John "Jack" Silas Reed (October 22, 1887 - October 19, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist, famous for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution, "Ten Days that Shook the World". He was the husband of the writer and feminist Louise Bryant. Reed and Bryant were the subjects of the film "Reds" (1981), directed by Warren Beatty.

Stephen Frand Cohen is a scholar of Russian studies in the USA. His academic work concentrates on developments in Russia since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and the country's relationship with the United States. In 1983, he declared that the Soviet system was remarkably stable, not foreseeing the breakup of the USSR less than a decade later, in 1991.

Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova, née Taneyeva, was a lady-in-waiting, best friend and confidante to Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna.

Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart KCMG (2 September 1887 - 27 February, 1970), was a journalist, author, secret agent, British diplomat in Moscow, and later in Prague, and footballer.

Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (15 July 1870 - 28 March 1922) was a Russian criminologist, journalist, and liberal politician.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Pozner was a Russian-Jewish emigré to the United States. During World War II he spied for Soviet intelligence while being employed by the United States Government. The Pozner family fled Soviet Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, and Vladimir Pozner became a Communist sympathizer while living in Europe. He was chief engineer of the European branch of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in Paris in 1938.

Boris Abramovich Kaufman was an Oscar-winning (1954) cinematographer. He was the younger brother of famous filmmakers Dziga Vertov (Denis Kaufman) and Mikhail Kaufman. Kaufman was born into a family of Jewish intellectuals living in Białystok at the time when the Congress Poland was a part of the Russian Empire. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Poland regained its independence, and Boris, together with his parents, moved to Poland.

Stuart Damon (born Stuart Michael Zonis on February 5, 1937) is an American actor. He is best known for 30 years of playing character Dr. Alan Quartermaine on the American soap opera "General Hospital", for which he won an Emmy Award in 1999.

John Keracher (1880 - 1958) was an American Communist pioneer. Born in Scotland, Keracher emigrated to the United States in 1909 and settled in Detroit, where he worked in a shoe store, and in April 1910 he joined the Socialist Party and after a while Keracher became the leader of the Socialist Party in Michigan. Keracher wanted to make the party more revolutionary and wanted its members to study Marxism deeper.

Count (Comte) Paul Nikolaevich Ignatieff was the Minister of Education and senior advisor to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia from 1915-1917. Paul's father Count Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev,was Russian Minister of the Interior under Tsar Alexander III of Russia. Ignatieff married Princess Natalya Meshcherskaya (1877-1944) in Nice, France on April 16, 1903. They would have five children, all boys. As a result of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ignatieff and his family fled to the West.

Dora Black (3 April 1894 - 31 May 1986), was an author, a feminist and progressive campaigner, and the second wife of the eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell. Black was born into an English middle class family, the second of four children. Her father, Sir Frederick Black, worked his way up in the Civil Service and laid great store by his children's education, regardless of their sex. She went to a private co-educational primary school near her parents' place, …

Tibor Szamuely was a Hungarian Communist leader. Born in Nyíregyháza, a city in the Northeast of Hungary, Szamuely (original Samuel) was the oldest son of five children of a Jewish family. After sompleting his university studies, he became a journalist. He started his political activities as a member of the Hungarian Social Democratic Party. Szamuely was drafted and fought as a soldier during World War I; in 1915, he was captured by the Russians.

Vladimir Mitrofanovich Purishkevich (August 12, 1870, Kishinev - February, 1920, Novorossiysk, Russia), was a Russian politician before the Bolshevik revolution. Born in a family of poor nobleman in Bessarabia Purishkevich graduated from Odessa university with a degree in philosophy. Purishkevich was a far-rightist who in 1905 was one of the founders of the Union of the Russian People, …

Jonah (Pokrovsky), Bishop of Hankou, was a diocesan bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) who served in Northern China in the years immediately following the Bolshevik Revolution. He died on, and was officially glorified by the ROCOR on October 20 1996.

Vladimir Oskarovich Kappel was a White Russian military leader. During the First World War he was a Chief of the 347th Infantry Regiment's Staff and an officer in the 1st Army's Staff. Following the Bolshevik Revolution, Kappel commanded the Komuch White Army group (1918) and from December of 1919 the Eastern Front of Aleksandr Kolchak. Kappel was born in the Swedish-Russian family.

Baron Nicolas Louis Alexandre de Gunzburg was an editor in chief of Town & Country and an influential fashion editor at Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Born in Paris to a wealthy ennobled Russian banking family called Günzburg; the umlaut was dropped and the aristocratic particle "de" added in the nineteenth century. His father was a Russian Jew, and his mother was Polish-Brazilian, which perhaps accounts for his exotic good looks.

Ivan Alexander Galamian (January 23, 1903-April 14, 1981) was one of the most influential violin teachers of the Twentieth Century. He was born in Tabriz, Persia, to Armenians from Russia, but his family soon emigrated to Moscow, Russia. Galamian studied violin at the School of the Philharmonic Society there with Konstantin Mostras (a student of Leopold Auer) until his graduation in 1919.

Patriarch Alexius I (Sergey Simansky) (Russian: Патриарх Алексий I (Сергей Симанский) (October 27, 1877 – April 17, 1970), was the 14th Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia, head of the Russian Orthodox Church between 1945 and 1970. Born in Moscow to a noble family, his father was a Russian Royal House Chamberlain.

Isaak Izrailevich Brodskiy (August 14, 1939, Leningrad) was a Soviet painter whose work provided a blueprint for the art movement of socialist realism. He is known for his iconic portayals of Lenin and idealized, carefully crafted paintings dedicated to the events of the Russian Civil War and Bolshevik Revolution. Brodskiy was born in the village of Sofiyevka in Ukraine. He studied at Odessa Art Academy and the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg.

Fernanda Eberstadt (born 1960 in New York City) is an American writer. She is the daughter of two patrons of New York City's avant-garde, Frederick Eberstadt, a photographer and psychotherapist, and Isabel Eberstadt, a writer. Her paternal grandfather was Ferdinand Eberstadt, a Wall Street financier and adviser to presidents; her maternal grandfather was the poet Ogden Nash.

Anna Wolkoff (1902 - August 2, 1973), sometimes known as Anna de Wolkoff, was a Russian fascist who, early in World War II, was an accomplice of Tyler Kent, a cipher clerk at the U.S. Embassy in London, in his espionage activities. She was charged by the British with violating the Official Secrets Act, specifically by aiding Kent in obtaining "documents which might be useful to an enemy" and copying them "with intent to assist an enemy".

Peter (or Pyotr) Berngardovich Struve (January 26, 1870, Perm - February 22, 1944, Paris) was a Russian political economist, philosopher and editor. He started out as a Marxist, later became a liberal and after the Bolshevik revolution joined the White movement.

Count (17 November 1865 - 12 March 1936) was a Japanese statesman and diplomat. He was also known as Uchida Yasuya. Born in what is now Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, as the son of the domain's doctor, Uchida was a graduate of Tokyo Imperial University. He entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and served as minister to Qing dynasty China, then as ambassador to Austria-Hungary, and then to the United States.

Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, known as The Steipler or The Steipler Gaon (1899-1985), was a world-renowned Posek and Talmudic scholar. He was born in the Russian town of Horensteipl, from which his appellation, "the Steipler", was later derived. He was the son of Chaim Peretz, who was a Chernobyl Chassid and the local shochet. Around the age of 11, Rabbi Kanievsky entered the Novardok yeshiva, studying under its famed dean, …

Mikhail Diterikhs was a Russian general and a key figure in the White movement in Siberia, during the Russian Civil War. Diterikhs was born to a father of Czech ancestry who served a general of the Russian Imperial Army in the Caucasus. In 1900, Diterikhs graduated the Pazhevsk cadet corps and served in Turkestan. He participated in the Russo-Japanese War after which he served in the imperial army's headquarters.

Mona May Karff (1914 - 1998) was an American competitive chess player. Karff dominated U.S. women's chess in the 1940s and early 1950s and had an extended career. She held seven U.S. Women's Chess Champion titles and four consecutive U.S. Open titles. She was born Mona May Ratner in Bessarabia, a province in Tsarist Russia, on October 20, 1914. Sometime after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, her family moved to Tel-Aviv, in what was then Palestine.

Hilda Leesmann, was an Estonian ballet student and an accomplished classical pianist who in 1915 married Alfred Rosenberg, the later leading German National Socialist ("Nazi") ideologist and politician. She developed tuberculosis, as a result of the horrible privations attendant upon the war in Eastern Europe and during the Bolshevik Revolution. She went to Switzerland in 1918. Alfred Rosenberg and she did not see each other again, and in 1923 he allowed her to divorce him.

Anatole de Grunwald was a British film producer and screenwriter. Anatole de Grunwald was born in Petrograd, (now St. Petersburg), Russia, the son of a diplomat in the service of the Russian Czar. He was seven years old when his father was forced to flee with his family to England during the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. He grew up in England, studied at Cambridge and the Sorbonne and started a career as a journalist.

Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, modern Uzbek: "Hamza Hakimzoda Niyoziy" (1889 - 1929) was an Uzbek poet. He ardently supported the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and was killed by religious activists for his anti-religious activities. For many years he was considered a founder of the modern Uzbek poetry.

Martti Välikangas was a Finnish architect renowned for the design of the Käpylä Garden City in Helsinki, designed in the Nordic Classicism style. Välikangas studied architecture at Helsinki University of Technology, qualifying as an architect in 1917. In 1921 he left on a study tour of Italy (as well as visiting the other Nordic countries, Germany, France and north Africa), …

Ludwig Maercker was a German General of World War I. Following the Armistice of 1918 that saw the end of fighting and of the Bolshevik revolution that led to the creation of the Soviet Union, there were many examples of disturbances throughout Germany. Maercker suggested the formation of "Freikorps" (Free Corpsto suppress these and a number of formations formed themselves, usually around individual army officers.

Peter Heinrich von Blanckenhagen (born Riga, Latvia 1909; died 1990) was a scholar of Roman art, and especially ancient wall painting. Born in Latvia, von Blanckenhagen and his family fled to Germany following the Bolshevik Revolution. It was in German universities that he received his training in classical archaeology. In 1947 von Blanckenhagen came to the United States and was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago.

Baron Alexander von Staël-Holstein was a Russian orientalist, specializing in Buddhist texts. Related to Madame de Staël's husband, the future baron was born in an aristocratic family in Estonia, then belonging to the Russian Empire, on the New Year's Day. He was educated at home during his childhood. When he reached 15, he was sent to a Gymnasium in the town of Pärnu. He pursued his higher education at the Dorpat University, where some of his families had studied, …

Vladimir Fyodorvich Dzhunkovskiy (Saint Petersburg-February 21, 1938, Moscow) was a Russian statesman. He held the posts of the Governor of Moscow Guberniya and the Governor-General of Moscow (August 6, 1908 - January 25, 1913). Dzhunkovskiy was also an adjutant of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, the head of the Moscow City Board of the People's Soberness Trusteeship and the Chief of the Special Corps of Gendarmes.

Bento António Gonçalves, <small>GOL</small> (1902-1942) was the second Secretary General of the Portuguese Communist Party, he was born in Montalegre, near Bragança, in the North of Portugal. Not much is known about his childhood. In 1915 he became an apprentice mechanical turner in Lisbon, four years later, in 1919 he started doing the same work in the Arsenal of the Portuguese navy in Alfeite.

Ivar Teodor Vennerström was a Swedish Social Democratic politician, member of the Riksdag 1915 - 1936. Vennerström joined the left opposition of the Swedish Social Democratic Party in the split of 1917, and initially supported the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. But Vennerström opposed the Twenty-one Conditions of the Communist International and left the Left Party in 1921 as it became the Communist Party of Sweden.

Arthur Cherep-Spiridovitch (1858-October 22, 1926). Count, Major General in Imperial Russian Army, author. He was also a publicist for, and promoter of, the notorious Protocols of Zion, early advocate of conspiracy theory, of the secret "world government," and the notion of the "hidden hand." He is the author of the 1926 notorious text, "The Secret World Government: or, "The Hidden Hand"