We stood under a gigantic tree in the rolling country just outside of Moscow looking at silent flowers on the grave of a Russian poet and writer who cherished the love for his country to the point of foregoing the highest international honor.

* 1812 – Alexander Herzen, Russian writer ( d. 1870 )

* 1902 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer ( d. 1989 )

* 1871 – Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer ( d. 1919 )

* 1803 – Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer ( d. 1869 )

* 2008 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer ( b. 1918 )

* 1958 – Victor Shenderovich, Russian writer

* 1682 – Avvakum, Russian priest and writer ( b. 1621 )

* 1930 – Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer ( b. 1893 )

* 1903 – Nicolas Nabokov, Russian composer and writer ( d. 1978 )

" A writer has died ," he began, " who, together with Pushkin, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy, forms part of the glory of Russian literature.

* 1766 – Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer ( d. 1826 )

* 1918 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and Soviet dissident, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2008 )

* 1988 – Yuli Daniel, Russian writer ( b. 1925 )

* 1937 – Eduard Uspensky, Russian writer

In 1999, the bicentennial year of Russian poet and writer Alexander Pushkin, Hofstadter published a verse translation of Pushkin's classic novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin.

* 1904 – Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer ( d. 1977 )

* 1964 – Dmitri Lipskerov, Russian writer

* 2008 – Yegor Letov, Russian song writer and singer ( Grazhdanskaya Oborona ) ( b. 1964 )

* 1944 – Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer ( b. 1872 )

* 1831 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer ( d. 1895 )

The Russian writer Dostoevsky ( himself a problem gambler ) portrays in his novella The Gambler the psychological implications of gambling and how gambling can affect gamblers.

During the last years of the Russian Empire, in the early 20th century, many authors continued to write in the gothic fiction genre, including historian and historical fiction writer Alexander Valentinovich Amfiteatrov, Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev, who developed psychological characterization, symbolist Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, Alexander Grin, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin.

* 1872 – Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer ( d. 1944 )

In order to receive permission from Bardot's parents to marry her, Vadim, originally a Russian Orthodox Christian, was urged to convert to Catholicism, although it is not clear if he ever did so.

* 1912 – Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer ( d. 1978 )

* November 4 – Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer ( d. 1978 )

* February 27 – Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer ( b. 1912 )

* Vadim Kozin ( 1903 – 1994 ), Russian tenor

A Russian historian Vadim Erlikman has detailed Soviet losses totaling 26. 5 million war related deaths.

Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov ( 4 November 1912, Saint Petersburg – 27 February 1978, Leningrad ) was a Russian / Soviet composer.

* 2. Na3 is an eccentric move recently brought into prominence by GM Vadim Zvjaginsev at the 2005 Russian Chess Championship Superfinal.

The MTsPA has been linked to Prime Minister Vadim Brovtsev, who is himself under attack for mismanaging Russian funds.

British singer Marc Almond is the only western artist to receive acclaim in western Europe and well as Russia, for singing English versions of Russian Romances and Russian Chanson on his albums Heart On Snow and Orpheus in Exile ( the songs of Vadim Kozin ).

In June 2001, Ponty performed duets with Vadim Repin, the young Russian star of classical violin and also with American jazz violinist Regina Carter at the Film Music Festival in Poland.

Later, Eddy Drammeh ( aka Eddy La Sombra ) joined them as a rapper ; and they took Russian DJ Vadim behind the turntable.

Ney befriended a wide number of progressive-minded art students, now stars of the contemporary Russian art scene such as Alexander Kosolapov, Leonid Sokov, Alexander Yulikov, Lev Nussberg and Vadim Kosmatschof.

* Vadim Repin ( b. 1971 ), a Russian violinist

In the book " Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America ", the author states: " Ukrainian mob boss Vadim Rabinovich attended a Clinton-Gore fund raiser at the Sheraton Bel Harbor Hotel in Miami.

* Vadim Yermolayev, Russian ice hockey player

* Vadim Arsen ' evich Efremovich ( obituary ), in Russian Mathematical Surveys 45: 6 ( 1990 ), pp 137 – 138.

) was the author of the bestselling novels Vadim, Monstrum, The Fortune Teller and The Fall of the Russian Empire as well as non-fiction books such as The Penguin Dictionary of the Third Reich.

* Vadim Chernobrov's site-http :// chernobrov. narod. ru ( in Russian )

The first replicated album of Russki Razmer was recorded together with Vadim Volodin, a famous Russian sound-arranger and producer, in Moscow.

* Vadim Khamuttskikh, Russian volleyball player

* Vadim Sidorov, Russian long-distance runner

* DJ Vadim, Russian DJ