Valeria Rossi is an Italian singer and songwriter. She is most famous for the song "Tre parole", a huge summer hit of 2001 and the second biggest-selling single of the year in Italy.
Valerian Gaprindashvili was a Georgian poet and translator whose early, Symbolist, poetry was of much influence on development of Georgian metaphor and verse.
Valerian Nikolayevich Maykov was a Russian writer and literary critic, son of painter Nikolay Maykov, brother of poet Apollon and novelist Vladimir Maykov. Valerian Maykov, once a Petrashevsky Circle associate, was considered by contemporaries as heir to Vissarion Belinsky's position of Russia's leading critic, and later credited for being arguably the first in Russia to introduce scientific approach to the art of literary criticism.
Valerian Petrovych Pidmohylny was a Ukrainian modernist, most famous for the realist novel Misto. Like a number of Ukrainian writers, he flourished in 1920s Ukraine, but was finally constrained and eventually arrested by the Soviet authorities. Pidmohylny was executed by the Soviets in Sandarmokh. He is one of the leading figures of the Executed Renaissance.
Valerian Fyodorovich Pletnyov was a Russian revolutionary who after many years as a joiner became a playwright and ideologue in the Proletkult, following the Russian Revolution.
