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Russians are coming – the Five

February 15, 2015 at 7:18 pm · Filed under Musing

There are few 5s..

imageCSKA Moscow and Soviet National Team

  1. Viacheslav Fetisov
  2. Alexei Kasatonov
  3. Sergei Makarov
  4. Igor Larionov
  5. Vladimir Krutov

The Five Composers

  1. Mily Balakirev
  2. César Cui
  3. Modest Mussorgsky
  4. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  5. Alexander Borodin.

imageChess

  1. Mikhail Tal
  2. Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian
  3. Anatoly Karpov
  4. Boris Spassky
  5. Mikhail Botvinnik

Pianists

  1. Sviatoslav Richter
  2. Emil Gilels
  3. Vladimir Horowitz
  4. Evgeny Kissin
  5. Anton Rubinstein/Nikolai Rubinstein

imageRussian Composer

  1. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  2. Sergei Rachmaninoff
  3. Alexander Scriabin

The Mighty Handful

Novels

  1. Crime and Punishment
  2. War and Peace
  3. Anna Karenina
  4. The Idiot
  5. Lolita
  6. Doctor Zhivago

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