I propose to remember our famous compatriots who became key figures in the political and cultural life of our country, and some still remain so.
Yury Nikulin.
Cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Alexei Leonov at a party in Star City.
Joseph Brodsky and Vladimir Vysotsky.
Maxim Gorky pokes a broom at opera singer Fyodor Chaliapin, 1905.
Gorbachev is no longer president, Putin is not yet president, 1994.
Acrobatic exercises. Prince Nicholas of Greece, Emperor Nicholas II on top.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy plays the Russian folk game gorodki, Yasnaya Polyana, 1909.
Vladimir Nabokov studies butterflies.
Actress Jill St. John, Leonid Brezhnev and President Nixon.
"Mutual feeding", Nikita Khrushchev's visit to India, 1952.
Mikhail Gorbachev surrounded by Pierre Richard and the future Russian Gerard Depardieu.
Yuri Shevchuk.
Zemfira Ramazanova.
Leonid Yarmolnik, Alexander Abdulov and Andrey Makarevich, 1987.
Mikhail Efremov.
Peter Mamonov.
Nikita Mikhalkov.
Boris Grebenshchikov.
Viktor Tsoi at the Golden Duke film festival in Odessa, 1988.
