page_title: List of Russian people
section_title: Orthodox saints
hierarchical_section_title: List of Russian people / Religious figures / Orthodox saints
caption_attribution_description: Русский: СВЯТЫЕ БОРИС И ГЛЕБ. Середина XIV в. Москва Из коллекции Н. П. Лихачева ДРЖ-2117. Русский Музей English: SS. BORIS AND GLEB. An early 14th-century icon from Mstera. Passed to the Russian Museum from the en:Nikolay Likhachyov Collection
context_page_description: This is a list of people associated with the modern Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, Imperial Russia, Russian Tsardom, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Kievan Rus', and other predecessor states of Russia.
  Regardless of ethnicity or emigration, the list includes famous natives of Russia and its predecessor states, as well as people who were born elsewhere but spent most of their active life in Russia.
context_section_description: Alexander Nevsky, Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir, military hero, patron saint and the Name of Russia
  Andrei Rublev, famous icon-painter, author of the Trinity
  Anthony of Kiev, co-founder of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, the first monastery in Russia
  Basil Fool for Christ, yurodivy who gave his name to St. Basil's Cathedral on the Red Square
  Boris and Gleb, children of Vladimir the Great, the first saints canonized in Kievan Rus'
  Tsarevich Dmitry, son of Ivan IV, mysteriously died or killed, later impersonated by the impostors False Dmitry I and False Dmitry II during the Time of Troubles
  Dmitry Donskoy, war hero, the first Prince of Moscow to openly challenge Mongol authority in Russia
  Feodor Kuzmich, starets who according to a legend was in fact Alexander I of Russia who faked his death to become a hermit
  Ioakim Korsunianin, first bishop of Novgorod the Great and builder of the original wooden Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod
  John of Shanghai and San Francisco, a leader of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
  Kirill of Beloozero, founder of Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery
  Maximus the Greek, 16th century humanist scholar
  Nicholas II of Russia, last Russian emperor, killed in the Civil War with his family; they were beatified as new-martyrs
  Nicholas of Japan, brought the Eastern Orthodoxy to Japan
  Olga of Kiev, first Christian among Russian rulers
  Savvatiy, founder of Solovetsky Monastery
  Sergius of Radonezh, patron saint of Russia, spiritual and monastic reformer, founder of the Trinity Sergius Lavra, blessed Dmitry Donskoy for the Battle of Kulikovo
  Vladimir I of Kiev "the Great", Kievan Prince who turned from pagan to saint and enacted the Christianization of Kievan Rus'
caption: Boris and Gleb
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