LISTS

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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Anna Akhmatova	Poet	11-Jun-1889	5-Mar-1966	Poem Without a Hero
Tsar Alexander I	Royalty	23-Dec-1777	1-Dec-1825	Tsar of Russia, 1801-25
Tsar Alexander III	Royalty	10-Mar-1845	1-Nov-1894	Tsar of Russia, 1881-94
Tsar Alexis	Royalty	19-Mar-1629	8-Feb-1676	Tsar of Russia, 1645-76
Anna	Royalty	28-Jan-1693	17-Oct-1740	Tsarina of Russia, 1730-40
Sergei Averintsev	Author	10-Dec-1937	21-Feb-2004	Myth of the Peoples of the World
Oksana Baiul	Figure Skating	16-Nov-1977		Olympic figure skater
Mikhail Bulgakov	Author	3-May-1891	10-Mar-1940	The Master and Margarita
Catherine the Great	Royalty	2-May-1729	17-Nov-1796	Tsarina of Russia, 1762-96
T. G. Dobzhansky	Scientist	25-Jan-1900	18-Dec-1975	Genetics and the Origin of Species
Fyodor Dostoevsky	Novelist	30-Oct-1821	28-Jan-1881	Crime and Punishment
Elizabeth	Royalty	29-Dec-1709	5-Jan-1762	Tsarina of Russia, 1741-62
Nikolai Gogol	Author	19-Mar-1809	21-Feb-1852	Dead Souls, The Overcoat
Mikhail Gorbachev	Head of State	2-Mar-1931		Final leader of the Soviet Union
Ivan the Terrible	Royalty	25-Aug-1530	18-Mar-1584	Russian Tsar, 1533-84
Aleksandr Kolchak	Military	16-Nov-1874	7-Feb-1920	Supreme Ruler of the Russian State, 1918-20
Leonid Kuchma	Head of State	9-Aug-1938		President of Ukraine, 1994-2004
Mikhail Lermontov	Poet	15-Oct-1814	27-Jul-1841	A Hero of Our Time
Nastia Liukin	Gymnastics	30-Oct-1989		Five medals in 2008 Beijing Olympics
Yuri Luzhkov	Politician	21-Sep-1936		Mayor of Moscow, 1992-2010
Dmitri A. Medvedev	Head of State	14-Sep-1965		President of Russia, 2008-12
Tsar Michael	Royalty	22-Jul-1596	12-Jul-1645	Tsar of Russia, 1613-45
Tsar Nicholas I	Royalty	25-Jun-1796	18-Feb-1855	Repressive Tsar of Russia, 1825-55
Tsar Nicholas II	Royalty	18-May-1868	17-Jul-1918	Last of the Russian Tsars
Nikon	Religion	7-May-1605	17-Aug-1681	Reformer Patriarch of Moscow
Nikolai Novikov	Critic	27-Apr-1744	31-Jul-1818	Early Russian critic, The Drone
Arvo Pärt	Composer	11-Sep-1935		Choral composer
Tsar Paul I	Royalty	1-Oct-1754	24-Mar-1801	Tsar of Russia, 1796-1801
Anna Pavlova	Dancer	12-Feb-1881	22-Jan-1931	Early 20th century Russian ballerina
Tsar Peter II	Royalty	23-Oct-1715	29-Jan-1730	Tsar of Russia, 1727-30
Peter the Great	Royalty	9-Jun-1672	8-Feb-1725	Tsar of Russia, 1689-1725
Philaret	Royalty	1553	12-Oct-1633	Patriarch of Moscow
Aleksandr Pushkin	Poet	26-May-1799	10-Feb-1837	Russia's greatest poet
Vladimir Putin	Head of State	7-Oct-1952		President of Russia
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	Composer	6-Mar-1844	8-Jun-1908	The Flight of the Bumblebee
Igor Sikorsky	Business	25-May-1889	26-Oct-1972	Helicopter magnate
Alexander Suvorov	Military	24-Nov-1729	18-May-1800	Russian general, fought Turks, French
Leo Tolstoy	Author	9-Sep-1828	20-Nov-1910	Russian novelist
Tsar Vasily III	Royalty	25-Mar-1479	3-Dec-1533	Tsar of Russia, 1505-33
Lana Wood	Actor	1-Mar-1946		Diamonds Are Forever
Natalie Wood	Actor	20-Jul-1938	29-Nov-1981	Rebel Without A Cause
Viktor Yanukovych	Government	9-Jul-1950		President of Ukraine
Viktor Yushchenko	Head of State	23-Feb-1954		President of Ukraine, poisoned

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