Statistics for Famous Russian People

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Clue	Person	% Correct
Communist revolutionary; first leader of the Soviet Union	Vladimir Lenin	97%
Current President of the Russian Federation	Vladimir Putin	92%
Writer of 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina'	Leo Tolstoy	88%
Pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space	Yuri Gagarin	86%
Last Tsar of Russia; executed by the Bolsheviks	Nicholas II	81%
Eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union	Mikhail Gorbachev	80%
Self-proclaimed holy man and nightmare for assassins	Grigori Rasputin	72%
Chemist and inventor; formulated the Periodic Law	Dmitri Mendeleev	61%
Founded St. Petersburg in 1703 and bore the Russian Navy	Peter the Great	61%
Nearly bankrupted his Empire in the Livonian War; killed his own son	Ivan the Terrible	53%
Poet and central representative of Romanticism in Russian literature	Alexander Pushkin	41%
Prima ballerina; principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet	Anna Pavlova	20%
Painter and art theorist and significant pioneer of abstraction in art	Wassily Kandinsky	19%
Viewed as Russia's greatest sniper; killed 40 enemy soldiers within a month	Vasily Zaitsev	9%
Mathematician and physicist; best known for the pioneering theory of an expanding Universe	Alexander Friedmann	6%