$168.37M, PG-13 $0.79M, Anna Karenina, Kitty, Lydia, Vronskaya, Dolly, Betsy, Princess Schcherbatksy, Approved Crime, Drama, Thriller. Tatyana is an open-hearted provincial young girl full of high expectations and willing to sacrifice herself. Thats when Eugene falls in love with her. 7. Judi Dench, Votes: Their church's Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood. Paul Rudd, So to some extent, Oblomov is the most Russian literary character ever written. Another unrealistic character born of KGB-phobia is Evelyn Salt or Natasha Chenkov (Angelina Jolie) a CIA agent living in Washington D.C. who is playing a double game. Risking their lives, they save all of China. A coalition of countries is fighting against the Kaiju, creatures that have emerged from the Earth's crust and look like Godzilla. Otherwise, even the tattoo on his skull is in the form of Chinese characters, for some reason. Mila Kunis, Beauty has been and remains the main criterion for the image of a Russian female character, so Steven Spielberg simply did what any other director would have done in his place: he found an exceptionally beautiful blonde and gave her a Russian name. Her simplicity and sincerity are infectious. Within twenty years of her reign, Elizabeth had turned Russia into an incredibly cultural country. Her reputation precedes her: Vassa is the iron lady, the Russian embodiment of strength, stamina and success. Fredric March, Comedy, Crime, Thriller. Known for her iconic portrayal of Aksiniya in the epic And Quiet Flows the Don, Elina Bystritskaya still remains one of the brightest stars of Soviet and Russian cinema, despite having made only 19 movies. | Toby Stephens, Russia, 1820s: Onegin inherits his uncle's country estate and moves there from St. Petersburg. Her jobs are to frighten those who wander through the marshes, lure travelers into quicksand and steal small children. 25,898 Armin Mueller-Stahl, Director: $0.00M, R However, that was not always the case, and Russia remembers the glory (and turbulent) days of women in power. And finally, she built the Kitai Gorod wall, an important Moscow city fortification. 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. Stars: Anyway, its impossible not to grieve for her terrible fate. | He is reduced to a set of specifications, rather like an iPhone - only needed until the next generation arrives. $89.02M, PG Action, Drama, Thriller. As a compromise they both were crowned. The woman who threw herself under a train has been captivating readers across the world for nearly 150 years. The Russian team is represented by an eye-catching couple called Kaidanovsky. In the second of the famous Bond films Tatiana Romanova, a Russian employee at the Soviet Consulate in Turkey, is the girlfriend of Bond (Sean Connery). The difference between the Russian and American perception of reality is spelled out in the first lyrical digression. Stars: 6,036 Greta Garbo, | | Elena Glinskaya. He conforms fully to the stereotype - Boris The Blade uses colorful Russian obscenities at appropriate moments. 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.. | Kieron Moore, Annika, Kira, Mila, Nadia, Nina, Sasha, and Vera. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Votes: | Michelle Pfeiffer, 107 min Except perhaps that Rourke himself resembles a Russian bear - as long as you don't look too closely, that is. 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. Action, Sci-Fi. Because I think that films can influence our point of view. She has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky. Marya was a meek and timid girl, but she immediately seemed like an old friend to everyone. A woman forced to work for the Russian Mafia as an assassin agrees to help her next-door neighbor kill her abusive husband. King Vidor 6,623 He invents a new costume and sets off to cut down Stark with whips he has made himself. In Russian fairy tales, the pike assumes more reasonable proportions and a more harmless nature. She was part of the Acmeists, who laid down their own style, Acmeism. | Top 20 most (in)famous Russian characters in American cinema Leo Tolstoys Karenina is a gem of 19th century Russian literature. 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. Blue-eyed Russian child model Kristina Pimenova was already a star by age 10, having signed a deal with LA Models and worked for Armani and Benetton. Matryona is in poor health, penniless and self-denying. Don Cheadle, Votes: Director: Yemelya gets eight wishes in his tale. She is the perfect wife of Prince Ivan Tsarevitch, loyal and thrifty, clever and beautiful, sensible and resourceful. Sean Connery, Terence Young $24.80M, R She falls in love with Onegin but he just wants friendship. Mia Kirshner, Votes: 12 famous Russian fairy tale characters - Russia Beyond The House Hag is quite different she lives quietly in her house and rarely shows herself to people. Ranevskayas head-in-the-sand policy with respect to her lose-lose situation is worrisome. . | But she is not shattered. 6 Most Popular Russian Fairy Tale Characters No amount of money can buy the 42-year-old cold-blooded millionairess real human happiness. 95 min Yuri Zhivago. Robert Knepper, Votes: 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. | Gross: Beau Bridges, The Most Heroic Women in Russian Literature Helen Mirren, 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. | Gross: Rachel Weisz, Votes: | 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. 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. Stars: Director: She is openly bisexual. 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. Birthdate: January 21, 1983. The scene in which she dies has become one of the most memorable death scenes in cinema history. Olga Kurylenko, Votes: Stars: The world bench press, armlifting, and deadlift title holder is openly bisexual but also flaunts her love for her husband. And yet, Princess Marya loves and respects her grumpy elderly father: All the outbursts of his unreasonable anger mostly fell on Princess Marya. Alfred Molina, 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). He befriends his neighbor, Lensky, and meets Tatyana through him. 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. 1 in doubles, teaming up with Martina Hingis. Her emotional sincerity and genuine ability to show mercy is a strong combination. Director: 8) Vodyanoy (or Water Spirit) is the King of the Deep. There is a big part of Oblomov in each one of us, wrote critic Nikolay Dobrolyubov, Goncharovs contemporary. 10,380 But shes helped in her adventures by a doll her mother left her. 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. BUBBLE Comics is the largest Russian comic book publisher and produces monthly non-franchised comic books.. Danila the Demonslayer (-), is a grim avenger who exterminates demons with the power of living tattoos made from Satan's blood. The Russian killing machine and Soviet heavyweight boxer, Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren), arrives in the U.S. to beat American boxing stars and provide living proof of the advancements of his country in the technology of transforming mankind. James Bond descends into mystery as he tries to stop a mysterious organisation from eliminating a country's most valuable resource. Her mother died young, leaving her to cope with an evil stepmother. 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. Stars: Director: Sun Sign: Aquarius. Theyre eternally engaged in all kinds of trials and tribulations to do the bidding of the king, win themselves a beautiful wife, save their land or defend their loved ones from evil beasts. Karamzins title character has become synonymous with unrequited love, deep sorrow and social injustice. A living Soviet symbol (because he's "as bent as the Soviet sickle, and as hard as the hammer that crosses it"), Boris Yurinov (aka Boris The Blade) is a colorful character who became the film's trademark protagonist and one of the best characters to emerge from Guy Ritchie's imagination. Vasilisa the Beautiful is a merchants daughter. Vassa Zheleznova of Vassa Zheleznova. Though Marya is not beautiful, she finds her way into other peoples hearts. His character is Nikolai Rachenko, a universal soldier born in the USSR who is sent to a distant African country where a revolutionary coup against the local communists is brewing. Director: 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). As one of Russia's most revered leaders, she championed the arts during her time on the throne. Stars: 100 min Vincent Cassel, BUBBLE Comics. 111,912 | Stars: She has been associated with programs developing the Russian language and was previously a flight attendant for, (Empress Consort of Russia (1894 - 1917)), (Former Competitive Russian Figure Skater), (Russian Figure Skater and Olympic Gold Medalist), (One of the Most Successful Female Snipers in Recorded History), (Russian-American Social Media Personality and YouTuber), Former cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova is currently part of the, Elizabeth Petrovna, or Elizabeth of Russia, daughter of Tsar Peter the Great, was the Russian empress from 1741 to 1762. David Cronenberg The outlandish plot is once again held together by Bruce Willis, but its the "wild" Russian who saves everyone. 208 min Tatyana Larina of 'Eugene Onegin'. | Gross: | 2) Kikimora is an evil spirit, and she appears in two forms, depending on who she marries. | Gross: Catherine ascended the throne after his death. Ilya Oblomov in his comfort zone - on the sofa. Peter Hyams Evgenia Medvedeva is also the first skater to achieve two Grand Slams in a row. Daria Kasatkina is a Russian professional tennis player who has won four WTA Tour titles in singles and one title in doubles. | If using any of Russia Beyond's content, partly or in full, always provide an active hyperlink to the original material. Lives of the Russian women were in some ways easier than their European counterparts in the 18th century while more difficult in some other aspects. The Bride, a vengeance . But things are not quite what they seem. Theres an alternative version of the story, in which a stallion brings death to King Koschei. She is currently a PhD candidate at Moscows, (Russian Former Tennis Player and One of the Best-Known Tennis Stars Worldwide). On one hand, this blonde with red lips is demurely dressed in angelic blue, but on the other hand, she impresses us with her determination and even cruelty. A map of Magical Kingdom. - "Vodka.") 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. Raskolnikov with his best friend - an ax. Julien Duvivier 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. Life goes on and Tatyana marries another man. At the same time, she was of course a very absolutist monarch, who spared neither people nor money for her goals. Anastasia Kvitko is a Russian model and entrepreneur. Mikhail Bulgakovs third wife, Elena, was the inspiration for the title character, Margarita. 10 MAIN Russian fairy tales - Russia Beyond The submarine's captain, Alexei Vostrikov (played by Harrison Ford), takes the decision to prevent this from happening at any cost. This frail, thin girl is charged, like electricity, to the limit, with all conceivable femininity in the world. Amy Landecker, Votes: $312.43M, PG 106 min They had 12 children. Komarov, looking at Willis's son, says that in Russia such people are regarded as "cool," which means "tough and hard," and Willis replies that in America his son is just a "juvenile delinquent. Elina Bystritskaya. Despite the fact that her father, Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich, had many children, including other girls, Sophia was the only girl to have a good education, learning several languages and reading lots of clerical books. | Gross: 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. She doesnt want to be liked, to be beautiful and captivating. He pays a great price, though, not only by being found out and imprisoned but, whats more important, through suffering great remorse and moral collapse. 833,696 Action, Crime, Thriller. Tell us what you think about this feature. 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. Hans Matheson (R) portrayed Zhivago in the 2002 mini-series by Giacomo Campiotti. Fred Schepisi Vanko is the son of Anton Vanko, a Russian scientist who helped Tony Stark's father, Howard, design the Arc Reactor. Liv Tyler, Liev Schreiber, ", Yuri Komarov (right), A Good Day to Die Hard (2013, Die Hard film series). However, during her reign, Russian serfdom was shaped, and corporal punishment was commonly used. Yuriy Yakovlev, Passed 124 min | In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky. She grew up to be a beautiful and charming woman. | | Gross: And thats what she really is, a big spender with a huge heart. And if this is the case, then its the only Russian feature that Onatopp has. Stars: Earth's mightiest heroes must come together and learn to fight as a team if they are going to stop the mischievous Loki and his alien army from enslaving humanity. When looking, for example, at those eyes: as if one sensed in them some deep and mysterious darkness. Olga Kurylenko, | | Rate. He personifies the kind of fear that might strike travelers along their way. | At least by the standards of her time. Throughout the book Natasha is a gentle and kind creature, always ready to help her neighbors. Why a Russian philosophy blogger says 'The Matrix' is about terrorists, 2 Russian movies coming to HBO, and heres why you should watch. Click here to find out more. | 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. Their divorce was publicly announced on national TV, during the intermission of a ballet performance. Often referred to as the Russian Kim Kardashian, Kvitko is best known for her curvaceous figure. . Scarlett Johansson, Russia Beyond has compiled a popularity rating of the most important and often despicable Russian characters in the history of U.S. cinema. 5. Angelina Jolie, The protagonists must rely on their wits to save themselves from her. School children still literally have to learn sections by heart, so you will remember something for the rest of your life whether you like it or not. Director: Drama, Romance. Even though she was interested in the show business from a young age, she began her career as a nurse assistant. She has the full Cinderella package of a nasty stepmother . There is no limit to the wishes you may ask. John Moore Drama, Romance. Jai Courtney, Director: 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. Director: 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. 123 min Timothy Olyphant, Defining popularity may be difficult, especially when speaking of fictional characters so weve applied different criteria for these glorious (or hideous) people, all the creatures of the imagination of Russian writers: number of screenings and Google page impressions, interviews with foreigners and so on. She was the second daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel. 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.