Painting of elements in Russian history and culture: Catacomb of great writers in top middle, those sent to the Gulag or otherwise persecuted for their work such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Mikhail Lermontov, Boris Pasternak, and Joseph Brodsky; Fabergé egg-like dolls figures from the golden days of the Russian empire; Other notable Russians include: Romanov emperor and modernizer Peter The Great, Poppav, the first clown from the USSR to perform in the Western world and who was honored in 1969 with the title of ‘People’s Artist of the USSR, writer Alexander Pushkin, leader Leonid Brezhnev, mystic, psychic, and faith healer Grigori Rasputin (the “Mad Monk”) who had great influence over the last Zcar Emperor Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their only son Alexei, Gold Medalist Olympiad Olga Korbut who dominated the 1972 Munich Olympics, impresario Mikhail Baryshnikov, super heavy weight Olympiad and ‘world’s strongest man in the 70’s Vasily Alekseyev, and first man in space, Cosmonaught Yuri Gagarin.
The Russian Submarine
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