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Russia
country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia, the largest in the world by area
80 entities
15 domains
Human
60Vladimir Putin
Person
President of Russian Federation
Leo Tolstoy
Person
Russian author (1828–1910)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Person
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
Alexander Pushkin
Person
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)
Anton Chekhov
Person
Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Person
Russian composer (1840–1893)
Leon Trotsky
Person
Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
Maxim Gorky
Person
Russian and Soviet writer (1868–1936)
Dmitri Mendeleev
Person
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
Peter the Great
Person
Tsar/Emperor of Russia from 1682 to 1725
Dmitry Medvedev
Person
President of Russia from 2008 to 2012, Prime Minister of Russia (2012-2020) and Deputy Chairman of t...
Anna Netrebko
Person
Russian and Austrian operatic soprano
Igor Stravinsky
Person
Russian, French, and American composer (1882–1971)
Boris Yeltsin
Person
Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Person
Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)
Nikolai Gogol
Person
Russian writer of Ukrainian origin (1809–1852)
Catherine II of Russia
Person
eighth Emperor of Russia, called the Great, r. 1762–1796 (lived 1729-1796)
Ivan Turgenev
Person
Russian writer (1818–1883)
Vladimir Nabokov
Person
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
Boris Pasternak
Person
Russian writer (1890–1960)
Mikhail Bakunin
Person
Russian revolutionary anarchist and philosopher (1814–1876)
Alexander von Humboldt
Person
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
Nicholas II of Russia
Person
14th and last Emperor of Russia (1894–1917)
Alexei Navalny
Person
Russian jurist and opposition leader (1976-2024)
Valery Leontiev
Person
Russian singer
Valentina Tereshkova
Person
Russian cosmonaut and pilot, first woman to have flown in space (born 1937)
Anna Akhmatova
Person
Russian poet (1889–1966)
Wilhelm II
Person
as King of Prussia last German Emperor from 1888 to 1918 (1859–1941)
Mikhail Lermontov
Person
Russian writer, poet and painter (1814–1841)
Emma Goldman
Person
Russian-born American anarchist (1869–1940)
Ayn Rand
Person
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Person
Russian and Soviet poet (1893–1930)
Frederick II of Prussia
Person
King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786 (1712-1786)
Ivan Bunin
Person
Russian writer and poet (1870–1953)
Joseph Brodsky
Person
Russian-American poet (1940-1996)
Ivan Pavlov
Person
Russian physiologist (1849–1936)
Ivan the Terrible
Person
Tsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584
Mikhail Bulgakov
Person
Russian author (1891–1940)
Garry Kasparov
Person
Russian chess grandmaster and activist
Peter Kropotkin
Person
Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842–1921)
Maria Sharapova
Person
Russian tennis player
Grigori Rasputin
Person
Russian mystic (1869–1916)
Sergei Yesenin
Person
Russian poet (1895–1925)
Alexander I of Russia
Person
The tenth Emperor of Russia (1777–1825)
Mikhail Lomonosov
Person
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
Carl von Clausewitz
Person
German-Prussian general and military theorist (1780–1831)
Alla Pugacheva
Person
Soviet-Russian singer, composer, and actress
Paul von Hindenburg
Person
Prussian-German field marshal of the German Empire, statesman and president of Weimar Germany and Na...
Nicholas I of Russia
Person
The 11th Emperor of Russia, 1825–1855 (lived 1796-1855)
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Person
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
Alexander II of Russia
Person
The 12th Emperor of Russia (1855–1881)
Wassily Kandinsky
Person
avant-garde painter of Russian origin (1866-1944)
Alexander Blok
Person
Russian poet (1880–1921)
Sergei Lavrov
Person
Russian politician of Armenian origin, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Andrei Tarkovsky
Person
Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera direct...
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
Person
Russian mathematician (1792–1856)
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Person
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
Alexander III of Russia
Person
Emperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Person
Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835)
Anna Politkovskaya
Person
Russian journalist (1958–2006)
River
6Volga
Place
river in Russia; the longest river in Europe
Lena River
Place
river in Eastern Siberia, Russia
Ob
Place
second-longest river in Russia
Ural River
Place
river in Russia and Kazakhstan
Don
Place
Russian river, fifth-longest river in Europe
Neva
Place
river in Russia connecting Lake Ladoga and the Baltic Sea
