Alexandre or Alexander Nikolayevich Benois was a Russian artist, art critic, historian, preservationist and founding member of Mir iskusstva, an art movement and magazine. As a designer for the Ballets Russes under Sergei Diaghilev, Benois exerted what is considered a seminal influence on the modern ballet and stage design.
Mikhail Illarionovich Artamonov was a Soviet and Russian historian and archeologist, who came to be recognized as the founding father of modern Khazar studies.
Sergey Fyodorovich Platonov was a Russian historian who led the official St Petersburg school of imperial historiography before and after the Russian Revolution.
Alexander Evgenyevich Fersman was a prominent Soviet Russian geochemist and mineralogist, and a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1919–1945).
Nathan Isaevich Altman Russian: Натан Исаевич Альтман, romanized: Natan Isayevich Altman; Ukrainian: Натан Ісайович Альтман; December 22 [O.S. December 10] 1889 – December 12, 1970) was a avant-garde artist, Cubist painter, stage designer and book illustrator, who was born in the Russian Empire and worked in France and the Soviet Union.
Alexander Alexandrovich Kornilov was a Russian historian and liberal politician.
The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was the highest scientific institution of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1991. It united the country's leading scientists and was subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
Isaak Izrailevich Brodsky was a Soviet painter whose work provided a blueprint for the art movement of socialist realism. He is known for his iconic portrayals of Lenin and idealized, carefully crafted paintings dedicated to the events of the Russian Civil War and Bolshevik Revolution.
Alexander Nikolaevich Samoylovich was a Russian Orientalist-Turkologist who served as a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1929), Rector of the Leningrad Oriental Institute (1922–1925), academic secretary of the Humanities Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1929–1933), and director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1934–1937). He was arrested by the NKVD in October 1937, and was executed on 13 February 1938.
Nikolay Petrovich Likhachyov, alternatively transliterated as Likhachev was the first and foremost Russian sigillographer who also contributed significantly to an array of auxiliary historical disciplines, including palaeography, epigraphy, diplomatics, genealogy, and numismatics. He was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1925 and was put in charge of the Archaeographic Commission in 1929.
Alexander Vyacheslavovich Ossovsky was a musical writer, critic and musicologist, professor at Saint Petersburg Conservatory, pupil of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and friend of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Siloti and Nikolai Tcherepnin. He was from the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union.
Alexander Ivanovich Sokolov was a Soviet Russian painter and Art teacher, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation, regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his genre painting.
Alexander Sergeevich Stolbov is a Soviet Russian painter and art teacher, living and working in Saint Petersburg. He is a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most known for his portraits.
Alexander Alexandrovich Tatarenko was a Russian painter, restorer, art teacher, and member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists who regarded as a representative of the Leningrad School of Painting.
Alexander Iosifovich Trishatny — a Russian right wing politician, one of the founders and leaders of the Union of the Russian People (URP), a loyalist right-wing nationalist party, the most important among Black-Hundredist monarchist and antisemitic political organizations in the Russian Empire of 1905–1917; Deputy Chairman of URP, member of its first Board and one of the authors of the URP Charter. Concurrently, in 1905 was a leader of URP peripheral branch in Yaroslavl.
The year 1987 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Tsekalo is a Soviet and Russian musician, actor, radio and TV host. Founder of production company Sreda, he is active in television since 1986. Tsekalo was the host of Minute of Fame and Big Difference.
The year 1938 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
Alexander Grigoryevitch Fridlender was a Soviet composer, pianist and conductor, Professor at the Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Presnyakov is a Soviet and Russian singer, musician, keyboardist, composer, arranger, and actor.
