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Французские деятели с русскими корнями
Париж был сердцем русской эмиграции после 1917 года, домом для писателей, художников, танцовщиков и философов, которые хранили русскую культуру в изгнании — от «Русских балетов» до эмигрантских литературных салонов. Последующие волны еврейской и советской эмиграции углубили эту связь.
Эта страница документирует выдающихся французских деятелей — в кино, музыке, литературе и искусстве, — чьё наследие восходит к Российской империи и Советскому Союзу.
Джо Дассен
The American-born Parisian whose soul was Odessan.
Марина Влади
French cinema icon born of Russian émigré nobility
Мишель Польнарефф
French pop icon, rooted in Odessa
Серж Генсбур
Provocateur poet, born of Crimean Jewish émigrés
Александр Алёхин
The czar of chess who conquered the world.
Александр Глазунов
St. Petersburg's last Romantic, exiled in Paris
Александр Кожев
The Russian who reinvented Hegel for the West
Андрей Звягинцев
Siberian filmmaker who made Russia indict itself.
Хаим Сутин
Expressionist painter from a Belarus shtetl who became a giant of Parisian modernism
Дмитрий Мережковский
St. Petersburg symbolist novelist who was nominated for the Nobel Prize 10 times and died in Paris exile
Эдуард Лимонов
Provocateur, punk novelist, and opposition politician born in Dzerzhinsk who made Paris and New York his stage
Илья Мечников
Ukrainian-born father of immunology who won the Nobel Prize and invented the concept of the immune cell
Эммануэль Левинас
Born in Kaunas, became the philosopher of the Other and transformed European ethics
Эрте (Роман де Тиртов)
Born in St. Petersburg, he became the defining Art Deco designer of the 20th century
Евгения Володина
Kazan supermodel who became one of the world's top runway stars of the 2000s
Жорж Шарпак
Born in Ukraine, invented particle detectors that transformed physics and won the Nobel Prize
Анри Труайя
Born Lev Tarassov in Moscow, became France's greatest biographer and the Académie française's Russian voice
Элен Каррер д'Анкосс
First female Permanent Secretary of the Académie française, born of Russian-Georgian noble descent
Ирэн Немировски
Born in Kyiv, became a celebrated French novelist, and died in Auschwitz before her masterpiece was published
Иван Бунин
The first Russian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, writing in exile about a lost Russia
Иван Мозжухин
Penza-born silent film star who became the face of European cinema in the 1920s
Лев Бакст
Born in Grodno, designed the Ballets Russes costumes that made Art Nouveau fashionable across the world
Лев Шестов
Kyiv philosopher of the absurd who influenced Camus and Sartre — the great outsider of Russian thought
Марк Шагал
Vitebsk's dreamer who painted heaven on Earth
Матильда Кшесинская
The Romanovs' prima ballerina — born in St. Petersburg, loved by a Tsar, ended up in Paris
Максим Концевич
Khimki-born mathematician who won both the Fields Medal and the Breakthrough Prize
Мишель Хазанавичюс
French director with Lithuanian-Russian Jewish roots who won 5 Oscars for The Artist
Михаил Громов
Born in Boksitogorsk — Fields Medal-winning mathematician who transformed topology
Наталья Водянова
From Nizhny Novgorod streets to global runways
Натали Саррот
Born in Ivanovo, Russia — invented the French Nouveau Roman and transformed 20th-century literature
Николай Бердяев
Born in Kyiv — Russia's greatest religious philosopher, expelled by Lenin on the Philosophy Steamer
Ольга Куриленко
Born in Berdyansk, Ukraine — became a Bond girl, starred in Oblivion and relocated to France
Осип Цадкин
Born in Vitebsk like Chagall — became one of the 20th century's greatest sculptors in Paris
Павел Дуров
The Soviet-born dissident who built the world's fortress of free speech
Рафаэль Глюксман
French MEP and intellectual whose family fled Czernowitz — one of Europe's most prominent anti-Putin voices
Рената Литвинова
Moscow's most theatrical actress and screenwriter — an unforgettable presence in Russian cinema
Робер Оссейн
French actor and director whose father came from Samarkand — starred in Angélique and directed stadium spectacles
Роже Вадим
His father fled Kyiv — the director who launched Brigitte Bardot and married Jane Fonda
Ромен Гари
Born in Vilnius, raised in Nice — won the Prix Goncourt twice under two names, the only writer ever to do so
Рудольф Нуриев
The Soviet defector who conquered the world's stages
Семён Бычков
Born in Leningrad — chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic and one of the world's great maestros
Серж Лифарь
Born in Kyiv — the most important ballet director in 20th-century France, built the Paris Opera Ballet
Сергей Дягилев
Born near Novgorod — founded the Ballets Russes and changed art, music, dance and fashion forever
Симона Вей
Holocaust survivor with Russian Jewish roots who legalised abortion in France and became its moral conscience
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
Татьяна Головина
Moscow-born French tennis prodigy who reached the top 12 in the world
Тэффи (Надежда Лохвицкая)
Born in St. Petersburg — the funniest woman in Russia, beloved by the Tsar and by Lenin
Туган Сохиев
Born in Vladikavkaz — chief conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre and the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse
Вацлав Нижинский
Born in Kyiv — the greatest male dancer in history, whose Afternoon of a Faun shocked Paris and changed art forever
Владимир Арнольд
Born in Odessa — one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century who solved Hilbert's 13th problem at 19
Владимир Крамник
Born in Tuapse — the chess player who defeated Kasparov and became the last classical World Chess Champion
Вальдемар Хавкин
Born in Odessa — developed the world's first cholera and plague vaccines, saving millions in India
Земфира Рамазанова
Born in Ufa — Russia's greatest female rock star, who left Russia after opposing the Ukraine war
Зинаида Гиппиус
Born in Tula — the greatest female poet of the Silver Age, who called the Revolution 'the triumph of evil'
Алексей Кузьмичёв
Alfa Group co-founder with Vologda roots who built a $7 billion fortune and lives in France
Варвара Грачева
Russian WTA player who switched to France in June 2023 to continue competing internationally
Ксения Ефремова
Widely considered a generational Russian tennis prodigy — began representing France in September 2023
Анастасия Кирпичникова
European short-course swimming champion who changed to France to compete at world aquatic events
Сергей Гуриев
Russia's most prominent economist in exile — Sciences Po Paris professor and EBRD chief economist