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.

Contents 1 A to D 2 E to K 3 L to R 4 S to V 5 X to Z

[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 (born 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
• 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
• Valeri Brainin
• 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 (born 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
• 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, (born 1929), novelist
• Vsevolod Ivanov, author
• Dmitri Kantemir
• Nikolai Karamzin (1766–1826), poet, author, historian
• 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
• Jakov Landa (1948-2005)
• 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
• Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak
• Nadezhda Mandelstam
• Osip Mandelstam, poet
• Alexandra Marinina
• Vladimir Mayakovsky, futurist poet
• Apollon Maykov
• 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 or 1938])
• Sergey Narovchatov, (1919–1981)
• Alexandr Nekrasov
• Nikolai Nekrasov, poet
• Viktor Nekrasov, In trenches of Stalingrad
• Valerij Nikolaevskij, historical writer, poet
• Nikolay Nosov
• Vladimir Obruchev
• Vladimir Odoevsky
• Nikolai Ogaryov (1813–1877)
• Yuri Olesha, satirist
• Alexandr Ostrovsky
• Nikolai Ostrovsky
• Pyotr Patrushev
• 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 (born 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.Eugene Onegin
• 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
• Yuri Rytkheu (b. 1930), from the Arctic Chukotka Peninsula

[edit] S to V

• Saparina Yelena, science writer, Cyberbetics with in us 1966.She presents complexity in an easy way. She gives a lesson on A.I. (born 1931). psychology, heuristics, biology.
• Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889), satirist
• Nickolai Sementsov
• Aleksandr Serafimovich, novelist, The Iron Flood
• Sergei Sergeyev-Tsensky, writer and academician
• Efraim Sevela
• Igor Severyanin
• Marietta Shahinian (1888-1982), russian writer of armenian descent.
• Varlam Shalamov (1907–1982), author of tales about Gulag
• Vadim Shefner
• 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 (born 1918), author, Nobel Prize for Literature, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
• Vladimir Sorokin
• Dmitry Strelnikoff, poet, essayist, novelist
• Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
• Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin
• Aleksandr Petrovich Sumarokov
• Mikhail Vasilyevich Sushkov
• Viktor Suvorov (born 1947)
• 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

[edit] X to Z

• Nicholas Yermakov
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko
• Nikolay Zabolotsky
• Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937), author of We
• Iuliia Valerianovna Zhadovskaia
• Boris Zhitkov
• Vasily Zhukovsky
• Mikhail Zoshchenko, satirist