Famous Russian People

Name famous people whom are from Russia and/or of Russian descent.

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Clue	Person
Communist revolutionary; first leader of the Soviet Union	Vladimir Lenin
Writer of 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina'	Leo Tolstoy
Mathematician and physicist; best known for the pioneering theory of an expanding Universe	Alexander Friedmann
Viewed as Russia's greatest sniper; killed 40 enemy soldiers within a month	Vasily Zaitsev
Pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space	Yuri Gagarin
Current President of the Russian Federation	Vladimir Putin
Poet and central representative of Romanticism in Russian literature	Alexander Pushkin
Painter and art theorist and significant pioneer of abstraction in art	Wassily Kandinsky

Clue	Person
Last Tsar of Russia; executed by the Bolsheviks	Nicholas II
Chemist and inventor; formulated the Periodic Law	Dmitri Mendeleev
Founded St. Petersburg in 1703 and bore the Russian Navy	Peter the Great
Nearly bankrupted his Empire in the Livonian War; killed his own son	Ivan the Terrible
Self-proclaimed holy man and nightmare for assassins	Grigori Rasputin
Prima ballerina; principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet	Anna Pavlova
Eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union	Mikhail Gorbachev