Quotation authors – russian

Aleksandr Kuprin AUG 26, 1870 Writer Aleksandr Lebed APR 20, 1950 Politician Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn DEC 11, 1918 Author, Writer Alexander Alekhine OCT 31, 1892 Chessplayer Alexander Berkman NOV 21, 1870 Writer Alexander Borodin – Composer Alexander Herzen APR 6, 1812 Journalist Alexander Kerensky APR 22, 1881 Public Servant Alexander Scriabin JAN 6, 1872 Composer Alexandra Kosteniuk APR 23, 1984 Celebrity Alexei Navalny – Activist Alfred Schnittke NOV 24, 1934 Composer Anatoli Boukreev JAN 16, 1958 Athlete Anatoly Chubais JUN 16, 1955 Politician Anatoly Karpov MAY 23, 1951 Celebrity Andre Kostelanetz DEC 22, 1901 Musician Andrei A. Gromyko JUL 18, 1909 Politician Andrei Platonov SEP 1, 1899 Writer, Playwright Andrei Sakharov MAY 21, 1921 Physicist Anna Kournikova JUN 7, 1981 Athlete Anna Pavlova JAN 31, 1882 Dancer Anton Chekhov JAN 29, 1860 Playwright Anton Rubinstein NOV 28, 1829 Musician Arthur Adamov AUG 23, 1908 Playwright Ayn Rand FEB 2, 1905 Writer Boris Pasternak FEB 10, 1890 Novelist, Writer Boris Spassky JAN 30, 1937 Celebrity Boris Yeltsin FEB 1, 1931 Statesman Catherine II APR 21, 1729 Statesman, Politician Constantin Stanislavski JAN 17, 1863 Actor Dimitri Shostakovich SEP 25, 1906 Composer Dmitri Mendeleev FEB 8, 1834 Scientist Dziga Vertov JAN 2, 1896 Director Ekaterina Gordeeva MAY 28, 1971 Athlete El Lissitzky NOV 23, 1890 Artist Elena Vesnina AUG 1, 1986 Athlete Fanny Kaplan FEB 10, 1890 Activist Fyodor Dostoevsky NOV 11, 1821 Novelist, Writer George Balanchine JAN 9, 1904 Dancer H. P. Blavatsky AUG 12, 1831 Philosopher Igor Ivanov SEP 23, 1945 Statesman Igor Stravinsky JUN 17, 1882 Composer Ilya Yashin JUN 29, 1983 Activist Isaac Babel JUL 13, 1894 Journalist, Writer Isaac Stern JUL 21, 1920 Musician Isaiah Berlin JUN 6, 1909 Philosopher Ivan Goncharov JUN 18, 1812 Novelist, Writer Ivan Pavlov SEP 14, 1849 Psychologist Ivan Turgenev OCT 28, 1818 Novelist, Writer, Poet Joseph Stalin DEC 21, 1879 Leader Konstantin Tsiolkovsky SEP 5, 1857 Scientist L. Wolfe Gilbert AUG 31, 1886 Musician Leo Tolstoy SEP 9, 1828 Novelist Leon Theremin AUG 15, 1896 Inventor Leon Trotsky OCT 26, 1879 Revolutionary, Politician Leonid Andreyev AUG 9, 1871 Playwright Leonid I. Brezhnev DEC 19, 1906 Statesman Madame Swetchine – Writer Marat Safin JAN 27, 1980 Athlete Maria Sharapova APR 19, 1987 Athlete Marina Oswald OCT 18, 1939 Celebrity Marina Tsvetaeva OCT 9, 1892 Poet Mary Antin FEB 24, 1909 Activist Maxim Gorky MAR 16, 1868 Novelist, Playwright, Writer Meyer Lansky JUL 4, 1902 Criminal Mikhail Bakunin MAY 30, 1814 Revolutionary, Writer, Philosopher Mikhail Botvinnik AUG 17, 1911 Celebrity Mikhail Glinka MAY 20, 1804 Composer Mikhail Kalashnikov NOV 10, 1919 Inventor Mikhail Khodorkovsky JUN 26, 1963 Businessman Mikhail Kutuzov SEP 16, 1745 Soldier Mikhail Lermontov OCT 15, 1814 Poet Modest Mussorgsky – Composer Morris Raphael Cohen JUL 25, 1880 Philosopher Natan Sharansky JAN 20, 1948 Writer Nathalie Sarraute JUL 18, 1900 Lawyer Nicholas II MAY 18, 1868 Royalty Nikita Khrushchev APR 17, 1894 Statesman Nikolai Berdyaev MAR 18, 1874 Philosopher Nikolai Gogol MAR 31, 1809 Writer Oleksandr Zhuravliov SEP 1, 1945 Athlete Olga Korbut MAY 16, 1955 Athlete Peter Kropotkin DEC 9, 1842 Revolutionary Raisa Gorbachyova JAN 5, 1932 Celebrity Regina Spektor FEB 18, 1980 Musician Romain Gary MAY 8, 1914 Novelist, Writer Roman Jakobson OCT 11, 1896 Scientist Rosa Luxemburg MAR 5, 1870 Activist Rudolf Nureyev MAR 17, 1938 Dancer Samuel Hoffenstein OCT 9, 1890 Writer