Russia

Finnish Lutheran clergyman, poet, and translator, celebrated as the de facto founder of literary Finnish and a key figure in the Reformation

Russian author, philosopher, and pacifist regarded as one of history's most influential writers

Chechen politician and Islamic religious leader who served as Chief Mufti of Ichkeria and President of the Chechen Republic

Emperor of Russia, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland known for his reactionary domestic policies and as an art collector

Last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991, Nobel Peace Prize laureate for his role in radical changes in East-West relations, and a jurist, economist, and environmentalist

Soviet-Russian physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics

15th Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus' who guided the Russian Orthodox Church during a period of renewal and re-establishment

The 12th Emperor of Russia, known as Alexander the Liberator for abolishing serfdom in 1861

Ukrainian poet and artist who founded modern Ukrainian literature and language, and whose collection 'Kobzar' is a cornerstone of Slavic culture

Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist, founder of Suprematism, who pioneered abstract painting in the 20th century

Soviet academic, historian, ethnologist, and philosopher known for his unorthodox theories of ethnogenesis and as an exponent of Eurasianism