Мода и развлечения

Михаил Барышников

Soviet-trained dancer who redefined American ballet

Алексей Бродович

The Russian émigré who reinvented American design

Анна Павлова

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

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

Артём Чигвинцев

Vladivostok-born dancer who conquered Hollywood.

Бар Рафаэли

Israel's global face with Eastern European roots.

Кэлвин Кляйн

American fashion designer, born in the Bronx

Хаим Сутин

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

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

Illusionist; grandson of Jewish emigrants from the Ukrainian SSR

Диана Арбус

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

Диана фон Фюрстенберг

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

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)

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

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

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

Гала Дали

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

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

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

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

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

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

Майкл Корс

Fashion designer born on Long Island, New York

Михаил Шемякин

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

Наталья Водянова

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

Наташа Поли

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

Наум Габо

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

Найджелла Лоусон

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

Олег Кассини

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

Осип Цадкин

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

Паша Ковалёв

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

Пегги Гуггенхайм

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

Ральф Лорен

Fashion designer; son of emigrants from Pinsk and Drahichyn

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

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)

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

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

Ксения Дели

Ксения Чумичева

Зураб Церетели

Штефани Гизингер

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

Пётр Карл Фаберже

Jeweller to the Romanovs, died stateless in Lausanne

Ангелина Белова

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

Мстислав Добужинский

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

Ольга Коста (Костаковская)

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)

Степан Эрьзя

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

Влади (Владимир Кибальчич)

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

Шуль Солар (Оскар Агустин Алехандро Шульц Солари)

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