Our century has come only recently, so to speak, the person who is outstanding Russian 21st century, we can not.However, analysis of the past will enable us to understand what is truly great can we expect from the Slavic blood.After all, as you know, who knows the past, and knows the future.
Poets, musicians, politicians, writers, scientists and artists - all prominent figures in Russia.List, albeit brief, broken down by type of activity is shown below.
Politicians
Alexander Nevsky
With him and begin outstanding personalities in the history of Russia, which are mentioned in this article.Grand Prince of Novgorod and a brilliant military leader, who managed to beat the Swedes and Teutons, and laid the foundation for the existence of Russia in its historical and cultural tradition.
Ivan IV the Terrible
cruel Prince of Moscow, which, because of its excessive power of will and lust for power, created a Russian kingdom, becoming the first King of All Russia.His bloodlust known worldwide.But we can not overestimate the extent to which he modified and reformed Russia, creating from it a single whole and the state to be reckoned with every neighbor.
Peter I
reformer and innovator, is trying to make Russia a truly European state.First Emperor of Russia, which has become such a significant increase due to the country by the Baltic States.Founder of St. Petersburg and the creator of the Navy.
Catherine II
significantly expand the boundaries of the Russian Empire.Did the nobility most important and privileged class.Patron of Arts and Sciences, "Russian educator", which was able to hold the most profound and important reforms after Peter the Great.
Lenin
leader of the October Revolution, one of the most important theorists of communism.The founder and inspirer of the first socialist state - the USSR.He died without seeing the fruits of their struggle.
Writers
Alexander Ostrovsky
Outstanding Personalities of Russia among playwrights of the 19th century is unlikely ever to be formed without the legacy of the author."Russian Ibsen," the author of the play "Bride", "Storm", "His people - are numbered."The first Russian playwright, started to invest in a deep psychological subtext replica characters.
Nikolai Gogol
playwright and writer.Known play "The Government Inspector", "Marriage" and prose - "Wii", "The Overcoat" and so forth. Kind of the founder of the genre "horror".The main theme of creativity - the little man and the injustice of the world in relation to it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
author of the novels "The Idiot", "Crime and Punishment", "The Brothers Karamazov."Deep psychologist, forever changed the tradition of describing the inner life of the character.During the bleak facade of St. Petersburg and gloomy clouds always tried to leave the reader hope.Actively explored in his works the relationship between man and God.
Leo Tolstoy
author who gave the world "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina."Writer true Russian soul.The pacifist all his life actively opposed the war, which was reflected in his works.He believed that the most important condition of happiness - unity of man and nature.
Anton Chekhov
Anekdotist, forced to write funny stories to feed the family and get paid for it some small coins.Outstanding Personalities of Russia is impossible without this original "Man without a spleen."Ros right in front of the reader, is gradually improving and creating the most important product for the whole of world literature - stories of "Thief" and "enemies" of the play "The Seagull" and "Three Sisters."
Anton Chekhov - the first writer who dared to say that all the human problems of one - infinite human stupidity.
poets Alexander Pushkin
greatest Russian poet and the author of many verses and poems, including the novel in verse "Eugene Onegin".When abroad say "Outstanding Personalities of Russia", most likely, once called Pushkin.In fact, the creator of the classical Russian poetry, the genius of the golden age of Russian poems.In his poems he had to raise all sorts of topics - from social injustice to the subtle feelings of love.
Mikhail Lermontov
author of the poem "Hero of Our Time" and a string of huge variety of poems.He fought in the Caucasus, from which he has become almost a full-fledged character in his works.Ask questions the necessity of war and human alienation.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
creator of Futurism in the cultural space of Russia.His poems written in a special form of speed.An ardent communist, is considered one of the mouthpieces of the revolution.Until the end of his life defending the true ideals of the revolution.One of the major poets of the Silver Age.
Yesenin
Contemporary Mayakovsky and complete its opposite as the author.Slim and soulful lyrics that still manages to be a bully, and the eternal teenager.Topics raised to combat the individual with the environment, love of nature, and of course, a woman.
Vladimir Vysotsky
Bard, author of many songs and poems.The greatest poet of the Bronze Age.His hoarse voice like the voice of a failed legacy that left him all the outstanding personalities of the 20th century Russia.Topics raise internal and external struggle of man, his place in society and the world in general.Thin satirist.
Okudzhava
also a poet, performed his own poem in the form of songs.A touching and honest, he wrote poetry, filled with some kind of cosmic reverie.Often I used a metaphor, creating them with the help of deep images.His songs had a parable form, which once even had (good-naturedly) parodied Vysotsky.
Filmmakers
Lev Kuleshov
Through his outstanding personality Russia began to appear in the film.Pathfinder "Kuleshov Effect" - "two independent within the meaning of the frame, glued together, create a new meaning."In fact, the founder of the mounting of the story.
Sergei Eisenstein
Author cult "Battleship Potemkin", which still looks the same breath.Film theorist and founder of the dynamic assembly.
first in Russia who used the color in the film - a red flag at all the same "Battleship Potemkin."
Mikhail Romm
documentary director ("Ordinary Fascism") and gaming ("Nine Days of One Year") films.One of the most important film theorists mid XX century.VGIK teacher and the author of numerous scientific papers.
Andrei Tarkovsky
man manages to shoot in the USSR the true art house.His tapes are filled with personal meaning, full of metaphors and subtle hints.He took off his "Solaris" and "Stalker", often making their work a sort of parables, allegories.
Artists
Andrei Rublev
Modern outstanding personalities among Russian artists would have been impossible without the man who laid the foundation of Russian painting.
author of numerous icons Andrei Rublev dedicated his life to this complex art.Now his works are not only in churches but also in the various galleries, the samples and the ideals of iconography.
Ilya Repin
Author of numerous paintings and an absolute workaholic.From under his hand out things like "Unexpected", "Sailed" and "Ivan the Terrible kills his son."Master of situation, "scene" pictures.
Each of his painting - like a photograph taken during the climax of the event, which he tried to capture.His paintings endlessly lively and not always able to open its true meaning at first glance.Personal Repin - is an emotion of the characters and details.
Kazimir Malevich
great modernists, known as the author has already become a household name "Black Square".He was busy looking for new forms of expression and ways of color in painting.His paintings are full of abstraction and geometric shapes, trying to invent something new in his art.I tried to find in the paintings of "absolute rest."
Composers
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
One of the first Russian professional composers, Tchaikovsky made the true craft of music (in the best sense of the word).He was a man who simply could not write music.
It raised a variety of topics in all possible genres made of the composer Pyotr Ilyich, able to reach the heart of every person.The most famous of his works - the ballets "The Nutcracker" and "Swan Lake."
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
most famous author of operas among Russian composers.The main topics worked with Nikolai Andreyevich - stories and fairy tales ("Three Wonders", "The Snow Maiden").
believe that the main purpose of music - is the unity of the listener with the true nature of the world, which can only be expressed in a similar, melodic form.
Dmitri Shostakovich
composer with a complex fate, first worked in the style of modernism and actively experimented in all genres.However, the "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" did not like Stalin personally, and was followed by violent repression.
order to save himself and his family, Shostakovich had to do in a purely "public" key.However, his music and really proves that even a simple listener hears overtones invested composer.Many subtle moods and meanings, which he invested in the symphony №5 and №7, then everyone understood.
Scientists
Mikhail Lomonosov
first Russian lexicographer, "people of all sciences."Brought Russian studies at the level of Europe.He made many discoveries in almost every modern science for him.
Being an academician and one of the most active figures of his time, he was an icon for the Russian Enlightenment.
Dmitri Mendeleev
already become legendary Russian chemist, who managed to create a periodic system of chemical elements, thereby greatly pushed forward the world of science.The existence of such a table clearly demonstrates the harmony of nature and its clear system.
One of the greatest discoveries in the history of mankind, which, in fact, keeps the whole of modern natural science, belongs to him.He worked in other sciences, where he also made various discoveries.
Ivan Pavlov
first Nobel Prize winner from Russia.Pavlov made important discoveries in biology and physiology - that he found the presence of reflexes in the body of living beings.And this Russian scientist divided them into conditional and unconditional.
this discovery Pavlov devoted his entire life, and even dying, his disciples continued to dictate their feelings - that science has been able to get to know the state of death.
Athletes
Ivan Poddubny
legendary Russian wrestler, "the hero of the XX century".Ten years is not lost once.Five times champion in wrestling.
Garry Kasparov
chess player with a number of awards, "Chess Oscar" and the title of world champion.He was famous for a very successful combination of different tactics and strategies and the ability to get out of a seemingly completely bungled the party won.
«Debuts Kasparov" - so now called unexpected and unconventional moves to the beginning of the game.
Lev Yashin
Soviet goalie, famous for its absolute "neprobivaemostyu."It is considered the best goalkeeper of the XX century.Repeatedly voted the best goalkeeper of the USSR.Winner of the "Golden Ball".
Conclusion As we can see, outstanding personalities in the history of Russia have become extremely important for all of humanity.Chekhov can safely be called the best playwright of the world, and Mendeleyev - the greatest chemist.All these people are important not only for Russia but also for each area in which they are famous.
is hoped that the outstanding personalities of the 21st century will be Russian, as well as their predecessors, mean something for the whole world, not only for their homeland.
