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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 star whose father was born in Odessa
Серж Генсбур
Provocateur poet, born of Crimean Jewish émigrés
Александр Алёхин
World chess champion 1927–35 and 1937–46, born in Moscow in 1892; won the first Soviet championship in 1920 and left Russia in 1921
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
Painter of the School of Paris, born in Smilavichy near Minsk
Дмитрий Мережковский
St Petersburg-born Symbolist novelist and critic, repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize, who died in Paris
Эдуард Лимонов
Provocateur, punk novelist, and opposition politician born in Dzerzhinsk who made Paris and New York his stage
Илья Мечников
Zoologist born near Kharkov; discoverer of phagocytosis, Nobel Prize 1908
Эммануэль Левинас
Philosopher of ethics and 'the face of the other', born in Kovno in 1906; introduced Husserl and Heidegger to French philosophy
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
Евгения Володина
Kazan supermodel who became one of the world's top runway stars of the 2000s
Жорж Шарпак
French physicist born in Dąbrowica (now Dubrovytsia, Ukraine), 1992 Nobel laureate for particle detectors
Анри Труайя
French novelist and biographer born Lev Tarasov in Moscow in 1911; Prix Goncourt 1938, Académie française 1959, biographer of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Catherine the Great
Элен Каррер д'Анкосс
First female Permanent Secretary of the Académie française, born of Russian-Georgian noble descent
Ирэн Немировски
Novelist born in Kiev, author of David Golder and Suite française; died at Auschwitz in 1942
Иван Бунин
Writer born in Voronezh; the first Russian Nobel laureate in literature (1933)
Иван Мозжухин
Silent-film star of Russia and then France, born in Kondol in 1889; Father Sergius, Kean and Michel Strogoff; the face of the Kuleshov experiment
Лев Бакст
Painter and stage designer born in Grodno; designer for the Ballets Russes
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
Prima ballerina assoluta of the Imperial Russian Ballet, born near Peterhof; taught in Paris from 1929
Максим Концевич
Khimki-born mathematician who won both the Fields Medal and the Breakthrough Prize
Мишель Хазанавичюс
French director of Lithuanian and Polish Jewish descent; Academy Award for Best Director for The Artist
Михаил Громов
Boksitogorsk-born mathematician; Abel Prize laureate (2009)
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
Натали Саррот
French novelist born in Ivanovo-Voznesensk; a founder of the nouveau roman, author of Tropismes and Enfance
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
Sculptor from Vitebsk who made his career in Paris; author of The Destroyed City in Rotterdam (1953)
Павел Дуров
Founder of VKontakte and Telegram, born in Leningrad in 1984; left Russia in 2014 and is based in Dubai
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 was born in Russian Central Asia and whose mother was born in Kiev
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
Impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, born in the Novgorod Governorate
Симона Вей
French magistrate and stateswoman, born in Nice
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)
Татьяна Головина
Moscow-born French tennis player — 2004 French Open mixed doubles champion, career-high world No. 12
Тэффи (Надежда Лохвицкая)
Humorist and short-story writer, the most popular Russian woman writer of the 1910s, who left Russia in 1919 and spent her last three decades in Paris
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
Владимир 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
Пом Клементьефф
French actress, Mantis in the Marvel films, granddaughter of the Russian-born painter Eugène Klementieff
Шарль Эфрусси
Art historian and collector born in Odessa in 1849; editor of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, patron of the Impressionists and a model for Proust's Swann
Георгий Питоев
Stage director and actor born Gevorg Pitoyan in Tiflis in 1884; co-founder of the Cartel des Quatre, who introduced Chekhov, Pirandello and Shaw to the French stage
Людмила Питоева
Stage actress born in Tiflis, one of the great Paris actresses between the wars; Saint Joan, Nora and Chekhov's heroines in the Pitoëff company