Russian refers to anything related to Russia, including:
- Russians (russkiye), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries (where they are also known as Ruthenians or by other names)
- Demographics of Russia (россиянин, rossiyánin), nationals of the country of Russia of any ethnicity
- Russophone, Russian-speaking person (русскоговорящий, русскоязычный, russkogovoryashchy, russkoyazychny)
- Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages
- Russian alphabet
- Russian cuisine
Russian may also refer to:
- Russian dressing
- The Russians - documentary book of Hedrick Smith about life in USSR in 1970's
- Russian (comics), fictional Marvel Comics supervillain from The Punisher series
- "Russians" (song), from the album The Dream of the Blue Turtles, by Sting
- "Russian", from the album Tubular Bells 2003, by Mike Oldfield
- Nik Russian, the perpetrator of a con committed in 2002
Famous quotes containing the word russian:
“Whatever qualities [Tsar Nicholas I] may have shown in his own kingly profession, it must be admitted that in his dealings with the Russian Muse he was at the worst a vicious bully, at the best a clown.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look far back to it one day? Maybe it won’t be the American Century, after all. Or the Russian Century or the Atomic Century. Wouldn’t it be wonderful, Phil, if it turned out to be everybody’s century, when people all over the world—free people—found a way to live together? I’d like to be around to see some of that, even the beginning.”
—Moss Hart (1904–1961)
“A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)