Мода и развлечения

Михаил Барышников

Soviet-trained dancer who redefined American ballet

Алексей Бродович

The Russian émigré who reinvented American design

Анна Павлова

The Swan who carried Russia to the world.

Анна Требунская

Russian ballroom champion who became a Dancing with the Stars fan favourite

Анна Вялицына

Nizhny Novgorod's model who conquered New York

Энни Лейбовиц

The lens that defined American celebrity for 50 years.

Артём Чигвинцев

Vladivostok-born dancer who conquered Hollywood.

Бар Рафаэли

Israel's global face with Eastern European roots.

Кэлвин Кляйн

Bronx-born designer with Russian roots who invented American minimalism

Хаим Сутин

Expressionist painter from a Belarus shtetl who became a giant of Parisian modernism

Шерил Берк

Dancing with the Stars champion with Russian Empire roots who became America's most-watched ballroom dancer

Даша Жукова

Moscow-born art patron and Garage Museum founder who brought contemporary art to Russia

Дэвид Копперфилд

The world's greatest illusionist, son of a mother with Russian Jewish roots

Диана Арбус

Russian-Jewish immigrant granddaughter who became the most influential American photographer of the 20th century

Диана фон Фюрстенберг

Belgian-American fashion icon whose father came from Kishinev in the Russian Empire

Дмитрий Чаплин

Rostov-born dancer who became a So You Think You Can Dance star and Broadway choreographer

Эрнст Неизвестный

Yekaterinburg sculptor who argued with Khrushchev and created the Tree of Life

Эрте (Роман де Тиртов)

Born in St. Petersburg, he became the defining Art Deco designer of the 20th century

Эсти Гинзбург

Israeli model and actress with Russian-Jewish roots who became a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit star

Евгения Володина

Kazan supermodel who became one of the world's top runway stars of the 2000s

Фред Астер

The greatest dancer in Hollywood history, son of a father who emigrated from the Russian Empire

Гала Дали

Born Elena Diakonova in Kazan, she became Salvador Dalí's muse, model, and manager

Глеб Савченко

Moscow-born professional dancer and Dancing with the Stars fan favourite

Григорий Варшавчик

Odessa-born architect who introduced modernism to Brazil with the first modernist house in Latin America

Гарри Сейдлер

Born in Vienna to Russian-Bessarabian Jewish parents, became Australia's greatest modernist architect

Илья Кабаков

Born in Dnipro, became the most celebrated conceptual artist of the Soviet underground

Ирина Шейк

From the Urals to the world's runways

Жайме Лернер

Son of Polish-Russian Jewish immigrants who transformed Curitiba into the world's most liveable city

Карина Смирнофф

Kharkiv-born ballroom champion and Dancing with the Stars professional dancer

Катя Джонс

St. Petersburg-born multiple world champion who became Strictly Come Dancing's Russian star

Казимир Малевич

Born in Kyiv, painted Black Square and invented abstract art

Комар и Меламид

Moscow conceptual art duo who invented Sots Art, emigrated to New York, and turned democracy into a painting

Кристина Риханофф

Vladivostok-born ballroom champion and Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer

Лазарь Сегал

Born in Vilnius, became Brazil's most important modernist painter

Лилия Копылова

Moscow-born ballroom champion and Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer

Максим Чмерковский

Odessa-born ballroom champion who became Dancing with the Stars' most beloved bad boy

Мэн Рэй

Born Emmanuel Radnitsky in Philadelphia to parents from Kyiv and Minsk — became Surrealism's greatest photographer

Марк Шагал

Vitebsk's dreamer who painted heaven on Earth

Марк Ротко

From Dvinsk to the sublime: Rothko's color fields

Марина Линчук

Minsk-born Victoria's Secret Angel who became one of the world's top supermodels

Матильда Кшесинская

The Romanovs' prima ballerina — born in St. Petersburg, loved by a Tsar, ended up in Paris

Майкл Корс

Fashion mogul whose mother Joan has Austrian-Russian Jewish roots — built a $10 billion luxury empire

Михаил Шемякин

Moscow-born artist who was expelled from the Soviet Union and befriended Vladimir Vysotsky in Paris

Наталья Водянова

From Nizhny Novgorod streets to global runways

Наташа Поли

Perm-born supermodel who became one of the world's most recognisable faces on the runway

Наум Габо

Born in Bryansk — co-invented Constructivism and became one of the 20th century's defining sculptors

Найджелла Лоусон

Britain's most famous food writer — her grandmother Vanessa Salmon had Russian and German Jewish roots

Олег Кассини

Born in Paris to a Russian diplomat family — became Jackie Kennedy's official couturier

Осип Цадкин

Born in Vitebsk like Chagall — became one of the 20th century's greatest sculptors in Paris

Паша Ковалёв

Siberian ballroom champion who became Strictly Come Dancing's most passionate professional dancer

Пегги Гуггенхайм

Granddaughter of Meyer Guggenheim — became the greatest patron of modernist art in history

Ральф Лорен

His parents came from Pinsk, Belarus — he invented the American dream as a fashion

Ротем Села

Israeli actress and model with Turkish and Polish Jewish roots — voice of a generation on social media

Саша Фарбер

Moscow-born Dancing with the Stars professional and fan favourite

Саша Пивоварова

Moscow-born Prada muse and avant-garde supermodel who redefined the early 2000s runway

Слава Полунин

Novozybkov-born clown who created Snowshow — the most magical theatre production of the 20th century

Соня Делоне

Born in Odessa — co-founded Orphism, revolutionised colour in art and fashion, and became a Cubist pioneer

Тамара Карсавина

Born in St. Petersburg — Diaghilev's prima ballerina and Nijinsky's partner in The Firebird and Petrushka

Тамара де Лемпицка

Born in Warsaw — the Art Deco queen whose portraits of the jet set defined the glamour of the 1920s

Татьяна Патиц

Hamburg-born supermodel of Baltic-Russian origin — one of the original five supermodels of the 1990s

Теодор Кослофф

Born in Moscow — the Imperial Ballet dancer who became Cecil B. DeMille's choreographer and silent film star

Валентин Чмерковский

Odessa-born ballroom champion and Dancing with the Stars fan favourite — Maksim's brother

Валентина Зеляева

Born in Ulan-Ude, Buryatia — the supermodel from Siberia's Buddhist heartland who walked for Chanel and Prada

Вацлав Нижинский

Born in Kyiv — the greatest male dancer in history, whose Afternoon of a Faun shocked Paris and changed art forever

Влада Рослякова

Born in Omsk, Siberia — became one of the world's top supermodels and a Chanel muse

Василий Кандинский

Moscow-born father of abstract painting

Уильям Кентридж

South Africa's greatest living artist — his family came from Lithuania and Russia

Ксения Дели

Ксения Чумичева

Зураб Церетели

Штефани Гизингер

Germany's Next Top Model winner turned international supermodel — mother is a Russian-German Aussiedler