List of Russian-language playwrights

This is a list of authors who have written dramatic works in the Russian language.

For the plain text list, see Category:Russian dramatists and playwrights.

See also: List of Russian-language writers, List of Russian-language poets, List of Russian-language novelists, List of Russian artists, List of Russian architects, List of Russian inventors, List of Russian explorers, Russian culture

Alphabetical list

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Alexander Ablesimov
(1742-1783)		 The Miller
Alexander Afinogenov
(1904-1941)		 Fear
Crank
A Far Place
Leonid Andreyev
(1871-1919)		 Anathema
Tsar Hunger
The Life of Man
He Who Gets Slapped
Maria Arbatova
(born 1957)		 On the Road to Ourselves
Aleksei Arbuzov
(1908-1986)		 Tanya
A Long Road
Mikhail Artsybashev
(1878-1927)		 War
Arkady Averchenko
(1881-1925)
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Isaac Babel
(1894-1940)		 Maria
Sunset
Pyotr Boborykin
(1836-1921)		 The Scale
Oleg Bogayev
(born 1970)
Mikhail Bulgakov
(1891-1940)		 Flight
Zoya's Apartment
Adam and Eve
The Days of the Turbins
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Catherine the Great
(1729-1796)		 Fevey
Anton Chekhov
(1860-1904)		 The Seagull
Uncle Vanya
Three Sisters
The Cherry Orchard
Evgeny Chirikov
(1864-1932)		 The Peasant
Grand Duke Constantine
(1858-1915)		 King of Judea
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Grigoriy Demidovtsev
(born 1960)
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Nikolai Erdman
(1900-1970)		 The Suicide
Nikolai Evreinov
(1879-1953)		 A Merry Death
The Chief Thing
The Presentation of Love
The Storming of the Winter Palace
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Denis Fonvizin
(1744/45-1792)		 The Minor
Olga Forsh
(1873–1961)		 The Substitute Lecturer
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Alexander Galich
(1918-1977)
Zinaida Gippius
(1869-1945)		 The Green Ring
Nikolai Gogol
(1809-1852)		 Marriage
The Government Inspector
Dmitry Gorchakov
(1758-1824)		 King for a Day
Grigori Gorin
(1940-2000)
Maxim Gorky
(1868-1936)		 Summerfolk
The Lower Depths
Children of the Sun
Aleksandr Griboyedov
(1795-1829)		 Woe from Wit
Isabella Grinevskaya
(1864-1944)
Elena Guro
(1887-1913)		 The Hurdy-Gurdy
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Vsevolod Ivanov
(1895-1963)		 Armoured Train 14-69
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Vasily Kapnist
(1758-1823)		 Chicane
Valentin Kataev
(1897-1986)		 Quadrature of the Circle
Pavel Katenin
(1792-1853)		 Andromache
Yevgeny Kharitonov
(1941-1981)		 Under House Arrest
Daniil Kharms
(1905-1942)
Mikhail Kheraskov
(1733-1807)
Vladimir Kirshon
(1902-1938)		 Bread
The Miraculous Alloy
Yakov Knyazhnin
(1740/42-1791)		 Olga
The Cranks
The Braggart
Vadim the Bold
Eugene Kozlovsky
(born 1946)
Ivan Krylov
(1769-1844)		 Philomela
Nestor Kukolnik
(1809-1868)		 A Life for the Tsar
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Ivan Lazhechnikov
(1792–1869)		 Oprichnik
Leonid Leonov
(1899-1994)
Dmitri Lipskerov
(born 1964)
Lev Lunts
(1901-1924)		 Native Land
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Anatoly Marienhof
(1897-1962)
Samuil Marshak
(1887-1964)		 Smart Things
The Twelve Months
Mikhail Matinsky
(1760-c1820)		 Regeneration
Saint-Petersburg's Trade Stalls
Vladimir Mayakovsky
(1893-1930)		 The Bedbug
The Bathhouse
Mystery-Bouffe
Sergey Mikhalkov
(1913-2009)		 Three Plus Two
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Vladimir Nabokov
(1899-1977)		 The Waltz Invention
Löb Nevakhovich
(1776/78-1831)
Alexander Neverov
(1886-1923)		 Baba
Hunger
Nikolai Nikolev
(1758-1815)
Osip Notovich
(1849-1914)		 Shady Business
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Alexander Ostrovsky
(1823-1886)		 The Storm
The Poor Bride
Poverty is No Vice
Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man
Valentin Ovechkin
(1904-1968)		 A Time to Reap
Vladislav Ozerov
(1769-1816)		 Dmitry Donskoy
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Vera Panova
(1905-1973)		 Ivan Kosogor
In Old Moscow
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
(born 1938)
Aleksey Pisemsky
(1821-1881)		 A Bitter Fate
The Hypochondriac
Lieutenant Gladkov
The Financial Genius
Nikolai Pogodin
(1900-1962)		 Aristocrats
Mikhail Popov
(1742-1790)		 Anyuta
Alexander Preys
(1905-1942)
Iosif Prut
(1900-1996)
Alexander Pushkin
(1799-1837)		 Boris Godunov
The Stone Guest
Mozart and Salieri
The Covetous Knight
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Edvard Radzinsky
(born 1936)
Vyacheslav Rybakov
(born 1954)
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Natalya Sats
(1903-1993)
Shchepkina-Kupernik
(1874-1952)		 Summer Picture
Evgeny Shvarts
(1896-1958)		 The Dragon
Fyodor Sologub
(1863-1927)		 The Triumph of Death
Ksenya Stepanycheva
(born 1978)		 Pink Bow
Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin
(1817-1903)		 The Case
Krechinsky's Wedding
The Death of Tarelkin
Alexander Sumarokov
(1717-1777)		 Khorev
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Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya
(1891-1968)		 By the Pike's Wish
Modest Tchaikovsky
(1850-1916)
Nadezhda Teffi
(1872-1952)		 The Woman Question
Viktoriya Tokareva
(born 1937)
Aleksey K. Tolstoy
(1817-1875)		 The Death of Ivan the Terrible
Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich
Tsar Boris
Don Juan
Aleksey N. Tolstoy
(1883-1945)
Leo Tolstoy
(1828-1910)		 The Power of Darkness
The Fruits of Enlightenment
The Living Corpse
Sergei Tretyakov
(1892-1937)		 I Want a Baby
Ivan Turgenev
(1818-1883)		 A Month in the Country
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Eduard Uspensky
(born 1937)
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Alexander Vampilov
(1937-1972)		 Elder Son
Anastasya Verbitskaya
(1861-1928)		 Mirages
Vsevolod Vishnevsky
(1900-1951)		 Optimistic Tragedy
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Mark Zakharov
(born 1933)
Boris Zaytsev
(1881-1972)
Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov
(1821-1908)
Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal
(1866-1907)
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