Art of Milo Manara (p4)

Russian Milestones

above: Historical figures and milestones of Russia. From artwork compilation “Memory” (amazon.com↗).

The characters are, from left to right:

• Man with mustache: Emperor Petr I of Russia↗ (b1672)
• Empress Catherine II “The Great”↗ (b1729)
• bearded man? Ivan the Terrible↗ (b1530)?
• Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin↗ (b1934) (first human animal to travel in space)
• The bearded guy to the left of gymnast: novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky↗ (b1821)
• Round glassed guy: composer Igor Stravinsky↗ (b1882)
• Gymnast: Olga Korbut↗ (b1955)
• Top right siloutte figure is probably the novelist Leo Tolstoy↗ (b1828).
• Man in military uniform: Joseph Stalin↗ (b1879)
• Long-haired bearded guy: mystic Grigori Rasputin↗ (b1869)
• Hatted comrade with squinting eyes: Vladimir Lenin↗ (b1870).

Other pictures:

• Behind the chess set: Russian icon. Russian icons↗
• Chess. Russians dominated the world in chess. See World Chess Championship↗
• Sputnik↗ (first satellite in orbit)
• Photo of Hammer & Sickle Flag over the Reichstag building in Battle of Berlin↗ during the end of World War 2.
• The back view of a man in Napolean hat in the center of the image, must be Napoleon, representing Russia's victory of the Napoleon's invasion of Russia↗ in 1812.
• Saint Basil's Cathedral↗ Mosco.
• The Ballerina may represent Anna Pavlova↗ (b1881)
• Men on horses: they migth represent the Mongols of Mongol Empire↗, who in 1200s ruled Eurasia, including Russia, China, and much Eastern Europe and Middle East.
• Russian warship Aurora↗, which took part in initializing the October Revolution↗ (1917)