After a very many long months, the Name of Russia contest is over. Around 5 million votes were cast in the contest to choose Russia’s greatest historical figure. The top 12 had been narrowed down during a first round of voting. The resuts:
1. Alexander Nesvky 524,575 votes
2. Pyotr Stolypin 523,766 votes
3. Josef Stalin 519,071 votes
4. Alexander Pushkin 516,608 votes
5. Peter the Great 448,857 votes
6. Vladimir Lenin 424,283 votes
7. Fyodor Dostoevsky 348,634 votes
8. Alexander Suvorov 329,028 votes
9. Dmitry Mendeleev 306,520 votes
10. Ivan the Terrible 270,570 votes
11. Catherine the Great 152,306 votes
12. Alexander II 134,622 votes
(Film still from Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky)
3 years ago