Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin

male, deceased (2007)
Russian, dissolution of the Soviet Union, russian history, president of russia, Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, welfare…Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, RussianOrthodoxChristian, President of the Russian Federation, Russian Federation, Former Russian President
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (February 1 1931 - April 23 2007) was the first president of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999. Yeltsin...
Seraphim Of Sarov

Seraphim Of Sarov

male, deceased (1833)
hesychasm, eastern orthodox, RussianOrthodoxChristian, Russian, starets, eastern orthodoxy…eastern orthodox church, Christian
Saint Seraphim of Sarov, born Prokhor Moshnin (Прохор Мошнин), is one of the most renowned Russian monks and mystics in the Eastern Orthodox Chu...
Theodosius Dobzhansky

Theodosius Dobzhansky

male, deceased (1975)
Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky, evolutionary biology, naturalized citizen of the United States, geneticist, RussianOrthodoxChristian, Evolutionary biologist
Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky (Ukrainian - Теодосій Григорович Добжанський; sometimes anglicized to Theodore Dobzhansky; January 25, 1900...
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

male, deceased (1881)
novelist, social, Notes from Underground, existentialism, political, Russian…Russian literature, RussianOrthodoxChristian, Russian writer
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (–) is considered one of two greatest prose writers of Russian literature, alongside close contemporary Leo To...
Alexander Schmemann

Alexander Schmemann

male, deceased (1983)
teacher, tallinn, estonian, Theologian, writer, union theological seminary…RussianOrthodoxChristian, Orthodox Christian, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary
Alexander Schmemann was a prominent 20th century Orthodox Christian priest, teacher, and writer. Schmemann was born in Tallinn (Reval) Estonia to...
John Of Kronstadt

John Of Kronstadt

male
Saint John of Kronstadt, Sojuz Russkogo Naroda, Saint Ioann of Kronstadt, Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, Kronstadt, Russian Empire…russian orthodox church, RussianOrthodoxChristian, Russian
Saint John of Kronstadt in 1829. From 1855, he worked as a priest in Saint Andew's cathedral in Kronstadt. Here, he greatly committed himself to...
Seraphim Rose

Seraphim Rose

male, deceased (1982)
monk, eastern orthodox, Orthodox Christian, eastern orthodox church, RussianOrthodoxChristian, convert to Eastern Orthodox Christianity…Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
Seraphim Rose, born Eugene Dennis Rose (August 13, 1934-September 2, 1982), was a hieromonk or priest-monk of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

male, 90 years old
novelist, Nobel Prize winner, Russian, historian, Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Victim of Soviet repressions…convert to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, RussianOrthodoxChristian
Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (born December 11, 1918) is a Russian novelist, dramatist and historian. Through his writings, he made the world...
Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Rachmaninoff

male, deceased (1943)
Russian-American, Romantic music, Classical composer, Classical pianist, rachmaninov, Russian…RussianOrthodoxChristian
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff ("Sergej Vasilevič Rakhmaninov", 1 April, 1873 (N.S.) or 20 March 1873 (O.S.) - 28 March 1943) was a Russian c...
Tikhon Of Zadonsk

Tikhon Of Zadonsk

male, deceased (1783)
Saint, Russian, RussianOrthodoxChristian, russian orthodox church, novgorod, monastery
Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk (1724 - 1783) was born in the village of Korotsk, in the Novgorod region, Russia. He was tonsured a monk at the age of...