List of Russian-language writers

This is a list of authors who have written works of prose and poetry in the Russian language. For separate lists by literary field: List of Russian-language novelists List of Russian-language playwrights List of Russian-language poets == A == Bavasan Abiduev (1909–1940), poet; one of the founders of Buryat children's literature Alexander Ablesimov (1742–1783), dramatist, journalist, opera librettist, poet, and satirist Fyodor Abramov (1920–1983), novelist (Two Winters and Three Summers) and short-story writer Grigory Adamov (1886–1945) science-fiction novelist (The Mystery of the Two Oceans) Georgy Adamovich (1892–1972), critic, memoirist, poet, and translator Anastasia Afanasieva (born 1982), physician, writer, including poet and translator Alexander Afanasyev (1826–1871), folklorist; recorded and published over 600 Russian folktales and fairytales (Russian Fairy Tales) Alexander Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky (1816–1875), writer, including editor, ethnographer, poet, and translator Alexander Afinogenov (1904–1941), playwright (A Far Place) M. Ageyev (1898–1973), pseudonymous novelist (Novel with Cocaine) Chinghiz Aitmatov (1928–2008), Kyrgyz novelist (Jamilya, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years) and short-story writer David Aizman (1869–1922), Russian-Jewish novelist and playwright Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), poet (The String collection) , short-story writer, and translator Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), acmeist poet (Requiem elegy, Poem Without a Hero) Ivan Aksakov (1823–1886), journalist, poet, Slavophile Konstantin Aksakov (1817–1860), historian, playwright, social critic, and Slavophile Sergey Aksakov (1791–1859), novelist and miscellaneous writer (The Scarlet Flower literary fairy tale) Vasily Aksyonov (1932–2009), novelist (Generations of Winter) and short-story writer Boris Akunin (born 1956), essayist, literary critic, novelist (Erast Fandorin series, Sister Pelagia series), and translator Mikhail Albov, (1851–1911), novelist and short-story writer Mark Aldanov (died 1957), historical novelist Andrey Aldan-Semenov (1908–1985), Gulag memoirist Lidiia Alekseeva (1909–1989), Latvian poet and short-story writer Mikhail Alekseyev (1918–2007) editor and writer (My Stalingrad autobiographical novel) Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916), Russian-Jewish novelist (Wandering Stars), playwright, and short-story writer Margarita Aliger (1915–1992), journalist, poet ("Zoya"), and translator Yuz Aleshkovsky (1929–2022), writer, poet, playwright and performer of his own songs, Kangaroo Boris Almazov (1827–1876), poet, translator and literary critic Alexander Amfiteatrov (1862–1938), writer and historian, Napoleonder Daniil Andreyev (1906–1959), writer, poet, and Christian mystic, Roza Mira Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919), novelist, playwright and short story writer, The Seven Who Were Hanged, The Life of Man Sergey Andreyevsky (1847–1918), writer, poet, literary critic, The Book on Death Irakly Andronikov (1908–1990), writer, historian, philologist and media personality Anna Mitrofanovna Aníchkova (1868/1869 – 1935), writer and translator who wrote under the pseudonym Ivan Strannik Pavel Annenkov (1813–1887), critic and memoirist, The Extraordinary Decade Yury Annenkov (1889–1974), artist and writer, A Tale of Trivia Innokenty Annensky (1855–1909), poet, critic and translator, representative of the first wave of Russian Symbolism Lev Anninsky (1934–2019) writer, literary historian and critic Pavel Antokolsky (1896–1978), poet, All We Who in His Name Maxim Antonovich (1835–1918), critic, essayist, memoirist, translator and philosopher Elena Apreleva (1846–1923), writer, memoirist, playwright, Guilty without Guilt Aleksey Apukhtin (1840–1893), poet and writer, From Death to Life Maria Arbatova (born 1957), novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet and journalist Aleksei Arbuzov (1908–1986), playwright, A Long Road Vladimir Arnoldi (1871–1924), children's author and professor of biology Mikhail Artsybashev (1878–1927), naturalist writer and playwright, Sanin Nikolai Aseev (1889–1963), futurist poet, Night Flute Viktor Astafyev (1924–2001), novelist and short story writer, Sad Detective Lera Auerbach (Averbakh) (born 1973), poet, writer and composer Mikhail Avdeev (1821–1876), novelist and playwright, Tamarin trilogy Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925), satirical writer and playwright, Ninochka Vasily Avseenko (1842–1913), writer, journalist and literary critic Hizgil Avshalumov (1913–2001), Soviet novelist, poet and playwright Gennadiy Aygi (1934–2006), Chuvash poet and translator Vasily Azhayev (1915–1968), novelist, Far from Moscow == B == Semyon Babayevsky (1909–2000), novelist and short story writer, Golden Star Chavalier Isaak Babel (1894–1940), short story writer, The Odessa Tales, Red Cavalry Eduard Bagritsky (1895–1934), constructivist poet, February Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009), novelist and magazine editor, Forever Nineteen Ivan Bakhtin (1756–1818), poet, satirist and politician Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975), philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar, "Epic and Novel" Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876), revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism, God and the State, Statism and Anarchy Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942), symbolist poet and translator, Burning Buildings, Let Us Be Like the Sun Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873–1944), poet and translator, The Pendulum Kazimir Barantsevich (1851–1927), writer and poet, Family Hearth Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800–1844), poet, The Gipsy Natalya Baranskaya (1908–2004), novelist and short story writer, A Week Like Any Other Ivan Barkov (1732–1768), comic and erotic poet, Luka Mudischev Anna Barkova (1901–1976), poet and writer, Gulag survivor Elpidifor Barsov (1836–1917), literary historian, ethnographer, folklorist, philologist Agniya Barto (1906–1981), Russian-Jewish poet and children's writer Alexander Bashlachev (1960–1988), poet, musician, guitarist, and singer-songwriter Fyodor Batyushkov (1857–1920), philologist, essayist, literary and theatre historian Konstantin Batyushkov (1787–1855), poet, essayist and translator Nikolai Bazhin (1843–1908), writer, journalist and critic, The History of One People's Partnership Pavel Bazhov (1879–1950), fairy tale author, The Malachite Casket Demyan Bedny (1883–1945), poet and satirist, New Testament Without Defects Dmitry Begichev (1786–1855), writer and politician Alexander Bek (1903–1972), novelist, And Not to Die Ekaterina Beketova (1855–1892), poet, writer, and translator Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848), writer, literary critic and philosopher Vasily Belov (1932–2012), writer, poet and dramatist, Eves, The Year of a Major Breakdown Andrei Bely (1880–1934), symbolist poet, writer and essayist, The Silver Dove, Petersburg Alexander Belyayev (1884–1942), science fiction author, Amphibian Man Vladimir Benediktov (1807–1873); poet and translator Nina Berberova (1901–1993), novelist and short story writer, The Book of Happiness Nikolai Berg (1823–1884), poet, journalist, translator and historian Olga Bergholz (1910–1975), poet, playwright and memoirist Alexander Bestuzhev (1797–1837), novelist, short story writer and Decembrist, An Evening on Bivouac Vitaly Bianki (1894–1959), nature and children's writer Aleksei Bibik (1878–1976), working-class novelist and short story writer Andrei Bitov (1937–2018), novelist and short story writer, Pushkin House Nikolai Blagoveshchensky (1837–1889), writer, journalist and biographer Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891), a founder of Theosophy and the Theosophical Society, The Secret Doctrine, Isis Unveiled Pyotr Blinov (1913–1942), Udmurt writer and journalist Alexander Blok (1880–1921), poet, The Twelve Pyotr Boborykin (1836–1921), writer, playwright and journalist, China Town Oleg Bogayev (born 1970), playwright, The Russian National Postal Service Andrei Bogdanov (1692–1766), bibliographer and ethnographer Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928), novelist, physician, economist and philosopher, Red Star Vladimir Bogomolov (1926–2003), novelist and short story writer, Ivan Vladimir Bogoraz (1865–1936), revolutionary, writer and anthropologist Yuri Bondarev (1924–2020), novelist and short story writer, The Shore Leonid Borodin (1938–2011), novelist and journalist, The Story of a Strange Time Genrikh Borovik (born 1929), publicist, writer, playwright and filmmaker Vasily Botkin (1812–1869), critic, essayist and translator Valeri Brainin-Passek (born 1948), Russian/German musicologist, music manager, composer and poet Osip Brik (1888–1945), avant garde writer and literary critic Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996), poet and essayist, 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Valery Bryusov (1873–1924), poet, novelist and short story writer, The Fiery Angel Yury Buida (born 1954), novelist and short story writer, The Zero Train Vladimir Bukovsky (1942–2019), writer and dissident Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940), novelist, short story writer and playwright, Heart of a Dog, The White Guard, The Master and Margarita Faddey Bulgarin (1789–1859), Polish-born writer and journalist Kir Bulychev (1934–2003), science fiction author, Half a Life Ivan Bunin (1870–1953), 1933 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (first Russian Nobel laureate in literature), The Village, The Life of Arseniev, Dark Avenues Anna Bunina (1774–1829), poet, Though Poverty's No Stain Viktor Burenin (1841–1926), writer, critic, playwright, librettist and satirical poet David Burliuk (1882–1967), illustrator, publicist and author associated with Russian Futurism Dmitry Bykov (born 1967) Pyotr Bykov (1844–1930) literary historian, poet and translator Vasil Bykov (1924–2003) == C == Dimitrie Cantemir (1673–1723), composer, ethnographer, geographer, historian, linguist, musicologist, and philosopher Catherine the Great, (1729–1796), patroness of the arts, music and theatre, and opera librettist (Fevey) Pyotr Chaadayev (1794–1856), philosopher ("Philosophical Letters") Aleksey Chapygin (1870–1937), novelist (Stepan Razin) and short story writer Lidia Charskaya (1875–1938), actresses and novelist Nikolai Chayev (1824–1914), playwright (Svat Faddeyich) and poet Alexander Chekhov (1855–1913), essayist, memoirist, novelist, and short story writer Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), playwright (The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard) and short story writer ("Ward No.

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List of Russian-language writers

This is a list of authors who have written works of prose and poetry in the Russian language. For separate lists by literary field: List of Russian-language novelists List of Russian-language playwrights List of Russian-language poets == A == Bavasan Abiduev (1909–1940), poet; one of the founders of Buryat children's literature Alexander Ablesimov (1742–1783), dramatist, journalist, opera librettist, poet, and satirist Fyodor Abramov (1920–1983), novelist (Two Winters and Three Summers) and short-story writer Grigory Adamov (1886–1945) science-fiction novelist (The Mystery of the Two Oceans) Georgy Adamovich (1892–1972), critic, memoirist, poet, and translator Anastasia Afanasieva (born 1982), physician, writer, including poet and translator Alexander Afanasyev (1826–1871), folklorist; recorded and published over 600 Russian folktales and fairytales (Russian Fairy Tales) Alexander Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky (1816–1875), writer, including editor, ethnographer, poet, and translator Alexander Afinogenov (1904–1941), playwright (A Far Place) M. Ageyev (1898–1973), pseudonymous novelist (Novel with Cocaine) Chinghiz Aitmatov (1928–2008), Kyrgyz novelist (Jamilya, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years) and short-story writer David Aizman (1869–1922), Russian-Jewish novelist and playwright Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), poet (The String collection) , short-story writer, and translator Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), acmeist poet (Requiem elegy, Poem Without a Hero) Ivan Aksakov (1823–1886), journalist, poet, Slavophile Konstantin Aksakov (1817–1860), historian, playwright, social critic, and Slavophile Sergey Aksakov (1791–1859), novelist and miscellaneous writer (The Scarlet Flower literary fairy tale) Vasily Aksyonov (1932–2009), novelist (Generations of Winter) and short-story writer Boris Akunin (born 1956), essayist, literary critic, novelist (Erast Fandorin series, Sister Pelagia series), and translator Mikhail Albov, (1851–1911), novelist and short-story writer Mark Aldanov (died 1957), historical novelist Andrey Aldan-Semenov (1908–1985), Gulag memoirist Lidiia Alekseeva (1909–1989), Latvian poet and short-story writer Mikhail Alekseyev (1918–2007) editor and writer (My Stalingrad autobiographical novel) Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916), Russian-Jewish novelist (Wandering Stars), playwright, and short-story writer Margarita Aliger (1915–1992), journalist, poet ("Zoya"), and translator Yuz Aleshkovsky (1929–2022), writer, poet, playwright and performer of his own songs, Kangaroo Boris Almazov (1827–1876), poet, translator and literary critic Alexander Amfiteatrov (1862–1938), writer and historian, Napoleonder Daniil Andreyev (1906–1959), writer, poet, and Christian mystic, Roza Mira Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919), novelist, playwright and short story writer, The Seven Who Were Hanged, The Life of Man Sergey Andreyevsky (1847–1918), writer, poet, literary critic, The Book on Death Irakly Andronikov (1908–1990), writer, historian, philologist and media personality Anna Mitrofanovna Aníchkova (1868/1869 – 1935), writer and translator who wrote under the pseudonym Ivan Strannik Pavel Annenkov (1813–1887), critic and memoirist, The Extraordinary Decade Yury Annenkov (1889–1974), artist and writer, A Tale of Trivia Innokenty Annensky (1855–1909), poet, critic and translator, representative of the first wave of Russian Symbolism Lev Anninsky (1934–2019) writer, literary historian and critic Pavel Antokolsky (1896–1978), poet, All We Who in His Name Maxim Antonovich (1835–1918), critic, essayist, memoirist, translator and philosopher Elena Apreleva (1846–1923), writer, memoirist, playwright, Guilty without Guilt Aleksey Apukhtin (1840–1893), poet and writer, From Death to Life Maria Arbatova (born 1957), novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet and journalist Aleksei Arbuzov (1908–1986), playwright, A Long Road Vladimir Arnoldi (1871–1924), children's author and professor of biology Mikhail Artsybashev (1878–1927), naturalist writer and playwright, Sanin Nikolai Aseev (1889–1963), futurist poet, Night Flute Viktor Astafyev (1924–2001), novelist and short story writer, Sad Detective Lera Auerbach (Averbakh) (born 1973), poet, writer and composer Mikhail Avdeev (1821–1876), novelist and playwright, Tamarin trilogy Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925), satirical writer and playwright, Ninochka Vasily Avseenko (1842–1913), writer, journalist and literary critic Hizgil Avshalumov (1913–2001), Soviet novelist, poet and playwright Gennadiy Aygi (1934–2006), Chuvash poet and translator Vasily Azhayev (1915–1968), novelist, Far from Moscow == B == Semyon Babayevsky (1909–2000), novelist and short story writer, Golden Star Chavalier Isaak Babel (1894–1940), short story writer, The Odessa Tales, Red Cavalry Eduard Bagritsky (1895–1934), constructivist poet, February Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009), novelist and magazine editor, Forever Nineteen Ivan Bakhtin (1756–1818), poet, satirist and politician Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975), philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar, "Epic and Novel" Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876), revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism, God and the State, Statism and Anarchy Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942), symbolist poet and translator, Burning Buildings, Let Us Be Like the Sun Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873–1944), poet and translator, The Pendulum Kazimir Barantsevich (1851–1927), writer and poet, Family Hearth Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800–1844), poet, The Gipsy Natalya Baranskaya (1908–2004), novelist and short story writer, A Week Like Any Other Ivan Barkov (1732–1768), comic and erotic poet, Luka Mudischev Anna Barkova (1901–1976), poet and writer, Gulag survivor Elpidifor Barsov (1836–1917), literary historian, ethnographer, folklorist, philologist Agniya Barto (1906–1981), Russian-Jewish poet and children's writer Alexander Bashlachev (1960–1988), poet, musician, guitarist, and singer-songwriter Fyodor Batyushkov (1857–1920), philologist, essayist, literary and theatre historian Konstantin Batyushkov (1787–1855), poet, essayist and translator Nikolai Bazhin (1843–1908), writer, journalist and critic, The History of One People's Partnership Pavel Bazhov (1879–1950), fairy tale author, The Malachite Casket Demyan Bedny (1883–1945), poet and satirist, New Testament Without Defects Dmitry Begichev (1786–1855), writer and politician Alexander Bek (1903–1972), novelist, And Not to Die Ekaterina Beketova (1855–1892), poet, writer, and translator Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848), writer, literary critic and philosopher Vasily Belov (1932–2012), writer, poet and dramatist, Eves, The Year of a Major Breakdown Andrei Bely (1880–1934), symbolist poet, writer and essayist, The Silver Dove, Petersburg Alexander Belyayev (1884–1942), science fiction author, Amphibian Man Vladimir Benediktov (1807–1873); poet and translator Nina Berberova (1901–1993), novelist and short story writer, The Book of Happiness Nikolai Berg (1823–1884), poet, journalist, translator and historian Olga Bergholz (1910–1975), poet, playwright and memoirist Alexander Bestuzhev (1797–1837), novelist, short story writer and Decembrist, An Evening on Bivouac Vitaly Bianki (1894–1959), nature and children's writer Aleksei Bibik (1878–1976), working-class novelist and short story writer Andrei Bitov (1937–2018), novelist and short story writer, Pushkin House Nikolai Blagoveshchensky (1837–1889), writer, journalist and biographer Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891), a founder of Theosophy and the Theosophical Society, The Secret Doctrine, Isis Unveiled Pyotr Blinov (1913–1942), Udmurt writer and journalist Alexander Blok (1880–1921), poet, The Twelve Pyotr Boborykin (1836–1921), writer, playwright and journalist, China Town Oleg Bogayev (born 1970), playwright, The Russian National Postal Service Andrei Bogdanov (1692–1766), bibliographer and ethnographer Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928), novelist, physician, economist and philosopher, Red Star Vladimir Bogomolov (1926–2003), novelist and short story writer, Ivan Vladimir Bogoraz (1865–1936), revolutionary, writer and anthropologist Yuri Bondarev (1924–2020), novelist and short story writer, The Shore Leonid Borodin (1938–2011), novelist and journalist, The Story of a Strange Time Genrikh Borovik (born 1929), publicist, writer, playwright and filmmaker Vasily Botkin (1812–1869), critic, essayist and translator Valeri Brainin-Passek (born 1948), Russian/German musicologist, music manager, composer and poet Osip Brik (1888–1945), avant garde writer and literary critic Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996), poet and essayist, 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Valery Bryusov (1873–1924), poet, novelist and short story writer, The Fiery Angel Yury Buida (born 1954), novelist and short story writer, The Zero Train Vladimir Bukovsky (1942–2019), writer and dissident Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940), novelist, short story writer and playwright, Heart of a Dog, The White Guard, The Master and Margarita Faddey Bulgarin (1789–1859), Polish-born writer and journalist Kir Bulychev (1934–2003), science fiction author, Half a Life Ivan Bunin (1870–1953), 1933 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (first Russian Nobel laureate in literature), The Village, The Life of Arseniev, Dark Avenues Anna Bunina (1774–1829), poet, Though Poverty's No Stain Viktor Burenin (1841–1926), writer, critic, playwright, librettist and satirical poet David Burliuk (1882–1967), illustrator, publicist and author associated with Russian Futurism Dmitry Bykov (born 1967) Pyotr Bykov (1844–1930) literary historian, poet and translator Vasil Bykov (1924–2003) == C == Dimitrie Cantemir (1673–1723), composer, ethnographer, geographer, historian, linguist, musicologist, and philosopher Catherine the Great, (1729–1796), patroness of the arts, music and theatre, and opera librettist (Fevey) Pyotr Chaadayev (1794–1856), philosopher ("Philosophical Letters") Aleksey Chapygin (1870–1937), novelist (Stepan Razin) and short story writer Lidia Charskaya (1875–1938), actresses and novelist Nikolai Chayev (1824–1914), playwright (Svat Faddeyich) and poet Alexander Chekhov (1855–1913), essayist, memoirist, novelist, and short story writer Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), playwright (The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard) and short story writer ("Ward No.

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