Russian memoirists

Russian jurist and opposition leader (1976–2024)

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1895-1977)

Soviet film director and screenwriter (1930–2019)

Russian citizen from Moscow who played a significant role in the War in Donbass

human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov

Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union

Soviet writer, playwright, screenwriter, poet (1897–1986)

Russian memoirist (1846–1918)

Russian poet, literary critic (1886–1939)

Russian doctor and writer (1867–1945)

Ukrainian separatist leader (born 1983)

Soviet and Russian writer (1924—2013)

Ukrainian, Russian & Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor (1889-1957)

Russian literary critic and writer (1937–2021)

Russian actor

Russian writer (1954–2017)

Russian journalist

Russian artist

Russian painter (1964-2020)

Russian diplomat, politician and businessman

Soviet and Russian actress

former soldier of the Russian Army, paratroopers during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, author of a detailed memoir on the war

Russian academic and politician (1879-1964)

Soviet writer (1908–1999)

Russian politician and lawyer

Russian futurist poet, writer and playwright

Russian-American writer