List of Russian-language novelists

"Russian Writers" by Sergei Levitsky, 1856.

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.

Alphabetical list

A

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Fyodor Abramov
(1920–1983)
The New Life
Wooden Horses
Two Winters and Three Summers
Memorial plaque in St. Petersburg.
M. Ageyev
(1898–1973)
Novel with Cocaine
First edition cover
Tschingis Ajtmatow.jpg 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.jpg David Aizman
(1869–1922)
The Countrymen
Sergey Timofeyevich Aksakov 2.jpg 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
MIBF2013 img 02 Boris Akunin.jpg Boris Akunin
(born 1956)
Erast Fandorin series
Nicholas Fandorin series
Sister Pelagia series
Akunin at the HeadRead literary festival, 2011.
Albov Mihail Nilovich.jpeg Mikhail Albov
(1851–1911)
On the New Road
YuzAleshkovsky.jpg Yuz Aleshkovsky
(born 1929)
The Hand
Kangaroo
Aleksandr Amfiteatrov.jpg Alexander Amfiteatrov
(1862–1938)
Napoleonder
The Fire Flower
Painting of Napoleon by David, 1812.
Daniil Andreev Front.jpg Daniil Andreyev
(1906–1959)
Roza Mira
Daniil's parents Leonid Andreyev and Countess Anna Wielhorska.
Andreyev by Repin.jpg Leonid Andreyev
(1871–1919)
Darkness
The Abyss
The Red Laugh
The Seven Who Were Hanged
1909 book cover
Yuri Annenkov (self-portrait, 1910 GRM).jpg Yury Annenkov
(1889–1974)
A Tale of Trivia
Annenkov's 1917 self-portrait
Apukhtin Aleksey.jpg 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 RuNet-2009.jpg Maria Arbatova
(born 1957)
My name is Woman
Maria Arbatova in 2009.
Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev 2.jpg 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 7.gif Arkady Averchenko
(1881–1925)
Ninochka
Drawing of Averchenko.
Averchenko, c1905.

B

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Isaac Babel.png Isaak Babel
(1894–1940)
Red Cavalry
The Odessa Tales
Red Cavalry poster, 1919.
Red Cavalry poster, 1920.
G. Baklanow.jpg Grigory Baklanov
(1923–2009)
The Foothold
Forever Nineteen
South of the Main Offensive
Natalya Baranskaya
(1908–2004)
A Week Like Any Other
Павел Петрович в 1911 году.jpg Pavel Bazhov
(1879–1950)
The Malachite Box
Commemorative coin featuring Bazhov.
Bazhov in his youth.
Vanmeetin-Begichev dn.jpg Dmitry Begichev
(1786–1855)
The Kholmsky Family
Alexander Bek
(1903–1972)
And Not to Die
The Story of an Inventor
The New Appointment
Белый Андрей 1916.JPG Andrei Bely
(1880–1934)
Petersburg
Kotik Letaev
The Silver Dove
Moscow
First edition of Petersburg, 1916.
First edition of The Silver Dove, 1910.
Alexander Belayev.jpg Alexander Belyaev
(1884–1942)
Professor Dowell's Head
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.
Bestushev Marlinsky 1.jpg 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?
Alexey Bibik.jpg Aleksei Bibik
(1878–1976)
Andrei Bitov.jpg 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 Dmitryevich Boborykin.jpg Pyotr Boborykin
(1836–1921)
China Town
A A Bogdanov.jpg 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
Brusov1920.jpg Valery Bryusov
(1873–1924)
The Fiery Angel
The Republic of the Southern Cross
A drawing of Bryusov.
An Armenian stamp featuring Bryusov
Yury Buida.jpg Yury Buida
(born 1954)
The Zero Train
The Prussian Bride
Sinbad the Sailor
Bulgakov1910s.jpg Mikhail Bulgakov
(1891–1940)
The White Guard
The Master and Margarita
Heart of a Dog
The Fatal Eggs
Soviet stamp featuring Behemoth.
Kir Bulychev 1997.jpg Kir Bulychev
(1934–2003)
Half a Life
Great Gusliar
Earth and Elsewhere
Alisa Selezneva
Buninturzhansky.jpg Ivan Bunin
(1870–1953)
Dry Valley
The Village
Dark Avenues
The Life of Arseniev
Soviet Nobel Laureates in Literature.

C

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Aleksey Pavlovich Chapygin.jpg Aleksey Chapygin
(1870–1937)
Stepan Razin
Stepan Razin, picture by Kustodiev.
Sergei Charchoun
(1888–1975)
Dolgolikov
Лидия Чарская.jpg Lidia Charskaya
(1875–1938)
Princess Dzhavakha
Charskaya, c1910
Alexander Chekhov.jpg Alexander Chekhov
(1855–1913)
The Chekhov family.
Alexander's son Michael Chekhov.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.jpg Anton Chekhov
(1860–1904)
A Dreary Story
Ward No. 6
The Duel
Peasants
Title page from Collected Works Volume 1.
An example from one of Chekhov's manuscripts.
Chernychevsky.jpg Nikolay Chernyshevsky
(1828–1889)
What Is to Be Done?
Title page of What Is to Be Done?
Yevgeny Nikolayevich Chirikov.jpg 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.jpg Georgy Chulkov
(1879–1939)
Chulkov (left), with fellow Soviet writers.

D

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Yuli Daniel
(1925–1988)
This is Moscow Speaking
Grigory Danilevsky.jpg Grigory Danilevsky
(1829–1890)
Moscow in Flames
The Princess Tarakanova
Moscow in Flames.
Demidovtsev.jpg Grigoriy Demidovtsev
(born 1960)
Certificate of membership in the Union of Russian Writers.
Demidovtsev in 2007.
Valentina I Dmitryeva.jpg Valentina Dmitryeva
(1859–1947)
Hveska, The Doctor's Watchman
Dmitryeva, c1890.
Dmitryeva, 1895.
Dobychin.jpg Leonid Dobychin
(1894–1936)
The Town of N
Encounters with Lise
First edition cover
Dombrovskiy UO.jpg Yury Dombrovsky
(1909–1978)
The Faculty of Useless Knowledge
The Keeper of Antiquities
Vlas Mikhailovich Doroshevich 3.jpg Vlas Doroshevich
(1864–1922)
Legends and Stories of the East
Doroshevich c.1910.
Lyubov Dostoyevskaya.jpg Lyubov Dostoyevskaya
(1869–1926)
The Emigrant
Anna Dostoyevskaya (wife of Fyodor Dostoyevsky) with their daughter Lyubov and son Fyodor.
Anna Dostoyevskaya.
Dostoevsky.jpg 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.jpg Mikhail Dostoyevsky
(1820–1864)
Vremya (Time), the paper published by Fyodor and Mikhail Dostoyevsky.
Portrait, 1870.
Sergei Dovlatov
(1941–1990)
The Zone
Affiliate
PGRS 2 033 Druzhinin - crop.jpg 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

E

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Ilja Grigorjewitsch Ehrenburg 1943.jpg Ilya Ehrenburg
(1891–1967)
Julio Jurenito
The Thaw
Julio Jurenito
Photo of Ehrenburg.
Sergey Yakovlovich Elpatyevsky.jpg Sergey Elpatyevsky
(1854–1933)
Pity Me!
The Homeless Ones
Asar Eppel by Kubik 01.JPG Asar Eppel
(1935–2012)
The Grassy Street
Red Caviar Sandwiches
Victor Erofeyev by Anton Nossik cropped.jpg Victor Erofeyev
(born 1947)
Russian Beauty
Life with an Idiot
Aleksandr Ertel 1883 Cropped.png Alexander Ertel
(1855–1908)
The Specialist
A Greedy Peasant
Ertel, c1890
Mikhail Evstafiev
(born 1963)
Two Steps from Heaven

F

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
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
Furmanow painting by malyutin.jpg Dmitry Furmanov
(1891–1926)
Chapayev
Photo of Vasily Chapayev.
Soviet stamp featuring Vasily Chapayev.

G

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Arkady Gaidar
(1904–1941)
Chuk and Gek
The Blue Cup
Timur and his Gang
Soviet stamp featuring Gaidar.
Garin.jpg Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky
(1852–1906)
Practical Training
Portrait by Israel Pass, 1905.
Bas-relief dedication at the Laspi Pass.
Илья Репин - Портрет Всеволод Михайлович Гаршин.jpg Vsevolod Garshin
(1855–1888)
Four Days
The Red Flower
The Red Flower
Photo of Garshin, 1877.
Gaito Gazdanov.jpg Gaito Gazdanov
(1903–1971)
An Evening with Claire
Night Roads
The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
First edition of An Evening with Claire
Yuri German
(1910–1967)
Ivan Lapshin
The Cause You Serve
Zinaida Nikolaevna Hippius ca. 1900.jpg Zinaida Gippius
(1869–1945)
The Devil's Doll
Roman-Tzarevich
Portrait by Ilya Repin
Anatoly Gladilin.jpg Anatoly Gladilin
(1935–2018)
Moscow Racetrack
Gladilin in Moscow, 2011.
The Soviet Union 1963 CPA 2812 stamp (Writers and poets of our Motherland. Feodor Gladkov (1883-1958), a Soviet and Russian socialist realist writer).jpg Fyodor Gladkov
(1883–1958)
Cement
Restless Youth
Dmitry Glukhovsky MOW 03-2011.jpg Dmitry Glukhovsky
(born 1979)
Metro 2033
Pyotr Gnedich 2.jpg Pyotr Gnedich
(1855–1925)
The Burden of this World
N.Gogol by F.Moller (early 1840s, Ivanovo) detail.jpg 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.jpg Ivan Goncharov
(1812–1891)
A Common Story
Oblomov
The Precipice
Title page of Oblomov
Title page of The Precipice
Maxim Gorky in 1935.jpg Maxim Gorky
(1868–1936)
Mother
Through Russia
Stories of 1922-1924
The Artamonov Business
The Life of Klim Samgin
First publication of The Life of Klim Samgin in Krasnaya Nov, 1927.
Nina Gorlanova
(born 1947)
Daniil Alexandrovich Granin.jpg Daniil Granin
(1919–2017)
Into the Storm
Those Who Seek
With Dmitry Medvedev, 2009.
Dmitry Vasilyevich Grigorovich.jpg 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.jpg Isabella Grinevskaya
(1864–1944)
Vasily Grossman
(1905–1964)
The Road
Life and Fate
Forever Flowing
Memorial plaque in Donetsk.
Guro selfport.jpg 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.jpg Andrei Gusev
(born 1952)
With Chronos' Permit
On the Edge of Magellanic Clouds
The World According to Novikoff
Andrei Gusev in Moscow, 2009.
Gusev.jpg Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky
(1867–1963)
The Land of the Fathers
The Land of the Children

H

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Herzen ge.jpg Alexander Herzen
(1812–1870)
Who is to Blame?
Statue of Herzen in Moscow.

I

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Ilf Petrov.jpg 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.
Alexey Ivanov1.jpg Alexei Ivanov
(born 1969)
Всеволод Вячеславович Иванов, 1930-е годы.jpg Vsevolod Ivanov
(1895–1963)
Armoured Train 14-69
U
The Kremlin
The Secret of Secrets

K

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Karamzin by Tropinin (1818, Tretyakov gallery).jpg Nikolay Karamzin
(1766–1826)
Poor Liza
"Poor Liza", painting by Orest Kiprensky, 1827.
Stamp featuring Karamzin.
Nikolay Nikolayevich Karazin.jpg Nikolay Karazin
(1842–1908)
The Two-Legged Wolf
From North to South
From North to South book cover.
Karonin.jpg Nikolay Karonin-Petropavlovsky
(1853–1892)
First Storm
Vladimir Karpov
(1922–2010)
The Commander
Anna Kashina In the Name of the Queen
Ivan Kataev.jpg 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 no204.jpg 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 in 1932.jpg Daniil Kharms
(1905–1942)
The Old Woman
Graffiti of Kharms on a wall in Kharkiv.
Caricature of Kharms by Antonovsky
Khvoshchinskaya.jpg Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya
(1824–1889)
The Boarding School Girl
Photograph, c1880s.
Engraving c1860s.
Sofia Khvoshchinskaya
(1824–1865)
City Folk and Country Folk
Resized Resized marussia w.jpg 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 Galaktyonovich Korolenko 3.jpg Vladimir Korolenko
(1853–1921)
Bad Company
Makar's Dream
The Blind Musician
The Korolenko Library in Kharkiv.
Sofja Wassiljewna Kowalewskaja 1.jpg 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.jpg Eugene Kozlovsky
(born 1946)
Vesevolod Vladimirovich Krestovsky.jpg Vsevolod Krestovsky
(1840–1895)
Knights of Industry
Krestovsky, c1870.
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky.jpg Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
(1887–1950)
Quadraturin
Anatoly Kudryavitsky.jpg Anatoly Kudryavitsky
(born 1954)
Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin 7.jpg Aleksandr Kuprin
(1870–1938)
The Duel
Yama: The Pit
The Bracelet of Garnets
A cartoon featuring Kuprin.
Photo of Kuprin.
Andrei Kurkow 02.jpg Andrey Kurkov
(born 1961)
Death and the Penguin
Penguin Lost
Ivan Afanasyevich Kushchevsky.jpg Ivan Kushchevsky
(1847–1876)
Nikolai Negorev
Portrait of Kushchevsky.
Kuzmin.jpg Mikhail Kuzmin
(1872–1936)
Wings
Portrait of Kuzmin by Alexander Golovin, 1910.
Photo of Kuzmin.
Anatoly Kuznetsov
(1929–1979)
Babi Yar

L

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Lazar Lagin
(1903–1979)
The Old Genie Hottabych
Latynina Yulia.jpg Yulia Latynina
(born 1966)
The Insider
Boris Lavrenyov
(1891–1953)
The Forty-First
The Heavenly Cap
Such a Simple Thing
The Courageous Heart
Lazhechnikov.jpg Ivan Lazhechnikov
(1792–1869)
The Heretic
Portrait of Lazhechnikov.
Leonov Kardovsky.jpg Leonid Leonov
(1899–1995)
The Badgers
Soviet River
The Thief
The Pyramid
Mikhail lermontov.jpg 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.
Serov Leskov.jpg Nikolai Leskov
(1831–1895)
The Cathedral Folk
The Sealed Angel
The Enchanted Wanderer
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Drawing of Leskov.
Alexander Ivanovich Levitov.jpg Alexander Levitov
(1835–1877)
Leatherhide the Cobbler
Levitov, c1860s.
Nikolay Leykin.jpg Nikolay Leykin
(1841–1906)
Our Folk Abroad
Photo of Leykin.
Личутин.jpg Vladimir Lichutin
(born 1940)
Eduard Limonov.jpg 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 MOW 03-2011.jpg Sergey Lukyanenko
(born 1968)
Night Watch
Day Watch
Twilight Watch
Last Watch
Photo, 2001.
LeoLuntz.jpg Lev Lunts
(1901–1924)
Native Land

M

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Machtet.jpg Grigori Machtet
(1852–1901)
Vladimir Makanin.jpg Vladimir Makanin
(1937–2017)
Baize-Covered Table With Decanter
Om1923.jpg Osip Mandelstam
(1891–1938)
The Egyptian Stamp
Mandelstam after arrest in 1934
Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak.jpg 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.
Анатолий Мариенгоф.jpg Anatoly Marienhof
(1897–1962)
Cynics
With the poet Sergei Yesenin, 1915.
Alexandra Marinina 2010.jpg Alexandra Marinina
(born 1957)
Boleslav Mikhailovich Markevich.jpg Boleslav Markevich
(1822–1884)
The Turning Point
Vladilen Mashkovtsev
(1929–1997)
Pavel Melnikov by Kramskoy.jpg Pavel Melnikov
(1818–1883)
Merezhkovsky.jpg Dmitry Merezhkovsky
(1865–1941)
Christ and Antichrist (trilogy)
Merezhkovsky (right), with his wife Zinaida Gippius and friend Dmitry Filosofov.
Portrait by Repin, 1900.
Daniil Lukich Mordovtsev.jpg Daniil Mordovtsev
(1830–1905)
The Tsar and the Hetman
Viktor Vasilyevich Muizhel.jpg Viktor Muyzhel
(1880–1924)
The Year
Viktor Muravin
(born 1929)
The Diary of Vikenty Angarov

N

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Monument to Nabokov at Montreux. Vladimir Nabokov
(1899–1977)
Mary
The Defense
The Gift
Lolita
Nabokov's first publication.
Yuri Nagibin
(1920–1994)
The Pipe
Arise and Walk
Narezhnyi Vasily Trofimovich.jpg Vasily Narezhny
(1780–1825)
A Russian Gil Blas
Nikolay Ivanovich Naumov.jpg Nikolay Naumov
(1838–1901)
Strength Breaks the Straw
Andrei Navrozov
(born 1956)
Viktor Nekrasov
(1911–1987)
Front-line Stalingrad
Kira Georgievna
Vasily Nemirovich Danchenko.jpg Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko
(1845–1936)
Peasant Tales of Russia
Alexandr Neverov 1925.jpg 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.
1977 CPA 4684.jpg Alexey Novikov-Priboy
(1877–1944)
Tsushima
The Captain
The Sea Beckons

O

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
The Soviet Union 1963 CPA 2833 stamp (Members of the Russian Academy of Science. Vladimir Obruchev (1863–1956), a Russian and Soviet geologist).jpg Vladimir Obruchev
(1863–1956)
Plutonia
Sannikov Land
Olga Obukhova
(born 1941)
PGRS 1 067 Odoevsky - crop.jpg 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.
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R1202-0019, Berlin, Palast der Republik, Bulat Okudshawa cropped.jpg Bulat Okudzhava
(1924–1997)
A Taste of Liberty
Good-bye, Schoolboy!
The Art of Needles and Sins
Stamp featuring Okudzhava.
Yury Olesha.jpg Yury Olesha
(1899–1960)
Envy
Three Fat Men
The Cherry Pit
1929 edition of Envy.
N Ostrovskiy.jpg Nikolai Ostrovsky
(1904–1936)
Born of the Storm
How the Steel Was Tempered
Stamp featuring Ostrovsky.
Vladimir Orlov
(1936–2014)
Danilov, the Violist
Mikhail Osorgin
(1878–1942)
Quiet Street
My Sister's Story
Valentin Ovechkin
(1904–1968)
Greetings from the Front

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Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Marinapalei.jpg Marina Palei
(born 1955)
Rendezvous
Palei in Komarovo.
Panaev.jpg Ivan Panaev
(1812–1862)
Lions in the Provinces
Portrait by Levitsky, 1856.
Avdotya Panaeva.jpg 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.
Paustovsky.jpg Konstantin Paustovsky
(1892–1968)
A Tale of Life (6 novel series)
Pyotr Pavlenko
(1899–1951)
Happiness
Steppe Sunlight
The Lost Son
Pavlov Oleg-Russian writer.JPG Oleg Pavlov
(1970–2018)
Karolina Pavlova 2.jpg Karolina Pavlova
(1807–1893)
A Double Life
A drawing of Pavlova.
Victor Pelevin
(born 1962)
Omon Ra
Petrushevskaya.JPG Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
(born 1938)
The Time: Night
Valentin Pikul
(1928–1990)
Pilnjak.jpg Boris Pilnyak
(1894–1938)
The Naked Year
The Death of the Army Commander
The Volga Falls into the Caspian Sea
Pisemsky by Repin.jpg 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)
Chevengur
Dzhan
The Foundation Pit
Happy Moscow
Boris Polevoy
(1908–1981)
He Came Back
We Are Soviet People
The Story of a Real Man
Nikolai Pomyalovsky by Nikolai Nevrev.jpg Nikolay Pomyalovsky
(1835–1863)
Seminary Sketches
An engraving of Pomyalovsky.
Ignaty Nikolayevich Potapenko-cropped.jpg Ignaty Potapenko
(1856–1929)
A Russian Priest
The General's Daughter
Potapenko (right), with Chekhov and Mamin-Sibiryak. c1895
Prigov.jpg Dmitri Prigov
(1940–2007)
Live in Moskow
Zahar Prilepin.jpg Zakhar Prilepin
(born 1975)
Prokhanov3.jpg Alexander Prokhanov
(born 1938)
Empire's Last Soldier
AleksandrPushkin.jpg Alexander Pushkin
(1799–1837)
The Queen of Spades
The Captain's Daughter
The first page from the serialized version of The Captain's Daughter.

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Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Radishchev color.jpg 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.
Remizov.jpg Aleksey Remizov
(1877–1957)
The Clock
Sisters of the Cross
The History of the Tinkling Cymbal and Sounding Brass
Fyodor Mikhailovich Reshetnikov 1.jpg Fyodor Reshetnikov
(1841–1871)
The Podlipnayans
Drawing of Reshetnikov.
Pant rom.jpg 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
Rubina, Dina.IMG 0212.JPG 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
Rybakov Vyacheslav 2006 11 13 001.jpg Vyacheslav Rybakov
(born 1954)
Artist
The Trial Sphere
Maria Rybakova
(born 1973)

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Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Irina Saburova
(1907–1979)
Because of the Violets
German Sadulaev
(born 1973)
I am a Chechen!
Ilya Salov.jpg Ilya Salov
(1834–1902)
Butuzka
Boris Viktorovich Savinkov.jpg Boris Savinkov
(1879–1925)
The Pale Horse
What Never Happened
Saltykov-Shedrin ME.jpg Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
(1826–1889)
The Golovlyov Family
The History of a Town
Modern Idyll
Old Years in Poshekhonye
Title page of the first edition of The Golovlyov Family.
Ugryum-Burcheyev from The History of a Town.
Sapgir.jpg Genrikh Sapgir
(1928–1999)
Sergey Terentyevich Semyonov 7.jpg Sergey Semyonov
(1868–1922)
Gluttons
The Servant
Semyonov, c1900.
Yulian Semyonov
(1931–1993)
Seventeen Instants of Spring
Alexander Serafimovich.jpg Alexander Serafimovich
(1863–1949)
Sand
Nikita
The Iron Flood
The Little Miner
Sergeyev-Tsensky.jpg Sergey Sergeyev-Tsensky
(1875–1958)
Brusilov's Break-Through
The Soviet Union 1988 CPA 5929 stamp (Birth centenary of Marietta Shaginyan, Soviet writer, historian and activist of Armenian descent).jpg Marietta Shaginyan
(1888–1982)
Mess-Mend
Varlam Shalamov
(1907–1982)
The Kolyma Tales
From the Shalamov Memorial Museum in Vologda.
Olga Shapir.jpg Olga Shapir
(1850–1916)
The Settlement
Schepkina-Kupernik by Repin.jpg Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik
(1874–1952)
Deborah
Alexander Konstantinovich Sheller.jpg Alexander Sheller
(1838–1900)
Putrid Moors
MichaelShishkin1209n.jpg Mikhail Shishkin
(born 1961)
In 2006.
In 2010
Vyacheslav Shishkov
(1873–1945)
Children of Darkness
Shmelyov Ivan.jpg Ivan Shmelyov
(1873–1950)
The Stone Age
Mikhail Sholokhov
(1905–1984)
And Quiet Flows the Don
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 3.jpg Stepan Skitalets
(1869–1941)
The Blacksmith
The Love of a Scene Painter
Skitalets (left) with fellow Sreda members.
Vasily Sleptsov 2.jpg 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
Sollogub.jpg Vladimir Sollogub
(1813–1882)
The Snowstorm
Sollogub with fellow contributors to Sovremennik.
Fyodor Sologub.jpg 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.jpg Vsevolod Solovyov
(1849–1903)
A solzhenitsin.JPG 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 20060313-2.jpg Vladimir Sorokin
(born 1955)
The Queue
Konstantin Mikhailovich Stanyukovich.jpg 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

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Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Tarasov-Rodionov.jpg Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov
(1885–1938)
Chocolate
Nadezhda Teffi
(1872–1952)
Time
Strangers
Close Friends
Teffi during World War 1.
Teleshov.jpg 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.jpg Sergey Terpigorev
(1841–1895)
The Ice Broke
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-S98599, Berlin, Deutscher Schriftsteller-Kongress.jpg Nikolay Tikhonov
(1896–1979)
War
VladTitov.JPG Vladislav Titov
(1934–1987)
Tatyana Tolstaya.jpg Tatyana Tolstaya
(born 1951)
The Slynx
White Walls
Brullov AKTolstoy.jpg Aleksey K. Tolstoy
(1817–1875)
Prince Serebrenni
Portrait by Ilya Repin.
Monument to Tolstoy.
ANTolstoy.jpg Aleksey N. Tolstoy
(1883–1945)
Buratino
Aelita
Peter the First
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin
Stamp featuring the character Buratino.
Ilya Efimovich Repin (1844-1930) - Portrait of Leo Tolstoy (1887).jpg 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.
Eduard Topol 2010.jpg 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.jpg Evgenia Tur
(1815–1892)
Antonina
The Shalonski Family
Turgenev Perov scanned.JPG 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.
Tiynyanov yuriyi.jpg Yury Tynyanov
(1894–1943)
Lieutenant Kijé

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Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
9.13.09AnyaUlinichByLuigiNovi.jpg Anya Ulinich
(born 1973)
Petropolis
Pavel Ulitin 1954.jpg Pavel Ulitin
(1918–1986)
Bookfest2 (crop).jpg Lyudmila Ulitskaya
(born 1943)
Sonechka
The Funeral Party
Medea and Her Children
Daniel Stein
Ludmila Ulitskaya.JPG
1884 Yaroshenko Portrait Schriftsteller G.I. Uspenskoje anagoria.JPG Gleb Uspensky
(1843–1902)
The Steam Chicken
Uspensky in his 20s, 1868.
Soviet stamp featuring Uspensky.
Nikolay Vasilyevich Uspensky.jpg Nikolay Uspensky
(1837–1889)
Porridge
The Village Schoolmaster

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Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Valuyev.jpg Pyotr Valuyev
(1815–1890)
Engraving of Valuev, 1865.
Konstantin Vaginov.jpg Konstantin Vaginov
(1899–1934)
Goat Song
Works and Days of Svistonov
First edition cover of Goat Song
Tatiana Vedenska.jpg Tatiana Vedenska
(born 1976)
Mikhail Veller 2005 09 07.jpg Mikhail Veller
(born 1948)
The Guru
Alexander Veltman, russian writer.jpg Alexander Veltman
(1800–1870)
The Wanderer
Veltman, c1830.
Anastasya Verbitskaya.jpg Anastasiya Verbitskaya
(1861–1928)
The Keys to Happiness
Verbitskaya, c1900.
Vikenty Vikentyevich Veresaev.jpg Vikenty Veresaev
(1867–1945)
Sisters
The Deadlock
In the Steppe
Painting of Veresayev by Sergey Malyutin, 1919.
Veselitskaya.jpg Lidia Veselitskaya
(1857–1936)
Mimi's Marriage
Igor Vishnevetsky May 1 2014.jpg Igor Vishnevetsky
(born 1964)
Leningrad
Non-Elective Affinities
Nikolai Virta
(1906–1976)
Alone
Georgi Vladimov
(1931–2003)
Faithful Ruslan
Vladimir Voinovich2.jpg Vladimir Voinovich
(1932–2018)
Moscow 2042
Private Ivan Chonkin
Z.Volkonskaya by O.Kiprenskiy (1830, Hermitage).jpg Zinaida Volkonskaya
(1792–1862)
The Dream: A Letter
A M Volkov.gif Alexander Volkov
(1891–1977)
The Wizard of the Emerald City
МаркоВовчок2.jpg Marko Vovchok
(1833–1907)
Ukrainian Folk Tales
Ukrainian stamp featuring Vovchok.
Julia Voznesenskaya
(1940–2015)
The Women's Decameron
Alexander Vvedensky circa 1940.jpg Alexander Vvedensky
(1904–1941)
Murderers You are Fools
Vvedensky after arrest in 1941

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Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
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 7.jpg Semyon Yushkevich
(1868–1927)
On the right with Yevgeny Chirikov.

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Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Mikhail Nikolayevich Zagoskin.jpg Mikhail Zagoskin
(1789–1852)
Tales of Three Centuries
Engraving of Zagoskin.
Sergey Zalygin
(1913–2000)
The South American Variant
Kustodiev Zamyatin.jpg Yevgeny Zamyatin
(1884–1937)
We
A Provincial Tale
A Provincial Tale book cover.
Zamyatin, c.1919.
Boris Zaitsev 7.jpg Boris Zaytsev
(1881–1972)
Anna
Илья Зданевич.jpg Ilia Zdanevich
(1894–1975)
Rapture
LavrovNA PtYVZhadovskoyGLM.jpg Yulia Zhadovskaya
(1824–1883)
The Backward Girl
Image-Vera Zhelikhovsky 4.jpg Vera Zhelikhovsky
(1835–1896)
The General's Will
Zhitkov Boris.jpg Boris Zhitkov
(1882–1938)
Viktor Vavich
First edition of Viktor Vavich
Maria Zhukova
(1804–1855)
Evenings on the Karpovka
Zinovy Zinik
(born 1945)
The Mushroom-Picker
Zinovieva-Annibal 01.jpg Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal
(1866–1907)
The Tragic Menagerie
Nikolay Nikolayevich Zlatovratsky.jpg Nikolay Zlatovratsky
(1845–1911)
Old Shadows
Zoshchenko.jpg Mikhail Zoshchenko
(1895–1958)
Youth Restored
Blue Book
Before Sunrise
Before Sunrise
Stamp featuring Zoshchenko.

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