Anna Politkovskaya

Anna Politkovskaya

female, deceased (2006)
Human Rights, journalist, murder victim, Journalist killed in Russia, deathbyfirearminRussia, Russian…death by firearm, awarded the Prize of the Journalists Union in 2001, Born in New York, New York
Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya was a Russian journalist and human rights activist well known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and the...
Nicholas II of Russia II of Russia

Nicholas II of Russia II of Russia

male, deceased (1918)
Passion bearers, Eastern Catholic saint, deathbyfirearminRussia, execution, eastern orthodox, Knight of the Garter…death by firearm
Nicholas II of Russia (Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov) ("Nikolay II") was the last Emperor of Russia, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland. He...
Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin

male, deceased (1837)
boris godunov, Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, poet, Russian literature, eugene onegin, Georges d'Anthès…deathbyfirearminRussia, death by firearm, novel in verse, born in Moscow, Russia, killed in duel
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian Romantic author who is considered to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian...
Genrikh Yagoda

Genrikh Yagoda

male, deceased (1938)
Russian, Nkvd, Yenokh (Enoch) Gershonovich Ieguda, deathbyfirearminRussia, Old Bolshevik, Old Bolsheviks…death by firearm, executed by firing squad
Genrikh Grigor'evich Yagoda (born Yenokh (Enoch) Gershonovich Ieguda ; ; 1891 - March 15 1938) was the head of the NKVD, the Soviet secret police,...
Sidney Reilly

Sidney Reilly

male, deceased (1925)
deathbyfirearminRussia, murder victim, German, London Evening Standard, Soviet spy, bolshevik…death by firearm, Secret services of Imperial Russia
Lieutenant Sidney George Reilly, MC (c. March 24, 1873? - November 5, 1925), famously known as the "Ace of Spies", was a Russian-born adventurer...
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna Of Russia

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna Of Russia

female, deceased (1918)
Passion bearers, Eastern Catholic saint, Murdered Russian royalty, deathbyfirearminRussia, russian orthodox saint, Tsarina Alexandra…Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaievna of Russia, death by firearm
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaievna of Russia (Tatiana Nikolaievna Romanova, (May 29 (O.S.)/June 10 (N.S.), 1897 - July 17, 1918), was the second...
Galina Starovoitova

Galina Starovoitova

female, deceased (1998)
deathbyfirearminRussia, Alumni of St. Petersburg State University, politician, dissident, murdered, murder victim…death by firearm
Galina Vasilyevna Starovoitova was a Russian politician and ethnographer known for her work to protect ethnic minorities and promote democratic...

Sheikh Abdul Halim

male, deceased (2006)
Abdul-Halim Salamovich Sadulayev, deathbyfirearminRussia, Politician of Ichkeria, Second Chechen War, Beslan, fundamentalist
Abdul-Halim Salamovich Sadulayev was the fourth Chechen rebel president to be killed in 12 years of separatist warfare in the southern Russian...
Grigori Rasputin

Grigori Rasputin

male, deceased (1916)
Mystic, Rasputin family, deathbyfirearminRussia, russian tsar, tsaritsa, Assassinated Russian…Haemophilia in European royalty, Tsarevich Alexei of Russia, Rasputin and the Fall of Imperial Russia, cause of death disputed, death by firearm
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic who is perceived as having influenced the later days of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II, his wife the...
Christian Rakovsky

Christian Rakovsky

male, deceased (1941)
Russian, Romanian Social Democratic Party, Bulgarian Social Democratic Union, Romanian-Russians, World War I, Russian of Bulgarian descent…deathbyfirearminRussia, Romanian writer in French, Imperial Russia, Exonerated Soviet death sentence
Christian Rakovsky was a Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and Soviet diplomat; he was also noted as a journalist,...