page 2 of 271

Swiss mathematician

Soviet and Russian writer

Tsar of Cornești

Ex-KGB agent and FSB lieutenant-colonel

Soviet writer, journalist and screenwriter

Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, and theatre and opera director

Soviet poet and journalist (1913-1991)

Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

Russian-born American writer and philosopher

Russian playwright, screenwriter and theater director

Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist

Ukrainian-American actress and model

American actor

Polish national poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, and political activist

Russian philologist

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

Russian poet

Russian writer

��країнський музичний продюсер

Soviet geographer

Soviet writer and journalist (1923-2011)

Ukrainian singer

Russian film director, screenwriter and film producer

Russian writer and satirist

Russian revolutionary and writer

Soviet-Latvian chess player

Founder of Yiddish theatre

Soviet and Russian poet

Polish politician

Soviet poet (1948-1988)

Russian chess grandmaster

Writer and politician

Russian writer and literary critic

writer and poet (1921-2005)

Russian historian and activist