Alexei Vostrikov, K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) Kinopoisk.ru. Gwyneth Paltrow, 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. An archetypal Russian gangster, Gennady, sticks in ones mind after watching the movie only thanks to the most bizarre scene in which the protagonist Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) drinks his blood. But opposites attract, as Hill reminds us. Leo Tolstoys Karenina is a gem of 19th century Russian literature. Peak Popularity: Katiya is a unique name and can't be found in the top 1000 list of girl's names in the United States. Right IconThis ranking is based on an algorithm that combines various factors, including the votes of our users and search trends on the internet. Galina Reznikov. Alexandra and her entire family were murdered by the Bolshevik revolutionaries. Director: Fictional great female characters can be just as engaging, however. After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Follow Russia Beyond on Instagram. | Freddie Bartholomew, Russian women are most famous for their beauty and charm. But an easy life soon makes you stupid, Vassa believes. A coalition of countries is fighting against the Kaiju, creatures that have emerged from the Earth's crust and look like Godzilla. And if this is the case, then its the only Russian feature that Onatopp has. All this comes to an end when his old enemy, a former policeman of the honest kind, ends up in the same prison. 93 min Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi. This list includes the best female characters of all ages, like the youthful girls Matilda (Matilda) and Hermione Granger (Harry Potter) to the ever-so-adult Evelyn Couch (Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe). Rachel Weisz, Votes: Eponymous characters always stand out but thats not the only thing that makes Ilya Oblomov from Ivan Goncharovs 1859 novel Oblomov special. | Maureen O'Sullivan, Votes: If you come close to her or touch her with one finger, a spark will illuminate the room and will either kill you on the spot, or electrify you for life with her magnetically inductive, whining proclivity and sadness.. Action, Crime, Thriller. King Vidor Ed Harris, (Russias Grand Duchess and the Youngest Daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, Last Emperor), Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. Giacomo Campiotti . agent whose lover he killed. Robert Knepper, Votes: Action, Adventure, Thriller. Irina Spalko, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). However, some historians believe that it was Catherine and her multiple favorites who initiated massive corruption in Russia. Ben Chaplin, She possesses no superpowers, but instead she has had years of KGB training and a tough childhood in Stalingrad (now Volgograd). Neither the city. Yulia Lipnitskaya stunned her fans with the news of her retirement at the tender age of 19. Doctor Zhivago brought Pasternak a Nobel Prize and lots of troubles at home (the Soviet authorities were dissatisfied with a novel about an intellectual). Onegin rejects her love, under the pretext that he doesnt want to have a family. The first woman military pilot, Yevgeniya Shakhovskaya was also a Russian as was the prominent female mathematician, Sofia Kovalevskaya who discovered the Kovalevskaya Top. In Turgenev's Fathers and Children (often mistranslated as Fathers and Sons ), Madame Odintsova is, as her name suggests in Russian, a lonely woman. She was a very Western person and tended to the Enlightened absolutism: she even didnt use the death penalty. ", Natasha "Black Widow" Romanoff, The Avengers (2012). Mikhail Rasputin. | There is no limit to the wishes you may ask. An ambitious ruler, she rapidly expanded the Russian Empire and is credited with modernizing the country along Western European lines. Jon Favreau Stars: When looking, for example, at those eyes: as if one sensed in them some deep and mysterious darkness. 3) Ivan the Fool is usually the youngest son of a peasant family. ; Major Grom ( ), whose real name is Igor Grom, is a skilled detective from St. Petersburg known for . $12.82M, Anna Karenina, Dolly, Lili Oblonsky, Masha Oblonsky, Tanya Oblonsky , Annushka, R The Empress of Russia for almost 35 years, Catherine the Great was the country's longest-ruling female leader. Nikita Taylor, La Femme Nikita (Anne Parillaud) Anne Parillaud is all grit and glamour in the 1990 classic. | Gross: | Catherine the Great. She was a key figure of the, (Soviet Former Gymnast and Olympic Gold Medalist), (Russian Ballerina and One of the Most-Celebrated Ballet Dancers of Her Time), (Russian Writer and Co-Founder of the 'Theosophical Society'), (Russian Model, United NationsGoodwill Ambassador and Founder of the'Naked Heart Foundation'), (Russian Model and Actress Known for Her Role as Anna Poliatova in the Film 'Anna'), Russian model Sasha Luss is known for her association with top-notch brands such as, (Eldest Child of Emperor Nicholas II, and of Empress Alexandra of Russia), (The Second Daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin), (RussianFigure Skater, Television Presenter, and Olympic Gold Medalist), Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, (Former Russian Pole Vaulter and Two-Time OlympicGold Medalist), (Businesswoman & Art Collector and Founder of 'Garage Museum of Contemporary Art'), Moscow-born businesswoman Dasha Zhukova not only co-owns a fashion label but is also an art connoisseur who has established the, (Russian Journalist and Human Rights Activist), (Russian Politician, Media Manager and Retired Rhythmic Gymnast), (Russian-American Model Known for Her 10-Consecutive-Year Appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue), (Russian Professional Female Bodybuilder ), (Russian Figure Skater and Olympic Silver Medalist), Roza Shanina walked 8 miles to her school and back every day and ran away from home when her parents refused to allow her to study any further. Also known as Lady Death, she was awarded the Order of Lenin and was made a Hero of the Soviet Union. Tatiana Romanova. A wealthy nobleman falls in love with a 17-year-old peasant girl and seduces her. Portrait of Catherine the Great, 1763. Ralph Fiennes, She has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky. Director: Evelyn/Natasha has been set up and now she is forced to jump onto the roofs of moving vehicles and dodge bullets in order to save the Russian president and her own good name. | A married woman's affair with a dashing young officer has tragic results. Director: The ideologically fanatical Korshunov naturally has numerous grievances against the U.S., and he suffers over the disintegration of the USSR. | Stars: 100 min She falls in love with Onegin but he just wants friendship. The daughter of a peasant, she had an adventurous life as a young woman and eventually married Peter the Great who was taken by her beauty. | According to the earliest Russian chronicles Prince Igor of Kiev was a grandson of Rurik, the Varagian who was called by Slavic tribes to rule them and create order. She established a commission to systemize laws, she reorganized the administrative division of Russia, supported trades, and freed noblemen from corporal punishment, at the same time giving them a huge rank of rights. Top 5 most likable Russian characters in western literature. She continues to splash out, although she literally cant afford it. Sean Connery, | Gross: She read a lot and corresponded with the most enlightened Western people, including French philosopher Voltaire. The Russian team is represented by an eye-catching couple called Kaidanovsky. She took power and jailed the infant and his regents. However, theres another kind of Baba Yaga who is best avoided the one who enjoys feasting on children. Yes - again. 138,960 | Gross: Gorynych kidnaps women and besieges cities. 16,728 Though Marya is not beautiful, she finds her way into other peoples hearts. Director: Apart from a few exceptions, Chekov could not help himself from making remarks along the lines of: "Actually, it was invented by the Russians." 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. The film "Dr. . Director Guillermo del Toro premiered his version of the battle beyond the Great Northern Wall with alien monsters in 2013. Powerful and sexy, Bulgakovs Margarita is the best proof that you can actually walk through hell and high water and stay human, even with humor. His main complaint is about hegemony: what is the point of freedom granted to post-socialist countries if the U.S. has abandoned them and "left them at the mercy of gangsters and prostitutes"? 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. Portrait of Elizaveta Petrovna, 1743. Tatyana Larina of Alexander Pushkin's 'Eugene Onegin' is definitely one of the most captivating female characters in Russian literature . She was a fan of barocco, and brought the style to Russa, where it was named Elizabethan Baroque. She is the epitome of procrastination, levity and naivety. Here youll find ritual, as the Crown Prince finds the frog with the aid of an arrow; theres the breaking of rules Ivan burns the frogs skin, and loses his beloved; and in penalty for his transgression, he is assigned a trial which he must endure, in order to win his dear froggy back again. Dangerous, daring and disturbingly beautiful, Nastasya Filippovna is a femme fatale with a capital F. Life goes on and Tatyana marries another man. Near the shores of the U.S. in 1961 the first Soviet nuclear submarine is carrying out tests, during which an accident happens and theres an imminent risk of radioactive fuel leaking into the water. She achieved international fame in 2002, when she played Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the Salzburg Festival. Director: The greatest female movie characters can be broadly sorted into two categories: those based on real women and those created by authors and filmmakers. Tekken Series. She is as strong as she is vulnerable. Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, A woman forced to work for the Russian Mafia as an assassin agrees to help her next-door neighbor kill her abusive husband. Director: Alla Nazimova was a Russian-American actress who had an extensive career on Broadway. 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. Vittorio Gassman, Votes: - "Vodka.") One of Russia's longest reigning rulers, Catherine the Great served her people well from 1762-1796. Joss Whedon Tom Cruise, At the same time, one of his main features was a sincere love for Russia. She is openly bisexual. The Bride, a vengeance . | Heres what we came up with: Bazarov (L) speaking to a woman, which he never was particularly good at. Now it's the well-built and sexy Natasha in a leather outfit who can deal with either the Hulk or a new generation of mutants. And on top of all that, shes skilled in the magic arts and has an army of nannies at her command, who canassist her in even seemingly impossible circumstances. Mickey Rourke, Sharlto Copley, Otherwise, even the tattoo on his skull is in the form of Chinese characters, for some reason. $623.28M, R He seemed to diligently seek out all her most sore spots in order to torture her morally as cruelly as possible., READ MORE: 10 BEST screen adaptations of Russian classics. Chris Evans, With the support of courtiers and the royal guard, she committed a coup detat like her father once had. Actress Antonina Shuranova as Maria Bolkonsky. It also happens that our hero gets an audience with the Tsar in the middle of the story, putting a new twist in the tale and posing some new quest for the hero. Olga Kurylenko, Also a well-known philanthropist in Russia, Irina raises money for a charity organization called Pomogi, which helps sick children. Nastasya Samburskaya; The first actress is Nastasya Samburskaya born in Priozersk, Priozerskiy rayon, Leningradskaya oblast. She eventually became an actress and found tremendous success with the release of the High School Musical films. Ronnie Raymond (character) Red Barbarian. 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. Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a police detective and an assassin, who will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation. She is sweet and good-natured but gets into a lot of scrapes, especially with Baba Yaga. Bond's top 12 Russian characters. 5) Nightingale the Robber is the hero of the classic Russian epic tale, The First Journey of Ilya Muromets. He lives in a nest which is in either nine or twelve oak-trees. Catherine ascended the throne after his death. And Bond is proved right - Xenia, a former Soviet test pilot who is now working for a terrorist, is the main villain and dreams about having sex with Bond. Matryona and her tragic fate speaks volumes about the brutality of Soviet life. As his brothers Dmitry and Ivan symbolize passion and rationalism respectively, Alyosha embodies a Christian soul, clean of sin and full of love. Fred Schepisi Also known for her philanthropic efforts, Kristina Rihanoff works closely with a children's charity named The Dot Com Foundation, which helps children handle challenging situations. Later, he joins a monastery but Dostoevsky, who planned a sequel, suggests he might become a revolutionary. Get the week's best stories straight to your inbox. She has suffered a lot of heartbreak, and it shows. Mark Wahlberg, Usually there is only one hero able to defeat the dragon, who arrives sooner or later to challenge the dragon to a showdown. Her simplicity and sincerity are infectious. Jean-Jacques Annaud There have been numerous adaptations: two films (one by Stanley Kubrick), a musical, two ballets and an opera. And thus the Tsar is always dispatching young heroes his own son, some knight in his entourage, or a newly arrived traveler to distant realms, where the very thing the Tsar needs is to be found. Svetlana Khodchenkova is a Russian actress best known for playing Irina in the 2016 film, Viking. She has also walked the runway for brands like Louis Vuitton, Chanel, and Prada. We meet Tsars in tales such as The Firebird and Vasilisa the Beautiful, The Frog Princess and many others. $67.35M, R PG But things are not quite what they seem. Played by: Judy Garland. Overseas, people are less familiar with the story of Onegin a young jaded aristocrat who ruins the lives of others but finds himself broken too. | Technically, Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita (1955) in English and the eponymous heroine of the novel is American but as Nabokov used to be a Russian author and translated Lolita to Russian himself we couldnt help but include her in the list. A crime boss with Russian roots, Balam (Chuck Liddell) enjoys a life just as good as Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. One of the first ballerinas to travel extensively around the world, Anna Pavlova had first gained an interest in the dance form after watching an adaptation of The Sleeping Beauty. Sean Connery, | . Olesya Rulin is a Russian-American actress best known for acting in theHigh School Musical filmfranchise. With the help of Italian architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli she built several splendid palaces, including the Winter Palace and Catherine Palace in Tsarskoe Selo. Katerina Tikhonova is a Russian acrobatic dancer who finished fifth at a world championship event held in Switzerland in 2013. To a large extent it is because director Walter Hill made a genuinely endearing film about a pair of Russian and American (James Belushi) buddy cops on the streets of Chicago (in so far as any film with shooting and gangsters can be said to be endearing). The outlandish plot is once again held together by Bruce Willis, but its the "wild" Russian who saves everyone. Matryona and her husband once had six children, all of whom died at an early age. Lewis Gilbert It must be one of the few first-class blockbusters in which the Russians, Americans, Chinese and (surprisingly) Australians overcome the temptation of eliminating one another in the first three minutes of the movie. At first he looks bewildered at the American control panel, then violently pushes aside a woman who can help him and in anger smashes the panel with a poker. Director: Risking their lives, they save all of China. Reconstruction of the image. Matryona is in poor health, penniless and self-denying. In contrast, Lisa, who is unable to survive the loss of her lover, walks into the pond and drowns herself. This website uses cookies. Drama, Romance. Ilya Oblomov in his comfort zone - on the sofa. Having been given a feather that shines more brightly than many candles, the Tsar usually wants the whole bird and sends the hero off on a perilous quest. Action, Drama, Thriller. He works a lot, tries to help people but tragically finds himself as helpless and senseless as everyone else. Sophia ended up in a monastery where she lived until her death. 833,696 One of the greatest Russian women poets, Anna Akhmatova had started writing poems at age 11. She also wrote books such as The Secret Doctrine. Read more: What is so great about Catherine? | 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. For two centuries in a row the country has been ruled by men. And Sophia became a regent. Director: Fool me twice, shame on me," originated in Russia; important space discoveries were made by Russian astronomers; and an old woman from Leningrad [now St. Petersburg] invented Scotch tape. This is one of the most archetypal Russian fairy tales since its protagonist, albeit lazy and simple-minded, is kind . In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky. With the miracle pill, he becomes the smartest guy on the planet, so gangsters such as Gennady are after him. He is a real couch-potato lifestyle crusader: throughout the novel, he mostly and literally lies on the couch fantasizing of great deeds he will accomplish, but never actually doing anything to realize them. But being a true Russian woman is not just about being beautiful from the outside; Russian women possess an inner beauty that is born out of their hard working nature and never-say-die attitude. But even in her Russian army shirt, with a fringe, sabers and a weird Russian accent la Greta Garbo, Blanchett still looks more like the melancholy Elf Galadriel than a Russian Communist and KGB agent. 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. 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. She studied dentistry and even practiced for some time while performing gigs as a side hustle. Lara Antipova from Boris Pasternaks Doctor Zhivago is so adorable, feminine and caring that her charisma comes out strongly from the first page. | A gun-for-hire known only as Agent 47 hired by a group known only as 'The Organization' is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military as he treks across Russia and Eastern Europe. One of them was a monetary reform of 1535 that unified currency in the Russian state (only recently united after many centuries of division due to feudal fragmentation). She also has a knack for magic arts and has an army of nannies working for her. She was no. He personifies the kind of fear that might strike travelers along their way. Director: Birthdate: January 21, 1983. | As a compromise they both were crowned. Drama, Romance. Based on the novel by Tolstoy. | But back in the days of Dostoevsky, he embodied the idea of a sinful intellectual who dares take the others life because of his abstract superior ideas. Henry Fonda, Bruce Willis, Marya suffers a lot of grievances from her stern father, Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky, who is hard to get on with. Drama, Romance. Anna Kournikova was once world no. A woman is like a tea bag you cant tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water, Eleanor Roosevelt once said. Viewers first met this Marvel Universe heroine in Iron Man 2. | She pursued the sport professionally and excelled, making her top-ten debut in the WTA rankings in the 2018 season. | Gross: | Pages in category "Russian women comedians" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. | Whatever you call her, Anna Karenina is doomed to remain her own woman for years to come. has a strong run of popularity in the US in the early 2000s, partially thanks to the . The character played by John Malkovich, nicknamed Teddy KGB, wears a red Soviet tracksuit, sports a bushy beard and runs an illicit poker club in New York. | In Russia, for instance, close adherence to the literary source is usually strenuously demanded and freedom of interpretation is rejected. Jai Courtney, Although she was initially rejected by several modeling agencies due to her voluptuous figure, Anastasia Kvitko went on establishherself as a glamour model. Russian powerlifter Nataliya Kuznetsova was introduced to bodybuilding at 14, when she had started visiting the gym on the persistence of her father, who wished to boost her self-confidence. The, (Actress, Director, Producer Best Known for Her Film Salome), (One of the Most Significant Russian Poets of 20th Century), Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. Countess Vera Rossakoff. Olga Kurylenko, A scene from Adrian Lyne's Lolita (1997). We all lived next to her and didnt understand that she is that very righteous person without whom, according to a proverb, the village doesnt exist. She was part of the Acmeists, who laid down their own style, Acmeism. Jeremy Renner, Votes: While the self-absorbed Iron Man (Tony Stark) wonders how to spend millions of dollars, updates his superhero costume and slowly dies of radiation, a colorful rival emerges in Russia. A Varagian herself, Olga became a regent of her small son, But she was no timid girl. The tale here is The Fool and the Fish.. The effect of the drug wears off, however. 2. In fact, a meeting with a pike fish brings good luck, as the fish can even grant wishes. 8 in singles tennis rankings, in spite of never having won a singles title. Igor, like his grandfather, collected tributes from the tribes. Famous Namesakes: Katya Jones, dancer; Katya Zamolodchikova, drag queen. Mathieu Amalric, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Bach, She is the perfect wife of Prince Ivan Tsarevitch, loyal and thrifty, clever and beautiful, sensible and resourceful. Olga Korbut is a former gymnast who represented the Soviet Union in two Olympic Games, winning four gold medals and two silver medals. | 29,417 Birthplace: Moscow, Russia. The 17-year-old child prodigy, Pavel Chekov, appeared in the Star Trek universe at the height of the Cold War, but he was full of good-natured jokes and would rescue the Enterprise crew like a kid from a Hollywood family drama. The tale to read here is Vasilisa the Beautiful.. Sebastin Cordero A uneducated daughter of a drunkard, Sonya is forced to resort to prostitution. Many lines spoken by Ivan, a man of few words, have entered the language as catchphrases despite the film's copious doses of hokum - ("Since I figure cops are cops the world over, how do you Soviets deal with all the tension and stress?" She has the full Cinderella package of a nasty stepmother . A teenager who dies during childbirth leaves clues in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family. | more. A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. Ranevskayas head-in-the-sand policy with respect to her lose-lose situation is worrisome. Drama, Romance, Thriller. Stars: Except perhaps that Rourke himself resembles a Russian bear - as long as you don't look too closely, that is. Stars: The (typically Russian) woman lives in her distant rosy past and hopes that things will somehow resolve themselves. Apparently, she had been struggling with injuries and anorexia. Shes most often found as the owner of a wooden hut on chicken legs, or as the guardian of the way into a wild wood. Sebastian Koch, Actress Yelena Mikhailova portraying Matryona. The Slavs of old assigned terrifying abilities to this fish people thought it could swallow a man and that the Water Spirit rode it in the watery kingdoms. | The most famous woman warrior in Russian fairy tales is Marya Morevna, whom Ivan the Prince wooed after being impressed with . Stereotypes of Russians as communists, terrorists, burly policemen and muscle-bound hard-drinking soldiers have been consigned to the past along with VHS recordings and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Sophia Alekseyevna in a cell at the Novodevichy Convent. The writer exposed a powerful weapon in his arsenal tragedy and spiced up his Poor Liza with a devastatingly sad ending. Passion is ruining her life as Karenina spirals deeper and deeper into despair and throws herself under an approaching train.
