Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin

male, deceased (2007)
Russian, dissolution of the Soviet Union, russianhistory, president of russia, Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, welfare…Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, Russian Orthodox Christian, 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...
Richard Pipes

Richard Pipes

male, 86 years old
Jewish, Team B, Historian of Russia, anti-communist, American, Jewish person…russianhistory
Richard Edgar Pipes (b. July 11, 1923) is an American scholar who specializes in Russian history. During the Cold War era he headed Team B.
Orlando Figes

Orlando Figes

male, 50 years old
historian, russianhistory, British, the guardian, Historian of Russia, Academic of Birkbeck, University of London
Orlando Figes (born 1959) is one of Britain's leading historians of modern Russian history and a professor at Birkbeck, University of London. He...
Simon Sebag Montefiore

Simon Sebag Montefiore

male, 44 years old
soviet, Jewish, Soviet Archives, Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, tipsy, potemkin…russianhistory
Simon Sebag Montefiore (born 1965) is a British journalist and historian of Jewish origin specializing in Russian History. He wrote "Potemkin", a...

Geoffrey Hosking

male, 67 years old
Oxford University, Geoffrey A. Hosking, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London, Academic of the University of Essex, University of Essex…russianhistory
Geoffrey A. Hosking (born 1942, Scotland) is a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. He became professor of Russian history at the School of...
Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Mussorgsky

male, deceased (1881)
Russian, nationalist, Russian folklore, The Five, tone poem, Pictures at an Exhibition…russianhistory, russian music
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (Modest Petrovič Musorgskij, one of the Russian composers known as the Five, was an innovator of Russian music. He s...

Nicholas V. Riasanovsky

male
Harvard University, Oxford University, University of Oregon, historian, russianhistory, Historian of Russia…A History of Russia
Nicholas V. Riasanovsky is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of numerous books on Russian History. The...
Lindsey Hughes

Lindsey Hughes

female, deceased (2007)
Lindsey A. J. Hughes, University College London, peter the great, art history, russianhistory, School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Lindsey A. J. Hughes was a historian of Russia. She was Professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES),...
George Vernadsky

George Vernadsky

male, deceased (1973)
historian, russianhistory, Russian, Yale University faculty, American, Historian of Russia…Russian-American
George Vernadsky was a Russian-American historian and an author of numerous books on Russian history.
Martin Malia

Martin Malia

male, deceased (2004)
historian, russianhistory, Historian of Russia, University of California at Berkeley, Eastern EuropeCentral EuropeEurope, To the Stalin Mausoleum
Martin Malia (1924-2004) was a historian specializing in Russian history. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1958 to 1991....