International Cat Day is marked on March 1.
Many people, including prominent politicians, scientists and actors, are cat lovers. Pictured: Vladimir Lenin talking to a U.S. journalist in the Kremlin.
Barack and Michelle Obama meet Russia’s “First Cat,” Dorofei, a pet of President Dmitry Medvedev, at his Gorki residence on July 6, 2009.
Actress Olga Knipper-Chekhov, the wife of writer Anton Chekhov, with her cat.
Sergei Obraztsov, the founder of the Central Puppet Theatre in Moscow, was the first person to bring Thai cats to the Soviet Union in the 1960s.
Composer Dmitry Shostakovich on vacation.
Soviet figure-skater Lyudmila Pakhomova was also a cat lover
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Yury Kuklachev, the founder of Russia’s Cat Theater
Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov
