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Born	March 31, 1635 • Scotland
Died	December 9, 1699 (aged 64) • Moscow • Russia

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Boris Godunov

tsar of Russia

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Pyotr Andreyevich, Count Tolstoy

Russian statesman

Orlov, Aleksey Fyodorovich, Prince

Aleksey Fyodorovich, Prince Orlov

Russian prince

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Fyodor Vasilyevich, Count Rostopchin

Russian statesman

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Andrey Mikhaylovich, Prince Kurbsky

Russian military commander

Grigory Grigoryevich, Count Orlov

Grigory Orlov

Russian military officer

Boris Alekseyevich Golitsyn, detail of a lithograph

Boris Alekseyevich Golitsyn

Russian statesman

Grigory Potemkin

Grigory Potemkin

Russian statesman

President Vladimir Putin speaks at a podium with the Russian coat of arms, with uniformed military personnel standing in formation behind him.

Vladimir Putin

president of Russia

Oil painting of Peter the Great, emperor of Russia, shown from the waist up wearing armor and a sash, with one hand resting on a cane, against a dark background.

Peter I

emperor of Russia

Alexander I

Alexander I

emperor of Russia

Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky

Russian revolutionary

Alexander II

Alexander II

emperor of Russia

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Mikhail Mikhaylovich, Count Speransky

Russian statesman

Suvorov, Aleksandr Vasilyevich, Graf Rimniksky, Knyaz Italiysky, Reichsgraf

Aleksandr Vasilyevich Suvorov, Count Rimniksky

Russian military officer

alexander nevsky, saint

Saint Alexander Nevsky

prince of Russia

Mystic with ties to the throne

Grigori Rasputin

Russian mystic

Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev

Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev

Russian statesman

Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov.

Mikhail Kutuzov

Russian military commander

Stenka Razin, detail of an engraving from “A Relation Concerning the Particulars of the Rebellion Lately Raised in Muscovy by Stenka Razin” (London, 1672)

Stenka Razin

Cossack leader