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7 figures
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1821 – 1881Took the reader inside the mind that has decided to do the terrible thing.
Russia·Literature · PhilosophyFull profile
Leo Tolstoy
1828 – 1910War and Peace; his nonviolence doctrine directly shaped Gandhi.
Russia·Literature · Philosophy
Dmitri Mendeleev
1834 – 1907Arranged the elements so precisely that he could describe ones nobody had found.
Russia·ChemistryFull profile
Georg Cantor
1845 – 1918Proved there are different sizes of infinity.
Russia·Mathematics
Anton Chekhov
1860 – 1904Doctor-playwright who invented modern drama's subtext.
Russia·Literature · Medicine
Nikolai Vavilov
1887 – 1943Built the world's first seed bank; starved to death in Stalin's prison.
Russia·Biology
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1918 – 2008The Gulag Archipelago broke the Soviet system's moral standing.
Russia·Literature · HistoryNobel