PONY SCHOOL

[Lord Running Clam]

Trotsky?

[Richmond Clements]

Agh!
Why didn't I think of that!
I reckon you've got it Clam, that pun is worthy of Virgo and no mistake.

[Dudley]

Yussupov

[Byron Virgo]

"But you assume I like you"

I assume nothing

(though I'd still like to know what crashing a thread is).

So far no-one's got it right on the old Russian pony front. I said a FAMOUS Russian, not obscure non-entities!

[Dan Kelly]

Catherine.

If only for the historical connotations.

Dan.

At Alina's work.

At nearly midnight.

Doing her work for her.

Dammit.

[Byron Virgo]

Nope.

At this rate I'm going to have to inflict the board with my verse if the guesses don't make a dramatic improvement in quality.

[To give you a clue, he is actually mentioned in this month's Comics International, and was involved in some way with another famous Russian figure, despite their lives being several hundred years apart.]

[Richmond Clements]

Haven't read it.

Stalin.

[Byron Virgo]

Stalin?!

Famous, not infamous!

Come on, this isn't hard - first name Andrei (and that really is giving it away, for god's sake!)

You people had better buck you ideas up and don your think caps.

[Richmond Clements]

Andrei Sakharov?

Only one I can think of, or Andre the Giant.

[Megadeth]

Andrei Rublev?

[Megadeth]

Who would obviously be involved with Andrei Tarkovsky hundreds of years later

[Byron Virgo]

Nope.

But one of you was very, very close...

[Max Kon]

Last name Markov?

[Byron Virgo]

'Fraid not.

[Conexus]

Andrei Mironov. (he's a russian legend acording to some site I googled,  and imdb)