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A useful profile connects dates, a field, a named achievement and its wider meaning. Use only the mini-dossiers below; they contain all facts required for the task.

Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), poet and prose writer. His novel in verse Eugene Onegin is a major work of Russian literature. His writing strongly influenced later Russian literary language and poetry.

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), novelist and thinker. War and Peace connects fictional lives with the history of the Napoleonic wars and became known far beyond Russia.

Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), composer of operas, symphonies and ballets. His ballets The Nutcracker and Swan Lake remain part of the international theatre repertoire.

Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), painter and art theorist. Composition VIII (1923) is a named example of his abstract art.

Lev Yashin (1929–1990), football goalkeeper. He received the Ballon d’Or in 1963, an exceptional achievement for a goalkeeper.

These cards are short reference dossiers, not full biographies. A person may belong to several cultural contexts, and one achievement does not prove that every action in a life was exemplary.