Oh Russia has created some amazing culture (Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy) but that was before they fell to the barbarians in the 1920s. After that only Lem comes to mind.. and he was either Ukrainian or Polish. Basically anyone talented and who could fled (Asimov comes to mind) because under the Soviet system, and later under Putinism the arts were a kind of wasteland. Basically the only things they did well involved little girls, drugs or board games.

It's funny as I'm quite fan of quite a few Russians, yet they're all people who either died before the Russian system was created or are those lucky enough to escape.