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| | Russia FAMOUS RUSSIANS |
 | | Russia's greatest poet Aleksandr Pushkin (1799–1837) was also a brilliant writer of prose. |
 | | Russian composers of note include Mikhail Glinka (1804–57), Aleksandar Borodin (1833–87), also a distinguished chemist, Mily Balakirev (1837–1910), Modest Mussorgsky (1839–81), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–93), Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), Aleksandr Skryabin (1871–1915), Sergey Rakhmaninov (1873–1943), Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), Sergey Prokofyev (1891–1953), Aram Ilyich Khachaturian (1903–78), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904–87), and Dmitry Shostakovich (1906–75). |
 | | Important film directors were Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893–1953), Aleksandr Dovzhenko (1864–1956), Sergey Eisenstein (1898–1948, Vasily Shiksin (1929–74), and Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–87). |
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