Alexander Abramowitsch Drus ist eine russische TV-Persönlichkeit, der erste Magister der russischen Fernsehshow Was? Wo? Wann? und Großmeister von Sein Spiel.
Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev was a Russian Slavist and ethnographer who published nearly 600 Russian fairy and folk tales, one of the largest collections of folklore in the world. This collection was not strictly Russian, but included folk tales from Ukraine and Belarus alongside Russian folk tales. The first edition of his collection was published in eight volumes from 1855 to 1867, earning him the reputation of being the Russian counterpart to the Brothers Grimm.
Alexander Stepanovich Afanasyev was a Russian and Ukrainian poet, writer, editor, ethnographer and translator. In 1853 he started using the pseudonym Чужбинский (Chuzhbinsky) and has been known mostly as Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky since.