List of people from Moscow

This is a list of famous people who were born or have lived in Moscow, Russia.

Born in Moscow

13th–17th century

1201–1700

  • Ivan I of Moscow (1288–1341), Prince of Moscow from 1325 and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1328
  • Vasily II of Moscow (1415–1462), Grand Prince of Moscow whose long reign (1425–1462) was plagued by the greatest civil war of Old Russian history
  • Ivan III of Russia (1440–1505), Grand Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of all Rus (1462–1505)
  • Basil Fool for Christ (1468–1552), Russian Orthodox saint
  • Helena of Moscow (1476–1513), daughter of Ivan III the Great, Grand Prince of Moscow, and an uncrowned Grand Duchess of Lithuania and Queen of Poland as she would not convert from Eastern Orthodoxy to Catholicism
  • Feodor I of Russia (1557–1598), last Rurikid Tsar of Russia (1584–1598)
  • Feodor II of Russia (1589–1605), Tsar of Russia (1605)
  • Alexis of Russia (1629–1676), Tsar of Russia (1645–1676)
  • Boris Sheremetev (1652–1719), diplomat and general field marshal during the Great Northern War
  • Sofia Alekseyevna of Russia (1657–1704), regent of Russia from 1682 to 1689
  • Feodor III of Russia (1661–1682), Tsar of all Russia (1676–1682)
  • Ivan V of Russia (1666–1696), Tsar of all Russia (1682–1696)
  • Eudoxia Lopukhina (1669–1731), the first wife of Peter I of Russia
  • Peter the Great (1672–1725), Tsar of All Russia (1682–1725), Emperor of All Russia (1721–1725)
  • Mikhail Golitsyn (1675–1730), field marshal
  • Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia (1691–1733), Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, daughter of Tsar Ivan V, eldest sister of Empress Anna of Russia
  • Laurentius Blumentrost (1692–1755), personal physician to the Tsar, founder and first president of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
  • Anna of Russia (1693–1740), Empress of Russia (1730–1740)

18th century

1701–1800

19th century

1801–1850

  • Aleksey Khomyakov (1804–1860), theologian, philosopher and poet
  • Dmitry Venevitinov (1805–1827), Romantic poet
  • Alexandre Dubuque (1812–1898), Russian pianist, composer and teacher of French descent; he was born and died in Moscow
  • Yevdokiya Rostopchina (1812–1858), one of the early Russian women poets
  • Pavel Annenkov (1813–1887), literary critic and memoirist
  • Ivan Gagarin (1814–1882), Jesuit
  • Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841), Romantic writer, poet and painter
  • La Païva (1819–1884), French courtesan
  • Mikhail Dostoyevsky (1820–1864), short story writer, publisher, literary critic and the elder brother of Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher
  • Arthur von Mohrenheim (1824–1906), diplomat
  • Konstantin Pobedonostsev (1827–1907), jurist, statesman, and adviser to three Tsars
  • Alexei Savrasov (1830–1897), landscape painter
  • Pavel Tretyakov (1832–1898), businessman, patron of art, collector, and philanthropist
  • Andrei Famintsyn (1835–1918), botanist, public figure, and academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences
  • Vasili Zinger (1836–1907), mathematician, botanist and philosopher
  • Konstantin Makovsky (1839–1915), painter
  • Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), geographer and philosopher
  • Alexander Urusov (1843–1900), lawyer, literary critic, translator and philanthropist
  • Olga Fedchenko (1845–1921), Russian botanist
  • Vladimir Makovsky (1846–1920), painter, art collector and teacher
  • Vsevolod Miller (1848–1913), philologist, folklorist, linguist, anthropologist and archaeologist

1851–1900

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20th century

1901–1910

1911–1920

1921–1930

1931–1940

1941–1950

1951–1960

1961–1970

1971–1980

1981–1990

1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990

1991–2000

1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000

21st century

2001-2010

Lived in Moscow

  • Mahmoud Abbas (1935), President of the State of Palestine and Palestinian National Authority, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. Abbas studied at the Peoples' Friendship University, where he earned his doctorate.[1][2]
  • Alexander Afanasyev (1826–1871), folklorist who recorded and published over 600 Russian folktales and fairytales
  • Alexander Belyaev (1884–1942), writer of science fiction, lived in Moscow after 1923
  • Sergej Ognew (1886–1951), scientist, zoologist and naturalist, graduated from Moscow University in 1910
  • Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938), Russian poet, moved to Moscow in 1922, exiled in 1934
  • Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), poet
  • Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899–1980), memoirist, first moved to Moscow in 1922, joined Osip Mandlestam in exile in 1934, returned to Moscow in 1964
  • Sergei Fomin (1917–1975), mathematician, entered Moscow State University at the age of 16
  • Vera Gornostayeva (1929–2015), pianist and pedagogue
  • German Fedorov-Davydov (1931–2000), historian, archaeologist, numismatist and art historian; professor of Moscow State University
  • Oleg Gordievsky (1938), KGB defector
  • Evgeny Kurochkin (1940–2011), paleornithologist, he graduated from the Moscow State University in 1964
  • Svetlana Gannushkina (1942), mathematician and human rights activist, professor of mathematics at a Moscow university (1970–1999)
  • Valentin Gavrilov (1946), Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the high jump, he trained at Dynamo in Moscow
  • Armen Oganesyan (1954), CEO of Russian state radio station Voice of Russia, educated at Moscow State University, Department of Journalism
  • Karen Oganyan (1982), professional footballer, played in the Premier League with FC Moscow
  • Dmitri Monya (1988), professional ice hockey winger who currently plays for HC CSKA Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL)

See also

References

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