Adrianov, Alexander Alexandrovich (1862–1918), White general and town governor of Moscow from February 1908 to May 1915.
Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna (1888–1966), poet.
Aksakov, Ivan Sergeevich (1823–1886), prominent Slavophile, publicist, and poet.
Aldanov-Landau, Mark Alexandrovich (1886–1957), writer.
Alexeev, Gleb Vasilievich (1892–1938), author and journalist.
Alexeev, Mikhail Vasilievich (1857–1918), military commander and one of the early leaders of the anti-Bolshevik White forces.
Andreev, Leonid Nikolaevich (1871–1919), writer.
Anna Ivanovna (1693–1740), empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740.
Antonov-Ovseenko, Vladimir Alexandrovich (1884–1939), revolutionary, party, and state leader, and commander of Red Army units in the Ukraine.
Auslender, Sergei Abramovich (1886–1937), writer and Soviet party and government figure.
Bagritsky (pseudonym of Dryubin, Eduard Georgievich) (1897–1934), poet.
Bakh, Alexei Nikolaevich (1857–1946), academician, biochemist, member of the pre-Revolutionary terrorist group “The People’s Will.”
Balabanova, Anzhelika Isaakovna (1878–1965), writer, political figure, and international social activist.
Bal’mont, Konstantin Dmitrievich (1867–1942), Symbolist poet.
Barmash, Vladimir (dates unknown), agronomist.
Batyushkov, Konstantin Nikolaevich (1787–1855), poet.
Bely, Andrei (pseudonym of Bugaev, Boris Nikolaevich) (1880–1934), poet and writer.
Beranger, Pierre (1780–1857), French poet.
Biron, Ernst Johann (1690–1772), prominent favorite of Empress Anna Ivanovna.
Blok, Alexander Alexandrovich (1880–1921), Symbolist poet.
Bogdanov, Boris Osipovich (1884–1956), Menshevik and prominent revolutionary activist.
Breshko-Breshkovskaya, Ekaterina Dmitrievna (1844–1934), one of the leaders of the Social Revolutionary party, also known as the “grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”
Bronstein. See Trotsky.
Bryusov, Valery Yakovlevich (1873–1924), poet.
Bubnov, Andrei Sergeevich (1884–1940), member of the Politburo and chief of the Revolutionary and Executive committees of the soviet at Kiev.
Budberg, Alexei Pavlovich (1869–1945), White officer.
Bukovetsky, Evgeny Osipovich (1866–1948), genre painter.
Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasievich (1891–1940), writer and playright.
Bulgakov, Valentin Fyodorovich (1886–1966), writer, memoirist, and secretary to Leo Tolstoy in 1910.
Bunin, Yuly Alexeevich (1857–1921), journalist and brother of Ivan Bunin.
Catherine II, the “Great” (1729–1796), empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796.
Chaliapin (Russian: Shaliapin), Fyodor Ivanovich (1873–1938), bass singer, best known for his role of Tsar Boris in Mussorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov.
Charles I (1600–1649), king of Great Britain and Ireland.
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich (1860–1904), playwright and short-story writer.
Chermenykh, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1890–1962), graphic artist.
Chernov, Viktor Mikhailovich (1873–1952), Social Revolutionary, leader, and theoretician, and minister of agriculture in 1917.
Chicherin, Georgy Vasilievich (1872–1936), Soviet comissar for foreign affairs.
Chirikov, Evgeny Nikolaevich (1864–1932), writer and poet.
Chukovsky, Kornei (pseudonym of Korneichukov, Kornei Ivanovich) (1882–1969), writer, children’s poet, critic, and literary scholar, translator, and editor.
Clemençeau, Georges (1841–1929), minister-premier of France.
Couthon, Georges-Auguste (1755–1794), Jacobin and member of the Committee of Public Safety in France.
Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658), English soldier, statesman, and leader of the Puritan revolution.
Denikin, Anton Ivanovich (1872–1947), White general.
Derman, Abram Borisovich (1880–1952), literary critic.
Derzhinsky, Feliks Edmundovich (1877–1926), Bolshevik and first head of the Soviet secret police.
Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich (1872–1929), Russian ballet impresario.
Dombrovsky, Vitaly Markovich (?–1921), mayor of Odessa.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich (1821–1881), novelist.
Dragomanov, Mikhail Petrovich (1841–1895), Ukrainian historian, folklorist, and public figure.
Dybenko, Pavel Efimovich (1889–1938), military commander and leader of the Crimean Army in the Russian civil war.
Egorov, Pyotr Valentinovich (1871–1933), journalist.
Ehrenburg, Ilya Grigorevich (1891–1967), writer, journalist, and memoirist.
Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich (1898–1948), film director.
Esenin, Sergei Alexandrovich (1895–1925), poet.
Fel’dman, S. (dates unknown), secretary of the Odessa soviet.
Ferdinand I (1865–1927), king of Rumania from 1914 to 1927.
Fet, Afanasy Afansievich (1820–1892), poet.
Figner, Vera Nikolaevna (1852–1942), revolutionary, member of the pre-Revolutionary terrorist group “The People’s Will.”
Fioletov, Anatoly Vasilievich (1897–1918), poet.
Fondaminsky-Bunakov, Il’ia Isidorovich (1879–1942), publicist and leader of the Social Revolutionary party.
Friche, Vladimir Maximovich (1870–1929), literary critic and commissar for foreign affairs in Moscow.
Fyodorov, Alexander Mitrofanovich (1868–1949), poet, dramatist, and novelist.
Gal’bershtadt, Lev Isaevich (1878–?), journalist.
Gallen (Gallen-Kallela), Axel (1865–1931), Finnish painter.
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) (1869–1948), Indian nationalist leader.
Gel’tser, Ekaterina Vasilievna (1876–1962), ballerina with the Bolshoi Theater.
George V (1865–1936), king of England 1910–1936, and first cousin of Nicholas II.
Gide, André (1869–1951), French writer.
Gimmer-Sukhanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1882–1940), revolutionary, economist, and publicist.
Ginzburg, Evgeniya Semyonovna (1896–1980), memoirist.
Gippius-Merezhkovskaya, Zinaida Nikolaevna (1867–1945), poet, critic, novelist, and memoirist.
Gnedich, Nikolai Ivanovich (1784–1833), poet and translator.
Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich (1809–1852), novelist and short-story writer.
Golovin, Alexander Yakovlevich (1863–1930), painter.
Golubenko, Nikolai Vasilievich (1898–1937), military commander and commissar of the 45th Infantry Division in the Ukraine.
Goncharov, Ivan Alexandrovich (1812–1891), novelist.
Goncourt, Edward (1822–1896), French naturalist writer.
Goncourt, Jules (1830–1870), French naturalist writer and brother of Edward Goncourt.
Gontaryov, Ivan Grigorievich (dates unknown), journalist and editor.
Gorky-Peshkov, Alexei Maximovich (Maxim) (1868–1936), writer and social figure.
Griboyedov, Alexander Sergeevich (1795–1829), diplomat and dramatist.
Grigoriev, Nikolai Alexandrovich (1878–1919), ataman and temporary ally of the Bolsheviks.
Grigorovich, Dmitri Vasilievich (1822–1899), writer.
Grishin-Almazov, Alexei Nikolaevich (1880–1918), White lieutenant colonel and war minister of the Siberian government.
Grossman, Leonid Petrovich (1888–1965), writer and literary critic.
Gruzinsky, Alexei Evgenievich (1858–1930), literary scholar.
Grzhebin, Zinovy Isaevich (1877–1929), publisher.
Guchkov, Alexander Ivanovich (1862–1936), leader of the Octobrist party, head of the Third Duma, and minister of the army and navy for the Provisional Government.
Gurko, Vasily Iosifovich (1864–1937), White general.
Gusev, Sergei Ivanovich (pseudonym of Drabkin, Yakov Davidovich) (1874–1933), party and government figure.
Gvozdev, Kuz’ma Alexandrovich (1873–1937?), minister in the Provisional Government.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770–1831), German idealist philosopher.
Herzen, Alexander Ivanovich (1812–1870), writer and philosopher.
Hindenburg (von Hindenburg), Paul (1847–1934), leader of the German advance into Russia, later president of the Weimar Republic.
Hoffmann, Max (1869–1927), German general.
Hohenzollern. See William II.
Horthy (Horthy de Nagybanya), Miklos (1868–1957), regent of Hungary from 1920 to 1944.
Huxley, Aldous Leonard (1894–1963), British novelist.
Ibsen, Henrik (1828–1906), Norwegian dramatist and poet.
Inber, Vera Mikhailovna (1890–1972), poet.
Ioann (Ivan) of Tambov (1800?–1850?), hermit and monk.
Ioffe, Adol’f Abramovich (1883–1927), revolutionary and diplomat.
Ivan VI (1740–1764), nominal emperor of Russia from 1740 to 1741.
Ivanov, Vyacheslav Ivanovich (1866–1949), poet, critic, and scholar.
Ivanyukov, Ivan Ivanovich (1844–1912), historian, economist, and publicist.
Jaures, Jean (1859–1914), historian and figure in the French and international socialist movement who fought against militarism and war.
Kachalov, Vasily Ivanovich (1875–1948), actor.
Kaledin, Alexei Maximovich (1861–1918), ataman-chief of the Don Army, leader of an anti-Soviet revolt in October 1917.
Kamenev, Lev Borisovich (1883–1936), revolutionary, Communist party official, and editor of Pravda.
Kamenev, Nikolai Mikhailovich (1862–1918), general.
Kamenskaya, O. A. (dates unknown), wife of Anatoly Kamensky.
Kamensky, Anatoly Pavlovich (1876–1941), writer.
Karakhan, Lev Mikhailovich (pseudonym of Rozenfeld, Lev Borisovich) (1889–1937), professional revolutionary, lawyer, journalist, and diplomat.
Kasabov, Blagoi Markov (1898–1925), Bulgarian Communist.
Kataev, Valentin Petrovich (1897–1986), writer.
Kaufman, Alexander Arkadievich (1864–1919), economist, statistician, professor, and one of the leaders of the Kadet party.
Kautsky, Karl (1854–1938), leader and theoretician of the German Social Democratic movement and the Second International.
Kazi-Mullah (pseudonym of Gazi-Magomed) (1775–1832), mountain leader during the Russian campaigns in the Caucasus in the 1820s and 1830s.
Kemal, Mustafa (1881–1938), Turkish statesman, and founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey.
Kerensky, Alexander Fyodorovich (1881–1970), head of the Provisional Government in Russia and commander-in-chief of the Russian army until October 1917.
Khemnitser, Ivan Ivanovich (1745–1784), fabulist and writer.
Khudyakov, Nikolai Akimovich (1890–1939), Soviet army leader.
Khudyakova, Klavdia Yakovlevna (dates unknown), wife of Sergei Khudyakov.
Kipen, Alexander Abramovich (1870–1938), writer.
Kireevsky, Pyotr Vasilevich (1808–1856), Slavophile and ethnographer.
Kishkin, Nikolai Mikhailovich (1864–1930), minister of welfare in the Provisional Government.
Klestov-Angarsky, Nikolai Semyonovich (1879–1943), writer.
Klyuchevsky, Vasily Osipovich (1841–1911), historian.
Klyuev, Nikolai Alexeevich (1887–1937), poet.
Knipper-Chekhova, Olga Leonardovna (1868–1958), actress with the Moscow Art Theater and Chekhov’s wife.
Kogan, Pyotr Semyonovich (1872–1932), literary critic.
Koiransky, Alexander (Sasha) Arnol’dovich (1884–1968), writer.
Kokoshkin, Fyodor Fyodorovich (1871–1918), lawyer, publicist, member of the Provisional Government, and a leader of the Kadet party.
Kolchak, Alexander Vasilievich (1873–1920), admiral and the nominal head of the Whites in the Russian civil war.
Kollontai, Alexandra Mikhailovna (1872–1952), revolutionary and prominent Soviet party and diplomatic figure.
Kondakov, Nikodim Pavlovich (1844–1925), historian of Byzantine and ancient Russian art.
Kornilov, Lavr Georgievich (1870–1918), military commander and leader of the opposition against the Russian Provisional Government in 1918.
Korolenko, Vladimir Galaktionovich (1853–1921), writer, critic, publicist, translator, and social activist.
Kosciusko, Thaddeus (1746–1817), leader in the Polish insurrection of 1774, and prominent figure during the American War for Independence.
Kostomarov, Nikolai Ivanovich (1817–1885), Ukrainian historian, ethnographer, and writer.
Kropotkin, Pyotr Alexeevich (1842–1921), prince, revolutionary, and anarchist.
Krupskaya, Nadezhda Konstantinova (1869–1939), revolutionary and wife of Vladimir Lenin.
Krylov, Ivan Andreevich (1769–1844), journalist, playwright, and fabulist.
Kshesinskaya, Matil’da (Maria) Felixovna (1872–1971), ballerina.
Kun, Bela (1886–1939), Hungarian political leader, and head of the short-lived first Hungarian Communist republic (March–July 1919).
Kuprin, Alexander Ivanovich (1870–1939), novelist and short-story writer.
Kurbsky, Andrei Mikhailovich (1528–1583), Russian prince, writer, publicist, and a political and military figure during the reign of Ivan IV.
Kuskova, Ekaterina Dmitrievna (1869–1958), political figure, social worker, and publicist.
Kutuzov, Mikhail Illarionovich (1745–1813), Russian general and commander-in-chief of the Russian forces during the French invasion of Russia in 1812.
Kuz’min, Mikhail Alexeevich (1875–1936), writer, playwright, and critic.
Lavrov, Pyotr Lavrovich (1823–1900), populist, philosopher, and sociologist.
Lawrence, David Herbert (1885–1930), English novelist and poet.
Lazursky, Vladimir Fyodorovich (1869–1943), literary historian and professor.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (pseudonym of Ul’yanov, Vladimir Ilyich) (1870–1924), revolutionary leader and writer.
Le Notre, L. L. T. Gosselin (1857–1935), historian and member of the French Academy.
Lermontov, Mikhail Yurievich (1814–1841), writer.
Levitan, Isaak Ilyich (1860–1900), artist.
Levitov, Alexander Ivanovich (1835–1877), writer.
Litvinov, Maxim Maximovich (pseudonym of Wallach, Meyer) (1876–1915), Soviet diplomat.
Lloyd George, David (1863–1945), British statesman and prime minister of England from 1916 to 1922.
Lombroso, Cesare (1836–1909), Italian criminologist.
Louis XVI (1754–1793), Bourbon monarch and last king of France.
Lunacharsky, Anatoly Vasilievich (1875–1933), Bolshevik and first Communist director of culture.
Lur’e, Semyon Vladimirovich (1867–1927), publicist.
Luxemburg, Rosa (1871–1919), a leading figure of the German, Polish, and international workers’ movements.
Mackensen (von Mackensen), August (1849–1945), German general.
Makhno, Nestor Ivanovich (1889–1935), anarchist guerrilla leader in the southern Ukraine during the civil war.
Malinovskaya, Elena Konstantinova (1875–1942), director of the Bolshoi Theater from 1920 to 1924 and from 1930 to 1935.
Malinovsky, Pavel Petrovich (1869–1943), revolutionary and architect.
Malyantovich, Pavel Nikolaevich (1870–1942), lawyer and minister of justice in the Provisional Government.
Mamai (?–1380), Mongol-Tartar strongman who ruled over the largest portion of the Golden Horde in the 1360s and 1370s, and who was defeated by Grand Prince Dmitri Ivanovich Donskoi at the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380.
Mandelstam, Nadezhda Yakovlevna (1899–1980), memoirist and wife of the poet Osip Mandelstam.
Mandelstam, Osip Emilievich (1891–1938), poet and essayist.
Marat, Jean-Paul (1743–1793), French politician, radical, and journalist.
Mariengof, Anatoly Borisovich (1897–1962), poet and dramatist.
Marx, Karl (1818–1883), German socialist, revolutionary, and writer.
Mayakovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich (1893–1930), poet.
Mel’gunov, Sergei Petrovich (1880–1957), editor, historian, and writer on public affairs.
Mikhailov, Mikhail Larionovich (1826–1865), revolutionary, poet, and translator.
Milyukov, Pavel Nikolaevich (1859–1943), historian and minister of foreign affairs in the Provisional Government.
Minor, Osip Solomonovich (1861–1932), writer, editor, Social Revolutionary, and member of the Constituent Assembly.
Mirbach (von Mirbach-Harff), Count Wilhelm (1871–1918), German ambassador to the Soviet government.
Mirolyubov, Viktor Sergeevich (1860–1939), writer and publisher.
Mishchenko, Pavel Ivanovich (1853–1919), White general and atamanchief of the Don Army.
Mizikevich, Pavel Petrovich (1866–1919), mayor of Odessa.
Monomakh, Vladimir Vsevolodovich (1053–1125), Grand Prince of Kiev.
Munsch, Edvard (1863–1944), Norwegian painter.
Muralov, Nikolai Ivanovich (1886–1937), revolutionary and Red Army commander.
Muromtseva-Bunina, Vera Nikolaevna (1881–1961), third wife of Ivan Bunin.
Nansen, Fridtjof (1861–1930), Norwegian Arctic explorer and philanthropist.
Nazhivin, Ivan Fyodorovich (1874–1940), writer.
Nekrasov, Nikolai Alexeevich (1821–1878), poet, writer, and publisher.
Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir Ivanovich (1858–1943), dramatist, director, and cofounder of the Moscow Art Theater in 1898.
Nemits, Alexander Vasilievich (1879–1967), vice-admiral and commander of the Black Sea Fleet.
Nevsky, Alexander Yaroslavich (1220?–1263), prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Vladimir, and national hero.
Nilus, Pyotr Alexandrovich (1869–1943), writer and artist.
Ogaryov, Nikolai Platonovich (1813–1877), poet and publicist.
Olesha, Yury Karlovich (1899–1960), novelist and short-story writer.
Orlov-Davydov, Nikolai Vasilievich (1848–1920), lawyer and writer.
Orwell, George (1903–1950), British novelist and satirist.
Osipovich, Naum Markovich (1870–1937), writer.
Ovsyaniko-Kulikovsky, Dmitry Nikolaevich (1853–1920), linguist, cultural historian, and literary critic.
Paleologos, Sophia (1449?–1503), second wife of Ivan III.
Paleologue, Maurice Georges (1859–1944), French ambassador to Russia from 1914 to 1917.
Parny, Evariste-Desire de Forges, Vicomte de (1753–1814), poet.
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich (1890–1960), poet and prose writer.
Paustovsky, Konstantin Georgievich (1892–1968), prose writer and editor.
Peshekhonov, Alexei Vasilievich (1867–1933), statistician, publicist, social figure, and minister of foodstuffs in the Provisional Government.
Peshkova, Ekaterina Pavlova (1876–1965), writer, social worker, and wife of Maxim Gorky.
Petlyura, Simon Vasilievich (1879–1926), Ukrainian nationalist whose forces tried to secure autonomy for the Ukraine between 1917 and 1920.
Pisemsky, Alexei Feofilakotvich (1821–1881), writer.
Plekhanov, Georgy Valentinovich (1856–1918), revolutionary, historian, theoretician, and philosopher, generally acknowledged as the “father of Russian Marxism.”
Pleshcheev, Alexei Nikolaevich (1825–1893), poet, writer, dramatist, and journalist.
Podbel’sky, Vadim Nikolaevich (1887–1920), Social Democrat, revolutionary, and commissar for post office and telegraphs.
Podvoisky, Nikolai Ilyich (1880–1948), party and military figure.
Polevitskaya, Elena Alexandrovna (1881–1973), actress.
Polezhaev, Alexander Ivanovich (1804–1838), poet.
Polonsky, Yakov Petrovich (1819–1898), poet.
Popov, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1890–1938), revolutionary and Communist historian.
Potyomkin, Grigory Alexandrovich (1739–1791), general, administrator, and favorite of Catherine the Great.
Potyomkin, Pyotr Petrovich (1886–1926), poet.
Premirov, Mikhail L’vovich (1878–after 1933), writer.
Pugachev, Emelyan (Emel’ka) Ivanovich (1742?–1775), leader of the massive uprising that threatened the government of Catherine the Great in 1773–1775.
Pusheshnikov, Nikolai Alexeevich (Kolya) (1882–1939), Bunin’s nephew and a translator of Kipling, Galsworthy, and Jack London.
Pusheshnikova, Sofya Nikolaevna (?–1942), cousin of Ivan Bunin.
Pushkin, Alexander Sergeevich (1799–1837), writer and poet.
Radetsky, Ivan Markovich (1890–?), publicist.
Radonezhsky, Sergei (1321–1392), monk and social figure.
Rakovsky, Khristian Georgievich (1873–1941), Bulgarian, chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars in the Ukraine.
Rasputin, Gregory Yefimovich (1871–1916), monk and adventurer.
Razin, Stepan (Sten’ka) Timofeevich (1630?–1671), Cossack leader of the massive popular uprising in 1667–1671.
Reginin, Vasily Alexandrovich (pseudonym of Rappoport, Vasily Alexandrovich) (1883–1952), writer and journalist.
Renan, Ernest Joseph (1823–1892), French philosopher, philologist, orientalist, and historian of religion.
Repin, Ilya Efimovich (1844–1930), painter.
Reshetnikov, Fyodor Mikhailovich (1841–1871), writer.
Rivkin, Nikolai Ivanovich (1877–1922), poet and revolutionary.
Robespierre, Maximilien (1758–1794), French revolutionary and radical Jacobin leader.
Rodzyanko, Mikhail Vladimirovich (1859–1924), statesman.
Romanov, Alexander II (1818–1881), tsar of Russia from 1855 to 1881.
Romanov, Alexander III (1845–1894), tsar of Russia from 1881 to 1894.
Romanov, Ivan III, the “Great” (1440–1505), tsar of Russia from 1462 to 1505.
Romanov, Ivan IV, the “Terrible” (1530–1584), tsar of Russia from 1533 to 1584.
Romanov, Ivan VI, nominal tsar of Russia from 1740 to 1741.
Romanov, Mikhail Alexandrovich (1878–1918), brother of Nicholas II.
Romanov, Nicholas I (1796–1855), tsar of Russia from 1825 to 1855.
Romanov, Nicholas II (1868–1918), tsar of Russia from 1894 to 1917.
Romanov, Peter I, “The Great” (1672–1725), tsar and first emperor of Russia from 1682 to 1725.
Rostovsky, Dmitry (1651–1709), church leader who supported most of the reforms of Peter the Great.
Rozenburg, Vladimir Alexandrovich (1860–1932), journalist.
Rudnyov, Vadim Vasilievich (1874–1940), political figure and editor.
Rybnikov, Pavel Nikolaevich (1831–1885), ethnographer.
Saadi (1184?–1291), Persian Sulfi poet.
Sablin, Yury (Yurka) Vladimirovich (1897–1937), Red Army officer.
Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine-Leon de (1767–1794), Jacobin and member of the Committee of Public Safety in France.
Salikovsky, Alexander Fomich (1866–1925), Ukrainian journalist, civic and political leader, and ally of Petlyura.
Saltychikha, Darya Nikolaevna (pseudonym of Saltykova, Darya Nikolaevna) (1730–1801), landowner infamous for her cruelty toward her serfs.
Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail Evgrafovich (1826–1889), writer and satirist.
Samarin, Alexander Dmitrievich (1868–1932), church and political figure.
Santayana, George (1863–1952), philosopher.
Sats, Natalya Il’inichna (1903–1993), writer, actor, and director.
Savich, Sergei Sergeevich (1863–?), pre-Revolutionary general.
Savina, Mariya Gavrilovna (1854–1915), actress.
Savinkov, Boris Viktorovich (pseudonym of Ropshin, Boris Viktorovich) (1879–1925), writer, member of the Social Revolutionary party, and minister of war in the Provisional Government.
Scheidemann, Philip (1865–1939), leader of the Social Democratic party in Germany, and first chancellor of the Weimar Republic.
Serafimovich, Alexander (pseudonym of Popov, Alexander Serafimovich) (1863–1949), writer and journalist.
Severnyi. See Yuzefovich.
Severyanin, Igor (pseudonym of Lotaryov, Igor Vasilievich) (1887–1941), poet.
Shchadenko, Efim Afanasievich (1885–1951), military commander in the Ukraine.
Shcheglovitov, Ivan Grigorievich (1861–1918), minister of justice from 1906 to 1915, and president of the State Council.
Shchepkin, Evgeny Nikolaevich (1860–1920), historian, professor, and political activist.
Shchepkina-Kupernik, Tatiana L’vovna (1874–1952), writer, and translator of Shakespeare and Molière.
Shershenevich, Vadim Gavrielevich (1893–1942), poet, theoretician, translator, playwright, and screenwriter.
Shishkov, Nikolai Filippovich (dates unknown), friend of Ivan Bunin.
Shklovsky, Viktor Borisovich (1893–1984), literary scholar, essayist, and novelist.
Shklyar, Nikolai Grigorievich (1876–1952), writer.
Shmelyov, Ivan Sergeevich (1873–1950), novelist and short-story writer.
Shmelyov, Sergei Ivanovich (1896–1921), artillery officer.
Shmidt, Ivan Fyodorovich (?–1939), director of the theater of the Red Fleet, and husband of Elena Alexandrovna Polevitskaya.
Shpan (dates unknown), Soviet commissar of theater.
Shpital’nikov, David Lazarevich (pseudonym of Tal’nikov, David Lazarevich) (1882–1961), literary and theater critic.
Skabichevsky, Alexander Mikhailovich (1838–1911), literary historian and critic.
Skobolev, Matvei Ivanovich (1855–1939), Menshevik and first minister of labor in the Provisional Government.
Slutsky, Anton Iosifovich (1884–1918), Bolshevik activist.
Sobol’, Andrei (pseudonym of Sobol’, Yuly Mikhailovich) (1881–1926), journalist, writer, and commissar for the Provisional Government on the Northern Front.
Sokolnikov, Grigory Yakovlevich (1888–1938), revolutionary and party official.
Sokolov-Mikitov, Ivan Sergeevich (1830–1892), writer.
Solovyov, Sergei Mikhailovich (1820–1879), historian and professor.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Isaevich (1918– ), novelist and writer.
Speransky, Nikolai Vasilievich (1861–1921), journalist.
Spiridonova, Maria Alexandrovna (1884–1941), revolutionary, terrorist, and leader of the Left Socialist Revolutionary party.
Stanislavsky, Konstantin Sergeevich (1863–1938), actor, director, cofounder of the Moscow Art Theater in 1898.
Starostin, Pyotr Ivanovich (1881–1918), head of the regional executive committee of the Odessa Soviet Republic.
Steinberg, Isaak Zakharovich (1888–1957), Soviet commissar of justice.
Steklov, Yury Mikhailovich (pseudonym of Nakhamkis, Yury Mikhailovich) (1873–1941), revolutionary, party, and government figure, historian, and publicist.
Stuchka, Pyotr Ivanovich (1865–1932), Latvian revolutionary, political figure, lawyer, and writer.
Sudeikin, Sergei Yurevich (1882–1946), painter and stage designer.
Surikov, Vasily Ivanovich (1848–1916), painter.
Sverdlov, Yakov Mikhailovich (1885–1919), Bolshevik leader and titular head of the Soviet government from 1917 to 1919.
Svyatopolk Izyaslavich (1050–1113), grand prince of Kiev.
Sytin, Ivan Dmitrievich (1851–1931), publisher.
Tatishchev, Vasily Nikolaevich (1686–1750), historian.
Teffi, Nadezhda (pseudonym of Buchinskaya, Nadezhda Alexandrovna) (1872–1952), writer and poet.
Teleshov, Nikolai Dmitrievich (1867–1957), writer.
Teslenko, Nikolai Vasilievich (1870–1942), lawyer.
Tikhon (secular name: Belavin, Vasily Ivanovich) (1865–1925), patriarch of Moscow in 1917.
Tikhonov, Alexander Nikolaevich (pseudonym of Serebrov, Alexander Nikolaevich) (1880–1956), editor and writer.
Tolstoy, Alexei (Alyoshka) Nikolaevich (1883–1945), Soviet writer.
Tolstoy, Alexei Konstantinovich (1817–1875), poet.
Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevich (1828–1910), novelist.
Trenyov, Konstantin Andreevich (1876–1945), writer and dramatist.
Trotsky, Leon (pseudonym of Bronstein, Lev Davidovich) (1879–1940), revolutionary Marxist, Bolshevik leader, and Soviet official.
Trubetskoy, Prince Evgeny Nikolaevich (1863–1920), religious philosopher, lawyer, and social figure.
Tsakni, Anna Nikolaevna (1879–1963), Bunin’s first wife.
Tseitlin, Mikhail Osipovich (1882–1945), poet and critic.
Tseitlina, Maria Samoilovna (1882–1976), wife of Mikhail Tseitlin.
Tsereteli, Irakly Georgievich (1882–1959), Menshevik and first minister of posts and telegraphs in the Provisional Government.
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich (1818–1883), writer.
Tyutchev, Fyodor Ivanovich (1803–1873), poet.
Ul’yanov, Alexander Ilyich (1866–1887), older brother of Vladimir Lenin.
Ul’yanov, il’ia Nikolaevich (1831–1886), father of Vladimir Lenin.
Uritsky, Moisei Solomonovich (1873–1918), revolutionary and party activist.
Us, Vasily Rodionovich (?–1671), Cossack follower of Sten’ka Razin.
Uspensky, Gleb Ivanovich (1843–1902), writer and journalist.
Uspensky, Nikolai Vasilievich (1837–1889), writer and cousin of Gleb Uspensky.
Varneke, Boris Vasilievich (1874–1944), philologist and historian of the Russian theater.
Varshavsky, Sergei Ivanovich (1879–?), journalist.
Vas’kovsky, A. V. (dates unknown), artist.
Vasnetsov, Apollon Mikhailovich (1856–1933), painter.
Verhaeren, Emile (1855–1916), Belgian critic, dramatist, and poet.
Vertinsky, Alexander Nikolaevich (1889–1957), poet, singer, actor, composer, and memoirist.
Veselovsky, Yuly Alexeevich (1872–1919), literary scholar and writer.
Vladimir Svyatoslavich (?–1015), also known as Saint Vladimir the Great, ruler of Kievan Rus’.
Voloshin, Maximilian Alexandrovich (1877–1932), poet.
Vyrubov, Vasily Vasilievich (?–1963), social figure.
Wilde, Oscar (1856–1900), Irish poet and dramatist.
William II (1859–1941), last Hohenzollern ruler of Germany, forced to abdicate in the German revolution of 1918.
Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow (1856–1924), twenty-eighth president of the United States.
Wrangel, Pyotr Nikolaevich (1878–1928), White general.
Yablonovsky, Alexander Alexandrovich (1870–1934), journalist.
Yakushkin, Pavel Ivanovich (1822–1872), writer, ethnographer, and folklorist.
Yanovsky, Feofil Gavrilovich (1860–1928), clinical therapist and member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
Yanushkevich, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1868–1918), White general.
Yaroslav Vladimirovich, the Wise (978–1054), prince of Rostov, Novgorod, and Kiev.
Yavorskaya, Lidiya Borisovna (pseudonym of Gyubbenet, Lidiya Borisovna) (1871–1921), actress.
Yordansky, Nikolai Ivanovich (1876–1928), journalist.
Yushkevich, Pavel Solomonovich (1873–1945), Social Democrat, philosopher, and brother of Semyon Yushkevich.
Yushkevich, Semyon Solomonovich (1868–1927), writer and brother of Pavel Yushkevich.
Yuzefovich, Boris Samoilovich (dates unknown), head of the Cheka in Odessa in 1919.
Zagoskin, Mikhail Nikolaevich (1789–1852), historical novelist.
Zamyatin, Evgeny Ivanovich (1884–1927), writer, literary critic, dramatist, and editor.
Zeeler, Vladimir Feofilovich (1874–1954), lawyer.
Zelyonyi, Danylo (pseudonym of Terpylo, Danylo) (1883–1919), Ukrainian peasant warlord.
Zhemchuzhnikov, Alexei Mikhailovich (1821–1908), poet.
Zhemchuzhnikov, Vladimir Mikhailovich (1830–1884), poet and brother of Alexei Zhemchuzhnikov.
Ziber, Nikolai Ivanovich (1844–1888), economist and popularizer of Marxism in Russia.
Zinoviev, Grigory Evseevich (pseudonym of Radomyslsky, Ovsei) (1883–1936), revolutionary and party official.
Zubov, Konstantin Alexandrovich (1888–1956), actor.