Introduction: Russia's people of empire / Stephen M. Norris and Willard Sunderland
Ermak Timofeevich (1530s/40s-1585) / Willard Sunderland
Simeon Bekbulatovich (?-1616) / Donald Ostrowski
Timofei Ankudinov (1617?-1653) / Maureen Perrie
Gavril Romanovich Nikitin (?-1698) / Erika Monahan
Boris Ivanovich Korybut-Kurakin (1676-1727) / Ernest A. Zitser
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765) / Michael D. Gordin
Catherine the Great (1729-1796) / Hilde Hoogenboom
Petr Ivanovich Bagration (1765-1812) / Sean Pollock
Johannes Ambrosius Rosenstrauch (1768-1835) / Alexander M. Martin
Imam Shamil (1797-1871) / Rebecca Gould
Zalumma Agra, the "star of the East" (fl. 1860s) / Charles King
Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) / Theodore R. Weeks
Archbishop Innokentii (Borisov, 1800-1857) / Mara Kozelsky
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852) / Edyta Bojanowska
Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894) / Richard Stites
Aleksandr Borodin (1833-1887) / David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
Kutlu-Mukhammad Batyr-Gireevich Tevkelev (1850-?) and family / Charles Steinwedel
Petr Badmaev (1851-1919) / David McDonald
Ekaterina Sabashnikova-Baranovskaia (1859-?) / Barbara Alpern Engel
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867-1951) / Bradley D. Woodworth
Mathilde Kshesinskaia (1872-1971) / Krista Sigler
Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) / Ronald Grigor Suny
Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) / Alexandra Harrington
Aleksandr Germano (1893-1955) / Brigid O'Keeffe
Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich (1893-1991) / Hiroaki Kuromiya
Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) / John MacKay
Mukhtar Auezov (1897-1961) / Michael Rouland
Jahon Obidova (1900-1967) / Marianne Kamp
Olzhas Suleimenov (1936- ) / Marlene Laruelle
Boris Akunin (Grigorii Shalvovich Chkhartishvili, 1956- ) / Stephen M. Norris
Vladislav Surkov (1964- ) / Karen Dawisha.
