Fashion & Entertainment

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Soviet-trained dancer who redefined American ballet

Alexey Brodovitch

The Russian émigré who reinvented American design

Anna Pavlova

Prima ballerina of the Imperial Russian Ballet; first ballerina to tour the world

Anna Trebunskaya

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

Anne V (Vyalitsyna)

Nizhny Novgorod's model who conquered New York

Annie Leibovitz

Portrait photographer born in Waterbury, Connecticut; Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Vogue

Artem Chigvintsev

Vladivostok-born dancer who conquered Hollywood.

Bar Refaeli

Israel's global face with Eastern European roots.

Calvin Klein

American fashion designer, born in the Bronx

Chaim Soutine

Painter of the School of Paris, born in Smilavichy near Minsk

Cheryl Burke

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

Dasha Zhukova

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

David Copperfield

Illusionist; grandson of Jewish emigrants from the Ukrainian SSR

Diane Arbus

Photographer born in New York; granddaughter of a Russian Jewish immigrant on her father's side

Diane von Furstenberg

Fashion designer born in Brussels, creator of the wrap dress (1974); daughter of a father born in Bessarabia

Dmitry Chaplin

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

Ernst Neizvestny

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

Erté (Romain de Tirtoff)

Art Deco designer born in St Petersburg, son of an admiral; some 240 covers for Harper's Bazar and costumes for the Folies-Bergère

Esti Ginzburg

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

Eugenia Volodina

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

Fred Astaire

Dancer and actor, star of Top Hat and Swing Time; son of Fritz Austerlitz of Linz, Austria-Hungary

Gala Dalí

Born in Kazan, raised in Moscow: wife of Paul Éluard and then of Salvador Dalí, his muse, model and manager

Gleb Savchenko

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

Gregori Warchavchik

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

Harry Seidler

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

Ilya Kabakov

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

Irina Shayk

Model born Irina Shaykhlislamova in Yemanzhelinsk in 1986; first Russian on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue (2011)

Jaime Lerner

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

Karina Smirnoff

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

Katya Jones

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

Kazimir Malevich

Painter and theorist born in Kiev; founder of Suprematism and painter of the Black Square

Komar & Melamid

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

Kristina Rihanoff

Vladivostok-born ballroom champion and Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer

Lasar Segall

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

Lilia Kopylova

Moscow-born ballroom champion and Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

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

Man Ray

Born Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia to Russian-Jewish immigrants; Dada and Surrealist photographer

Marc Chagall

Vitebsk's dreamer who painted heaven on Earth

Mark Rothko

From Dvinsk to the sublime: Rothko's color fields

Maryna Linchuk

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

Mathilde Kschessinska

Prima ballerina assoluta of the Imperial Russian Ballet, born near Peterhof; taught in Paris from 1929

Michael Kors

Fashion designer born on Long Island, New York

Mikhail Chemiakin

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

Natalia Vodianova

Model and philanthropist born in Gorky in 1982; Calvin Klein's exclusive face for eight seasons and founder of the Naked Heart Foundation

Natasha Poly

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

Naum Gabo

Constructivist sculptor born Naum Pevzner in 1890; co-author of the Realistic Manifesto (Moscow, 1920); later in Berlin, England and the United States

Nigella Lawson

Food writer and broadcaster — How to Eat, How to Be a Domestic Goddess, Nigella Bites; great-granddaughter of a merchant from Mitau in Courland

Oleg Cassini

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

Ossip Zadkine

Sculptor from Vitebsk who made his career in Paris; author of The Destroyed City in Rotterdam (1953)

Pasha Kovalev

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

Peggy Guggenheim

Art collector and patron born in New York; founder of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice

Ralph Lauren

Fashion designer; son of emigrants from Pinsk and Drahichyn

Rotem Sela

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

Sasha Farber

Moscow-born Dancing with the Stars professional and fan favourite

Sasha Pivovarova

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

Slava Polunin

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

Sonia Delaunay

Painter and designer born in Ukraine and raised in St Petersburg; co-founder of Simultanism and the first living woman artist given a Louvre retrospective (1964)

Tamara Karsavina

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

Tamara de Lempicka

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

Tatiana Patitz

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

Theodore Kosloff

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

Val Chmerkovskiy

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

Valentina Zelyaeva

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

Vaslav Nijinsky

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

Vlada Roslyakova

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

Wassily Kandinsky

Moscow-born father of abstract painting

William Kentridge

Johannesburg-born artist; grandson of the Lithuanian-born lawyer Morris Kentridge

Xenia Deli

Xenia Tchoumitcheva

Zurab Tsereteli

Stefanie Giesinger

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

Peter Carl Faberge

Jeweller to the Romanovs, died stateless in Lausanne

Angelina Beloff

Painter and printmaker born in St Petersburg in 1879; in Paris from 1909, in Mexico from 1932, where she taught, made puppet theatre and co-founded the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana

Mstislav Dobuzhinsky

Painter and stage designer born in Novgorod in 1875, a leading member of the World of Art; later designer of the Lithuanian State Theatre and of productions in New York

Olga Costa

Mexican painter born Olga Kostakowsky in Leipzig in 1913 to parents from the Russian Empire; La vendedora de frutas (1951), National Prize for Arts and Sciences (1990)

Stepan Erzya

Mordvin sculptor born in Bayevo in 1876 who spent 1927–1950 in Buenos Aires, carving portraits in the hardwoods quebracho and algarrobo

Vlady (Vladimir Kibalchich)

Painter born in Petrograd in 1920, son of the writer Victor Serge; in Mexico from the 1940s, muralist of the Biblioteca Miguel Lerdo de Tejada

Xul Solar

Argentine painter and visionary born in 1887 to a father from Riga; inventor of imaginary languages and a friend of Jorge Luis Borges