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I’d start the list with Mendeleyeev and Dostoevsky.

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Dostoevsky was a determined Slavophile who wanted Russia to have nothing to do with Europe. You should have used Tergenev for your example, but a Westernizer he was pilloried. As for Mendeleev, I’m sure he was important although I have never heard of him unless it is the guy who experimented with plants.