This is a list of authors who have written works of fiction in the Russian language. The list encompasses novelists and writers of short fiction.
For the plain list, see Category:Russian novelists.
See also: List of Russian-language writers, List of Russian-language poets, List of Russian-language playwrights, List of Russian artists, List of Russian architects, List of Russian inventors, List of Russian explorers, Russian literature, Russian culture
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Fyodor Abramov. (1920–1983) | The New Life. Wooden Horses. Two Winters and Three Summers | Memorial plaque in St. Petersburg. | ||
M. Ageyev. (1898–1973) | Cocain Romance | |||
Chinghiz Aitmatov. (1928–2008) | Jamilya. The White Ship. The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years | At a book signing in St. Petersburg. 2007 | Aitmatov (left) at the 2007 Cologne Literature Festival with Publishing Director Lucien Leitess (center) and Mongolian writer Galsan Tschinag (right). | |
David Aizman. (1869-1922) | The Countrymen | |||
Sergey Aksakov. (1791–1859) | The Scarlet Flower. The Family Chronicle. Years of Childhood. A Russian Schoolboy | Memorial to Aksakov. | The Aksakov Family Coat of Arms. | |
Vasily Aksyonov. (1932–2009) | The Burn. Colleagues. Generations of Winter. The Winter's Hero | |||
Boris Akunin. (born 1956) | Erast Fandorin series. Nicholas Fandorin series. Sister Pelagia series | Akunin at the HeadRead literary festival, 2011. | ||
Mikhail Albov. (1851-1911) | On the New Road | |||
Yuz Aleshkovsky. (born 1929) | The Hand. Kangaroo | |||
Alexander Amfiteatrov. (1862–1938) | Napoleonder. The Fire Flower | Napoleon Bonaparte. | Painting of Napoleon by David, 1812. | |
Daniil Andreyev. (1906–1959) | Daniil's parents Leonid Andreyev and Countess Anna Wielhorska. | |||
Leonid Andreyev. (1871–1919) | Darkness. The Abyss. The Red Laugh. The Seven Who Were Hanged | 1909 book cover | ||
Aleksey Apukhtin. (1840–1893) | From Death to Life. The Archive of Countess D | Illustration from Apukhtin's novel From Death to Life. | Memorial plaque in Bolkhov. | |
Maria Arbatova. (born 1957) | My name is Woman | Maria Arbatova in 2009. | ||
Mikhail Artsybashev. (1878–1927) | Sanin. Ivan Lande. Breaking Point. Tales of the Revolution | Artsybashev with the actress Yavorskaya, 1915. | Drawing of Artsybashev. | |
Monument in Krasnoyarsk. | Viktor Astafyev. (1924–2001) | Queen Fish. Sad Detective. To Live Your Life. The Cursed and the Slain | Vladimir Putin speaking with Astafyev's widow. 2004 | |
Arkady Averchenko. (1881–1925) | Ninochka | Drawing of Averchenko. | Averchenko, c1905. |
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Isaak Babel. (1894–1940) | Red Cavalry. Odessa Tales | Red Cavalry poster, 1919. | Red Cavalry poster, 1920. | |
Grigory Baklanov. (1923–2009) | The Foothold. Forever Nineteen. South of the Main Offensive | |||
Natalya Baranskaya. (1908–2004) | A Week Like Any Other | |||
Pavel Bazhov. (1879–1950) | The Malachite Casket | Commemorative coin featuring Bazhov. | Bazhov in his youth. | |
Dmitry Begichev. (1786–1855) | The Kholmsky Family | |||
Alexander Bek. (1903–1972) | And Not to Die. The Story of an Inventor. The New Appointment | |||
Andrei Bely. (1880–1934) | Petersburg. Kotik Letaev. The Silver Dove | Portrait by Léon Bakst. | Plaque at Bely's birth house on Arbat Street in Moscow. | |
Alexander Belyayev. (1884–1942) | Ariel. Amphibian Man | Drawing by Belyayev. | Another of his drawings. | |
Nina Berberova. (1901–1993) | The Accompanist. The Tattered Cloak. The Italics are Mine. The Book of Happiness | With her husband, 1925. | ||
Alexander Bestuzhev. (1797–1837) | The Test. On Bivouac | 1823 title page from Bestuzhev's magazine Polar Star. | An engraving of Bestuzhev. | |
Vitaly Bianki. (1894–1959) | Whose Nose is Better? | |||
Aleksei Bibik. (1878–1976) | ||||
Andrei Bitov. (1937–2018) | Pushkin House. The Monkey Link. Life in Windy Weather. A Captive of the Caucasus | |||
Nikolai Blagoveshchensky. (1837–1889) | Before the Dawn | |||
Pyotr Boborykin. (1836-1921) | China Town | |||
Alexander Bogdanov. (1873–1928) | Red Star | A drawing of Bogdanov. | ||
Vladimir Bogomolov. (1926–2003) | Ivan. The Moment of Truth | |||
Yuri Bondarev. (1924-2020) | Silence. The Shore. The Hot Snow | |||
Leonid Borodin. (1938–2011) | Partings. The Third Truth. The Story of a Strange Time. The Year of Miracle and Grief | |||
Valery Bryusov. (1873–1924) | The Fiery Angel. The Republic of the Southern Cross | A drawing of Bryusov. | An Armenian stamp featuring Bryusov | |
Yury Buida. (born 1954) | The Zero Train. The Prussian Bride. Sinbad the Sailor | |||
Mikhail Bulgakov. (1891–1940) | The White Guard. The Master and Margarita. Heart of a Dog. The Fatal Eggs | Soviet stamp featuring Behemoth. | ||
Kir Bulychev. (1934–2003) | Half a Life. Great Gusliar. Earth and Elsewhere. Alisa Selezneva | |||
Ivan Bunin. (1870–1953) | Dry Valley. The Village. Dark Avenues. The Life of Arseniev | Soviet Nobel Laureates in Literature. |
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Aleksey Chapygin. (1870–1937) | Stepan Razin | Stepan Razin, picture by Kustodiev. | ||
Lidia Charskaya. (1875–1938) | Princess Dzhavakha | Charskaya, c1910 | ||
Alexander Chekhov. (1855–1913) | The Chekhov family. | Alexander's son Michael Chekhov. | ||
Anton Chekhov. (1860–1904) | The Lady with the Dog. The Bet. The Black Monk | Title page from Collected Works Volume 1. | An example from one of Chekhov's manuscripts. | |
Nikolay Chernyshevsky. (1828–1889) | What Is to Be Done? | Title page of What Is to Be Done? | ||
Evgeny Chirikov. (1864–1932) | The Magician. Strained Relations. Marka of the Pits | At his desk, 1904. | Portrait by Repin, 1906. | |
Lydia Chukovskaya. (1907–1996) | Sofia Petrovna | |||
Georgy Chulkov. (1879–1939) | Chulkov (left), with fellow Soviet writers. |
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Yuli Daniel. (1925–1988) | This is Moscow Speaking | |||
Grigory Danilevsky. (1829–1890) | Moscow in Flames. The Princess Tarakanova | Moscow in Flames. | Princess Tarakanova by Konstantin Flavitsky. | |
Grigoriy Demidovtsev. (born 1960) | Certificate of membership in the Union of Russian Writers. | Demidovtsev in 2007. | ||
Valentina Dmitryeva. (1859–1947) | Hveska, The Doctor's Watchman | Dmitryeva, c1890. | Dmitryeva, 1895. | |
Leonid Dobychin. (1894-1936) | The Town of N. Encounters with Lise | |||
Yury Dombrovsky. (1909–1978) | The Faculty of Useless Knowledge. The Keeper of Antiquities | |||
Vlas Doroshevich. (1864–1922) | Legends and Stories of the East | Doroshevich c.1910. | ||
Lyubov Dostoyevskaya. (1869–1926) | The Emigrant | Anna Dostoyevskaya (wife of Fyodor Dostoyevsky) with their daughter Lyubov and son Fyodor. | Anna Dostoyevskaya. | |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. (1821–1881) | 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 " | Raskolnikov and Marmeladov from Crime and Punishment. | Dostoyevsky's notes for chapter 5 of The Brothers Karamazov | |
Mikhail Dostoyevsky. (1820–1864) | Vremya (Time), the paper published by Fyodor and Mikhail Dostoyevsky. | Portrait, 1870. | ||
Sergei Dovlatov. (1941–1990) | The Zone. Affiliate | |||
Alexander Druzhinin. (1824–1864) | Polinka Saks. The Story of Aleksei Dmitrich | Druzhinin (2nd from right), with his fellow writers from Sovremennik. | Druzhinin in 1856. | |
Vladimir Dudintsev. (1918–1998) | White Garments. A New Year's Tale. Not by Bread Alone |
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Ilya Ehrenburg. (1891–1967) | The Thaw. The Spring. The Storm. The Fall of Paris | Photo of Ehrenburg. | ||
Sergey Elpatyevsky. (1854–1933) | Pity Me!. The Homeless Ones | |||
Asar Eppel. (1935–2012) | The Grassy Street. Red Caviar Sandwiches | |||
Victor Erofeyev. (born 1947) | Russian Beauty. Life with an Idiot | |||
Alexander Ertel. (1855–1908) | The Specialist. A Greedy Peasant | Ertel, c1890 | ||
Mikhail Evstafiev. (born 1963) | Two Steps from Heaven |
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Alexander Fadeyev. (1901–1956) | The Rout. The Young Guard | Soviet stamp featuring Fadeyev. | ||
Konstantin Fedin. (1892–1977) | Early Joys. The Conflagration. Cities and Years. No Ordinary Summer | Soviet stamp featuring Fedin. | ||
Olga Forsh. (1873–1961) | Palace and Prison. Pioneers of Freedom | |||
Dmitry Furmanov. (1891–1926) | Chapayev | Photo of Vasily Chapayev. | Soviet stamp featuring Vasily Chapayev. |
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Arkady Gaidar. (1904–1941) | Chuk and Gek. The Blue Cup. Timur and his Gang | Soviet stamp featuring Gaidar. | ||
Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky. (1852–1906) | Practical Training | Portrait by Israel Pass, 1905. | Bas-relief dedication at the Laspi Pass. | |
Vsevolod Garshin. (1855–1888) | Four Days. The Red Flower | The Red Flower | Photo of Garshin, 1877. | |
Yuri German. (1910-1967) | Ivan Lapshin. The Cause You Serve | |||
Anatoly Gladilin. (1935–2018) | Moscow Racetrack | Gladilin in Moscow, 2011. | ||
Fyodor Gladkov. (1883–1958) | Cement. Restless Youth | |||
Dmitry Glukhovsky. (born 1979) | Metro 2033 | |||
Pyotr Gnedich. (1855-1925) | The Burden of this World | |||
Nikolai Gogol. (1809–1852) | Dikanka. Taras Bulba. The Overcoat. Dead Souls | Title page of the first edition of Dead Souls, 1842. | Nozdryov from Dead Souls. | |
Ivan Goncharov. (1812–1891) | A Common Story. Oblomov. The Precipice | Oblomov. | ||
Maxim Gorky. (1868–1936) | Mother. Through Russia. The Artamonov Business. Twenty-six Men and a Girl | With Leo Tolstoy. | With Anton Chekhov. | |
Nina Gorlanova. (born 1947) | ||||
Daniil Granin. (1919–2017) | Into the Storm. Those Who Seek | With Dmitry Medvedev, 2009. | ||
Dmitry Grigorovich. (1822–1900) | The Fishermen | Self-portrait of Grigorovich in his 20s. | Portrait by Kramskoi. | |
Alexander Grin. (1880–1932) | Scarlet Sails. The Seeker of Adventure | The Scarlet Sails celebration in St Petersburg. | From the 2010 celebration. | |
Isabella Grinevskaya. (1864–1944) | ||||
Vasily Grossman. (1905–1964) | The Road. Life and Fate. Forever Flowing | Memorial plaque in Donetsk. | ||
Elena Guro. (1887-1913) | Autumnal Dream. The Hurdy-Gurdy. The Little Camels of the Sky | Guro's portrait of her husband Mikhail Matyushin. | Elena and Mikhail. | |
Andrei Gusev. (born 1952) | With Chronos' Permit. On the Edge of Magellanic Clouds. The World According to Novikoff | Andrei Gusev in Moscow, 2009. | ||
Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky. (1867–1963) | The Land of the Fathers. The Land of the Children |
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Alexander Herzen. (1812–1870) | Who is to Blame? | Statue of Herzen in Moscow. |
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Ilf and Petrov. Ilf (1897–1937). Petrov (1903–1942) | The Twelve Chairs. The Little Golden Calf | The Twelve Chairs Monument in Odessa. | Another view of the Twelve Chairs monument. | |
Fazil Iskander. (1929–2016) | Chik and His Friends. Sandro of Chegem. The Gospel According to Chegem. The Thirteenth Labour of Hercules | Iskander with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. | Abkhazian coin featuring Iskander. | |
Alexei Ivanov. (born 1969) | ||||
Vsevolod Ivanov. (1895–1963) | Fertility. The Child |
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Nikolay Karamzin. (1766–1826) | Poor Liza | "Poor Liza", painting by Orest Kiprensky, 1827. | Stamp featuring Karamzin. | |
Nikolay Karazin. (1842–1908) | The Two-Legged Wolf. From North to South | From North to South book cover. | ||
Nikolay Karonin-Petropavlovsky. (1853–1892) | First Storm | |||
Vladimir Karpov. (1922–2010) | The Commander | |||
Anna Kashina | In the Name of the Queen | |||
Ivan Kataev. (1902-1937) | The Wife. Immortality | |||
Valentin Kataev. (1897–1986) | Time Forward!. The Embezzlers. A White Sail Gleams. The Cottage in the Steppe | |||
Veniamin Kaverin. (1902–1989) | Open Book. The Two Captains. The Unknown Artist | |||
Emmanuil Kazakevich. (1913–1962) | Star: A Story. The Blue Notebook | |||
Yury Kazakov. (1927–1982) | Going To Town. Adam and Eve | |||
Yuri Khanon. (born 1965) | Skryabin As a Face. Antedate Memories. Alphonse, who didn't was | Erik Satie, "Antedate Memories" | “Alphonse, who didn't was" | |
Daniil Kharms. (1905–1942) | The Old Woman | Graffiti of Kharms on a wall in Kharkiv. | Caricature of Kharms by Antonovsky | |
Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya. (1824–1889) | The Boarding School Girl | Photograph, c1880s. | Engraving c1860s. | |
Marusya Klimova. (born 1961) | Klimova in 2006. | |||
Vsevolod Kochetov. (1912-1973) | The Zhurbin Family. What Do You Want Then? | |||
Ivan Kokorev. (1825–1853) | ||||
Alexandra Kollontai. (1872–1952) | Red Love. A Great Love. Love of Worker Bees | Soviet stamp featuring Kollontai. | Kollontai in her youth. | |
Vladimir Korolenko. (1853–1921) | Bad Company. Makar's Dream. The Blind Musician | The Korolenko Library in Kharkiv. | ||
Sofia Kovalevskaya. (1859–1891) | Nihilist Girl | Bust of Kovalevskaya. | Commemorative coin. | |
Vadim Kozhevnikov. (1909–1984) | Shield and Sword | |||
Nadezhda Kozhevnikova. (born 1949) | Attorney Alexandra Tikhonovna | |||
Eugene Kozlovsky. (born 1946) | ||||
Vsevolod Krestovsky. (1840-1895) | Knights of Industry | Krestovsky, c1870. | ||
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. (1887–1950) | Quadraturin | |||
Anatoly Kudryavitsky. (born 1954) | ||||
Aleksandr Kuprin. (1870–1938) | The Duel. Yama: The Pit. The Bracelet of Garnets | A cartoon featuring Kuprin. | Photo of Kuprin. | |
Andrey Kurkov. (born 1961) | Death and the Penguin. Penguin Lost | |||
Ivan Kushchevsky. (1847–1876) | Nikolai Negorev | Portrait of Kushchevsky. | ||
Mikhail Kuzmin. (1872–1936) | Wings | Portrait of Kuzmin by Alexander Golovin, 1910. | Photo of Kuzmin. | |
Anatoly Kuznetsov. (1929-1979) | Babi Yar |
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Lazar Lagin. (1903–1979) | The Old Genie Hottabych | |||
Yulia Latynina. (born 1966) | The Insider | |||
Boris Lavrenyov. (1891–1953) | The Forty-First. The Heavenly Cap. Such a Simple Thing. The Courageous Heart | |||
Ivan Lazhechnikov. (1792–1869) | The Heretic | Portrait of Lazhechnikov. | ||
Leonid Leonov. (1899–1995) | The Badgers. Soviet River. The Thief. The Russian Forest | |||
Mikhail Lermontov. (1814–1841) | A Hero of Our Time | Title page from the first edition of A Hero of Our Time, 1840. | Pechorin's Duel from A Hero of Our Time. Picture by Mikhail Vrubel. | |
Nikolai Leskov. (1831–1895) | Lefty. The Sealed Angel. The Enchanted Wanderer. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk | Drawing of Leskov. | ||
Alexander Levitov. (1835–1877) | Leatherhide the Cobbler | Levitov, c1860s. | ||
Nikolay Leykin. (1841–1906) | Our Folk Abroad | Photo of Leykin. | ||
Vladimir Lichutin. (born 1940) | ||||
Eduard Limonov. (1943-2020) | It's Me, Eddie. His Butler's Story. Memoir of a Russian Punk | At a book presentation, 2008. | With Garry Kasparov at the Dissenters March in St. Petersburg, 2008. | |
Dmitri Lipskerov. (born 1964) | ||||
Sergey Lukyanenko. (born 1968) | Night Watch. Day Watch. Twilight Watch. Last Watch | Photo, 2001. | ||
Lev Lunts. (1901–1924) | Native Land |
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Grigori Machtet. (1852–1901) | ||||
Vladimir Makanin. (1937–2017) | Baize-Covered Table With Decanter | |||
Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak. (1852–1912) | Verotchka's Tales. A Gold Nugget. The Privalov Fortune | Cover of Verotchka's Tales. | Title page of Verotchka's Tales. | |
Anatoly Marienhof. (1897–1962) | Cynics | With the poet Sergei Yesenin, 1915. | ||
Alexandra Marinina. (born 1957) | ||||
Boleslav Markevich. (1822–1884) | The Turning Point | |||
Vladilen Mashkovtsev. (1929–1997) | ||||
Pavel Melnikov. (1818–1883) | ||||
Dmitry Merezhkovsky. (1865–1941) | Christ and Antichrist (trilogy) | Merezhkovsky (right), with his wife Zinaida Gippius and friend Dmitry Filosofov. | Portrait by Repin, 1900. | |
Daniil Mordovtsev. (1830-1905) | The Tsar and the Hetman | |||
Viktor Muyzhel. (1880-1924) | The Year | |||
Viktor Muravin. (born 1929) | The Diary of Vikenty Angarov |
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Vladimir Nabokov. (1899–1977) | Mary. The Defense. The Gift. Lolita | Nabokov's first publication. | ||
Yuri Nagibin. (1920–1994) | The Pipe. Arise and Walk | |||
Vasily Narezhny. (1780–1825) | A Russian Gil Blas | |||
Nikolay Naumov. (1838-1901) | Strength Breaks the Straw | |||
Andrei Navrozov. (born 1956) | ||||
Viktor Nekrasov. (1911–1987) | Front-line Stalingrad. Kira Georgievna | |||
Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko. (1845-1936) | Peasant Tales of Russia | |||
Alexander Neverov. (1886–1923) | City of Bread | Drawing of Neverov. | ||
Friedrich Neznansky. (1932–2013) | Red Square. Night Wolves | |||
Nikolay Nosov. (1908–1976) | Neznaika | Russian stamp featuring Neznaika. | ||
Alexey Novikov-Priboy. (1877-1944) | Tsushima. The Captain. The Sea Beckons |
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Vladimir Obruchev. (1863–1956) | Plutonia. Sannikov Land | |||
Olga Obukhova. (born 1941) | ||||
Vladimir Odoevsky. (1803–1869) | Two Princesses. The Living Corpse. The Year 4338: Petersburg Letters | Odoevsky's dedication in a book he presented to Lermontov. | Odoevsky (at back), with the composers Mily Balakirev (left) and Mikhail Glinka. Painting by Repin. | |
Bulat Okudzhava. (1924–1997) | A Taste of Liberty. Good-bye, Schoolboy!. The Art of Needles and Sins | Stamp featuring Okudzhava. | ||
Yury Olesha. (1899–1960) | Envy. Three Fat Men. The Cherry Pit | |||
Nikolai Ostrovsky. (1904–1936) | Born of the Storm. How the Steel Was Tempered | Stamp featuring Ostrovsky. | ||
Mikhail Osorgin. (1878-1942) | Quiet Street. My Sister's Story | |||
Valentin Ovechkin. (1904-1968) | Greetings from the Front |
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Marina Palei. (born 1955) | Rendezvous | Palei in Komarovo. | ||
Ivan Panaev. (1812-1862) | Lions in the Provinces | Portrait by Levitsky, 1856. | ||
Avdotya Panaeva. (1820-1893) | A Woman's Lot | |||
Vera Panova. (1905–1973) | Seryozha. Looking Ahead. The Train. Span of the Year | Plaque for Panova in St. Petersburg. | ||
Boris Pasternak. (1890–1960) | Doctor Zhivago. The Childhood of Luvers | Soviet Nobel Laureates in Literature. | Memorial plaque at Pasternak's birthplace in Moscow. | |
Konstantin Paustovsky. (1892–1968) | A Tale of Life (6 novel series) | |||
Pyotr Pavlenko. (1899-1951) | Happiness. Steppe Sunlight. The Lost Son | |||
Oleg Pavlov. (1970-2018) | ||||
Karolina Pavlova. (1807–1893) | A Double Life | A drawing of Pavlova. | ||
Victor Pelevin. (born 1962) | Omon Ra | |||
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya. (born 1938) | Immortal Love | |||
Valentin Pikul. (1928–1990) | ||||
Boris Pilnyak. (1894–1938) | The Naked Year. The Death of the Army Commander. The Volga Falls into the Caspian Sea | |||
Aleksey Pisemsky. (1821–1881) | Nina. The Simpleton. One Thousand Souls. An Old Man's Sin | Portrait of Pisemsky, c.1860. | Engraving of Pisemsky. | |
Andrei Platonov. (1899–1951) | Fro. Dzhan. The Foundation Pit | |||
Boris Polevoy. (1908–1981) | He Came Back. We Are Soviet People. The Story of a Real Man | |||
Nikolay Pomyalovsky. (1835–1863) | Seminary Sketches | An engraving of Pomyalovsky. | ||
Ignaty Potapenko. (1856–1929) | A Russian Priest. The General's Daughter | Potapenko (right), with Chekhov and Mamin-Sibiryak. c1895 | ||
Dmitri Prigov. (1940–2007) | Live in Moskow | |||
Zakhar Prilepin. (born 1975) | ||||
Alexander Prokhanov. (born 1938) | Empire's Last Soldier | |||
Alexander Pushkin. (1799–1837) | The Queen of Spades. The Captain's Daughter | The first page from the serialized version of The Captain's Daughter. |
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Alexander Radishchev. (1749–1802) | Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow | Title page from the first edition, 1790. | ||
Valentin Rasputin. (1937–2015) | Money for Maria. Farewell to Matyora | Rasputin receiving an award from Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. | ||
Aleksey Remizov. (1877–1957) | The Clock. The Indefatigable Cymbal | |||
Fyodor Reshetnikov. (1841–1871) | The Podlipnayans | Drawing of Reshetnikov. | ||
Panteleimon Romanov. (1884-1938) | Three Pairs of Silk Stockings. Without Bird-Cherry Blossoms | |||
Mikhail Roshchin. (1933-2010) | First Love. Twenty Minutes or So. The Devil's Wheel in Kobuleti | |||
Dina Rubina. (born 1953) | The Blackthorn | Dina Rubina, 2007. | ||
Anatoly Rybakov. (1911–1998) | Children of the Arbat. Fear. Dust and Ashes | |||
Vladimir Rybakov. (1947-2018) | Creature. The Brand. The Burden. The Afghans | |||
Vyacheslav Rybakov. (born 1954) | Artist. The Trial Sphere | |||
Maria Rybakova. (born 1973) |
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Irina Saburova. (1907-1979) | Because of the Violets | |||
German Sadulaev. (born 1973) | I am a Chechen! | |||
Ilya Salov. (1834–1902) | Butuzka | |||
Boris Savinkov. (1879–1925) | The Pale Horse. What Never Happened | |||
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. (1826–1889) | Provincial Sketches. The Golovlyov Family. The History of a Town | . | Saltykov-Schedrin Memorial House in Tver. | |
Genrikh Sapgir. (1928–1999) | ||||
Sergey Semyonov. (1868–1922) | Gluttons. The Servant | Semyonov, c1900. | ||
Yulian Semyonov. (1931–1993) | Seventeen Instants of Spring | |||
Alexander Serafimovich. (1863–1949) | Sand. Nikita. The Iron Flood. The Little Miner | |||
Sergey Sergeyev-Tsensky. (1875–1958) | Brusilov's Break-Through | |||
Marietta Shaginyan. (1888–1982) | Mess-Mend | |||
Varlam Shalamov. (1907–1982) | The Kolyma Tales | From the Shalamov Memorial Museum in Vologda. | ||
Olga Shapir. (1850-1916) | The Settlement | |||
Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik. (1874–1952) | Deborah | |||
Alexander Sheller. (1838–1900) | Putrid Moors | |||
Mikhail Shishkin. (born 1961) | In 2006. | In 2010 | ||
Vyacheslav Shishkov. (1873-1945) | Children of Darkness | |||
Ivan Shmelyov. (1873–1950) | The Stone Age | |||
Mikhail Sholokhov. (1905–1984) | Virgin Soil Upturned. And Quiet Flows the Don. The Don Flows Home to the Sea | Mikhail Sholokhov | ||
Ilya Shtemler. (born 1933) | ||||
Vasily Shukshin. (1929–1974) | Stories from a Siberian Village | |||
Konstantin Simonov. (1915–1979) | Days and Nights. The Living and the Dead | In 1967 | ||
Andrei Sinyavsky. (1925–1997) | Fantastic Stories | |||
Stepan Skitalets. (1869–1941) | The Blacksmith. The Love of a Scene Painter | With Maxim Gorky. | Skitalets (left) with fellow Sreda members. | |
Vasily Sleptsov. (1836–1878) | The Ward | An engraving of Sleptsov. | ||
Sofia Soboleva. (1840-1884) | Pros and Cons | |||
Sasha Sokolov. (born 1943) | A School for Fools | |||
Vladimir Sollogub. (1813–1882) | The Snowstorm | Sollogub with fellow contributors to Sovremennik. | ||
Fyodor Sologub. (1863–1927) | The Petty Demon. The Created Legend | Sologub in 1913 | Sologub and Anastasia Chebotarevskaya. | |
Vladimir Soloukhin. (1924–1997) | Verdict | |||
Leonid Solovyov. (1906–1962) | Tale of Hodja Nasreddin | |||
Vsevolod Solovyov. (1849–1903) | ||||
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. (1918–2008) | The First Circle. Cancer Ward. The Red Wheel. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Ivan Denisovich book cover. | ||
Orest Somov. (1793–1833) | Mommy and Sonny | |||
Vladimir Sorokin. (born 1955) | The Queue | |||
Konstantin Staniukovich. (1843–1903) | Bobtail. Maximka. The Convict. Running to the Shrouds | Photo of Stanyukovich. | ||
Boris Strugatsky | Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Arkady (1925–1991). Boris (1933-2012) | Prisoners of Power. The Kid from Hell. Hard to Be a God. Roadside Picnic | ||
Mikhail Sushkov. (1775–1792) | The Russian Werther |
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov. (1885–1938) | Chocolate | |||
Nadezhda Teffi. (1872–1952) | Time. Strangers. Close Friends | Teffi during World War 1. | ||
Nikolay Teleshov. (1867–1957) | The Duel | Bust of Teleshov, 1956. | Teleshov with members of the Sreda, 1902. | |
Vladimir Tendryakov. (1923–1984) | Son-in-Law. Three, Seven, Ace | |||
Sergey Terpigorev. (1841-1895) | The Ice Broke | |||
Nikolay Tikhonov. (1896–1979) | War | |||
Vladislav Titov. (1934–1987) | ||||
Tatyana Tolstaya. (born 1951) | The Slynx. White Walls | |||
Aleksey K. Tolstoy. (1817–1875) | Prince Serebrenni | Portrait by Ilya Repin. | Monument to Tolstoy. | |
Aleksey N. Tolstoy. (1883–1945) | Buratino. Aelita. Peter the First. The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin | Stamp featuring the character Buratino. | ||
Leo Tolstoy. (1828–1910) | The Cossacks. War and Peace. Anna Karenina. The Death of Ivan Ilyich | The ninth draft of the beginning of War and Peace. | Title page of the first edition of Anna Karenina, 1878. | |
Edward Topol. (born 1938) | Red Square | |||
Yury Trifonov. (1925–1981) | Another Life. The Old Man. The Disappearance. The Long Good-Bye | |||
Gavriil Troyepolsky. (1905–1995) | White Bim Black Ear | |||
Alexei Tsvetkov. (born 1947) | ||||
Evgenia Tur. (1815–1892) | Antonina. The Shalonski Family | |||
Ivan Turgenev. (1818–1883) | A Sportsman's Sketches. Home of the Gentry. On the Eve. Fathers and Sons | Title page of Fathers and Sons. | Portrait by Ilya Repin. | |
Yury Tynyanov. (1894–1943) | Lieutenant Kijé | . |
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Anya Ulinich. (born 1973) | Petropolis | |||
Lyudmila Ulitskaya. (born 1943) | Sonechka. The Funeral Party. Medea and Her Children. Daniel Stein | |||
Gleb Uspensky. (1843–1902) | The Steam Chicken | Uspensky in his 20s, 1868. | Soviet stamp featuring Uspensky. | |
Nikolay Uspensky. (1837–1889) | Porridge. The Village Schoolmaster |
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Pyotr Valuyev. (1815–1890) | Engraving of Valuev, 1865. | |||
Tatiana Vedenska. (born 1976) | ||||
Mikhail Veller. (born 1948) | The Guru | |||
Alexander Veltman. (1800–1870) | The Wanderer | Veltman, c1830. | ||
Anastasiya Verbitskaya. (1861–1928) | The Keys to Happiness | Verbitskaya, c1900. | ||
Vikenty Veresaev. (1867–1945) | Sisters. The Deadlock. In the Steppe | With Leonid Andreyev. | Painting of Veresayev by Sergey Malyutin, 1919. | |
Lidia Veselitskaya. (1857–1936) | Mimi's Marriage | |||
Igor Vishnevetsky. (born 1964) | Leningrad. Non-Elective Affinities | |||
Nikolai Virta. (1906-1976) | Alone | |||
Georgi Vladimov. (1931–2003) | Faithful Ruslan | |||
Vladimir Voinovich. (1932-2018) | Moscow 2042. Private Ivan Chonkin | |||
Zinaida Volkonskaya. (1792-1862) | The Dream: A Letter | |||
Alexander Volkov. (1891–1977) | The Wizard of the Emerald City | |||
Marko Vovchok. (1833–1907) | Ukrainian Folk Tales | Ukrainian stamp featuring Vovchok. | ||
Julia Voznesenskaya. (1940-2015) | The Women's Decameron |
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Alexander Yakovlev. (1886–1953) | The Peasant | |||
Alexander Yashin. (1913–1968) | A Feast of Rowan Berries | |||
Ivan Yefremov. (1908–1972) | Andromeda. Razor's Edge. The Bull's Hour. The Land of Foam | |||
Dmitri Yemets. (born 1974) | Tanya Grotter series | |||
Venedict Yerofeyev. (1938-1990) | Moscow-Petushki | |||
Yevgeny Yevtushenko. (1933–2017) | Wild Berries | On the right, with Richard Nixon | ||
Semyon Yushkevich. (1868–1927) | On the right with Yevgeny Chirikov. |
Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Mikhail Zagoskin. (1789–1852) | Tales of Three Centuries | Engraving of Zagoskin. | ||
Sergey Zalygin. (1913–2000) | The South American Variant | |||
Yevgeny Zamyatin. (1884–1937) | We. A Provincial Tale | A Provincial Tale bookcover. | Zamyatin, c.1919. | |
Boris Zaytsev. (1881–1972) | Anna | |||
Yulia Zhadovskaya. (1824-1883) | The Backward Girl | |||
Vera Zhelikhovsky. (1835–1896) | The General's Will | |||
Maria Zhukova. (1804–1855) | Evenings on the Karpovka | |||
Zinovy Zinik. (born 1945) | The Mushroom-Picker | |||
Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal. (1866–1907) | The Tragic Menagerie | |||
Nikolay Zlatovratsky. (1845–1911) | Old Shadows | |||
Mikhail Zoshchenko. (1895–1958) | The Galosh. Scenes from the Bathhouse | In uniform. 1915/16 | Stamp featuring Zoshchenko. |