Editing List of Russian people (section)

== Religious figures ==

===Orthodox leaders===
{{Main|Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Moscow}}

*[[Metropolitan Alexius]], saint, ruled Russia during Prince [[Dmitry Donskoy]]'s minority
*[[Patriarch Alexy I]], longest serving Patriarch in the Soviet era
*[[Patriarch Alexy II]], first post-Soviet Patriarch, oversaw the period of major church restoration and religious renaissance
*[[Metropolitan Isidore]], attempted a reunion with the [[Roman Catholic Church]], which instead led to independence of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]]
*[[Patriarch Job]], last Metropolitan and the first [[Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia]]
*[[Patriarch Kirill]], current [[Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia]][[File:Philaret.jpg|90px|thumb|[[Patriarch Philaret]]]]
*[[Metropolitan Macarius]], saint, prominent [[iconographer]]
*[[Patriarch Nikon]], introduced major church reforms which eventually led to a lasting [[Schism (religion)|schism]] in the [[Russian Orthodox Church]], known as ''[[Raskol]]''
*[[Metropolitan Philaret]], saint, the principal Russian theologian of the 19th century
*[[Patriarch Philaret]], ''de facto'' ruler of Russia during the minority of his son, [[Tsar Mikhail]]
*[[Patriarch Pimen]], oversaw the end of the persecution of Christianity in the Soviet Union and the 1000th anniversary of the [[Baptism of Rus']][[File:Tikhon of Moscow.jpg|90px|thumb|[[Patriarch Tikhon]]]]
*[[Sergius I of Moscow|Patriarch Sergius]], led the Russian Orthodox Church during World War II, when the earlier Soviet militant atheism was scaled down and the Church was re-legalised
*[[Patriarch Tikhon]], first [[Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia]] after restoration of the Patriarchate in the early Soviet era

===Orthodox saints===
{{Main|Russian saints}}
*[[Alexander Nevsky]], [[Prince of Novgorod]] and Vladimir, military hero, [[patron saint]] and the ''[[Name of Russia (Russia TV)|Name of Russia]]''[[File:Святые Борис и Глеб.jpg|90px|thumb|[[Boris and Gleb]]]]
*[[Andrei Rublev]], famous [[Russian icons|icon-painter]], author of the ''[[Trinity (Andrei Rublev)|Trinity]]''
*[[Anthony of Kiev]], co-founder of the [[Kyiv Pechersk Lavra]], the first [[monastery]] in Russia
*[[Basil Fool for Christ]], [[yurodivy]] who gave his name to [[St. Basil's Cathedral]] on the [[Red Square]]
*[[Boris and Gleb]], children of [[Vladimir the Great]], the first saints canonized in [[Kievan Rus']]
*[[Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia (born 1582)|Tsarevich Dmitry]], son of [[Ivan IV]], mysteriously died or killed, later impersonated by the impostors [[False Dmitry I]] and [[False Dmitry II]] during the [[Time of Troubles]]
*[[Dmitry Donskoy]], war hero, the first Prince of Moscow to openly challenge Mongol authority in Russia
*[[Feodor Kuzmich]], [[starets]] who according to a legend was in fact [[Alexander I of Russia]] who faked his death to become a hermit
*[[Ioakim Korsunianin]], first bishop of [[Novgorod the Great]] and builder of the original wooden [[Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod]]
*[[John of Shanghai and San Francisco]], a leader of the [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia]]
*[[Kirill of Beloozero]], founder of [[Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery]][[File:Serafim sarofckii.jpg|90px|thumb|[[Seraphim of Sarov]]]]
*[[Maximus the Greek]], 16th-century [[Humanism|humanist]] scholar
*[[Nicholas II of Russia]], last Russian emperor, killed in the [[Russian Civil War|Civil War]] with his family; [[Canonization of the Romanovs|they were beatified]] as [[new-martyr]]s
*[[Nicholas of Japan]], brought the [[Eastern Orthodoxy]] to Japan
*[[Olga of Kiev]], first [[Christians|Christian]] among Russian rulers[[File:Sergius von Radonezh.jpg|90px|thumb|[[Sergius of Radonezh]]]]
*[[Savvatiy]], founder of [[Solovetsky Monastery]]
*[[Sergius of Radonezh]], patron saint of Russia, spiritual and monastic reformer, founder of the [[Trinity Sergius Lavra]], blessed Dmitry Donskoy for the [[Battle of Kulikovo]]
*[[Vladimir I of Kiev]] "the Great", Kievan prince who turned from pagan to saint and enacted the [[Christianization of Kievan Rus']]