Alexander Mikhailovich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: Александр Михайлович Римский-Корсаков) (August 24, 1753 – May 25, 1840) was a Russian General remembered as an unlucky assistant to Alexander Suvorov during his Swiss expedition of 1799–1800.

Korsakov entered military service early, and fought in the Russo-Turkish War in 1788 and 1789, and then in the Russo-Swedish War. He subsequently became a major-general of the Semenovsky regiment of the Leib Guard, assigned to accompany the Count of Artois to England. From there he went to Flanders to the army commanded by Prince Josias of Coburg, with which he participated in the Battle of Fleurus (1794). Returning to St. Petersburg, he fought under Count Valerian Zubov in an ill-fated expedition against Persia, which Emperor Paul I recalled in 1799 in order to deal with the French Revolutionary Wars.

Paul I gave Korsakov command of an army of 40,000 men to drive the French out of Switzerland. Korsakov took the army to Zürich to join up with the 25,000-man army of Austrian general Friedrich von Hotze; Alexander Suvorov's army was also supposed to meet them, but did not arrive in time. The French under André Masséna attacked on September 25, 1799 in the Second Battle of Zürich, winning a victory and forcing Korsakov to withdraw. He led the remainder of his army towards Lindall and combined it with that of Suvorov, who took over primary command. The combined army turned towards Bohemia, from which Paul I recalled it to Russia for the winter.

Alexander Ivashkin (Russian Ивашкин, Александр Васильевич), born in Blagoveshchensk, Russia is a cellist, writer and conductor residing in the UK.

He was born in the far East of Russia into a family of biologists. The first three years of his life were spent in Mongolia, where his parents worked. He began his piano and cello studies at the age of five, at the Gnessin Music School for gifted children in Moscow. Ivashkin graduated, with distinction, from the Russian Academy of Music (formerly the Gnessins Institute), obtaining degrees in cello performance and in historical musicology. He completed his doctorate studies at the State Institute of Arts Studies in Moscow. In 1993 he was awarded the DMus higher doctorate for his book on Charles Ives.

At the age of twenty, Ivashkin joined the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, soon becoming a solo cellist there. In 1978 he and the conductor Alexander Lazarev co-founded The Bolshoi Soloists - a pioneering group specializing in a modern repertoire. In 1987 Ivashkin became a member of the Directors Board at the Bolshoi Theatre.

Alexander Graf (born Alexander Nenashev, 25 August 1962 in Tashkent, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR) is an Uzbekistani-German chess grandmaster. In 2000 he moved to Germany and took his father's name. He took bronze in the 2003 European Individual Chess Championship. In 2004 he won the German Chess Championship.

Alexander Gavrylyuk (born in Kharkiv, 1984) is a Ukrainian pianist, and a naturalised Australian citizen. He won the 1999 Vladimir Horowitz Competition, the 2000 Hamamatsu Competition and, most notably, the 2005 Arthur Rubinstein Competition.

Selected performance venues - Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Moscow Kremlin, Sydney City Recital Hall, Sydney Opera House, Suntory Hall, Amsterdam, Great Hall of the Concertgebouw, Chautauqua Institution.

He has recorded Sergei Prokofiev's five Piano Concertos with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Alexander Vinogradov (born 1976) is a Russian bass opera singer. He began his music education at age 7, starting with the piano and the clarinet. From 1994 to 1995 he was a student at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, also known as the 'Russian MIT'. Vinogradov became a student of the Moscow Conservatory in 1995. While still a student at the Conservatory, he made his debut with the Bolshoi Theater at the age of 21 as Oroveso in Norma, amongst other roles.

In 1997, he won a 3rd Prize in the Classica Nova International Competition at Hanover. In 1999, he won the Special Prize at the Neue Stimmen International Competition in Gütersloh. He also won the Orfeo 2000 International Competition, organized by the Staatsoper Hannover. In 2003, he was also a finalist in Plácido Domingo's Operalia International Competition.

His extensive repertoire includes Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Escamilio in Carmen, Pimen in Boris Godunov, Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte, Oroveso in Norma, Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Daland in Der fliegende Holländer, Banquo in Macbeth, Masetto and Leporello in Don Giovanni, Il Conte Walther in Luisa Miller, Lodovico in Otello, the Nightwatchman in Die Meistersinger, Selim in Il turco in Italia, Orest in Elektra, Timur in Turandot and Mephistopheles in Faust.