According to the results of the project "Name Russia", Alexander Nevsky was recognized as a symbol of the nation

The personality is a symbol of the nation in the framework of the Name of Russia project, the Old Russian prince Alexander Nevsky was declared, who won historical victories over the Swedish and Teutonic knights in the first half of the XIII century. The second place went to Peter Stolypin, who occupied the post of prime minister in 1906-1911. The first three was closed by the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. The results of the competition organized by the Rossiya television channel, the Public Opinion Foundation and the Institute of Russian History were summed up on the Vesti Week program in the evening on Sunday.

The Internet voting, which determined the results of the project, lasted more than six months. Alexander Nevsky - the great commander and the only saint of the list of candidates - gained 529 575 votes. The initiator of the agrarian reform Peter Stolypin received 523,766 votes, and Joseph Stalin - 519 071 votes. It is reported by BBC .

Further, the candidates were distributed as follows: Pushkin, Peter I, Lenin, Dostoevsky, Suvorov, Mendeleev, Ivan the Terrible, Catherine II and Alexander II.

During the last round, 2,888,523 votes were presented. The technical conditions of the competition did not interfere with the same person to vote an unlimited number of times.

According to the results of the expert voting parallel to the first and second places, Alexander Nevsky and Alexander Pushkin divided the third, the commander Alexander Suvorov turned out to be the third, the fourth - Stolypin, and Stalin and Lenin took the last places.

“I congratulate everyone on the choice that the Russians made. I believe that the choice is very symbolic ... People turn to the only saint who was from all this dozen ... and this choice is correct,” the Chairman of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov commented on the choice of Russians. RIA Novosti quotes his words.

He called Pushkin’s greatest compatriot Pushkin and expressed doubt about Ivan the Terrible, Lenin and Stalin.

The film director Nikita Mikhalkov spoke with praise about the choice of Russians and said that, in his opinion, if Alexander Nevsky and Stolypin lived in the same era, the first would certainly put the second at the head of the government. His position is given by BBC.

Some media, on the contrary, critically appreciated the choice of voting participants. So, the "Independent Gazeta" writes that the took first place Alexander Nevsky "won a number of victories, was very close to the so-called Tatar Mongols." And the ancient Russian prince gained fame thanks to the ingenious film of the Stalin era, the newspaper writes. This is a "movie masterpiece, that's all." "What does history have to do with it, what does Russia and its name have to do with it?" - The authors of the "independent newspaper" ask a question.

Stolypin's “Independent Gazeta” evaluates as follows: “It is better, of course, than Lavrenty Beria or Malyuta Skuratov, but it would fit into the Stalinist vertical of power perfectly.”

The closing three of the leaders of Stalin doesn’t really want to say at all, ”the newspaper writes, and the results of the competition in her interpretation look like this:“ Stalin, Stalin and Stalin ”.

Recall that the project "Name of Russia" started at the end of May 2008.

At the first stage, Runet users were supposed to choose 50 historical personalities out of 500, pre -named scientists -historians, in the second - to choose the first dozen from fifty, on the third - to determine the winner.

In July, a scandal erupted when it turned out that Joseph Stalin leads in a survey by a large margin from the rest of the candidates. In August, the vote was suspended, and the counter was reset, since the organizers said that numerous spamers voted for Stalin.

It was also reported that the site was subjected to hacker attacks, which caused many doubts about the reliability of the results.