List of Russian writers
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This is the list of authors that wrote in Russian language. Not all of them are of Russian descent.
See also List of Russians: Authors.
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[edit] A to D
- Chinghiz Aitmatov, author
- Anna Akhmatova, poet
- Bella Akhmadulina, poet
- Konstantin Aksakov
- Sergei Aksakov (1791-1859), novelist and miscellaneous writer
- Vasily Aksyonov, author
- Boris Akunin (b. 1956), author, essayist, translator, literary critic
- Mark Aldanov, author
- Aleksandr Amfiteatrov (1862-1938), novelist.
- Leonid Andreyev, author, Judas Iscariot
- Daniil Andreyev, Rose of the World
- Innokenty Annensky, poet
- Mikhail Artsybashev, author
- Viktor Astafiyev, author
- Lera Auerbach (Averbakh), poet and author
- Gennadiy Aygi (1934-2006), author, translator
- Isaac Babel (1894-1940), author
- Pavel Bazhov, fair tales author, The Malachite Casket
- Mikhail Bakhtin, philosopher
- Konstantin Balmont, poet
- Evgeny Baratynsky, poet
- Natalya Baranskaya, author, "A Week Like Any Other"
- Ivan Barkov, poet
- Konstantin Batyushkov, poet
- Pavel Bazhov, fair tales author, The Malachite Casket
- Aleksandr Bek (1903-1972), author
- Vissarion Belinsky (1811-1848), writer, literary critic and philosopher
- Andrey Bely (1880-1934), poet and author, Petersburg
- Alexander Belyayev (1884-1942), science fiction author
- Olga Bergolts, poet
- Aleksei Bibik (1878-1976), working-class writer
- Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891) "The Secret Doctrine", "Isis Unveiled"
- Aleksandr Blok, poet
- Aleksandr Bogdanov, novelist, physician, economist, and philosopher, Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia
- Boris Boston satirist, www.borisboston.com
- Osip Maximovich Brik
- Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), poet and esseyist, Nobel Prize Winner
- Valery Bryusov (1873–1924), poet and author, The Fiery Angel
- Vladimir Bukovsky (b. 1942), writer and dissident
- Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), playwright and author, Master and Margarita
- Kir Bulychev (1934-2003), science fiction author
- Ivan Bunin (1870-1953), first Russian Nobel Prize Winner
- Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), short stories author and playwright, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, The Seagull
- Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828-1889), writer, journalist, politician
- Sasha Cherny
- Korney Chukovsky
- Lydia Chukovskaya
- Denis Davydov
- Gavrila Derzhavin
- Nikolay Dobrolyubov
- Yuri Dombrovsky, author
- Sergei Dovlatov, author
- Nadezhda Durova (1783-1866), memoirist, soldier, and novelist.
- Yanka Dyagileva
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), novelist, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Notes From the Underground, The Brothers Karamazov
[edit] E to K
- Ivan Efremov, science fiction
- Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967), novelist and WWII war correspondent
- Venedikt Erofeev
- Viktor Erofeev (Victor Erofeev)
- Natan Eidelman
- Eris Andrey (author)
- Pyotr Ershov
- Sergei Esenin
- Aleksander Fadeev (1901–1956). The Young Guard.
- Konstantin Fedin
- Afanasy Fet, poet
- Denis Fonvizin (1744-1792), dramatist
- Dmitri Furmanov, Chapayev.
- Vsevolod Garshin
- Arkady Gaidar (Arkady Gaydar) (1904-1941)
- Mikhail Gerasimov (poet), worker-poet (1889–1939)
- Vladimir Gilyarovsky
- Lydia Ginzburg
- Eugenia Ginzburg
- Zinaida Gippius, essayist, memoirist, author
- Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), prose writer and dramatist. One of the major Russian writers.
- Natalya Gorbanevskaya (born 1936), poet.
- Daniil Granin (born 1918), novelist, Bison (Zubr).
- Aleksandr Griboyedov (1795-1828), dramatist and statesman
- Ivan Goncharov (1812-1891), novelist. One of the major Russian writers.
- Maxim Gorky (1868-1936), novelist, My Universities, Mother
- Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian rock band Aquarium
- Dmitry Grigorovich
- Alexandr Grin, author, Alye Parusa
- Vasily Grossman, novelist, Life and Fate
- Igor Guberman, satirist
- Lev Gumilyov (Lev Gumilev), historian
- Nikolay Gumilyov, poet
- Alexander Herzen, essayist, philosopher
- Ilya Ilf with Yevgeny Petrov, satirist, The Twelve Chairs, The Golden Calf
- Fazil Iskander, (b. 1929), novelist
- Vsevolod Ivanov, author
- Dmitri Kantemir
- Nikolai Karamzin (1766-1826), poet, author, historian
- Anna Kashina, author
- Lev Kassil
- Valentin Katayev
- Daniil Kharms, absurdist,
- Velimir Khlebnikov, futurist poet and author
- Vladislav Khodasevich, poet
- Mikhail Koltsov, journalist and satirist
- Lev Kopelev
- Vladimir Korolenko
- Sergey Kozlov
- Ivan Krylov (1769-1844), writer of fables and dramatist
- Aleksandr Kuprin, Duel
- Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin, (1872–1936)
[edit] L to R
- Lazar Lagin
- Yulia Latynina
- Peter Lavrovitch Lavrov (1823-1900), socialist and revolutionist
- Leonid Leonov
- Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841), poet, playwright and novelist. One of the major Russian writers.
- Nikolai Leskov (1831-1895), storyteller, novelist, and journalist, Lady MacBeth of the Mtensk District
- Eduard Limonov
- Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), linguistic reformer
- Nadezhda Mandelstam
- Osip Mandelstam, poet
- Alexandra Marinina
- Vladimir Mayakovsky, futurist poet
- Apollon Maykov
- Vladimir Megre
- Dmitriy Merezhkovsky, poet, founder of the Symbolist movement in Russia
- Semen Nadson
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), poet and novelist, wrote first in Russian, then in English, author of Lolita
- Vladimir Narbut, (1888–1944 other sources 1938)]
- Sergey Narovchatov, (1919–1981)
- Alexandr Nekrasov
- Nikolai Nekrasov, poet
- Viktor Nekrasov, In trenches of Stalingrad
- Nikolay Nosov
- Vladimir Obruchev
- Vladimir Odoevsky
- Nikolai Ogaryov (1813-1877)
- Yuri Olesha, satirist
- Alexandr Ostrovsky
- Nikolai Ostrovsky
- Pyotr Patrushev, writer, translator and is one of the most famous escapees from the USSR
- Valentin Parnakh, poet and founder of Russian Jazz music
- Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), poet and novelist, was not permitted by USSR to accept the Nobel Prize, Doctor Zhivago
- Konstantin Paustovsky, author
- Viktor Pelevin (b. 1962), novelist, Omon Ra
- Yakov Perelman
- Evgeny Petrov, wrote with Ilya Ilf, The Twelve Chairs, The Golden Calf
- Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, author
- Boris Pilnyak
- Dmitri Pisarev
- Aleksey Pisemsky (1821-1881), novelist and dramatist.
- Andrei Platonov, author, Chevengur
- Aleksey Plescheev, poet
- Yakov Polonsky
- Nikolay Pomyalovsky
- Mikhail Prishvin
- Kozma Prutkov, satirist, a pseudonym for two writers: Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy and Alexei Zhemchuzhnikov
- Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837), poet, novelist and dramatist. Considered to be the greatest Russian poet of all time.
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982), American novelist and philosopher born in St. Petersburg, Russia
- Aleksandr Nikolaevich Radishchev (1749-1802), social critic
- Valentin Rasputin, author, Farewell to Matyora
- Irina Ratushinskaya
- Aleksei Remizov (1877-1957), modernist writer, calligrapher and folklore enthusiast
- Helena Roerich (1879-1949)
- Anatoly Rybakov
- Vyacheslav Rybakov
[edit] S to Z
- Saparina Yelena, science writer, Cyberbetics with in us 1966.She presents complexity in an easy way. She gives a lesson on A.I. (b.1931). psychology, heuristics, biology.
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889), satirist
- Nickolai Sementsov
- Aleksandr Serafimovich, novelist, The Iron Flood
- Efraim Sevela
- Igor Severyanin
- Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982), author of tales about Gulag
- Vadim Shefner
- Boyan Shiryanov
- Mikhail Shishkin
- Mikhail Sholokhov, novelist, And Quiet Flows the Don
- Sholom Aleichem (Russian:Шолом-Алейхем)
- Vasily Shukshin
- Pavel Shumil, science fiction author
- Konstantin Simonov
- Andrei Sinyavsky
- Boris Slutsky
- Fyodor Sologub, poet, dramatist and novelist, The Petty Demon
- Leonid Solovjev
- Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918), author, Nobel Prize for Literature, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Vladimir Sorokin
- Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
- Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin
- Aleksandr Petrovich Sumarokov
- Viktor Suvorov (b. 1947)
- Grigory Svirsky, novelist, dramatist and political writer
- Nadezhda Teffi
- Vladimir Tendryakov
- Viktoria Tokareva, author
- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817-1875), poet, dramatist and novelist.
- Aleksey Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1882-1945), novelist
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) novelist, War and Peace, Anna Karenina
- Tatyana Tolstaya, essayist, novelist
- Vasily Trediakovsky
- Gavriil Troyepolsky, novelist, White Bim Black Ear
- Marina Tsvetaeva, poetess
- Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883), novelist and dramatist. One of the major Russian writers.
- Aleksandr Tvardovsky
- Yury Tynyanov
- Fyodor Tyutchev
- Lyudmila Ulitskaya
- Maximilian Voloshin, poet
- Vladimir Voinovich, satirist
- Mikhail Veller
- Nicholas Yermakov
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- Nikolay Zabolotsky
- Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937), author of We
- Iuliia Zhádovskaia
- Vasily Zhukovsky
- Mikhail Zoshchenko, satirist
