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Here's all 53 authors with nationality analphabetically ordered:

Catherine the great (1762-1796) - Russian royal
Sholom Aleichem (1859-1916) - Yiddish literature's most beloved author.
Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926-) - Russian political
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) - Russia-born writer
Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) - contemporaneous to Karl Marx.
H. P. Blavatsky
Efim Bogoljubov
Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982)
Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) - Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987.
Yul Brynner (1915-1985) - Russian actor
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) - Russian writer
Fiodor Dostoievsky (1821-1881)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
Ariel Durant (1898-1981) - collaborator of her husband, Will Durant.
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-1931) - of the Soviet Union (
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) - Russian writer
Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987) - whose name became associated with musical perfection.
Milla Jovovich (1975-)
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) - Russian artist
Svetlana khorkina (1979-)
Anna Kournikova (1981-)
Vladimir Iljitj Lenin (1870-1924)
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) - Russian writer
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) - Russian-US writer
Louise Nevelson (1900-1988) - Russian artist
Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993) - Russian dancer
Alexander II of Russia (1818-1881) - (Tsar) of Russia (1855-81).
Ivan Panin
Boris L. Pasternak (1890-1960) - Russian writer
Ivan Pavlov (1947-1936) - Russian scientist?
Anna Pavlova (1882-1931) - of her time.
Vladimir Putin (1952-) - on the 2000 US presidential election , b.
Ayn Rand (1905-1982) - US writer
(attr. to) Gregory Ratoff (1897-1960) - Russian actor
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) - Russian artist
Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989) - Russian physicist
Assoc. Of David Sarnoff (1891-1971) - pioneer in the development of both radio and television broadcasting.
Maria Sharapova (1987-)
Yakov Smirnoff (1951-)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-)
Josef Stalin (1880-1953) - Russian pol
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)
Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863-1938) - Russian actor, director
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) - Russian composer
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986)
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) - notable for his influence on Russian literature and politics.
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) - Russian revolutionary
Sophie Tucker (1884-1966) - whose 62 year stage career included American burlesque, vaudeville, and nightclub and English music hall appearances.
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) - Russian writer
Boris Yeltsin (1931-1999) - (
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933-1992)
Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937)

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