| Russian revolutionary | 21 |
| Russian Revolution victim (Var.) | 32 |
| Russian Revolution victim | 25 |
| Russian Revolution locale | 25 |
| Russian Revolution leader | 25 |
| Russian Revolution figure | 25 |
| Russian retreats | 16 |
| Russian retreat | 15 |
| Russian republic known for "throat singing" | 53 |
| Russian republic | 16 |
| Russian rejections | 18 |
| Russian rejection | 17 |
| Russian regulars on the Lawrence Welk Show? | 43 |
| Russian regent's wife, once | 31 |
| Russian refusals | 16 |
| Russian refusal | 15 |
| Russian rebuff | 14 |
| Russian rebel in 1917 | 21 |
| Russian reactionary | 19 |
| Russian range or river | 22 |
| Russian range | 13 |
| Russian ranch hands? | 20 |
| Russian rail center | 19 |
| Russian queen | 13 |
| Russian provinces | 17 |
| Russian province | 16 |
| Russian prison camp | 19 |
| Russian princess who was Nicholas II's only niece | 53 |
| Russian prince of the 12th century | 34 |
| Russian prince known as "Moneybag" | 44 |
| Russian press agency | 20 |
| Russian president Vladimir | 26 |
| Russian president | 17 |
| Russian prairie | 15 |
| Russian potentates | 18 |
| Russian port, formerly Kuibyshev | 32 |
| Russian port | 12 |
| Russian pop duo with the hit album "200 km/h in the Wrong Lane" | 73 |
| Russian pop duo that broke up in 2011 | 37 |
| Russian pop duo | 15 |
| Russian politician Alexander | 28 |
| Russian political unit: Abbr. | 29 |
| Russian political oddity | 24 |
| Russian political machine | 25 |
| Russian police | 14 |
| Russian pol Yeltsin | 19 |
| Russian poet ___ Mandelstam | 27 |
| Russian poet Mandelshtam | 24 |
| Russian poet Akhmatova | 22 |
| Russian poet Afanasy ___ | 24 |
| Russian poet | 12 |
| Russian playwright Chekhov | 26 |
| Russian playwright Andreyev | 27 |
| Russian planes | 14 |
| Russian plane | 13 |
| Russian plains | 14 |
| Russian plain, with "the" | 35 |
| Russian plain | 13 |
| Russian pianist ___ Gabrilowitsch | 33 |
| Russian pianist Rubinstein | 26 |
| Russian pianist Gilels | 22 |
| Russian physiologist: 1849–1936 | 38 |
| Russian physiologist Pavlov | 27 |
| Russian physiologist | 20 |
| Russian personage | 17 |
| Russian peninsula bordering the White Sea | 41 |
| Russian peninsula | 17 |
| Russian peasants (and the highest-scoring opening word in Scrabble--it's worth 128 points) | 94 |
| Russian peasants | 16 |
| Russian peasant wear | 20 |
| Russian peasant community | 25 |
| Russian peasant | 15 |
| Russian peaks | 13 |
| Russian Peace Nobelist Sakharov | 31 |
| Russian peace | 13 |
| Russian pastry | 14 |
| Russian parliamentary body | 26 |
| Russian parliament building | 27 |
| Russian parliament before 1917 | 30 |
| Russian parliament | 18 |
| Russian paper | 13 |
| Russian pancakes | 16 |
| Russian pancake often served with sour cream | 44 |
| Russian pancake | 15 |
| Russian Orthodox substitutes for palm branches on Palm Sunday | 61 |
| Russian Orthodox ruling body | 28 |
| Russian Orthodox language | 25 |
| Russian Orthodox church feature | 31 |
| Russian org. and enemy in Bond novels | 37 |
| Russian order | 13 |
| Russian orbiter until 2001 | 26 |
| Russian orbiter for 15 years | 28 |
| Russian orbiter | 15 |
| Russian or Pole | 15 |
| Russian or Czech | 16 |
| Russian oblast or its capital | 29 |
| Russian nurse | 13 |
| Russian novelist's signature | 32 |
| Russian novelist Maxim | 22 |
| Russian novelist Maksim | 23 |