Alexander Alekhine
Chess player known for the Alekhine's defense, World Champion from 1927-1935, and again from 1937-1946
1892-1946 (54)
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
novelist, author of the Gulag Archipelago, Live Not by Lies (1974), philosopher, historian, Nobel Prize for Literature, victim of Bolshevism
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Billionaire, chairman of Evraz steel producer, Titan yacht owner
1959- (66)
Anastas Mikoyan
Old Bolshevik statesman for the Soviet Union, communist revolutionary
1895-1978 (83)
Boris Berezovsky
Russian oligarch aka Platon Elenin, oil & gas tycoon, engineer, pianist, billionaire, bought Sibneft which is now Gazprom Neft with Roman Abramovich, businessman, petroleum engineer, mathematician, Russian Academy of Sciences
1946-2013 (67)
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Boris Godunov
Tsar of Russia (Muscovy/Moscow) from 1598-1605, statesman, chief advisor to Fyodor I from 1584-1598
1551-1605 (54)
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Boris Yeltsin
President of Russian Federation from 1991-1999, politician, Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961-1990
1931-2007 (76)
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Edward Snowden living
CIA whistleblower aka Ed Snowden, computer scientist, techie, programmer, NSA whistleblower, former National Security Agency (NSA) agent, became a Russian citizen in 2022
1983- (42)
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Felix Dzerzhinsky
Bolshevik revolutionary aka Iron Felix Dzerzinski who treated citizens as cattle and known for the Red Terror in 1905 was arrested 5X from 1897-1908 who escaped exile in Siberia, Lithuanian Social Democratic Party politician in 1895, aristocrat, military veteran, intelligence officer, head of Soviet secret police organizations (OGPU and the Cheka), founder of FC Dynamo Moscow football club (soccer), Society of Former Political Prisoners and Exiled Settlers
1877-1926 (49)
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Fyodor II of Russia
Tsar of Russia in 1605 (briefly), died in the Time of Troubles
1589-1605 (16)
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Lev Leviev living
Billionaire aka the King of Diamonds, businessman, investor, founder of Leviev Diamonds (Lev Leviev Group), philanthropist, president of the World Bukharian Jewish Congress
1956- (69)
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Maria Zakharova living
Russian diplomat, communications director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation since 2015
1975- (50)
Maxim Gorky
Marxist communist, writer, author of Letopis, dramatist, socialist realism, politician, political activist, Gorky Park in Moscow
1868-1936 (68)
Nikita Khrushchev
Communist Party politician, diplomat during the Cuban Missle Crisis, Premier of the Soviet Union and chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1958-1964, first secretary of the Communist Party from 1953-1964
1894-1971 (77)
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Patokh Chodiev living
Belgian-Uzbek oligarch, businessman, Kazakhstan oil & gas, co-founder of Eurasian Natural Resources (ENR), minerals, partner in Eurasian Resources Group (ERG)
1953- (72)
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Suleiman Kerimov
Russian oligarch, mining magnate, billionaire industrialist, majority owner of Polyus gold mining, investor, owner of Nafta Moskva Investments, superyacht owner of Amadea seized
Leon Trotsky
Bolchevik revolution in Russia (the Bolcheviks) started WWI with the assassination of the archduke Franz Ferdinand, Marxist revolutionary activist aka Leon Trotsky, now called Trotskyism (or Trotskyites), founder of the Red Army (Red Terror), financed out of New York by JP Morgan and out of Canada by Walter Boyce Thompson with $1 million dollars to create the Capitalist-Communist Financial International, political theory of permanent revolution, murdered in Mexico
1879-1940 (61)
Vladimir Kryuchkov
KGB intelligence officer for the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, diplomat, lawyer, attorney
1924-2007 (83)