Lieutenant-Colonel of the British Army, Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross Pavel Chichagov, Commander and an Admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy under Alexander I. The son of the son of Admiral Vasili Chichagov and his English wife. Rudolf Abel, Soviet spy during the Cold War, born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne as Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher. Oleg Gordievsky, former senior Soviet intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko, British naturalised Russian defector and former officer of the Russian FSB secret service who specialised in tackling organised crime. Sergei Skripal, former Russian military intelligence officer who acted as a double agent for the UK's intelligence services. Science and humanities Isaiah Berlin, renowned social and political theorist, and historian Konstantin Novoselov, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Andre Geim, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Alexandra Tolstoy, businesswoman, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society Nikolai Tolstoy, historian Paul Vinogradoff, historian-medievalist Nicholas Zernov, Orthodox theologian Sports Marfa Ekimova, rhythmic gymnast Alexander Obolensky, international rugby union player Monuments This is a list of monuments to Russians in the United Kingdom. 19th century Hoy monument, Isle of Wight – commemorates the visit of Alexander I of Russia to Great Britain in 1814 Russian Memorial, Lewes Second World War Tempsford Memorial, Bedfordshire – memorial to women who served as secret agents in occupied Europe during the Second World War, including four Soviet NKVD agents Twelve Responses to Tragedy, South Kensington – commemorates people forcibly repatriated to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia as a result of the Yalta Conference at the conclusion of the Second World War. Personal monuments Statue of Yuri Gagarin, Greenwich Vladimir Lenin Bust, Islington – commissioned by the UK Government during the war in tribute to the efforts of the Soviet Union. It was placed in Holford Square (briefly Lenin's home when he lived in London) and unveiled in 1942. It was a supposed focal point of a new housing development to be named 'Lenin Court' although the choice of Lenin proved unpopular with the local community and the bust was frequently daubed with anti-communist slogans. Architect Berthold Lubetkin had the bust removed and when the housing development was completed in the late 1940s, it was renamed 'Bevin Court'. The bust was displayed in Islington Town Hall for many years and is now on permanent display in the Islington Museum. Carved portrait of Dmitri Mendeleev on the Imperial Chemical House façade, Millbank Statue of Peter the Great, Deptford See also Little Russia, London Other White Russian