon Poliakov
Leon Poliakov
Authors

Léon Poliakov (Russian: Лев Поляков; November 25, 1910 in Saint Petersburg – December 8, 1997 in Orsay) was a historian who wrote extensively on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. Born into a...

Alexander Blok
Alexander Blok
Authors

Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Блок [] ( listen), 28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1880 – 7 August 1921) was a Russian lyrical poet. Blok was born in Saint...

Alexander Rodchenko
Alexander Rodchenko
Artists, Authors

Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Ро́дченко, 5 December [O.S. 23 November] 1891 – December 3, 1956) was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic...

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