List of Famous people with last name Bestuzhev

Count Pyotr Mikhailovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin was a Russian statesman who effectively governed the Duchy of Courland in the name of Anna Ivanovna between 1712 and 1728.

Nikolay Alexandrovich Bestuzhev (Russian: Николай Александрович Бестужев; was a Russian Navy officer, writer, inventor and portrait artist; associated with the Decembrist revolt.

Alexander Alexandrovich Bestuzhev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Бесту́жев, IPA: [bʲɪˈstuʐɨf] ;, was a Russian writer and Decembrist. After the Decembrist revolt he was sent into exile to Caucasus where Russian Empire was waging the war against the Circassians. There writing under the pseudonym Marlinsky he became known as a romantic poet, short story writer and novelist. He was killed there in a skirmish.