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See also: Category: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
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
A
- Bavasan Abiduev (1909β1940), poet and one of the founders of Buryat children's literature
- Alexander Ablesimov (1742β1783), opera librettist, poet, dramatist, satirist and journalist
- Fyodor Abramov (1920β1983), novelist and short story writer, Two Winters and Three Summers
- Grigory Adamov (1886β1945) science fiction writer, The Mystery of the Two Oceans
- Georgy Adamovich (1892β1972), poet, critic, memoirist, translator
- Anastasia Afanasieva (born 1982), physician, poet, writer & translator
- Alexander Afanasyev (1826β1871), folklorist who recorded and published over 600 Russian folktales and fairytales, Russian Fairy Tales
- Alexander Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky (1816β1875), poet, writer, ethnographer and translator
- Alexander Afinogenov (1904β1941), playwright, A Far Place
- M. Ageyev (1898β1973), pseudonymous writer, Novel with Cocaine
- Chinghiz Aitmatov (1928β2008), Kyrgyz novelist and short story writer, Jamilya, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
- David Aizman (1869β1922), Russian-Jewish writer and playwright
- Bella Akhmadulina (1937β2010), poet, short story writer, and translator, The String
- Anna Akhmatova (1889β1966), acmeist poet, Requiem, Poem Without a Hero
- Ivan Aksakov (1823β1886), journalist, slavophile
- Konstantin Aksakov (1817β1860), playwright, critic and writer, slavophile
- Sergey Aksakov (1791β1859), novelist and miscellaneous writer, The Scarlet Flower
- Vasily Aksyonov (1932β2009), novelist and short story writer, Generations of Winter
- Boris Akunin (born 1956), author, essayist, translator and literary critic, Erast Fandorin series, Sister Pelagia series
- Mikhail Albov, (1851β1911), novelist and short story writer
- Mark Aldanov (died 1957), historical novelist
- Andrey Aldan-Semenov (1908β1985), Gulag memoirist
- Mikhail Alekseyev (1918β2007) writer and editor, My Stalingrad
- Sholem Aleichem (1859β1916), Russian Jewish writer, Wandering Stars
- Margarita Aliger (1915β1992), poet, translator, and journalist, Zoya
- Yuz Aleshkovsky (1929β2022), writer, poet, playwright and performer of his own songs, Kangaroo
- Boris Almazov (1827β1876), poet, translator and literary critic
- Alexander Amfiteatrov (1862β1938), writer and historian, Napoleonder
- Daniil Andreyev (1906β1959), writer, poet, and Christian mystic, Roza Mira
- Leonid Andreyev (1871β1919), novelist, playwright and short story writer, The Seven Who Were Hanged, The Life of Man
- Sergey Andreyevsky (1847β1918), writer, poet, literary critic, The Book on Death
- Irakly Andronikov (1908β1990), writer, historian, philologist and media personality
- Anna Mitrofanovna AnΓchkova (1868/1869 β 1935), writer and translator who wrote under the pseudonym Ivan Strannik
- Pavel Annenkov (1813β1887), critic and memoirist, The Extraordinary Decade
- Yury Annenkov (1889β1974), artist and writer, A Tale of Trivia
- Innokenty Annensky (1855β1909), poet, critic and translator, representative of the first wave of Russian Symbolism
- Lev Anninsky (1934β2019) writer, literary historian and critic
- Pavel Antokolsky (1896β1978), poet, All We Who in His Name
- Maxim Antonovich (1835β1918), critic, essayist, memoirist, translator and philosopher
- Elena Apreleva (1846β1923), writer, memoirist, playwright, Guilty without Guilt
- Aleksey Apukhtin (1840β1893), poet and writer, From Death to Life
- Maria Arbatova (born 1957), novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet and journalist
- Aleksei Arbuzov (1908β1986), playwright, A Long Road
- Vladimir Arnoldi (1871β1924), children's author and professor of biology
- Mikhail Artsybashev (1878β1927), naturalist writer and playwright, Sanin
- Nikolai Aseev (1889β1963), futurist poet, Night Flute
- Viktor Astafyev (1924β2001), novelist and short story writer, Sad Detective
- Lera Auerbach (Averbakh) (born 1973), poet, writer and composer
- Mikhail Avdeev (1821β1876), novelist and playwright, Tamarin trilogy
- Arkady Averchenko (1881β1925), satirical writer and playwright, Ninochka
- Vasily Avseenko (1842β1913), writer, journalist and literary critic
- Hizgil Avshalumov (1913β2001), Soviet novelist, poet and playwright
- Gennadiy Aygi (1934β2006), Chuvash poet and translator
- Vasily Azhayev (1915β1968), novelist, Far from Moscow
B
- Semyon Babayevsky (1909β2000), novelist and short story writer, Golden Star Chavalier
- Isaak Babel (1894β1940), short story writer, The Odessa Tales, Red Cavalry
- Eduard Bagritsky (1895β1934), constructivist poet, February
- Grigory Baklanov (1923β2009), novelist and magazine editor, Forever Nineteen
- Ivan Bakhtin (1756β1818), poet, satirist and politician
- Mikhail Bakhtin (1895β1975), philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar, "Epic and Novel"
- Mikhail Bakunin (1814β1876), revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism, God and the State, Statism and Anarchy
- Konstantin Balmont (1867β1942), symbolist poet and translator, Burning Buildings, Let Us Be Like the Sun
- Jurgis BaltruΕ‘aitis (1873β1944), poet and translator, The Pendulum
- Kazimir Barantsevich (1851β1927), writer and poet, Family Hearth
- Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800β1844), poet, The Gipsy
- Natalya Baranskaya (1908β2004), novelist and short story writer, A Week Like Any Other
- Ivan Barkov (1732β1768), comic and erotic poet, Luka Mudischev
- Anna Barkova (1901β1976), poet and writer, Gulag survivor
- Elpidifor Barsov (1836β1917), literary historian, ethnographer, folklorist, philologist
- Agniya Barto (1906β1981), Russian-Jewish poet and children's writer
- Alexander Bashlachev (1960β1988), poet, musician, guitarist, and singer-songwriter
- Fyodor Batyushkov (1857β1920), philologist, essayist, literary and theatre historian
- Konstantin Batyushkov (1787β1855), poet, essayist and translator
- Nikolai Bazhin (1843β1908), writer, journalist and critic, The History of One People's Partnership
- Pavel Bazhov (1879β1950), fairy tale author, The Malachite Casket
- Demyan Bedny (1883β1945), poet and satirist, New Testament Without Defects
- Dmitry Begichev (1786β1855), writer and politician
- Alexander Bek (1903β1972), novelist, And Not to Die
- Ekaterina Beketova (1855β1892), poet, writer, and translator
- Vissarion Belinsky (1811β1848), writer, literary critic and philosopher
- Vasily Belov (1932β2012), writer, poet and dramatist, Eves, The Year of a Major Breakdown
- Andrei Bely (1880β1934), symbolist poet, writer and essayist, The Silver Dove, Petersburg
- Alexander Belyayev (1884β1942), science fiction author, Amphibian Man
- Vladimir Benediktov (1807β1873); poet and translator
- Nina Berberova (1901β1993), novelist and short story writer, The Book of Happiness
- Nikolai Berg (1823β1884), poet, journalist, translator and historian
- Olga Bergholz (1910β1975), poet, playwright and memoirist
- Alexander Bestuzhev (1797β1837), novelist, short story writer and Decembrist, An Evening on Bivouac
- Vitaly Bianki (1894β1959), nature and children's writer
- Aleksei Bibik (1878β1976), working-class novelist and short story writer
- Andrei Bitov (1937β2018), novelist and short story writer, Pushkin House
- Nikolai Blagoveshchensky (1837β1889), writer, journalist and biographer
- Helena Blavatsky (1831β1891), a founder of Theosophy and the Theosophical Society, The Secret Doctrine, Isis Unveiled
- Pyotr Blinov (1913β1942), Udmurt writer and journalist
- Alexander Blok (1880β1921), poet, "The Twelve"
- Pyotr Boborykin (1836β1921), writer, playwright and journalist, China Town
- Oleg Bogayev (born 1970), playwright, The Russian National Postal Service
- Andrei Bogdanov (1692β1766), bibliographer and ethnographer
- Alexander Bogdanov (1873β1928), novelist, physician, economist and philosopher, Red Star
- Vladimir Bogomolov (1926β2003), novelist and short story writer, Ivan
- Vladimir Bogoraz (1865β1936), revolutionary, writer and anthropologist
- Yuri Bondarev (1924β2020), novelist and short story writer, The Shore
- Leonid Borodin (1938β2011), novelist and journalist, The Story of a Strange Time
- Genrikh Borovik (born 1929), publicist, writer, playwright and filmmaker
- Vasily Botkin (1812β1869), critic, essayist and translator
- Valeri Brainin-Passek (born 1948), Russian/German musicologist, music manager, composer and poet
- Osip Brik (1888β1945), avant garde writer and literary critic
- Joseph Brodsky (1940β1996), poet and essayist, Nobel Prize Winner
- Valery Bryusov (1873β1924), poet, novelist and short story writer, The Fiery Angel
- Yury Buida (born 1954), novelist and short story writer, The Zero Train
- Vladimir Bukovsky (1942β2019), writer and dissident
- Mikhail Bulgakov (1891β1940), novelist, short story writer and playwright, Heart of a Dog, The White Guard, The Master and Margarita
- Faddey Bulgarin (1789β1859), Polish-born writer and journalist
- Kir Bulychev (1934β2003), science fiction author, Half a Life
- Ivan Bunin (1870β1953), first Russian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, The Village, The Life of Arseniev, Dark Avenues
- Anna Bunina (1774β1829), poet, Though Poverty's No Stain
- Viktor Burenin (1841β1926), writer, critic, playwright, librettist and satirical poet
- David Burliuk (1882β1967), illustrator, publicist and author associated with Russian Futurism
- Dmitry Bykov (born 1967)
- Pyotr Bykov (1844β1930) literary historian, poet and translator
- Vasil Bykov (1924β2003)
C
- Dimitrie Cantemir (1673β1723), philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer and geographer
- Catherine the Great, (1729β1796), patroness of the arts, music and theatre, and opera librettist, Fevey
- Pyotr Chaadayev (1794β1856), philosopher, Philosophical Letters
- Aleksey Chapygin (1870β1937), novelist and short story writer, Stepan Razin
- Lidia Charskaya (1875β1938), novelist and actress
- Nikolai Chayev (1824β1914), writer, poet and playwright, Svat Faddeyich
- Alexander Chekhov (1855β1913), writer and journalist
- Anton Chekhov (1860β1904), short story writer and playwright, The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, "Ward No. 6", The Lady with the Dog"
- Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828β1889), writer, journalist and politician, What Is to Be Done?
- Evgeny Chirikov (1864β1932), novelist, short story writer and playwright, The Magician
- Sasha Chorny (1880β1932), poet, satirist and children's writer
- Korney Chukovsky (1882β1969), children's poet, Wash'em'clean
- Lydia Chukovskaya (1907β1996), writer and poet, Sofia Petrovna
- Georgy Chulkov (1879β1939), poet, editor, writer and critic
D
- Denis Davydov (1784β1839), soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars
- Vladimir Dal (1801β1872), writer and lexicographer, Explanatory Dictionary
- Yuli Daniel (1925β1988), dissident writer, poet and translator, This is Moscow Speaking
- Grigory Danilevsky (1829β1890), historical and ethnographical novelist, Moscow in Flames
- Anton Delvig (1798β1831), poet, journalist and magazine editor
- Grigoriy Demidovtsev (born 1960), writer and playwright
- Andrey Dementyev (1928β2018), poet and writer
- Boris Derevensky (born 1962), writer and historian
- Regina Derieva (1949β2013), poet, writer and essayist
- Gavrila Derzhavin (1743β1816), poet and statesman, Let the Thunder of Victory Sound!
- Nikolai Devitte (1811β1844), poet, harpist and songwriter, Not for Me.
- Andrei Dmitriev (born 1956), novelist and short story writer, winner of the 2012 Russian Booker Prize
- Ivan Dmitriev (1760β1837), sentimentalist poet and Russian Minister of Justice
- Valentina Dmitryeva (1859β1947), writer, doctor and teacher, Hveska, the Doctor's Watchman
- Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836β1861), literary critic, journalist, poet and essayist
- Leonid Dobychin (1894β1936), novelist and short story writer, The Town of N
- Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky (1915β1994) poet and songwriter
- Yury Dombrovsky (1909β1978), poet, writer and Gulag survivor, The Faculty of Useless Knowledge
- Vlas Doroshevich (1864β1922), journalist, writer and drama critic, The Way of the Cross
- Lyubov Dostoyevskaya (1869β1926), novelist and biographer, The Emigrant
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821β1881), writer, essayist, journalist and editor, Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, The Brothers Karamazov, The House of the Dead, The Gambler, "White Nights", "A Gentle Creature", "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"
- Mikhail Dostoyevsky (1820β1864), writer, critic and editor, Vremya
- Sergei Dovlatov (1941β1990), novelist, short story writer and journalist, Affiliate
- Spiridon Drozhzhin (1848β1930), poet, At the Village Assembly
- Yulia Drunina (1924β1991), poet and politician
- Alexander Druzhinin (1824β1864), writer and magazine editor, Polinka Saks
- Vladimir Dudintsev (1918β1998), novelist, Not by Bread Alone
- Sergey Durov (1816β1869), poet, translator, writer, and political activist
- Nadezhda Durova (1783β1866), soldier and writer, The Cavalry Maiden
E
- Yevgeny Edelson (1824β1868), literary critic, essayist and translator
- Ilya Ehrenburg (1891β1967), novelist and WWII war correspondent, The Black Book, The Thaw
- Natan Eidelman (1930β1989), author, biographer and historian
- Grigory Eliseev (1821β1891) essayist, historian, editor, and publisher.
- Sergey Elpatyevsky (1854β1933), novelist and short story writer, Pity Me!
- Nikolai Engelhardt (1867β1942), writer, critic, poet, journalist and memoirist
- Asar Eppel (1935β2012), writer and translator, Red Caviar Sandwiches
- Nikolai Erdman (1900β1970), playwright, The Suicide
- Victor Erofeyev (born 1947), writer, literary critic and magazine editor, Russian Beauty
- Alexander Ertel (1855β1908), novelist and short story writer, A Greedy Peasant
- Mikhail Evstafiev (born 1963), artist, photographer and writer, Two Steps from Heaven
- Nikolai Evreinov (1879β1953), director, dramatist and theatre practitioner, The Storming of the Winter Palace
F
- Alexander Fadeyev (1901β1956), novelist, known for his war fiction, The Rout, The Young Guard
- Konstantin Fedin (1892β1977), novelist, Cities and Years
- Georgy Fedotov (1886β1951), religious philosopher, historian and essayist
- Afanasy Fet (1820β1892), poet and translator
- Vera Figner (1852β1942), revolutionary and writer, member of Narodnaya Volya
- Terty Filippov (1825β1899) folklorist, essayist, editor and pedagogue
- Dmitry Filosofov (1872β1940) essayist, critic, religious thinker, editor and political activist
- Konstantin Fofanov (1862β1911), poet, considered to be a precursor of the symbolists, Shadows and Mystery
- Denis Fonvizin (1744β1792), dramatist, The Minor
- Olga Forsh (1873β1961), writer, dramatist, memoirist and scenarist, Palace and Prison
- Ruvim Frayerman (1891β1972) writer, poet, essayist and journalist, Wild Dog Dingo
- Dmitry Furmanov (1891β1926), writer, known for his Russian Civil War novel Chapayev
G
- Cherubina de Gabriak (1887β1928), pseudonymous poet
- Arkady Gaidar (1904β1941), children's writer, Timur and His Squad
- Alexey Galakhov (1807β1892), writer, memoirist and literary historian, The History of Russian Literature
- Alexander Galich (1918β1977), poet, screenwriter, playwright and singer-songwriter
- Alisa Ganieva (pseudonym Gulla Khirachev) (born 1985), writer and essayist
- Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky (1852β1906), writer, essayist and engineer, Practical Training
- Vsevolod Garshin (1855β1888), short story writer, "Four Days", "The Red Flower"
- Aleksei Gastev (1882β1939), avant garde poet
- Gaito Gazdanov (1903β1971), novelist and short story writer, An Evening with Claire, The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
- Mikhail Gerasimov (1889β1939), working-class poet
- Yuri German (1910β1967), writer, playwright, screenwriter and journalist, The Cause You Serve
- Vladimir Gilyarovsky (1853β1935), writer and journalist, The Stories of the Slums
- Lidiya Ginzburg (1902β1990), literary critic and a survivor of the Siege of Leningrad, Blockade Diary
- Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904β1977), Gulag memoirist, Journey into the Whirlwind, Within the Whirlwind
- Zinaida Gippius (1869β1945), essayist, memoirist, writer, poet and playwright, The Green Ring
- Anatoly Gladilin (1935β2018), novelist, Moscow Racetrack
- Fyodor Gladkov (1883β1958), novelist and short story writer, Cement
- Nikolay Glazkov (1919β1979), poet, creator of the term "Samizdat"
- Fyodor Glinka (1786β1880), poet and playwright, Karelia
- Boris Glinsky (1860β1917) writer, publicist, publisher, editor and politician
- Dmitry Glukhovsky (born 1979), writer and journalist, Metro 2033
- Nikolay Gnedich (1784β1833), poet and translator, The Fishers
- Pyotr Gnedich (1855β1925), novelist, poet, playwright, translator, theatre entrepreneur and art historian
- Nikolai Gogol (1809β1852), writer and dramatist, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, The Government Inspector, Dead Souls
- Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov (1848β1913), poet, Songs and Dances of Death
- Boris Golovin (born 1955), singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist
- Ivan Goncharov (1812β1891), novelist, Oblomov
- Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936β2013), poet, translator and civil rights activist
- Ivan Gorbunov (1831β1896), writer and stage actor, The Scenes from People's Life
- Dmitry Gorchakov (1758β1824), poet, playwright and satirist
- Grigori Gorin (1940β2000), writer, playwright and screenwriter, The Very Same Munchhausen
- Maxim Gorky (1868β1936), novelist, short story writer and playwright, The Lower Depths, Mother, My Childhood. In the World. My Universities, The Life of Klim Samgin
- Nina Gorlanova (born 1947), novelist and short story writer
- Sergey Gorodetsky (1884β1967), poet, one of the founders of the acmeist school
- Daniil Granin (1919β2017), novelist, Those Who Seek
- Nikolay Gretsch (1787β1867), journalist, writer and magazine editor, Northern Bee
- Aleksander Griboyedov (1795β1828), dramatist and statesman, Woe from Wit
- Dmitry Grigorovich (1822β1900), novelist, The Fishermen
- Oleg Grigoriev (1943β1992), poet and artist
- Apollon Grigoryev (1822β1864), poet, literary and theatrical critic, translator and memoirist
- Alexander Grin (1880β1932), author of novels and stories set in Grinlandia, Scarlet Sails
- Isabella Grinevskaya (1864β1944), poet, writer and playwright
- Vasily Grossman (1905β1964), writer and war correspondent, Life and Fate
- Vitali Gubarev (1912β1981), journalist and writer
- Igor Guberman (born 1936), writer and satirical poet
- Semyon Gudzenko (1922β1953), poet of the World War II generation
- Lev Gumilev (1912β1992), historian, ethnologist and anthropologist
- Nikolay Gumilev (1886β1921), poet, founder of the acmeist movement
- Elena Guro (1877β1913), futurist writer and painter, The Hurdy-Gurdy
- Andrei Gusev (born 1952), writer and journalist, The World According to Novikoff
- Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky (1867β1963), novelist, The Land of the Fathers
H
- Yelena Hahn, writer for Biblioteka Dlya Chteniya and Otechestvennye Zapiski, mother of Helena Blavatsky
- Alexander Herzen (1812β1870), essayist, novelist, philosopher and magazine editor, Who is to Blame?
I
- Ilf and Petrov (Ilf 1897β1937) (Petrov 1903β1942), satirical writers, The Twelve Chairs, The Little Golden Calf
- Vera Inber (1890β1972), poet and writer, Lalla's Interests
- Mikhail Isakovsky (1900β1973), poet and songwriter, Katyusha
- Fazil Iskander, (1929β2016), Abkhaz writer, Sandro of Chegem
- Alexei Ivanov (born 1969), novelist and screenwriter
- Georgy Ivanov (1894β1958), poet and essayist, Disintegration of the Atom
- Vsevolod Ivanov (1895β1963), writer and plawright, Armoured Train 14-69
- Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866β1949), poet, playwright, philosopher, translator and literary critic
- Yuri Ivask (1907β1986), poet, essayist, literary critic and historian
- Ryurik Ivnev (1891β1981), poet, novelist and translator
- Sergey Izgiyayev (1922β1972), poet, playwright and translator
- Alexander Izmaylov (1779β1831), fabulist, poet and novelist
K
- Gavril Kamenev (1772β1803), poet, writer and translator
- Vasily Kamensky (1884β1961), poet, playwright and artist, one of the first Russian aviators
- Antiochus Kantemir (1708β1744), writer and poet, On the Envy and Pride of Evil-Minded Courtiers
- Nikolay Karamzin (1766β1826), poet, writer and historian, Poor Liza
- Alexander Karasyov (born 1971), writer, Russian War Prose
- Pyotr Karatygin (1805β1879), playwright, actor and memoirist
- Nikolay Karazin (1842β1908), painter and writer, The Two-Legged Wolf
- Nikolay Karonin-Petropavlovsky (1853β1892), narodnik writer, First Storm
- Evtikhy Pavlovich Karpov (1857β1926), playwright and theatre director
- Vladimir Karpov (1922β2010), novelist and magazine editor, The Commander
- Vasily Kapnist (1758β1823), poet and playwright, Chicane
- Lev Kassil (1905β1970), writer of juvenile and young adult literature
- Ivan Kataev (1902β1937), novelist and short story writer, Immortality
- Valentin Kataev (1897β1986), writer and playwright, Time, Forward!
- Pavel Katenin (1792β1853), classicist poet, dramatist and literary critic
- Mikhail Katkov (1818β1887), journalist and publicist, Moscow News
- Veniamin Kaverin (1902β1989), novelist, The Two Captains
- Emmanuil Kazakevich (1913β1962), writer, poet and playwright, The Blue Notebook
- Yury Kazakov (1927β1982), short story writer, Going To Town
- Rimma Kazakova (1932β2008), poet, Let's Meet in the East
- Dmitri Kedrin (1907β1945), poet, Confession
- Yuri Khanon (born 1965), novelist and eccentric, Skryabin As a Face
- Mark Kharitonov (born 1937), writer, poet, and translator, Lines of Fate
- Yevgeny Kharitonov (1941β1981), writer, poet, playwright and theater director
- Daniil Kharms (1905β1942), novelist, short story writer and playwright, The Old Woman, Incidences, Elizaveta Bam
- Ivan Khemnitser (1745β1784), satirical poet, The Rich Man and the Poor Man
- Mikhail Kheraskov (1733β1807), poet, writer and playwright, Vladimir Reborn
- Velimir Khlebnikov (1885β1922), futurist poet and author, Incantation by Laughter
- Nikolai Khmelnitsky (1789β1845), playwright, literary critic and translator, Chatterbox
- Vladislav Khodasevich (1886β1939), poet and literary critic
- Aleksey Khomyakov (1804β1860), poet, co-founder of the slavophile movement
- Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya (1824β1889), writer, critic and translator, The Boarding-School Girl
- Ivan Kireyevsky (1806β1856), writer, co-founder of the slavophile movement
- Dmitry Khvostov (1757β1835), poet and fabulist
- Vladimir Kirshon (1902β1938), playwright, The Miraculous Alloy
- Marusya Klimova (born 1961), writer and translator
- Daniel Kluger (born 1951), author and songwriter
- Nikolai Klyuev (1884β1937), peasant poet, A Northern Poem
- Viktor Klyushnikov (1841β1892), writer, editor and journalist, The Haze
- Yakov Knyazhnin (1740/42β1791), playwright, poet and translator, The Braggart
- Vsevolod Kochetov (1912β1973), novelist and journalist, The Zhurbin Family
- Pavel Kogan (1918β1942), poet and military interpreter
- Ivan Kokorev (1825β1853), short story writer and essayist
- Alexandra Kollontai (1872β1952), writer, feminist and important political figure, Love of Worker Bees
- Aleksey Koltsov (1809β1842), poet, An Old Man's Song
- Mikhail Koltsov (1898β1940/42), journalist and satirist
- Fyodor Koni (1809β1889), dramatist, theatre critic, literary historian, editor and memoirist
- Evgenia Konradi (1838β1898), essayist, journalist, writer, and women's education advocate
- Lev Kopelev (1912β1997), writer, journalist and dissident
- Apollon Korinfsky (1868β1937), writer, poet, essayist, translator and memoirist
- Oleksandr Korniychuk (1905β1972), playwright, literary critic and state official, In the Steppes of Ukraine
- Vladimir Korolenko (1853β1921), writer and memoirist, The Blind Musician
- Nestor Kotlyarevsky (1863β1925), writer, publicist, literary critic and historian, The Nineteenth Century
- Arkady Kots (1872β1943), poet and translator, Proletarian Songs
- Yury Koval (1938β1995), writer and artist
- Sofia Kovalevskaya (1859β1891), writer and mathematician, Nihilist Girl
- Vadim Kozhevnikov (1909β1984), novelist and short story writer, Shield and Sword
- Nadezhda Kozhevnikova (born 1949), writer and journalist, Attorney Alexandra Tikhonovna
- Ivan Kozlov (1779β1840), poet and translator, The Monk
- Eugene Kozlovsky (born 1946), writer, journalist, theatre director and film director
- Vasili Krasovsky (1782β1824), poet, Scrolls of the Muse
- Andrey Krayevsky (1810β1889), journalist, publicist, publisher and editor, Otechestvennye Zapiski
- Vsevolod Krestovsky (1840β1895), writer, Knights of Industry
- Peter Kropotkin (1842β1921), writer and anarchist theorist, In Russian and French Prisons
- Aleksei Kruchenykh (1886β1968), futurist poet, co-creator of the literary concept "Zaum"
- Vladimir Krupin (born 1941), writer, editor and religious author, Aqua Vitae
- Ivan Krylov (1769β1844), major fabulist and dramatist
- Gleb Krzhizhanovsky (1872β1959), poet, author of the Russian version of the Warszawianka
- Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887β1950), short story writer, Quadraturin
- Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954), poet and novelist
- Pyotr Kudryavtsev (1816β1858), writer, historian, literary critic, philologist and journalist
- Nestor Kukolnik (1809β1868), playwright, poet and librettist, A Life for the Tsar
- Aleksandr Kuprin (1870β1938), novelist and short story writer, The Duel
- Wilhelm KΓΌchelbecker (1797β1846), poet and magazine editor, Mnemozina
- Nikolai Kurochkin (1830β1884), poet, editor, translator and essayist
- Vasily Kurochkin (1831β1875), satirical poet, journalist and translator
- Vladimir Kurochkin (1829β1885), dramatist, translator, editor and publisher
- Ivan Kushchevsky (1847β1876), novelist and short story writer, Nikolai Negorev
- Alexander Kushner (born 1936), poet and essayist, The First Impression
- Dmitry Kuzmin (born 1968), poet, critic and publisher
- Mikhail Kuzmin (1872β1936), poet and novelist, Wings
- Anatoly Kuznetsov (1929β1979), novelist, Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel
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- Lazar Lagin (1903β1979), satirist and children's writer, Old Khottabych
- Yuri Laptev (1903β1984), writer and journalist, Zarya
- Yulia Latynina (born 1966), writer and journalist, The Insider
- Boris Lavrenyov (1891β1959), writer and playwright, Such a Simple Thing
- Pyotr Lavrov (1823β1900), prominent theorist of narodism, philosopher, publicist and sociologist.
- Ivan Lazhechnikov (1792β1869), historical novelist, The Heretic
- Vasily Lebedev-Kumach (1898β1949), poet and lyricist, Serdtse
- Anatoly Leman (1859β1913), writer and editor, The Gentry's Tale
- Vladimir Lenin (1870β1924), revolutionary and Marxist theoretician and publicist
- Leonid Leonov (1899β1994), major novelist and short story writer, The Thief
- Konstantin Leontiev (1831β1891), philosopher and essayist
- Mikhail Lermontov (1814β1841), major poet, playwright and novelist, A Hero of Our Time
- Nikolai Leskov (1831β1895), novelist, short story writer and journalist, Lady Macbeth of the Mtensk District, The Cathedral Clergy, The Enchanted Wanderer
- Alexander Levitov (1835β1877), short story writer, Leatherhide the Cobbler
- Nikolay Leykin (1841β1906), writer and publisher, Fragments Magazine
- Vladimir Lichutin (born 1940), writer and essayist
- Mikhail Lifshitz (1905β1983), Marxian literary critic and philosopher of art
- Viktor Likhonosov (1936β2021), writer and editor, Unwritten Memoirs. Our Little Paris.
- Eduard Limonov (1943β2020), writer and dissident, It's Me, Eddie
- Dmitri Lipskerov (born 1964), writer and playwright, The Forty Years of Changzhoeh
- Mirra Lokhvitskaya (1869β1905), poet and playwright
- Mikhail Lomonosov (1711β1765), polymath, scientist, writer and linguistic reformer
- Vladimir Lugovskoy (1901β1957), constructivist poet
- Sergey Lukyanenko (born 1968), popular science-fiction and fantasy author, The Stars Are Cold Toys
- Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875β1933), journalist and publicist
- Lev Lunts (1901β1924), writer, playwright, essayist and critic, member of the Serapion Brothers
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- Grigori Machtet (1852β1901), novelist, short story writer and poet
- Vladimir Makanin (1937β2017), novelist and short story writer, Antileader
- Sergey Malitsky (born 1962), fantasy fiction writer
- Aleksandr Malyshkin (1892β1938), novelist and prose writer
- Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak (1852β1912), novelist, The Privalov Fortune
- Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899β1980), writer and memoirist, Hope Against Hope, Hope Abandoned
- Osip Mandelstam (1891β1938), poet and writer, member of the acmeist school, The Stone
- Anatoly Marienhof (1897β1962), novelist, poet and playwright, A Novel Without Lies
- Alexandra Marinina (born 1957), writer of detective stories
- Evgeny Markov (1835β1903), writer, critic and ethnographer, Black Earth Field
- Georgi Markov (1911β1991), novelist, screenwriter, playwright
- Maria Markova (born 1982), poet
- Boleslav Markevich (1822β1884), writer, essayist, journalist, literary critic and translator
- Samuil Marshak (1887β1964), writer, translator and children's poet, The Twelve Months
- Vladilen Mashkovtsev (1929β1997), poet, writer and journalist
- Mikhail Matinsky (1750β1820), scientist, dramatist, librettist and opera composer.
- Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893β1930), futurist poet, writer and playwright, Mystery-Bouffe
- Apollon Maykov (1821β1897), poet and translator
- Valerian Maykov (1823β1847), literary critic, brother of Apollon Maykov
- Vasily Maykov (1728β1778), poet, fabulist, playwright and translator
- Lev Mei (1822β1862), poet and playwright, The Tsar's Bride
- Pavel Melnikov (1818β1883), ethnographical novelist, In the Forests
- Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1866β1941), poet and novelist, Christ and Antichrist
- Aleksey Merzlyakov (1778β1830), poet, critic, translator and professor
- Arvo Mets (1937β1997), poet and translator, Resemblance
- Alexander Mezhirov (1923β2009), poet, translator and critic
- Sergey Mikhalkov (1913β2009), children's writer, satirist and songwriter, author of the National Anthem of the Soviet Union
- Nikolay Mikhaylovsky (1842β1904), publicist, literary critic, sociologist and narodnik theoretician
- Dmitry Minayev (1835β1889), satirical poet, journalist, translator and literary critic
- Nikolai Minsky (1855β1937), poet, writer and translator, From the Gloom to the Light
- Boris Mozhayev (1923β1996), writer, playwright, script-writer and editor, Alive
- Daniil Mordovtsev (1830β1905), writer and historian of Ukrainian descent
- Yunna Morits (born 1937), poet and artist, The Vine
- Sergey Mstislavsky (1876β1943), writer, dramatist, publicist, anthropologist, editor and political activist
- Viktor Muyzhel (1880β1924), writer and painter
- Viktor Muravin (born 1929), novelist, The Diary of Vikenty Angarov
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- Vladimir Nabokov (1899β1977), poet and novelist, wrote first in Russian, then in English, author of Lolita
- Nikolai Nadezhdin (1804β1856), literary critic and ethnographer
- Semyon Nadson (1862β1887), poet, Pity the Stately Cypress Trees
- Yuri Nagibin (1920β1994), novelist, short story writer and screenwriter
- Vladimir Narbut (1888β1938), acmeist poet and magazine editor
- Vasily Narezhny (1780β1825), novelist, A Russian Gil Blas
- Sergey Narovchatov (1919β1981), writer and magazine editor, Novy Mir
- Nikolai Naumov, (1838β1901), essayist and short story writer, Cobweb
- Filipp Nefyodov (1838β1902), writer, journalist, editor, ethnographer and archeologist, Among People
- Nikolay Nekrasov (1821β1878), major poet and magazine editor, Who Can be Happy and Free in Russia?
- Viktor Nekrasov (1911β1987), novelist, Front-line Stalingrad
- Viktor Nekipelov (1928β1989), poet, writer and dissident
- Miroslav Nemirov (1961β2016), poet and songwriter
- Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko (1845β1936), novelist, essayist and war correspondent
- Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858β1943), theatre director, writer and playwright, co-founder of the Moscow Art Theatre
- LΓΆb Nevakhovich (1776/78β1831), Russia-Jewish writer and playwright
- Alexander Neverov (1886β1923), writer and playwright, City of Bread
- Friedrich Neznansky (1932β2013), crime novelist, Red Square
- Ivan Nikitin (1824β1861), poet and writer, Kulak
- Nikolai Nikolev (1758β1815), poet and playwright
- Pavel Nilin (1908β1981), writer, journalist and playwright, Man Goes Uphill
- Nikolay Nosov (1908β1976), children's writer, Neznaika
- Yevgeny Nosov (1925β2002), writer, Usvyat Warriors
- Osip Notovich (1849β1914), publisher, playwright and essayist
- Alexey Novikov-Priboy (1877β1944), novelist and short story writer, The Captain
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- Vladimir Obruchev (1863β1956), science fiction writer, Sannikov Land
- Alexander Odoevsky (1802β1839), poet and playwright, activist of the Decembrist Revolt
- Vladimir Odoevsky (1803β1869), philosopher, writer, music critic, philanthropist and pedagogue, The Living Corpse
- Irina Odoyevtseva (1895β1990), poet, novelist and memoirist
- Nikolay Ogarev (1813β1877), poet, historian and political activist
- Bulat Okudzhava (1924β1997), poet, writer and singer-songwriter, The Art of Needles and Sins
- Yury Olesha (1899β1960), novelist and short story writer, Envy
- Nikolay Oleynikov (1898β1937), editor, avant-garde poet and playwright
- Vladimir Orlov (author) (1936β2014), novelist
- Mikhail Osorgin (1878β1942), journalist, novelist, short story writer and essayist
- Sergey Ostrovoy (1911β2005), poet, author of lyrics to many popular Soviet songs
- Alexander Ostrovsky (1823β1886), major playwright, The Storm
- Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904β1936), socialist realist writer, How the Steel Was Tempered
- Valentin Ovechkin (1904β1968), writer, playwright, journalist and war correspondent, Greetings from the Front
- Vladislav Ozerov (1769β1816), playwright, Dmitry Donskoy
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- Marina Palei (born 1955), scriptwriter, publicist, novelist and translator, Rendezvous
- Alexander Palm (1822β1885), poet, novelist and playwright, Petrashevsky Circle member, Alexey Slobodin
- Liodor Palmin (1841β1891), poet, translator and journalist
- Ivan Panaev (1812β1862), writer, critic and publisher/editor of Sovremennik magazine
- Avdotya Panaeva (1820β1893), novelist, short story writer and memoirist
- Vera Panova (1905β1973), novelist, short story writer, journalist and playwright, Seryozha
- Valentin Parnakh (1891β1951), poet, translator, choreographer and musician, founder of Russian jazz music
- Sophia Parnok (1885β1933), poet, playwright and translator
- Andrei Parshev (born 1955), political writer
- Boris Pasternak (1890β1960), poet and novelist, not permitted by the Soviet Union to accept the Nobel Prize, Doctor Zhivago
- Pyotr Patrushev (1942β2016), writer and dissident
- Konstantin Paustovsky (1892β1968), writer, Nobel Prize nominee, Story of a Life
- Pyotr Pavlenko (1899β1951), writer, Happiness
- Oleg Pavlov (1970β2018), novelist and short story writer
- Karolina Pavlova (1807β1893), poet and novelist, A Double Life
- Vladimir Pecherin (1807β1885), poet and writer, Notes from Beyond the Tomb
- Victor Pelevin (born 1962), modern writer, Omon Ra
- Yakov Perelman (1882β1942), science writer, Physics for Entertainment
- Pyotr Pertsov (1868β1947), publisher, editor, literary critic, journalist and memoirist
- Nick Perumov (born 1963), fantasy and science fiction writer
- Pyotr Petrov (1827β1891), writer, arts historian, genealogist and bibliographer, The Tsar's Judgement
- Mariya Petrovykh (1908β1979), poet and translator
- Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (born 1938), modern writer and playwright, The Time: Night
- Valentin Pikul (1928β1990), novelist, At the Last Frontier
- Boris Pilnyak (1894β1938), novelist, The Naked Year
- Dmitry Pisarev (1840β1868), critic and publicist
- Aleksey Pisemsky (1821β1881), novelist and dramatist, A Bitter Fate
- Andrei Platonov (1899β1951), novelist, short story writer and playwright, Chevengur, The Foundation Pit
- Georgi Plekhanov (1857β1918), writer, revolutionary and Marxist theoretician
- Aleksey Pleshcheyev (1825β1893), radical poet, Step Forward! Without Fear or Doubt
- Pyotr Pletnyov (1792β1866), poet, dedicatee of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
- Mikhail Pogodin (1800β1875), historian and journalist
- Nikolai Pogodin (1900β1962), playwright, journalist and magazine editor
- Antony Pogorelsky (1787β1837), fantasy fiction writer, Dvoinik
- Evgeny Pogozhev (1870β1931), religious writer, essayist and journalist (pen name E. Poselyanin)
- Konstantin Podrevsky (1888β1930), poet, translator, lyricist, Dorogoi dlinnoyu
- Boris Polevoy (1908β1981), writer and journalist, The Story of a Real Man
- Ksenofont Polevoy (1801β1867), writer, literary critic, journalist, publisher and translator
- Nikolai Polevoy (1796β1846), writer, historian and magazine editor, The Moscow Telegraph
- Pyotr Polevoy (1839β1902), writer, playwright, translator, critic and literary historian
- Alexander Polezhayev (1804β1838), satirical poet, Sashka
- Elizaveta Polonskaya (1890β1969), poet, translator, and journalist, the only female member of the Serapion Brothers
- Leonid Polonsky (1833β1913), writer, journalist, editor and publisher, Mad Musician
- Yakov Polonsky (1819β1898), poet, Georgian Night
- Nikolay Pomyalovsky (1835β1863), novelist and short story writer, Seminary Sketches
- Mikhail Popov (1742β1790), writer, poet, dramatist and opera librettist, Anyuta
- Nikolay Popovsky (1730β1760), poet and translator
- Vasili Popugaev (1778/79β1816), poet, novelist and translator
- Oleg Postnov (born 1962), novelist and translator
- Ignaty Potapenko (1856β1929), writer and playwright, A Russian Priest
- Michael Prawdin (1894β1970), historical writer
- Alexander Preys (1905β1942), playwright and librettist, The Nose
- Dmitri Prigov (1940β2007), writer and artist, Live in Moscow
- Zakhar Prilepin (born 1975), writer and dissident, member of the National Bolshevik Party
- Maria Prilezhayeva (1903β1989), children's writer, The Life of Lenin
- Mikhail Prishvin (1873β1954), journalist and writer
- Valentyn Prodaievych (born 1960), journalist and writer, lives in Florida
- Alexander Prokhanov (born 1938), writer and newspaper editor, Empire's Last Soldier
- Alexander Prokofyev (1900β1971), poet and war correspondent
- Iosif Prut (1900β1996), playwright and screenwriter
- Kozma Prutkov (1803β1863), satirist, pseudonym of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy and his cousins
- Alexander Pushkin (1799β1837), poet, novelist and dramatist, Eugene Onegin
- Vasily Pushkin (1766β1830), poet, uncle of Alexander Pushkin
- Konstantin Pyatnitsky (1864β1938), journalist, publisher and memoirist
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- Alexander Radishchev (1749β1802), radical writer and social critic, Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow
- Edvard Radzinsky (born 1936), writer, playwright, TV personality, screenwriter and historian
- Vladimir Rayevsky (1795β1872), poet and Decembrist
- Valentin Rasputin (1937β2015), novelist, Farewell to Matyora
- Irina Ratushinskaya (1954β2017) dissident poet and writer, Grey is the Color of Hope
- Razumnik Ivanov-Razumnik (1878β1946), writer, philosopher and literary critic
- Yevgeny Rein (born 1935), poet and writer, The Names of Bridges
- Vera Reznik (born 1944), writer, translator and literary scholar
- Aleksey Remizov (1877β1957), modernist writer, calligrapher and folklore enthusiast, The Clock, Sisters of the Cross
- Fyodor Reshetnikov (1841β1871), novelist, The Podlipnayans
- Mikhail Rosenheim (1820β1887), poet, editor, publicist and translator
- Robert Rozhdestvensky (1932β1994), poet, Flags of Spring
- Helena Roerich (1879β1949), philosopher, writer and public figure
- Nicholas Roerich (1874β1947), painter, philosopher, scientist, writer, traveler and public figure
- Konstantin Romanov (1858β1915), poet and playwright, The King of the Jews
- Panteleimon Romanov (1884β1938), writer, Without Bird-Cherry Blossoms
- Mikhail Roshchin (1933β2010), playwright, screenwriter and short story writer
- Yevdokiya Rostopchina (1811β1858), poet and writer, Forced Marriage
- Vasily Rozanov (1856β1919), writer and philosopher
- Robert Rozhdestvensky (1932β1994), poet, Flags of Spring
- Dina Rubina (born 1953), novelist and short story writer, The Blackthorn
- Anatoly Rybakov (1911β1998), novelist, Children of the Arbat
- Vladimir Rybakov (1947β2018), novelist and journalist, The Afghans: A Novella of Soviet Soldiers in Afghanistan
- Vyacheslav Rybakov (born 1954), science fiction author and orientalist, The Trial Sphere
- Maria Rybakova (born 1973), novelist and short story writer
- Pavel Rybnikov (1831β1885), ethnographer, folklorist and literary historian
- Kondraty Ryleyev (1795β1826), poet, publisher and a leader of the Decembrist Revolt
- Yuri Rytkheu (1930β2008), Chukchi writer, A Dream in Polar Fog
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- Irina Saburova (1907β1979), writer, poet, translator, and magazine editor
- Dmitry Sadovnikov (1847β1883), poet, folklorist and ethnographer, "Iz-za ostrova na strezhen"
- Boris Sadovskoy (1881β1952), poet, writer and literary critic
- German Sadulaev (born 1973), Chechen writer, I am a Chechen!
- Evgeny Salias De Tournemire (1840β1908), writer, The Krutoyar Princess
- Ilya Salov (1834β1902), writer, playwright and translator, Butuzka
- Yuri Samarin (1819β1876), publicist and critic
- Vladimir Sanin (1928β1989), writer of travel fiction
- Genrikh Sapgir (1928β1999), poet and novelist
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826β1889), novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist, The History of a Town, The Golovlyov Family
- Boris Savinkov (1879β1925), writer and revolutionary terrorist, What Never Happened
- Feodosy Savinov (1865β1915), poet, Rodnoye
- Ilya Selvinsky (1899β1968), poet, leader of the constructivist school
- Sergey Semyonov (1868β1922), peasant writer, Gluttons
- Yulian Semyonov (1931β1993), writer of spy fiction and crime fiction, Seventeen Instants of Spring
- Osip Senkovsky (1800β1858), Polish-Russian orientalist, journalist, writer and entertainer.
- Alexander Serafimovich (1863β1949), writer, The Iron Flood
- Andrey Sergeev (1933β1998), poet, translator and writer
- Sergei Sergeyev-Tsensky (1875β1958), writer and academician, Brusilov's Breakthrough
- Efraim Sevela (1928β2010), writer, screenwriter, director and producer
- Igor Severyanin (1887β1941), ego futurist poet, The Cup of Thunder
- Marietta Shaginyan (1888β1982), writer of Armenian descent, Mess-Mend
- Alexander Shakhovskoy (1777β1846) playwright, writer, poet, librettist and critic, The New Stern
- Varlam Shalamov (1907β1982), short story writer and poet, Kolyma Tales
- Olga Shapir (1850β1916), writer and feminist, The Settlement
- Pyotr Shchebalsky (1810β1886), critic, editor and literary historian
- Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874β1952), poet, writer, playwright and translator, Deborah
- Vladimir Shchiglev (1840β1903), satirical poet and playwright
- Stepan Shchipachev (1889β1980), poet, Lines of Love
- Vadim Shefner (1915β2002), poet and writer
- Alexander Sheller (1838β1900), writer, poet and essayist, Putrid Moors
- Nikolay Sherbina (1821β1869), poet, To the Sea
- Vadim Shershenevich (1893β1942), futurist poet, writer and screenwriter, A Kiss From Mary Pickford
- Stepan Shevyryov (1806β1864), poet, writer, critic and philologist
- Mikhail Shishkin (born 1961), modern writer, The Taking of Izmail
- Vyacheslav Shishkov (1873β1945), writer, known for his descriptions of Siberia
- Maria Shkapskaya (1891β1952), poet and journalist
- Ivan Shmelyov (1873β1950), novelist, The Sun of the Dead
- Mikhail Sholokhov (1905β1984), Nobel Prizeβwinning writer, And Quiet Flows the Don
- Gennady Shpalikov (1937β1974), poet and screenwriter, I Step Through Moscow
- Nikolai Shpanov (1896β1961), author
- Vasily Shukshin (1929β1974), actor, writer, screenwriter and movie director, Roubles in Words, Kopeks in Figures
- Pavel Shumil (born 1957), science fiction author
- Evgeny Shvarts (1896β1958), writer, playwright and screenwriter, The Dragon
- Konstantin Simonov (1915β1979), novelist and poet, "Wait for Me"
- Andrei Sinyavsky (1925β1997), writer, publisher and dissident, Fantastic Stories
- Alexander Skabichevsky (1838β1911), writer and literary critic
- Stepan Skitalets (1869β1941), poet and writer, The Love of a Scene Painter
- Tim Skorenko (born 1983), writer, poet, singer-songwriter, and journalist.
- Victor Skumin (born 1948), writer and magazine editor
- Olga Slavnikova (born 1957), novelist and literary critic
- Vasily Sleptsov (1836β1878), novelist, short story writer and playwright, Hard Times, "The Ward"
- Konstantin Sluchevsky (1837β1904), poet and magazine editor
- Boris Slutsky (1919β1986), representative of the War generation of Russian poets
- Nikolai Snessarev (1856β1928), publicist, writer, literary critic and politician
- Sofia Soboleva (1840β1884), writer and journalist, Pros and Cons
- Anatoly Sofronov (1911β1990), writer, poet, playwright, scriptwriter, editor and literary administrator, The Cookie
- Sasha Sokolov (born 1943), novelist, A School for Fools
- Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov (1882β1975), author, journalist and short-story writer, Childhood
- Vladimir Sollogub (1813β1882), writer and poet, The Snowstorm
- Fyodor Sologub (1863β1927), symbolist poet, playwright and novelist, The Petty Demon
- Vladimir Soloukhin (1924β1997), writer, journalist and poet, Verdict
- Leonid Solovyov (1906β1962), writer and playwright, Tale of Hodja Nasreddin
- Vladimir Solovyov (1853β1900), philosopher, poet, pamphleteer and literary critic
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918β2008), Nobel Prizeβwinning writer, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Gulag Archipelago
- Orest Somov (1793β1833), writer, journalist, literary critic and translator, Mommy and Sonny
- Vladimir Sorokin (born 1955), popular postmodern writer and dramatist
- Konstantin Staniukovich (1843β1903), sea stories writer, Maximka
- Mikhail Stasyulevich (1826β1911), writer, literary historian, editor and publisher
- Vladimir Stavsky (1900β1943), writer, editor and literary administrator, Fighting for Motherland
- Alexander Stein (1906β1993), writer, playwright, scriptwriter and memoirist
- Ksenya Stepanycheva (born 1978), playwright, Pink Bow
- Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky (1851β1895), writer, publicist and revolutionary, King Stork and King Log
- Fyodor Stepun (1884β1965), Russian-German writer, philosopher, historian and sociologist
- Dmitry Strelnikov (born 1969), poet, essayist and novelist
- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Arkady 1925β1991) (Boris 1933β2012), science fiction writers, Hard to Be a God
- Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817β1903), playwright, Scenes from the Past
- Alexander Sumarokov (1717β1777), early poet and playwright
- Ivan Surikov (1841β1880), peasant poet
- Alexey Surkov (1899β1983), poet, editor, literary critic, "Zemlyanka"
- Mikhail Sushkov (1775β1792), writer, The Russian Werther
- Alexei Suvorin (1834β1912), publisher and journalist
- Viktor Suvorov (born 1947), writer and historian
- Fyodor Svarovsky (born 1971), poet
- Mikhail Svetlov (1903β1964), poet and journalist, Song of Kakhovka
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- Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (1891β1968), poet, playwright, translator and children's writer
- Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov (1885β1938), writer, Chocolate
- Arseny Tarkovsky (1907β1989), poet and translator
- Valery Tarsis (1906β1983), novelist and dissident, Ward 7
- Nadezhda Teffi (1872β1952), humorist writer, All About Love
- Nikolay Teleshov (1867β1957), writer and memoirist, organizer of the Moscow Sreda
- Vladimir Tendryakov (1923β1984), novelist and short story writer, Three, Seven, Ace
- Yuri Terapiano (1892β1980), poet, writer, translator, literary critic and historian
- Sergey Terpigorev (1841β1895), writer and essayist
- Nikolai Tikhonov (1896β1979), writer and poet, member of the Serapion Brothers
- Vladislav Titov (1934β1987), novelist who lost both arms in a coal mine accident, Defying Death
- Pyotr Tkachev (1844β1886), publicist, writer and critic
- Viktoriya Tokareva (born 1937), screenwriter and short story writer
- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817β1875), poet, dramatist and novelist, The Death of Ivan the Terrible
- Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1882β1945), novelist and science fiction writer, The Garin Death Ray
- Ilya Tolstoy (1866β1933), author of a memoir about his father Leo Tolstoy
- Leo Tolstoy (1828β1910) novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist and public figure, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Resurrection, Hadji Murat
- Tatyana Tolstaya (born 1951), writer, TV host, publicist, novelist and essayist
- Edward Topol (born 1938), novelist and journalist, Red Square
- Sergey Trakhimenok (born 1950), novelist, playwrights, screenwriter and short story writer, detective story writer
- Vasily Trediakovsky (1703β1768), poet, essayist and playwright
- Konstantin Trenyov (1876β1945), playwright and short story writer, Lyubov Yarovaya
- Sergei Tretyakov (1892β1937), playwright, I Want a Baby
- Yury Trifonov (1925β1981), novelist and short story writer, The House on the Embankment
- Gavriil Troyepolsky (1905β1995), novelist, White Bim Black Ear
- Mikhail Tsetlin (1882β1945), poet, playwright, novelist, memoirist and translator
- Marina Tsvetaeva (1892β1941), poet and essayist, The Rat-Catcher
- Alexei Tsvetkov (born 1947), poet, novelist and journalist
- Nikolai Tsyganov (1797β1832), poet, folklorist, singer and actor, Russian Songs
- Evgenia Tur (1815β1892), writer, critic, journalist and publisher, Antonina
- Sergey Turbin (1821β1884), playwright and journalist
- Ivan Turgenev (1818β1883), novelist and playwright, A Sportsman's Sketches, Home of the Gentry, Fathers and Sons
- Veronika Tushnova (1911β1965), poet and translator, Memory of the Heart
- Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910β1971), poet, war correspondent and editor of Novy Mir, Vasily Tyorkin
- Yury Tynyanov (1894β1943), writer, literary critic, translator, scholar and screenwriter
- Fyodor Tyutchev (1803β1873), poet, The Last Love
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- Vladimir Uflyand (1937β2007), poet, The Working Week Comes To An End
- Pavel Ulitin (1918β1986), writer
- Lyudmila Ulitskaya (born 1943), novelist and short-story writer, Medea and Her Children
- Alexander Urusov (1843β1900), literary critic, translator, lawyer and philanthropist
- Eduard Uspensky (1937β2018), children's writer, Cheburashka series
- Gleb Uspensky (1843β1902), novelist, short story writer and essayist, The Power of the Land
- Nikolay Uspensky (1837β1889), short story writer, A Good Existence
- Iosif Utkin (1903β1944), poet and journalist, Dear Childhood
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- Konstantin Vaginov (1899β1934), poet and novelist, Goat Song, The Works and Days of Svistonov
- Pyotr Valuyev (1815β1890), statesman, novelist, poet and essayist
- Alexander Vampilov (1937β1972), playwright, Elder Son
- Mikhail Veller (born 1948), writer and journalist, The Guru
- Alexander Veltman (1800β1870), writer, one of the pioneers of Russian science fiction
- Dmitry Venevitinov (1805β1827), philosophical poet
- Anastasiya Verbitskaya (1861β1928), novelist, playwright, screenplay writer, publisher and feminist, The Keys to Happiness
- Vikenty Veresaev (1867β1945), writer and medical doctor, Memoirs of a Physician
- Lidia Veselitskaya (1857β1936), writer, translator and memoirist, Mimi's Marriage
- Sergey Vikulov (1922β2006), poet, essayist, memoirist and editor, Nash Sovremennik
- Tony Vilgotsky (born 1980), horror and fantasy writer, columnist
- Nikolai Virta (1906β1976), writer and playwright, Alone
- Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900β1951), playwright, Optimistic Tragedy
- Igor Vishnevetsky (born 1964), poet and music historian
- Georgi Vladimov (1931β2003), dissident writer, Faithful Ruslan
- Dmitry Vodennikov (born 1968), poet and essayist
- Vladimir Voinovich (1932β2018), satirical novelist, The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
- Zinaida Volkonskaya (1792β1862), writer, poet, singer, composer, salonist and lady in waiting
- Alexander Volkov (1891β1977), novelist and mathematician, The Wizard of the Emerald City
- Anri Volokhonsky (1936β2017), poet and translator
- Maximilian Voloshin (1877β1932), poet, translator, art and literary critic
- Konstantin Vorobyov (1919β1975), writer, Slain Near Moscow
- Vatslav Vorovsky (1871β1923), Marxist revolutionary, literary critic, diplomat and publicist
- Julia Voznesenskaya (1940β2015), novelist, The Women's Decameron
- Zoya Voskresenskaya (1907β1992), children's writer, diplomat, NKVD foreign office secret agent, Mother's Heart
- Andrei Voznesensky (1933β2010), poet and writer, First Frost
- Alexander Vvedensky (1904β1941), poet, co-founder of OBERIU
- Arseny Vvedensky (1844β1909), writer, journalist, literary critic and historian
- Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792β1878), poet, representative of the Golden Age of Russian poetry
- Vladimir Vysotsky (1938β1980), singer, songwriter, poet and actor
Y
- Alexander Yakovlev (1886β1953), writer and essayist, The Peasant
- Pyotr Yakubovich (1860β1911), poet and writer, member of Narodnaya Volya
- Pavel Yakushkin (1822β1872), writer, ethnographer and folklorist
- Alexander Yashin (1913β1968), writer associated with the Village Prose movement
- Ieronim Yasinsky (1850β1931), novelist, poet, essayist and memoirist
- Nikolay Yazykov (1803β1846), poet and slavophile
- Ivan Yefremov (1908β1972), paleontologist, science fiction author and social thinker, Andromeda
- Dmitri Yemets (born 1974), author of fantasy literature for children and young adults, Tanya Grotter
- Venedikt Yerofeyev (1938β1990), writer and playwright, Moscow-Petushki
- Pyotr Yershov (1815β1869), fairy tale writer, poet and playwright, The Humpbacked Horse
- Sergei Yesenin (1895β1925), poet, Land of Scoundrels
- Tatyana Yesenina (1918β1992), writer and daughter of Sergei Yesenin, Zhenya, the Wonder of the Twentieth Century
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933β2017), poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, editor, and film director
- Semyon Yushkevich (1868β1927), writer and playwright
Z
- Nikolay Zabolotsky (1903β1958), poet, children's writer and translator, one of the founders of the absurdist group OBERIU
- Boris Zakhoder (1918β2000), poet, children's writer and translator
- Mikhail Zagoskin (1789β1852), historical novelist, Tales of Three Centuries
- Boris Zaitsev (1881β1972), writer and playwright, Anna
- Mark Zakharov (1933β2019), theatrical director, playwright and actor
- Sergey Zalygin (1913β2000), novelist and magazine editor, The South American Variant
- Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884β1937), novelist, short story writer and playwright, We
- Vsevolod Zelchenko (born 1972), poet
- Mikhail Zenkevich (1886β1973), poet and translator, Wild Porphyry
- Yulia Zhadovskaya (1824β1883), poet and writer, Apart from the Great World
- Vera Zhelikhovsky (1835β1896), novelist and children's writer, The General's Will
- Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov (1821β1908), poet and dramatist, co-creator of Kozma Prutkov
- Boris Zhitkov (1882β1938), novelist, short story writer, playwright and children's writer, Viktor Vavich
- Maria Zhukova (1804β1855), writer, Evenings on the Karpovka
- Vasily Zhukovsky (1783β1852), poet, translator and magazine editor
- Zinovy Zinik (born 1945), novelist and broadcaster, The Mushroom-Picker
- Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866β1907), writer and playwright, The Tragic Menagerie
- Nikolai Zlatovratsky (1845β1911), novelist and short story writer, Old Shadows
- Mikhail Znamensky (1833β1892), writer, memoirist, caricaturist, archeologist and ethnographer, The Vanished Men
- Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895β1958), satirical short story writer and novelist, The Galosh
- Rafail Zotov (1795β1871), playwright, novelist, journalist, translator and theatre critic, Jealous Wife