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The characters corresponding to Nicholas II and Alexandra Fyodorovna were called Nick and Sandra Rast ('Rast' being 'Tsar' backwards). The Russian villain of the stop-motion animated series The New Adventures of Pinocchio was named after Rasputin and bears a similar appearance.
The Red Guardian (Russian: Красный страж, Krasnyy Strazh) is the name of several fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics: Aleksey Lebedev, Alexei Shostakov, Tania Belinsky, Josef Petkus, Krassno Granitsky, Anton Ivanov, and Nikolai Krylenko, as well as a villainous Life Model Decoy of Shostakov.
Iron Curtain (Simas, a mutant from the Russian Exiles, deceased) It, the Living Colossus (Created by a Russian sculptor named Boris Petrovski) Katyusha (One of the First Line, deceased) Kraven the Hunter (real name: Sergei Kravinoff. He is a Russian immigrant to the U.S.) Magik (Illyana Rasputina, member of New Mutants and ruler of Limbo)
The Winter Guard (Russian: Зимняя Гвардия, romanized: Zimnyaya Gvardiya) is a fictional team of Russian superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Winter Guard are noted for being "Russia's answer to the Avengers ". [ 1 ]
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains is a list of the one hundred greatest screen characters (fifty each in the hero and villain categories) as chosen by the American Film Institute in June 2003. It is part of the AFI 100 Years... series. The list was first presented in a CBS special hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Russian (Ivan Vassilovitch Dragovsky; Russian: Иван Васильевич Драговский) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is an enemy of the Punisher and Spider-Man .
The film Half Past Dead (2002) has a Russian car thief as the main character. The Russian film Tycoon (2002) shows the rise of a Russian oligarch from the Gorbachev era in the late '80s, to absolute power in the Yeltsin era in the '90s. The Russian cult B-film Antikiller (2002) shows the mafia hierarchy of the 1990s rather faithfully. It ...
Theophilus of Adana, a saint who made a deal with the devil, predates the Faust legend and is a likely partial inspiration. [31] Timm Thaler, 1962 children's novel by German author James Krüss [32] The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe, (1592) [33] The Unfortunate Fursey and The Return of Fursey, novels by Mervyn Wall ...