| Alexander II | ||
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| Catherine the Great | ||
| Ivan the Terrible | ||
| Vladimir Lenin | ||
| Dmitri Mendeleev | ||
| Peter the Great | ||
| Alexander Pushkin | ||
| Alexander Nevsky | ||
| Joseph Stalin | ||
| Pyotr Stolypin | ||
| Alexander Suvorov |
Tom and I had to look them up!! He only knew 8 of the top 12 and he did not know the winner. In a program similar to 100 Greatest Britons, Russia voted for Alexander Nevsky as the Name of Russia. Tom cast his votes for Dostoyevsky and Pushkin.
The show was not without it's controversy... there were those who were not happy with the way the votes were counted for Stalin.
For those of you who can read Russian here is the original website:
http://www.nameofrussia.ru/
English readers can check out this link for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Russia_(Russia_TV)
So tell us... whose name do you associate with Russia?
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