Andrei Platonov

Andrei Platonov

male, deceased (1951)
Andrei Platonov was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, a Russian writer of the Soviet period whose works anticipate existentialism....
Nikolai Cherkasov

Nikolai Cherkasov

male, deceased (1966)
Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov (July 27, 1903 - September 14, 1966), was a Soviet actor. From 1919 he was a mime artist in Petrograd's Maryinsky...
Yegor Ligachev

Yegor Ligachev

male, 89 years old
Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev is a Russian politician, who was a high-ranking official in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Originally a protege of...
Galina Ulanova

Galina Ulanova

female, deceased (1998)
Galina Sergeyevna Ulánova (8 January 1910 (O.S. 26 December 1909) - 21 March, 1998) has the reputation of the greatest Soviet ballerina. Her flat i...

Antonín Zápotocký

male, deceased (1957)
Antonín Zápotocký was Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1953 and President of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1957. He was born in Zák...

Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski

male, deceased (1966)
General Count Tadeusz Komorowski (June 1, 1895 - August 24, 1966), better known by the name Bór-Komorowski (after one of his wartime code-names: "...

Max Hayward

male, deceased (1979)
Max (Harry Maxwell) Hayward (28 July 1924 London - 18 March 1979 Oxford) was a British lecturer on and translator of Russian literature. After...
Aleksandr Vasilevsky

Aleksandr Vasilevsky

male, deceased (1977)
Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky (September 30 1895 - December 5 1977) was a Soviet military commander, promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union in...
Yelena Bonner

Yelena Bonner

female, 86 years old
Yelena Georgevna Bonner (born February 15, 1923) is a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and widow of the late Andrei Sakharov.
Rexford Tugwell

Rexford Tugwell

male, deceased (1979) (Eugene, Oregon, United States)
Rexford Guy Tugwell was an agricultural economist who became part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Brains Trust," a group of Columbia academics who...