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Greatest Russian

July 17, 2008 Mike

How on Earth can a poll to determine the Greatest Russian end up with a match between Stalin, Lenin and Nicholas II? Have these people never heard of Dostoevsky or Tchaikovsky or Tolstoy? Jesus.

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