Dorothy Gale, 'The Wizard of Oz'. In the second of the famous Bond films Tatiana Romanova, a Russian employee at the Soviet Consulate in Turkey, is the girlfriend of Bond (Sean Connery). Follow Russia Beyond on Telegram. | We find Ivan the Fool in stories such as Little Ivan the Fool, The Humpty-Back Little Horse and Sivka-Burka.. Apart from appearing in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, Vyalitsyna has also appeared on the covers of popular magazines, such as Glamour, Elle, and Vogue. This frail, thin girl is charged, like electricity, to the limit, with all conceivable femininity in the world. The protagonist (the Master) who wrote a novel about Pontius Pilate, has a crush on a woman, who becomes a witch. Based on the novel by Tolstoy. Click here to find out more. $0.59M, R He pays a great price, though, not only by being found out and imprisoned but, whats more important, through suffering great remorse and moral collapse. He invents a new costume and sets off to cut down Stark with whips he has made himself. 8) Vodyanoy (or Water Spirit) is the King of the Deep. 4)The Frog Princess is the perfect wife, clever and beautiful, sensible and resourceful, loyal and thrifty. | 143 min After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. The woman who threw herself under a train has been captivating readers across the world for nearly 150 years. She suffered from hemophilia. 8 in singles tennis rankings, in spite of never having won a singles title. Click here to find out more. | | Gross: In the movie they look like a family that has had to survive in the taiga for years. Top 5 most likable Russian characters in western literature. Stars: Director: The Cherry Orchards Ranevskaya is the head of the high-society family on the brink of bankruptcy. But opposites attract, as Hill reminds us. Director: People have seen the Nightingale in different ways, sometimes as a man, sometimes as a winged avian half-man. | | 145 min agent whose lover he killed. Nastasya Samburskaya; The first actress is Nastasya Samburskaya born in Priozersk, Priozerskiy rayon, Leningradskaya oblast. David Cronenberg And - miracle of miracles - it works! | 106 min But after his death, she almost committed a coup d'etat, pushing her own relatives back from power (and jailed them actually). Nikolai Gritsenko, Catherine was an incredibly smart person and she supported education, establishing the first girls school in the country. 93 min Director: - "Vodka.") Henry David, The novel remains a hit; several film adaptations have been made, including the 2002 version starring Keira Knightley so it comes as no surprise that Zhivago is still remembered. Drama, Romance. Javier Bardem, 100 min Director: Benevolent and beautiful she doesnt want to be liked, yet men find her irresistible. 536,249 | Yemelya gets eight wishes in his tale. She is as strong as she is vulnerable. Born in Kiev in 1928, she first started acting in a student theatre and got her first film role in 1950. Director: During her reign, Russia finished the war with Poland, made first official negotiations with China in which she set up a border, and joined the Holy League against Turkey. There is a big part of Oblomov in each one of us, wrote critic Nikolay Dobrolyubov, Goncharovs contemporary. Director: If a foreigner knows one character from all Russian novels, there is a great chance it will be Anna Karenina. Director: He could equally well have been Hungarian, German or Italian. The Empress of Russia for almost 35 years, Catherine the Great was the country's longest-ruling female leader. May 10 2013. $312.43M, PG Drama, Romance. $67.35M, R Oldman's character, Egor Korshunov, gives Ford's character a smart punch after the latter says: "Do you know who I am? One of the greatest Russian women poets, Anna Akhmatova had started writing poems at age 11. Through the four volumes of War and Peace, Natasha transforms from a 13 year-old nave teenager, through a passionate young woman in search of love, into a stout mother of four Tolstoys ideal of feminine evolution. | Gross: | Portrait of Sofya Alekseevna. Russia at the turn of the 1980s/1990s was the golden age of Arnold Schwarzenegger and American action movies. Known for her iconic portrayal of Aksiniya in the epic And Quiet Flows the Don, Elina Bystritskaya still remains one of the brightest stars of Soviet and Russian cinema, despite having made only 19 movies. Tatiana Romanova, From Russia With Love (1963), In the fifth film of the famous series a dissident Russian oligarch trading in uranium (Sebastian Koch) is chased around Moscow by half of Bruce Willis's family who are in turn chased by Russian secret services and criminal groups. John Moore Nine years after the end of the Cold War, 007 (Pierce Brosnan) still prefers to keep his distance from Russians, so a meeting with Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen) in Monte Carlo does not lead to a passionate affair. Anna is in her late 20s and the darling of all hearts. Bulgakov penned a novel about supernatural power, about the devil visiting Moscow in the 1930. Vasiliy Lanovoy, She only came into power after she colluded to dethrone her unpopular husband, a move that would then place her at the helm. | has a strong run of popularity in the US in the early 2000s, partially thanks to the . This website uses cookies. Catherine ascended the throne after his death. $51.40M, PG-13 Call her sentimental, foolish or irresponsible and you wont be wrong. There is, however, one drawback. Sophie Marceau, Ben Affleck, 2) Kikimora is an evil spirit, and she appears in two forms, depending on who she marries. Alina Zagitova is a Russian figure skater who has won one gold medal each in Olympic Games, World Figure Skating Championships, European Figure Skating Championships, and Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final; she is the only female figure skater from Russia to have achieved this feat. Director: Her jobs are to frighten those who wander through the marshes, lure travelers into quicksand and steal small children. The Firebird is a large bird of extraordinary beauty, enveloped in fire her feathers were of burnished gold, and her eyes of Oriental crystal. Despite this magnificent appearance, its easy to capture the Firebird for illicitly eating the apples in the Tsars garden, or catch her scoffing down the grain of the wheat fields. The daughter of athletes, she started playing tennis when she was six. | Xavier Gens An ambitious ruler, she rapidly expanded the Russian Empire and is credited with modernizing the country along Western European lines. 249,873 10) Vasilisa the Beautiful shouldnt be confused her with her namesake, Vasilisa the Wise, who is a sorceress and daughter of the King of the Seas. Perhaps Kira Knightley was a doubtful choice for the Karenina character yet Joe Wright's version attracted attention to Tolstoy's classic one more time. Theres the Bog Hag, who is married to a hobgoblin, and the House Hag, who is the wife of Domovoi (a house spirit in Slavic folklore). Follow Russia Beyond on Instagram. | 25,898 An expatriate British publisher unexpectedly finds himself working for British intelligence to investigate people in Russia. While out on parole, Dennis reluctantly takes a job selling Christmas trees with his old buddy Rene in order to make enough money to buy his estranged daughter the piano she's always wanted. 1) Baba Yaga is one of the most frequently encountered characters in fairy tales. One has his coffee, donuts and cigarettes, while the other has his Magnum and his concentration. Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi. Director: | Gross: | Gross: Even if youre not an avid reader, you should know at least half of this list of heroes, villains and broken souls. A coalition of countries is fighting against the Kaiju, creatures that have emerged from the Earth's crust and look like Godzilla. She initially gained fame dancing with Mikhail Mordkin and later made waves with her iconic role in The Dying Swan. Evgenia Medvedeva is a Russian figure skater who has won two silver Olympic medals, two World Championship gold medals, and two European Championship gold medals. Russia Beyond has compiled a popularity rating of the most important and . Passion is ruining her life as Karenina spirals deeper and deeper into despair and throws herself under an approaching train. In 1988, she was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. This is hardly surprising neither Pierre nor Andrei were played by Audrey Hepburn (in the 1956 Hollywood movie). | Viewers first met this Marvel Universe heroine in Iron Man 2. Proving that knuckleheaded studio execs always have existed in Hollywood, suits at MGM wanted to cut Dorothy's opening number . . 108 min Terence Young | Poema bez geroya and Requiem remain two of her finest works. 6.6. . She supported the ideals of the Enlightenment and the period of her rulethe Catherinian Erais considered the Golden Age of Russia. Jez Butterworth Photofest. Daniel Olbrychski, Votes: James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. Blue-eyed Russian child model Kristina Pimenova was already a star by age 10, having signed a deal with LA Models and worked for Armani and Benetton. Phil Morrison Russia is basically a patriarchic society and thus women were always subjugated to the roles of wives and mothers and not encouraged to create identities of their own. Stars: After her father's death and the death of her older brother Feodor Alekseevich, the succession to the throne became a matter of clash of clans. Stars: It's just that it suddenly became apparent that all the political twaddle about confrontation between the great powers amounted to nothing when it came to human relations between ordinary cops. Action, Drama, Thriller. Kieron Moore, A nihilist is a person who rejects every conservative value that society clings to, one who cries out loud To hell with that, thats all hypocrisy and nonsense! The concept itself is rather ancient yet in Russia it was Ivan Turgenev who portrayed the ideal nihilist, Yevgeny Bazarov, in his most famous novel Fathers and Sons (1862). She is a closed book, which acts as a magnet for all sorts of men, from childlike Prince Myshkin to daredevil Parfyon Rogozhin. Daniel Craig, Stars: At least by the standards of her time. 106 min | Gross: In Russian fairy tales, the pike assumes more reasonable proportions and a more harmless nature. Reconstruction of the image. 5 outstanding female scientists in Russian history, Russian women of the 20th century (PHOTOS), Now in color: Russian beauties of tsarist times (PHOTOS). 127,960 (Russian Former World No. The Russian boxer is the only character in the film who one is genuinely sorry for. The characters of Russian fairy tales inhabit a spectacular Magical Kingdom where they never get bored. 7) The Firebird is a Russian version of the legend of the Phoenix. 5. Tell us what you think about this feature. The protagonists must rely on their wits to save themselves from her. Matryona is in poor health, penniless and self-denying. Despite the tragic twists and turns of her life, she doesnt play victim, standing in dignity till the end with her unmatched silvery laugh. Despite the fact that her father, Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich, had many children, including other girls, Sophia was the only girl to have a good education, learning several languages and reading lots of clerical books.