| Russian royalty | 15 |
| Russian royals of yore | 22 |
| Russian royals | 14 |
| Russian royal's treasure | 28 |
| Russian royal treasure | 22 |
| Russian royal house | 19 |
| Russian royal figure | 20 |
| Russian royal | 13 |
| Russian roulette wager? | 23 |
| Russian roulette players' need | 34 |
| Russian roulette need | 21 |
| Russian roulette bet? | 21 |
| Russian rodent's approval? | 30 |
| Russian rocket ports | 20 |
| Russian rockers __ Park | 23 |
| Russian Riviera | 15 |
| Russian river to the Laptev Sea | 31 |
| Russian river to the Caspian Sea | 32 |
| Russian river to the Caspian | 28 |
| Russian river or range | 22 |
| Russian river or mountains | 26 |
| Russian river or mountain range | 31 |
| Russian river or mountain | 25 |
| Russian river in a Sholokhov title | 34 |
| Russian river and range | 23 |
| Russian river | 13 |
| Russian revolutionist | 21 |
| Russian revolutionary with a goatee | 35 |
| Russian revolutionary Trotsky | 29 |
| Russian revolutionary exiled to Mexico | 38 |
| 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 |