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.

* Viktor Vasnetsov

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.

The Baptism of Vladimir, a fresco by Viktor Vasnetsov

Meanwhile Captain Viktor Tupolev, a former student of Ramius who now commands a Soviet Alfa-class attack submarine named after Vladimir Konovalov, has been trailing what he at first believes is an Ohio-class submarine.

Notable early semiotic authors included Vladimir Propp, Algirdas Julius Greimas, and Viktor Shklovsky.

Along with Berezovsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Roman Abramovich, Vladimir Potanin, Vladimir Bogdanov, Rem Viakhirev, Vagit Alekperov, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Viktor Vekselberg, and Mikhail Fridman emerged as Russia's most powerful and prominent oligarchs.

* May 27-third group: Vladimir Yanochkin, Viktor Volodin

# On 12 March 1981 the last resident crew, Vladimir Kovalyonok and Viktor Savinykh, arrived and stayed for 75 days.

* Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh ( Soyuz T-13 ) arrived at the space station on 6 June 1985.

It was once again decided to attempt to repair the station, which was performed by Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh on the Soyuz T-13 mission, in what was in the words of author David S. F. Portree " one of the most impressive feats of in-space repairs in history ".

It became widely known in Russia, and the West outside the narrow confines of the intelligence community, during perestroika, in part thanks to the writings of " Viktor Suvorov " ( Vladimir Rezun ), a GRU agent who defected to Britain in 1978, and wrote about his experiences in the Soviet military and intelligence services.

* Viktor Suvorov ( Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun )

For example, real life suspected Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is portrayed as " Vladimir Bout " in Avenger.

Editors and contributors to the GSE included a number of leading Soviet scientists and politicians: Hamid Alimjan, Viktor Ambartsumian, Nikolai Baibakov, Mykola Bazhan, Maia Berzina, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Andrei Bubnov, Nikolai Bukharin, Nikolai Burdenko, Mikhail Frunze, Victor Glushkov, Igor Grabar, Pavel Lebedev-Polianskii, Veniamin Kagan, Ivan Knunyants, Andrei Kolmogorov, Valerian Kuybyshev, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Vladimir Obruchev, Aleksandr Oparin, Yuri Prokhorov, Karl Radek, Nikolai Semashko, and Kliment Voroshilov.

Other arrested people include Viktor Orekhov, a former KGB officer who assisted Soviet dissidents, Vladimir Kazantsev who disclosed illegal purchases of eavesdropping devices from foreign firms, and Vil Mirzayanov who had written that Russia was working on a nerve gas weapon.

* Investigation Directorate – chiefs: Nikolay Oleshko ( since December 2004 ), Yury Anisimov ( as of 2004 ), Viktor Milchenko ( since 2002 ), Sergey Balashov ( until 2002 since at least 2001 ), Vladimir Galkin ( as of 1997 and 1998 )

* Viktor Suvorov ( born 1947 ), pseudonym of Vladimir Rezun, a Soviet intelligence officer who defected to the UK in 1978 and published several books about his Soviet Army experiences

It includes the work of a number of highly influential Russian and Soviet scholars such as Viktor Shklovsky, Yuri Tynianov, Vladimir Propp, Boris Eichenbaum, Roman Jakobson, Boris Tomashevsky, Grigory Gukovsky who revolutionised literary criticism between 1914 and the 1930s by establishing the specificity and autonomy of poetic language and literature.

Since 1938, there has been a long list of famous winners, including: Max Euwe, Bent Larsen, Tigran Petrosian, Paul Keres, Efim Geller, Lajos Portisch, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal, Viktor Korchnoi, Jan Timman, Anatoly Karpov, Vladimir Kramnik, Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand, Veselin Topalov, Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin, Magnus Carlsen, and Hikaru Nakamura.

* Sergei Gerasimov, Vladimir Rapoport, Vladimir Ivanov, Inna Makarova, Nonna Mordyukova, Sergei Gurzo, Lyudmila Shagalova, and Viktor Khokhryakov for the film The Young Guard ( 1948 )

In 1951-56 Denisov studied at the Moscow Conservatory — composition with Vissarion Shebalin, orchestration with Nikolai Rakov, analysis with Viktor Zuckerman and piano with Vladimir Belov.

Condolences on the death of Chernomyrdin were voiced on 3 November 2010 by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and other state figures in Russia.

Cosmonauts Vladimir Kovalyonok ( left ) and Viktor Savinykh ( right ) on a 1981 stamp of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics