Adam
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The independent polling and research agency The Levada Centre has asked 1,600 to name their favourite world figures. The figures could be living or dead, Russian or non Russian. The respondents could answer freely as opposed to a multiple choice survey.
Here are the results
1. Stalin (Soviet leader, including during the Great Patriotic War)
2 (TIED). Vladimir Putin (current Russian President) and Alexander Pushkin (great Russian poet/author)
3. Vladimir Lenin (Bolshevik Revolutionary/first Soviet leader)
4. Tsar Peter I (founder of St. Petersburg/ruler of Russia)
5. Yuri Gagarin (first man in space)
6. Leo Tolstoy (prolific Russian novelist)
7. General Georgy Zhukov (hero of the Great Patriotic War)
8. Tsarista Ekaterina II (Ruler of Russia, first Russian female head of state)
9. Mikhail Lermontov (romantic Russian poet)
10. Mikhail Lomonosov (Russian renaissance man)
11. Alexander Suvorov (long serving military commander of the 18th century)
12. Dmitri Mendeleev (great Russian scientist)
13. Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor of France)
14. Leonid Brezhnev (leader of the Soviet Union 1964-1982)
15. Albert Einstein (German/American scientist)
16. Sergei Yesenin (Russian lyric poet)
17. Mikhail Kutuzov (great Russian General of the 18th and early 19th centuries)
18. Isaac Newton (English scientist)
19. Mikhail Gorbachev (last Soviet leader)
What do you think of the results?
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Where’s Solzenitsen? He gave me my first peek into the soul of Mother Russia. One of the true giants of literature.
They forgot rasputin and ivan the terrible
Dosotevsky – “The Idiot” was great book – similar in beginning/ending to Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series.
Surprized that Gorbachev the Traitor is even in the List !
The photo of “Yuri Gagarin” is actually that of Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space.
Seriously, Stalin and Lenin? Both slaughtered more Russians than any external enemy; both were puppets of international Jewry. (Stalin only broke with international Jewry after the emergence of Zionism that posed a threat to Russian nationalism.)
There’s the anti-semitism we all know and love.
First, that’s why you are here; we are Russian nationalists opposed to the common enemy of Russia! Nyat! Mankind! Second, you did not dispute either premise: the slaughter of Russians or the Jewish influence!
You’re talking nonsense, at least where Lenin is concerned. And it would help you to get some reality check if you pay attention to the events after the Maidan, when pro-Russian crowds gathered in Lenin Squares under the statues of the Bolshevik leader. You know, the same statues that the Russophobic Ukro-Nazis toppled as soon as they could. I have my own strong reservations about Stalin, but your comment doesn’t request a critical appraisal, it simply reeks of anti-communism and anti-Semitism. In any case, feel free to attend or watch the Victory Day celebrations under the Victory flag. Then you… Read more »
Peter I was the first emperor, his wife Catherine II – the first empress who ruled Russia after his death for 2 years. Fact checking will not harm, Adam Garrie (with all respect). http://www.saint-petersburg.com/royal-family/catherine-i/
Catherine I you mean. Catherine II was the wife of Peter III.
Yeah, it was a typo.