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Prominent Russians: Religion

Patriarch Alexy II Religion Alexy II was the Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia right before the collapse of the Soviet Union. During the Soviet regime he did much to protect the Orthodoxy from persecution.

St. Anthony of the Caves (Antony Pechersky) Religion St. Anthony of the Caves established the first Russian monastery and is considered to be the father of Russian monasticism.

St. Basil Religion Saint Basil is a Russian Orthodox saint of known as ‘holy fool for Christ’. He was formally canonized around 1580.

St.Boris & Gleb Religion Boris and Gleb were the first saints of Kievan Rus after the Baptism of Rus by Saint Vladimir.

Patriarch Kirill Religion Kirill I is the acting Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia.

Sergius of Radonezh (Sergey Radonezhsky) Religion A religious reformer in Russia, Sergius of Radonezh is honored by the Russian Orthodox Church and is considered a saint.

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

C Catherine I Catherine II the Great Marc Chagall Anna Chakvetadze Feodor Chaliapin Vasily Chapaev Yury Chayka Evgeny Chazov Anton Chekhov Mikhail Chekhov Konstantin Chernenko Viktor Chernomyrdin Sergey Cheskidov Boris Chirkov Valery Chkalov Anatoly Chubais Korney Chukovsky

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 Sergey Dovlatov Pavel Durov Nadezhda Durova The Durovs Felix Dzerzhinsky

E Ilya Ehrenburg Sergey Eisenstein Elizaveta Petrovna Aleksey Ermolov Sergey Esenin

F Afanasy Fet Viacheslav Fetisov Sergey Filatov Denis Fonvizin Mikhail Fradkov Mikhail Frunze Svyatoslav Fyodorov Ivan Fyodorov

H Aleksandr Herzen Dmitry Hvorostovsky

I Igor the Brave Igor Chapurin Andrey Illarionov Ilya Muromets Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Abram Ioffe Ivan I Kalita Ivan III the Great Ivan IV the Terrible Sergey Ivanov Igor Ivanov Aleksandr Izosimov

K Alina Kabayeva Mikhail Kalashnikov Mikhail Kalatozov 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 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 Aleksandr Kuprin Igor Kurchatov Mikhail Kutuzov

M Anton Makarenko Nikolay Makarov Nestor Makhno Georgy Malenkov Kazimir Malevich Rodion Malinovsky Savva Mamontov Anastasia Myskina Osip Mandelstam Aleksey Maresyev Maria Feodorovna, Empress Consort of Russia Samuil Marshak Aleksandr Matrosov Valentina Matvienko Vladimir Mayakovsky Dmitry Medvedev Leonid Melamed Dmitry Mendeleev Aleksandr Menshikov Ivan Michurin Mikhail Kalinin 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 Savva Morozov Modest Mussorgsky

O 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

R Aleksandr Radishchev Arkady Raikin Sergey Rakhmaninov Faina Ranevskaya Grigory Rasputin Stepan (Stenka) Razin Ilya Repin Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov Konstantin Rokossovsky Aleksey Mikhailovich Romanov Anastasia Romanova The Romanovs Dietmar Rosenthal Karl Rossi Mstislav Rostropovich Robert Rozhdestvensky Andrei Rublev Aleksandr Rutskoy The Ryabushinsky family

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

U Galina Ulanova Fyodor Ushakov Vladimir Ustinov Tatyana Ustinova

V Evgeny Vakhtangov Nikolai Valuev Viktor Vasnetsov Nikolay Vavilov Vasily Vereshchagin Galina Vishnevskaya Vladimir Monomakh (Monomachus) Anastassia Volochkova Mikhail Vrubel

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 Boris Yeltsin Yermak Timofeevich Evgeny Yevtushenko Valentin Yudashkin Salavat Yulayev Igor Yurgens Nikolay Yusupov

Z Nikolay Zabolotsky Slava Zaitsev Vasily Zaitsev Svetlana Zakharova Evgeny Zamyatin Andrey Zhdanov Vladimir Zhirinovsky Aleksandr Zhukov Georgy Zhukov Mikhail Zhvanetsky Viktor Zubkov Sergey Zverev Vladimir Zworykin Gennady Zyuganov