| TOLSTOY | Count Leo ___, 19th-century Russian writer (7) |
| DELIBES | Leo _, 19th-century French composer who wrote the Flower Duet (7) |
| LERMONTOV | Mikhail ___, 19th-century Russian author of the novel A Hero of Our Time (9) |
| BORODIN | Alexander, 19th Century Russian composer of the unfinished opera Prince Igor (7) |
| PUSHKIN | Early 19th-century Russian poet and dramatist (7) |
| BAKUNIN | Mikhail -, nineteenth century Russian anarchist |
| TOBSTOY | Russian author Leo ___ (7) |
| GOGOL | Nineteenth century Russian author |
| PETERII | 18th-century Russian emperor |
| CHAGALL | Marc -, twentieth century Russian-born French artist |
| JANACEK | Leo ___, Czech composer whose works include the operas Jenufa and The Cunning Little Vixen |
| VLADIMIR | 20th-century Russian author whose novels include Lolita, _ Nabokov (8) |
| AYNRAND | 20th Century Russian-American novelist whose works included The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged (3,4) |
| MIKHAILGLINKA | 19th-century Russian composer whose works included the opera A Life For The Tsar (7,6) |
| DECEMBER | Month for which 19th century Russian revolutionaries were named? (8) |
| TSAR | 19th century Russian leader |
| TURGENEV | 19th-Century Russian novelist |
| TSARS | 19th century Russian rulers |
| TSARNICHOLASI | Mid-19th-century Russian ruler described as "autocracy personified" |
| IVANTURGENEV | 19th Century Russian novelist and dramatist who wrote the play A Month In The Country (4,8) |
