Nikolai Gogol | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | Nikolai Yudenich | Nikolai Bulganin | Nikolai Timkov | Nikolai Leskov | Nikolai Rubinstein | Nikolai Bukharin | Nikolai Volkoff | Nikolai Fraiture | Nikolai Rakov | Nikolai Pozdneev | Nikolai Eilertsen | Nikolai Berdyaev | Nikolai Ryzhkov | Nikolai Krylenko | Nikolai Glushkov | Nikolai Erdman | Henrik Nikolai Krøyer | Russian battleship Imperator Nikolai I | Nikolai Vavilov | Nikolai Sokoloff | Nikolai Semenovich Kurnakov | Nikolai Roslavets | Nikolai Ostrovsky | Nikolai Myaskovsky | Nikolai Medtner | Nikolai Kibalchich | Nikolai Kamov | Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov |
From 1799 to 1818, through Nikolai Rezanov's intervention, he became chief manager for the influential Russian-American Company.
Count Nikolay Rumyantsev funded Russia's first naval circumnavigation under the joint command of Adam Johann von Krusenstern and Nikolai Rezanov in 1803–1806, and was instrumental in the outfitting of the voyage of the Riurik's circumnavigation of 1814–1816, which provided substantial scientific information on Alaska's and California's flora and fauna, and important ethnographic information on Alaskan and Californian (among others) natives.