St. Nestor the Chronicler, the first Russian historians | Russian historiographer ( by Viktor Vasnetsov ).

Frog Tsarevna, by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1918.

The same colour scheme was used by Viktor Vasnetsov for the façade of the Tretyakov Gallery, in which some of the most famous St. George icons are exhibited and which displays St. George as the coat of arms of Moscow over its entrance.

Imaginative depiction of the Stone Age, by Viktor Vasnetsov.

The Baptism of Saint Prince Vladimir, by Viktor Vasnetsov ( 1890 )

Viktor Vasnetsov.

In Russia, Viktor Hartmann, Viktor Vasnetsov and other artists associated with Abramtsevo Colony sought to revive the quality of medieval Russian decorative arts quite independently from the movement in Great Britain.

Romantic nationalism: Battle between the Scythians and the Slavs ( Viktor Vasnetsov, 1881 ).

Nizhny Novgorod has a great and extraordinary art gallery with more than 12, 000 exhibits, an enormous collection of works by Russian artists such as Viktor Vasnetsov, Karl Briullov, Ivan Shishkin, Ivan Kramskoi, Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Isaak Iljitsch Lewitan, Vasily Surikov, Ivan Aivazovsky, there are also greater collections of works by Boris Kustodiev and Nicholas Roerich, not only Russian art is part of the exhibition it include also a vast accumulation of Western European art like works by David Teniers the Younger, Bernardo Bellotto, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Pieter de Grebber, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and lot more.

Portrait of Ivan IV by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1897 ( Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow )

* Viktor Vasnetsov ( 1848 – 1926 )

Viktor Vasnetsov.

A Knight at the Crossroads by Viktor Vasnetsov

Oleg of Novgorod | Oleg being mourned by his warriors, an 1899 painting by Viktor Vasnetsov.

" Sleeping Princess " by Viktor Vasnetsov

Examples of this are paintings such as Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando ( Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg ) by Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, which depicts two German acrobatic sisters, and Acrobats in a Paris suburb by Viktor Vasnetsov.

The Princess Who Never Smiled by Viktor Vasnetsov

The Frog Princess | Tsarevna Frog by Viktor Vasnetsov: a frog metamorphoses into a princess.

Sister Alenushka Weeping about Brother Ivanushka by Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian variant of Brother and Sister: Alenushka laments her brother's transformation into a goat.

Kashchey the Immortal by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1926-1927.

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Baba Yaga by Viktor Vasnetsov.

Gamayun, one of three prophetic birds of Russian folklore, alongside Alkonost and Sirin ( painting by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1897 ).

Working together in a cooperative spirit, the artists Vasily Polenov and Viktor Vasnetsov designed a plain but picturesque church, with murals painted by Polenov, Vasnetsov and his brother, a gilded iconostasis by Ilya Repin and Mikhail Nesterov, and folklore-inspired sculptures by Viktor Hartmann and Mark Antokolsky.

Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945 ) was a Hungarian composer and pianist.

Viktor Vasilyevich Gorbatko (; born December 3, 1934 in Ventsy-Zarya ) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7, Soyuz 24, and Soyuz 37 missions.

Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev (; June 19, 1933June 30, 1971 ) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and had the unfortunate distinction of being part of the second crew to die during a space flight.

Viktor Fyodorovich Karpukhin (; 1947 – March 24, 2003 ) was a member of the KGB who was instrumental in the Soviet Union's invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.

Viktor Borisovich Khristenko (; born 28 August 1957 ) he was the Russian Minister of Industry from 9 March 2004 to 31 January 2012.

Sergey Ivanovich Ozhegov (; 22 September 1900 – 15 December 1964 ) was a Russian lexicographer who in 1926 graduated from the Leningrad University where his teachers included Lev Shcherba and Viktor Vinogradov.

Viktor Grigoryevich Afanasyev (; 18 November 1922, Aktamysh, Tatar ASSR – 10 April 1994, Moscow ) was a Soviet public figure, remembered for his work as a philosophy academic, politician, and news editor.

Viktor Robertovich Tsoi (; 21 June 1962 – 15 August 1990 ) was a Soviet musician, leader of the band Kino.

Kateryna Mykhaylivna Yushchenko (; born September 1, 1961 ) is the current and second wife of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and First Lady of Ukraine.

Yuriy Vitaliyovych Lutsenko (; born 14 December 1964 in Rivne ) is a Ukrainian politician and statesman and former Minister of Internal Affairs, he occupied this post in the two Cabinets of Yulia Tymoshenko and in Cabinets of Yuriy Yekhanurov, and Viktor Yanukovych.

Stanislav Ianevski (; born May 16, 1985 ) is a Bulgarian actor, known for playing Viktor Krum in the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Viktor Chistiakov (; born February 9, 1975 in Moscow ) is a Russian pole vaulter.

Viktor Georgiyevich Kulikov (; born July 5, 1921 ) was the Warsaw Pact commander-in-chief from 1977 to 1989.

According to Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, when a person is faced with extreme mortal dangers, the most basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat the " trauma of nonbeing " as death is near.

* February 7 – Admiral Kolchak and Viktor Pepelyayev are executed by firing squad near Irkutsk.

On November 18, 2001, Zakayev, officially internationally wanted by Russia, flew from Turkey to the Sheremetyevo International Airport near Moscow to meet the Kremlin's envoy, General Viktor Kazantsev for the high-level talks since the start of the war.

In 1941 several members of TIGR were condemned for espionage and terrorism at the Second Trieste trial ; four of them ( Viktor Bobek, Ivan Ivančič, Simon Kos and Ivan Vadnal ) were executed in Villa Opicina near Trieste the same year, jointly with the Communist activist Pinko Tomažič.

* Viktor Tsoi, Soviet Rock band Kino leader died near Tukums.

Viktor Yanukovych was born in the village of Zhukovka near Yenakiieve in Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.

The hoard is a collection of about 20, 600 gold ornaments that was found in six burial mounds near Sheberghan, in the northern Afghanistan province of Jowzjan, and was excavated in 1978 by a team led by the Greek-Russian archaeologist Viktor Sarianidi, a year before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Alpha Group commander General Viktor Karpukhin and other senior officers of the unit together with Airborne Troops deputy commander Gen Alexander Lebed mingled with the crowds near the White House and assessed the possibility of such an operation.

Next Stangl met with Viktor Brack, who offered him a choice of work between Hartheim and Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centres ; naturally, Stangl picked Hartheim, which was near Linz.

In 363 The Christian Viktor of Xanten is supposed to have been executed together with 360 further members of the Theban Legion near the modern town of Birten, as they refused to sacrifice to the Roman gods.

The Soviet astronomer Viktor Hambardzumyan gave the objects their name, and based on their occurrence near young stars ( a few hundred thousand years old ), suggested they might represent an early stage in the formation of T Tauri stars.

Viktor Anatolyevich Bout () ( born 13 January 1967, near Dushanbe, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union ) is a convicted Russian arms smuggler of Ukrainian origins.

When Matt left the briefcase at the specified location near the railroad tracks for Viktor, instead of going back home, he instinctively went to the abandoned underground factory and found Dinah there tied up and gagged.

Viktor Hartmann Viktor Alexandrovich Hartmann ( Russian: Ви ́ ктор Александро ́ вич Га ́ ртман ; 5 May 1834, St Petersburg-4 August 1873, Kireyevo near Moscow ) was a Russian architect and painter.