List of Russian authors
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This is a list of authors who have written works of prose and poetry in the Russian language
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Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
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For separate lists by literary field:
- List of Russian language novelists
- List of Russian language playwrights
- List of Russian language poets
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- Alexander AblesimovAlexander AblesimovAleksander Onisimovich Ablesimov, was a Russian opera librettist, poet, dramatist, satirist and journalist.-Biography:Worked as copyist for Alexander Sumarokov. Published his fables and satirical poems...
(1742-1783), opera librettist, poet, dramatist, satirist and journalist - Fyodor AbramovFyodor AbramovFyodor Aleksandrovich Abramov was a Russian novelist and literary critic. His work focused on the difficult lives of the Russian peasant class. He was frequently reprimanded for deviations from Soviet policy on writing....
(1920-1983), novelist and short story writer, Two Winters and Three Summers - Alexander AfanasyevAlexander AfanasyevAlexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev was a Russian folklorist who recorded and published over 600 Russian folktales and fairytales, by far the largest folktale collection by any one man in the world...
(1826-1871), folklorist who recorded and published over 600 Russian folktales and fairytales - Alexander AfinogenovAlexander Afinogenov-Biography:Alexander was born in the town of Skopin, in Ryazan Oblast. He joined the CPSU in 1922. He obtained a degree in journalism in 1924, the year that he published his first play. In the 1920s he was a member and later director of the Proletkult's theatre...
(1904-1941), playwright, A Far Place - M. AgeyevM. AgeyevM. Ageyev is believed to be the nom-de-plume of Russian author Mark Lazarevich Levi , .-Biography:...
(1898-1973), novelist, Cocain RomanceCocain RomanceThe Cocain Romance, or Novel With Cocaine , is a mysterious Russian novel first published in 1934 in a Parisian émigré publication, Numbers, and subtitled "Confessions of a Russian opium-eater". Its author was given as M. Ageyev... - Chinghiz AitmatovChinghiz AitmatovChyngyz Aitmatov was a Soviet and Kyrgyz author who wrote in both Russian and Kyrgyz. He was the best known figure in Kyrgyzstan's literature.- Life :...
(1928-2008), Kyrgyz novelist and short story writer, JamilyaJamilyaJamilya is the first major novel by Chingiz Aytmatov, published originally in Russian in 1958. The novel is told from the point of view of a fictional Kyrgyz artist, Seit, who tells the story by looking back on his childhood... - David AizmanDavid Aizman-Biography:David Aizman was born in Nikolayev, a coastal city in what is now Ukraine. His older brothers were revolutionary activists. He went to Paris in 1896 to study painting. In 1898 he and his wife, a Russian-Jewish physician, moved to the French countryside. While living in France, he made...
(1869-1922), Russian-Jewish writer and playwright - Bella Akhmadulina (1937-2010), modern poet, The String
- Anna AkhmatovaAnna AkhmatovaAnna Andreyevna Gorenko , better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova , was a Russian and Soviet modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon.Harrington p11...
(1889-1966), acmeist poet, Poem Without a Hero - Ivan AksakovIvan AksakovIvan Sergeyevich Aksakov was a Russian littérateur and notable Slavophile. He was the son of Sergey Aksakov and younger brother of Konstantin Aksakov. He was born in what is now Bashkortostan....
(1823-1886), journalist, notable slavophileSlavophileSlavophilia was an intellectual movement originating from 19th century that wanted the Russian Empire to be developed upon values and institutions derived from its early history. Slavophiles were especially opposed to the influences of Western Europe in Russia. There were also similar movements in... - Konstantin AksakovKonstantin AksakovKonstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov was a Russian critic and writer, one of the earliest and most notable Slavophiles. He wrote plays, social criticism, and histories of the ancient Russian social order...
(1817-1860), playwright, critic and writer, notable slavophile - Sergey Aksakov (1791-1859), novelist and miscellaneous writer, The Scarlet FlowerThe Scarlet FlowerThe Scarlet Flower , also known as The Little Scarlet Flower or The Little Red Flower, is a Russian folk tale written by Sergey Aksakov...
- Vasily AksyonovVasily AksyonovVasily Pavlovich Aksyonov was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He is known in the West as the author of The Burn and Generations of Winter , a family saga depicting three generations of the Gradov family between 1925 and 1953.-Early life:Vasily Aksyonov was...
(1932-2009), novelist and short story writer, Generations of WinterGenerations of WinterGenerations of Winter is a novel by Russian writer Vasily Aksyonov.Many critics have praised Generations of Winter as a new Doctor Zhivago large-scale Russian novel, which tells the story of a Russian family Gradov struggling to survive in the Stalinist era.As the Wall Street Journal has put it:... - Boris AkuninBoris AkuninBoris Akunin is the pen name of Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili , a Russian writer. He is an essayist, literary translator and writer of detective fiction.-Life and career:...
(born 1956), author, essayist, translator and literary critic, Erast Fandorin seriesErast FandorinErast Petrovich Fandorin is a fictional 19th-century Russian detective and the hero of a series of Russian historical detective novels by Boris Akunin. The first novel was published in Russia in 1998, and the latest was published in December 2009... - Mikhail AlbovMikhail Albov-Biography:Albov was born in St Petersburg in 1851. From an early age he showed a love for reading. He was especially interested in foreign works such as Robinson Crusoe and David Copperfield. Nikolay Gogol's novel Dead Souls also made a deep impression on him...
, (1851-1911), novelist and short story writer - Mark AldanovMark AldanovMark Aldanov was a Russian emigrant writer, known for his historical novels.Mark Landau was born in Kiev in the family of a rich Jewish industrialist. He graduated the physical-mathematical and law departments of Kiev University. He published serious research papers in chemistry. In 1919 he...
(died 1957), historical novelist - Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916), Russian Jewish writer, Wandering StarsWandering Stars (novel)Wandering Stars is a novel by Sholem Aleichem, serialized in Warsaw newspapers from 1909 to 1911. In it, Leibel, the son of a wealthy shtetl family, falls in love with cantor's daughter Reizel, and both fall for a traveling Yiddish theatre group...
- Margarita AligerMargarita AligerMargarita Iosifovna Aliger was a famous Soviet poet, translator, and journalist.-Biography:She was born in Odessa in a family of Jewish office workers; the real family name was Zeliger . As a teenager she worked at a chemical plant...
(1915-1992), poet, translator, and journalist, Zoya - Yuz AleshkovskyYuz AleshkovskyIosif Efimovich Aleshkovsky , known as Yuz Aleshkovsky , is a modern Russian writer, poet, playwright and performer of his own songs.-Biography:...
(born 1929), writer, poet, playwright and performer of his own songs, Kangaroo - Alexander Amfiteatrov (1862-1938), writer and historian, Napoleonder
- Daniil AndreyevDaniil AndreyevDaniil Leonidovich Andreyev was a Russian writer, poet, and Christian mystic.- Biography :...
(1906-1959), writer, poet, and Christian mystic, Roza MiraRoza MiraRoza Mira is the title of the main book by Russian mystic Daniil Andreev. It is also the name of the predicted new universal religion, to emerge and unite all people of the world before the advent of the Antichrist, described by Andreev in his book... - Leonid AndreyevLeonid AndreyevLeonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer. He is one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period in Russian history...
(1871-1919), novelist, playwright and short story writer, The Seven Who Were HangedThe Seven Who Were HangedThe Seven That Were Hanged is a 1909 novel by Russian author Leonid Andreyev. Herman Bernstein translated the novel from Russian to English.-Plot:... - Irakly AndronikovIrakly AndronikovIrakly Luarsabovich Andronikov was a Russian literature historian, philologist, and media personality....
(1908-1990), writer, historian, philologist and media personality - Pavel AnnenkovPavel AnnenkovPavel Vasilyevich Annenkov was a significant Russian literary critic and memoirist.-Biography:Annenkov was born into a wealthy landowning family in Moscow. He attended the philological faculty of St Petersburg University...
(1813-1887), best known for his memoirs The Extraordinary Decade - Innokenty AnnenskyInnokenty AnnenskyInnokentiy Fyodorovich Annensky was a poet, critic and translator, representative of the first wave of Russian Symbolism...
(1855-1909), poet, critic and translator, representative of the first wave of Russian SymbolismRussian SymbolismRussian symbolism was an intellectual and artistic movement predominant at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. It represented the Russian branch of the symbolist movement in European art, and was mostly known for its contributions to Russian poetry.-Russian symbolism in... - Pavel AntokolskyPavel AntokolskyPavel Grigoryevich Antokolsky - a Russian poet, a nephew of Mark Antokolsky. His poem, "All we who in his name..." was written in 1956, the year of Nikita Khrushchev's "secret speech" condemning Stalinism, and widely circulated among student groups in the 1950s.Pavel Antokolsky translated in...
(1896-1978), poet, All We Who in His Name - Aleksey ApukhtinAleksey Apukhtin-Biography:Following the traditions of amorous gypsy romance, he introduced into this genre much of his own artistic temperament. Many of his romances were set to music by his friend Pyotr Tchaikovsky and by other well-known composers .Apukhtin's reputation as a poet was further strengthened in...
(1840-1893), poet and writer, From Death to Life - Maria ArbatovaMaria ArbatovaMaria Ivanovna Arbatova born July 17, 1957, is a Russian novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, journalist, talkshow host, politician, and one of Russia's most widely known feminists in the 1990s.-Early life:...
(born 1957), novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet and journalist - Aleksei ArbuzovAleksei ArbuzovAleksei Nikolaevich Arbuzov was a Soviet playwright.Arbuzov was born in Moscow, but his family moved to Petrograd in 1914. Orphaned at the age of eleven, he found salvation in the theater, and at fourteen he began to work in the Mariinsky Theatre...
(1908-1986), playwright, A Long Road - Mikhail ArtsybashevMikhail ArtsybashevMikhail Petrovich Artsybashev ; was a Russian writer and playwright, and a major proponent of the literary style known as naturalism...
(1878-1927), NaturalistNaturalism (literature)Naturalism was a literary movement taking place from the 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character...
writer and playwright, SaninSanin (novel)Sanin is the novel by Russian writer Mikhail Artsybashev. It did have an interesting existing history being written by a 26 year old writer in 1904 - at the pick of the varied changes in Russian society and published and criticized in 1907, the year of one of the most horrific political reactions in... - Nikolai Aseev (1889-1963), Futurist poet, Night Flute
- Viktor Astafyev (1924-2001), novelist and short story writer, Sad DetectiveSad DetectiveThe Sad Detective is a story of notable Russian writer Viktor Astafyev. The novel was firstly published in January 1986 issue of Oktyabr magazine. The book shows the urban life in stagnation-era Soviet Union as seen by the protagonist, Russian policeman Soshnin. Main topics of the Sad Detective...
- Lera AuerbachLera AuerbachLera Auerbach is a Russian-born American composer and pianist.-Early life & education:Auerbach was born in Chelyabinsk, a city in the Urals bordering Siberia. She holds degrees in piano and composition from The Juilliard School, where she studied piano with Joseph Kalichstein and composition...
(Averbakh) (born 1963), poet, writer and composer - Arkady Averchenko (1881-1925), satirical writer and playwright, Ninochka
- Gennadiy AygiGennadiy AygiGennadiy Nikolaevich Aygi was a Chuvash poet and a translator. His poetry is written both in Chuvash and in Russian.He was born in the village of Shaimurzino , Chuvashia and started writing poetry in the Chuvash language in 1958....
(1934-2006), ChuvashChuvash peopleThe Chuvash people are a Turkic ethnic group, native to an area stretching from the Volga Region to Siberia. Most of them live in Republic of Chuvashia and surrounding areas, although Chuvash communities may be found throughout all Russia.- Etymology :...
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- Isaac BabelIsaac BabelIsaak Emmanuilovich Babel was a Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry, Story of My Dovecote, and Tales of Odessa, all of which are considered masterpieces of Russian literature...
(1894-1940), short story writer, The Odessa TalesThe Odessa TalesThe Odessa Tales is a collection of short stories by Isaac Babel, situated in Odessa in the last days of the Russian empire and the Russian Revolution. Published individually in magazines throughout 1923 and 1924 and collected into a book in 1931, they deal primarily with a group of Jewish thugs...
, Red CavalryRed CavalryRed Cavalry is a collection of short stories by Russian author Isaac Babel about the 1st Cavalry Army. The stories take place during the Polish-Soviet war and are based on Babel's own diary, which he maintained when he was a journalist assigned to the Semyon Budyonny's First Cavalry Army.First... - Eduard BagritskyEduard BagritskyEduard Bagritsky , real name Dzyubin , was an important Russian and Soviet poet of the Constructivist School.He was a Neo-Romantic early in his poetic career; he was also a part of the so-called Odessa School of Russian writers...
(1895-1934), constructivistConstructivism (art)Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1919, which was a rejection of the idea of autonomous art. The movement was in favour of art as a practice for social purposes. Constructivism had a great effect on modern art movements of the 20th...
poet, February - Grigory BaklanovGrigory BaklanovGrigory Yakovlevich Baklanov was a Russian novelist and editor, well known for his novels about World War II and as the editor of the literary monthly Znamya during the time of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms.-Biography:Baklanov was born Grigory Yakovlevich Friedman in Voronezh...
(1923-2009), novelist and magazine editor, Forever Nineteen - Mikhail BakhtinMikhail BakhtinMikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language...
(1895-1975), philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar - Mikhail BakuninMikhail BakuninMikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was a well-known Russian revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism. He has also often been called the father of anarchist theory in general. Bakunin grew up near Moscow, where he moved to study philosophy and began to read the French Encyclopedists,...
(1814-1876), revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchismCollectivist anarchismCollectivist anarchism is a revolutionary doctrine that advocates the abolition of both the state and private ownership of the means of production... - Konstantin BalmontKonstantin BalmontKonstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont was a Russian symbolist poet, translator, one of the major figures of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.-Biography:Konstantin Balmont was born in v...
(1867-1942), major symbolist poet and translator, Burning Buildings - Jurgis BaltrušaitisJurgis BaltrušaitisJurgis Baltrušaitis was a Lithuanian Symbolist poet and translator, who wrote his works in Lithuanian and Russian. In addition to his important contributions to Lithuanian literature, he was noted as a political activist and diplomat...
(1873-1944), poet and translator, The Pendulum - Evgeny BaratynskyEvgeny BaratynskyYevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky was lauded by Alexander Pushkin as the finest Russian elegiac poet. After a long period when his reputation was on the wane, Baratynsky was rediscovered by Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky as a supreme poet of thought.- Life :Of noble ancestry, Baratynsky was...
(1800-1844), poet, The Gipsy - Natalya BaranskayaNatalya BaranskayaNatalya Vladimirovna Baranskaya was a Soviet writer of short stories or novellas. She was born in 1908 in Russia, and graduated in 1929 from Moscow State University with degrees in philology and ethnology. After the war, while she raised two children alone since her husband was killed in 1943, she...
(1908-2004), novelist and short story writer, A Week Like Any Other - Ivan BarkovIvan BarkovIvan Semyonovich Barkov was a Russian poet, the author of erotic "Shameful Odes". He was a student of Mikhail Lomonosov, whose works he frequently parodied. He was also a translator and editor at the Russian Academy of Sciences.-Biography:...
(1732-1768), comic and erotic poet, Luka Mudischev - Anna BarkovaAnna BarkovaAnna Alexandrovna Barkova , July 16, 1901 – April 29, 1976, was a Soviet poet, journalist, playwright, essayist, memoirist, and writer of fiction. She was imprisoned for more than 20 years in the Gulag.-Early life:...
(1901-1976), poet and writer, GulagGulagThe Gulag was the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems. While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of...
survivor - Agniya BartoAgniya BartoAgniya Lvovna Barto, , was a Soviet Jewish poet and children's writer.-Biography:Agniya was born Getel Leybovna Volova to the jewish family of a Moscow veterinarian named Lev Nikolaevich Volov. She studied at a ballet school. She liked poetry very much and soon started to write her own, trying to...
(1906-1981), Russian-Jewish poet and children's writer - Alexander BashlachevAlexander BashlachevAlexander Nickolaevich Bashlachev was a Russian poet, musician, guitarist, and singer-songwriter.-Early life:Bashlachev was born in Cherepovets, Soviet Union, the son of Nikolai Bashlachev and Nellie Bashlacheva....
(1960-1988), poet, musician, guitarist, and singer-songwriter - Konstantin BatyushkovKonstantin BatyushkovKonstantin Nikolayevich Batyushkov was a Russian poet, essayist and translator of the Romantic era.-Biography:The early years of Konstantin Batyushkov's life are difficult to reconstruct...
(1787-1855), poet, essayist and translator - Pavel BazhovPavel BazhovPavel Petrovich Bazhov was a Russian writer.Bazhov is best known for his collection of fairy-tale stories The Malachite Casket , based on the Urals folklore and published in the Soviet Union in 1939. In 1944, the translation of the collection into English was published in New York and London...
(1879-1950), fairy tale author, The Malachite Casket - Demyan BednyDemyan BednyDemyan Bedny, was the pen name of Soviet Russian poet, Bolshevik and satirist Yefim Alekseevich Pridvorov .-Life:Efim Pridvorov was born to a poor family in Gubovka, in what is now Kirovohrad Oblast in Ukraine. He attended the village school followed by a feldsher training college in Kiev. This...
(1883-1945), poet and satirist, New Testament Without Defects - Alexander Bek (1903-1972), novelist, And Not to Die
- Vissarion BelinskyVissarion BelinskyVissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky was a Russian literary critic of Westernizing tendency. He was an associate of Alexander Herzen, Mikhail Bakunin , and other critical intellectuals...
(1811-1848), writer, literary critic and philosopher - Vasily BelovVasily BelovVasily Ivanovich Belov is a Soviet/Russian writer, poet and dramatist, who published more than 60 books which sold 7 million copies...
(born 1932), writer, poet and dramatist, Eves, The Year of a Major Breakdown - Andrei BelyAndrei BelyAndrei Bely was the pseudonym of Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev , a Russian novelist, poet, theorist, and literary critic. His novel Petersburg was regarded by Vladimir Nabokov as one of the four greatest novels of the 20th century.-Biography:...
(1880-1934), symbolistSymbolismSymbolism is the applied use of symbols. It is a representation that carries a particular meaning. It is a device in literature where an object represents an idea.A symbol is an object, action, or idea that represents something other than itself....
poet and writer, PetersburgPetersburg (novel)Petersburg or St. Petersburg is the title of Andrei Bely's masterpiece, a Symbolist work that foreshadows Joyce's Modernist ambitions. For various reasons the novel never received much attention and was not translated into English until 1959 by John Cournos, over 45 years after it was written,... - Alexander Belyayev (1884-1942), science fiction author, Amphibian ManAmphibian ManAmphibian Man is perhaps the best-known novel by Alexander Beliaev, a Soviet Russian science fiction writer. It was published in 1928.The book tells a story of a young man named Ichtiandr who as a child received a life-saving transplant - a set of shark gills...
- Nina BerberovaNina BerberovaNina Nikolayevna Berberova was a Russian writer who chronicled the lives of Russian exiles in Paris in her short stories and novels. She visited post-Soviet Russia and died in Philadelphia.-Biographical Sketch:...
(1901-1993), novelist and short story writer, The Book of Happiness - Olga Bergholz (1910-1975), poet, playwright and memoirist
- Alexander Bestuzhev (1797-1837), novelist, short story writer and Decembrist, An Evening on Bivouac
- Aleksei Bibik (1878-1976), working-class novelist and short story writer
- Andrei BitovAndrei BitovAndrei Georgiyevich Bitov is a prominent Russian writer. Many consider him among the foremost Russian writers of the late 20th century.Among the novels that solidified his reputation are: Flying-Away Monakhov, Life in Windy Weather, Pushkin House, Captive of the Caucasus, and The Monkey Link.Bitov...
(born 1937), novelist and short story writer, Pushkin House - Nikolay BlagoveshchenskyNikolay BlagoveshchenskyNikolay Alexandrovich Blagoveshchensky , , was a Russian writer and journalist.-Early life:...
(1837-1889), writer, journalist and biographer - Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891), a founder of TheosophyTheosophyTheosophy, in its modern presentation, is a spiritual philosophy developed since the late 19th century. Its major themes were originally described mainly by Helena Blavatsky , co-founder of the Theosophical Society...
and the Theosophical SocietyTheosophical SocietyThe Theosophical Society is an organization formed in 1875 to advance the spiritual principles and search for Truth known as Theosophy. The original organization, after splits and realignments has several successors...
, The Secret Doctrine, Isis Unveiled - Alexander BlokAlexander BlokAlexander Alexandrovich Blok was a Russian lyrical poet.-Life and career:Blok was born in Saint Petersburg, into a sophisticated and intellectual family. Some of his relatives were literary men, his father being a law professor in Warsaw, and his maternal grandfather the rector of Saint Petersburg...
(1880-1921), major poet, The TwelveThe TwelveThe Twelve is a controversial long poem by Aleksandr Blok. Written early in 1918, the poem was one of the first poetic responses to the October Revolution of 1917.-Background:... - Pyotr BoborykinPyotr Boborykin-Biography:Boborykin was born into the family of a landowner. He studied at Kazan State University and the Dorpat University, but he never completed his education. He made his debut as a playwright in 1860. In 1863-1864 he published an autobiographical novel, The Pathway...
(1836-1921), writer, playwright and journalist, China Town - Oleg BogayevOleg BogayevOleg Anatolyevich Bogayev , born 1970, is a Russian playwright based in Yekaterinburg. He has been described by Moscow Times theatre critic John Freedman as "one of the first and best-known students to graduate from [Nikolai] Kolyada’s playwriting course at the Yekaterinburg State Theatre...
(born 1970), playwright, The Russian National Postal Service - Alexander BogdanovAlexander BogdanovAlexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov –7 April 1928, Moscow) was a Russian physician, philosopher, science fiction writer, and revolutionary of Belarusian ethnicity....
(1873-1928), novelist, physician, economist and philosopher, Red StarRed Star (novel)Red Star is Alexander Bogdanov's 1908 science fiction novel about a communist utopia on Mars. Set in early Russia during the Revolution of 1905 and on socialist Mars, the novel tells the story of Leonid, a scientist-revolutionary who travels to Mars to learn and experience their socialist system... - Vladimir BogomolovVladimir BogomolovVladimir Osipovich Bogomolov was a Soviet writer.When Bogomolov was still in school the Soviet Union was drawn into World War II. He joined the Army after completing only seven grades. He started the war as a private; when the war was over, he had a company under his command. He was wounded and...
(1926-2003), novelist and short story writer, IvanIvan (short story)Ivan is a 1957 short story written by Vladimir Bogomolov. The story relates the experiences of a 12-year-old orphan named Ivan Bondarev during World War II. The story was adapted into a successful film in 1962, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.... - Vladimir BogorazVladimir BogorazVladimir Germanovich Bogoraz , best known under literary pseudonym N.A. Tan was a Russian revolutionary, writer and anthropologist, especially known for his studies of the Chukchi people in Siberia....
(1865-1936), revolutionary, writer and anthropologist - Yuri BondarevYuri Bondarev-Biography:Bondarev took part in World War II as an artillery officer and became a member of the CPSU in 1944. He graduated in 1951 from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute...
(born 1924), novelist and short story writer, The Shore - Leonid BorodinLeonid BorodinLeonid Ivanovich Borodin was a Russian novelist and journalist. Born in Irkutsk, Borodin was a Christian and a Soviet dissident. In the 1960s he belonged to the anti-Communist All-Russian Social-Christian Union...
(born 1938), novelist and journalist, The Story of a Strange Time - Vasily BotkinVasily BotkinVasily Petrovich Botkin was a Russian essayist, literary, art and music critic, translator and publicist.-Early life:Vasily was the son of a wealthy merchant and the brother of the well known physician Sergey Botkin...
(1812-1869), critic, essayist and translator - Valeri Brainin-PassekValeri BraininValeri Brainin , Russian/German musicologist, music manager, composer, and poet....
(born 1948), Russian/German musicologist, music manager, composer and poet - Osip BrikOsip BrikOsip Maksimovich Brik , , Russian avant garde writer and literary critic, was one of the most important members of the Russian formalist school, though he also identified himself as one of the Futurists....
(1888-1945), Russian avant garde writer and literary critic - Joseph BrodskyJoseph BrodskyIosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky , was a Russian poet and essayist.In 1964, 23-year-old Brodsky was arrested and charged with the crime of "social parasitism" He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters...
(1940-1996), poet and essayist, Nobel Prize Winner - Valery BryusovValery BryusovValery Yakovlevich Bryusov was a Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian. He was one of the principal members of the Russian Symbolist movement.-Biography:...
(1873-1924), poet, novelist and short story writer, The Fiery AngelThe Fiery AngelThe Fiery Angel is* The Fiery Angel , a novel by the Russian poet Valery Bryusov* The Fiery Angel , an opera by Sergei Prokofiev based on Bryusov's novel... - Yury BuidaYury BuidaYury Vasilyevich Buida is a Russian author. He was born in Znamensk in the Kaliningrad region of Russia. In 1994 his novel The Zero Train was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize...
(born 1954), novelist and short story writer, The Zero Train - Vladimir BukovskyVladimir BukovskyVladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky is a leading member of the dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s, writer, neurophysiologist, and political activist....
(born 1942), writer and dissident - Mikhail BulgakovMikhail BulgakovMikhaíl Afanásyevich Bulgákov was a Soviet Russian writer and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, which The Times of London has called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.-Biography:Mikhail Bulgakov was born on...
(1891-1940), major writer and playwright, The Master and MargaritaThe Master and MargaritaThe Master and Margarita is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven around the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics consider the book to be one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, and one of the foremost Soviet satires, directed against a... - Faddey Bulgarin (1789-1859), Polish-born writer and journalist
- Kir BulychevKir BulychevKir Bulychev or Bulychov was a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mojeiko , who was a Soviet and Russian science fiction writer and historian. He received a Master's degree in 1965 and a Ph.D. in 1981 and wrote his first science fiction story in 1965...
(1934-2003), science fiction author, Half a LifeHalf a Life (Kir Bulychev)Half a Life is an collection of science fiction short stories by Russian novelist Kir Bulychev.-Content:The longest of the stories is also called Half a Life and tells the story of a Russian woman kidnapped by an alien spacecraft in the years following the second world war... - Ivan Bunin (1870-1953), first Russian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, The VillageThe Village (Ivan Bunin novel)The Village is a short novel by a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin written in 1909 and first published in Sovremenny Mir journal under the title Novelet...
- Anna BuninaAnna BuninaAnna Petrovna Bunina was a Russian poet. She was the first major Russian woman writer, and the first Russian woman to make a living solely from literary work. She was an ancestor of Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin.-Biography:...
(1774-1829), poet, Though Poverty's No Stain - David BurliukDavid BurliukDavid Davidovich Burliuk was a Russian avant-garde artist of Ukrainian origin , book illustrator, publicist, and author associated with Russian Futurism...
(1882-1967), illustrator, publicist and author associated with Russian Futurism
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- Dimitrie CantemirDimitrie CantemirDimitrie Cantemir was twice Prince of Moldavia . He was also a prolific man of letters – philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer, and geographer....
(1673-1723), philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer and geographer - Catherine the GreatCatherine II and operaCatherine II the Great , Empress of Russia was not only an opera fan, a patroness of the arts, music and theatre, but also an opera librettist...
, (1729-1796), patroness of the arts, music and theatre, and opera librettist, FeveyFeveyFevey is an opera by Vasily Pashkevich to a Russian libretto by Catherine II of Russia.Empress Catherine II had literary ambitions and wrote nine opera librettos. This one, an allegorical fairy tale, was called The Story of Tsarevich Fevey... - Pyotr Chaadayev (1794-1856), philosopher, Philosophical Letters
- Aleksey ChapyginAleksey ChapyginAleksey Pavlovich Chapygin was a Russian writer, and one of the founders of the Soviet historical novel.-Biography:Chapygin was born in the Olonets region. His northern peasant origins are reflected in his works. His first book of stories, Those Who Keep Aloof, and his novel The White Hermitage,...
(1870-1937), novelist and short story writer, Stepan Razin - Lidia CharskayaLidia CharskayaLidia Alekseyevna Charskaya , January 31, 1875 – March 18, 1938, was a Russian writer and actress. Charskaya was her pseudonym; her real last name was Churilova.-Biography:...
(1875-1938), popular novelist - Alexander ChekhovAlexander ChekhovAlexander Pavlovich Chekhov , , was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and memoirist, and the elder brother of Anton Chekhov.-Biography:...
(1855-1913), writer and journalist - Anton ChekhovAnton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
(1860-1904), short story writer and playwright, The Cherry OrchardThe Cherry OrchardThe Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements of farce; however, Stanislavski insisted on... - Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828-1889), writer, journalist and politician, What Is to Be Done?
- Evgeny Chirikov (1864-1932), novelist, short story writer and playwright, The Magician
- Sasha Chorny (1880-1932), poet, satirist and children's writer
- Korney ChukovskyKorney ChukovskyKorney Ivanovich Chukovsky was one of the most popular children's poets in the Russian language. His poems, Doctor Aybolit , The Giant Roach , The Crocodile , and Wash'em'clean have been favourites with many generations of Russophone children...
(1882-1969), popular children's poet, Wash'em'cleanMoidodyrMoydodyr is a 1923 poem for children by Korney Chukovsky about a magical creature by the same name. The name may be literally be translated as "Wash'em'clean", or "Clean 'til Holes".... - Lydia ChukovskayaLydia ChukovskayaLydia Korneievna Chukovskaya was a Soviet writer and poet. Her deeply personal writings reflect the human cost of Soviet totalitarianism, and she devoted much of her career to defending dissidents such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov...
(1907-1996), writer and poet, Sofia PetrovnaSofia PetrovnaSofia Petrovna is a novella by Russian author Lydia Chukovskaya, written in the late 1930s in the Soviet Union. It is notable as one of the few surviving accounts of the Great Purge actually written during the purge era.-Synopsis:... - Georgy ChulkovGeorgy ChulkovGeorgy Ivanovich Chulkov was a Russian Symbolist poet, editor, writer and critic. In 1906 he created and popularized the theory of Mystical Anarchism.-Biography:...
(1879-1939), poet, editor, writer and critic
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- Denis DavydovDenis DavydovDenis Vasilyevich Davydov was a Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who invented a specific genre – hussar poetry noted for its hedonism and bravado – and spectacularly designed his own life to illustrate such poetry.-Biography:...
(1784-1839), soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars - Vladimir DalVladimir DalVladimir Ivanovich Dal was one of the greatest Russian language lexicographers. He was a founding member of the Russian Geographical Society. He knew at least six languages including Turkic and is considered to be one of the early Turkologists...
(1801-1872), writer and lexicographer, Explanatory Dictionary - Yuli DanielYuli DanielYuli Markovich Daniel was a Soviet dissident writer, poet, translator and political prisoner.He frequently wrote under the pseudonyms Nikolay Arzhak and Yu. Petrov .-Early life and World War II:...
(1925-1988), dissident writer, poet and translator, This is Moscow Speaking - Grigory DanilevskyGrigory Danilevsky-Life:Born into the family of an impoverished landowner, Petr Ivanovich Danilevsky, in the Izyumsky district of Sloboda Ukraine, Grigory was educated in the Moscow Dvoryansky institut from 1841 to 1846, then studied law at Saint Petersburg University...
(1829-1890), historical and ethnographical novelist, Moscow in Flames - Anton Delvig (1798-1831), poet, journalist and magazine editor
- Grigoriy DemidovtsevGrigoriy DemidovtsevGrigoriy Demidovtsev is the pen name of Grigoriy Anatolyevich Petrov , a Russian fiction writer and a playwright...
(born 1960), writer and playwright - Andrey DementyevAndrey Dementyev (poet)Andrey Dmitriyevich Dementyev is a Russian and Soviet poet, a laureate of Lenin’s Young Communist League Award , a USSR State Prize , and Bunin Prize ....
(born 1928), poet and writer - Regina DerievaRegina derievaRegina Derieva is a Russian poet and writer who has published twenty books of poetry, essays, and prose. Derieva currently lives in Sweden....
(born 1949), poet, writer and essayist - Gavrila Derzhavin (1743-1816), poet and statesman, Let the Thunder of Victory Sound!
- Ivan DmitrievIvan DmitrievIvan Ivanovich Dmitriev was a Russian statesman and poet associated with the sentamentalist movement in Russian literature.Dmitriev was born at his father's estate in the government of Simbirsk...
(1760-1837), sentamentalistSentimentalismSentimentalism is used in different ways:* Sentimentalism , a theory in moral epistemology concerning how one knows moral truths; also known as moral sense theory* Sentimentalism , a form of literary discourse...
poet and Russian Minister of Justice - Valentina DmitryevaValentina DmitryevaValentina Iovovna Dmitryeva was a Russian/Soviet writer, teacher, medical doctor and revolutionary.-Early life:...
(1859-1947), writer, doctor and teacher, Hveska, the Doctor's Watchman - Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836-1861), literary critic, journalist, poet and essayist
- Leonid DobychinLeonid DobychinLeonid Ivanovich Dobychin ) was a Russian writer.- Early life :The author's father was Ivan Andrianovich Dobychin , who in 1896 moved the family to Dvinsk ; his mother, Anna Aleksandrovna, was a well-known midwife in Dvinsk. Leonid had two younger brothers and two sisters...
(1894-1936), novelist, The Town of N - Yevgeniy DolmatovskyYevgeniy DolmatovskyYevgeniy Aronovich Dolmatovsky was a Soviet poet and a Russian popular song lyricist. He was born and died in Moscow.-Examples of his songs:* Ballad of the Siberian Land - 1947* Yearning for the Motherland - 1948* Song of the Forests （music by Domitri Shostakovich, Opus 81） - 1949** The Pioneers...
(1915-1994) poet and songwriter - Yury Dombrovsky (1909-1978), writer and Gulag survivor, The Keeper of Antiquities
- Vlas DoroshevichVlas DoroshevichVlas Mikhailovich Doroshevich , born April 17, 1864 – died February 22, 1922, was one of Russia's most popular and widely read journalists, and a novelist, essayist, drama critic, and short story writer.-Early life:...
(1864-1922), journalist, writer and drama critic, The Way of the Cross - Lyubov DostoyevskayaLyubov DostoyevskayaLyubov Fyodorovna Dostoyevskaya was a Russian writer, memoirist and a second daughter of famous writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna. Their first, Sofiya, was born in 1868 and died the same year.Dostoyevskaya was a nervous child and cried a lot...
(1869-1926), novelist and biographer, The Emigrant - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), major novelist, Crime and PunishmentCrime and PunishmentCrime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. This is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his...
, The Brothers KaramazovThe Brothers KaramazovThe Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880... - Mikhail DostoyevskyMikhail DostoyevskyMikhail Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky , , was a Russian short story writer, publisher, literary critic and an elder brother of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The two of them were only a year apart in age and spent childhood and youth together...
(1820-1864), writer, critic and editor, VremyaVremya (magazine)Vremya was a monthly magazine published by Fyodor Dostoyevsky under the editorship of his brother Mikhail Dostoyevsky, as Fyodor himself, due to his status as a former convict, was unable to be the official editor.-Publication history:... - Sergei Dovlatov (1941-1990), Novelist, short story writer and journalist, AffiliateAffiliate (novel)Affiliate is a novel by the Russian writer Sergei Dovlatov. It was written in 1990 and first published in America.-Plot introduction:...
- Spiridon DrozhzhinSpiridon Drozhzhin-Biography:Drozhzhin was born in the village of Nizovka, part of what is now Tver Oblast. His poems were first published in 1873. The son of a serf, he earned renown as a talented self-educated poet. He welcomed the October Revolution, which he saw as the realization of the people's hopes and...
(1848-1930), poet, At the Village Assembly - Yulia DruninaYulia DruninaYulia Vladimirovna Drunina was a Russian poet. Her works are characterised with classical clarity, she often used real life experiences as a source of inspiration for her writings. Her own war experience had a long-lasting and painful impression on her...
(1924-1991), poet and politician - Alexander DruzhininAlexander DruzhininAlexander Vasilyevich Druzhinin , , was a Russian writer, translator, and magazine editor.-Biography:...
(1824-1864), writer and magazine editor, Polinka Saks - Vladimir DudintsevVladimir DudintsevVladimir Dimitrievich Dudintsev was a Ukrainian-born Russian writer who gained fame for his 1956 novel, Not by Bread Alone, published at the time of the Khruschev Thaw....
(1918-1998), novelist, Not by Bread AloneNot by Bread AloneNot by Bread Alone is a 1956 novel by the Soviet author Vladimir Dudintsev. The novel, published in installments in the journal Novy Mir, was a sensation in the USSR... - Nadezhda DurovaNadezhda DurovaNadezhda Andreyevna Durova , also known as Alexander Durov, Alexander Sokolov and Alexander Andreevich Alexandrov, was a woman who became a decorated soldier in the Russian cavalry during the Napoleonic wars. She was the first known female officer in the Russian military...
(1783-1866), soldier and writer, The Cavalry Maiden
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- Ilya EhrenburgIlya EhrenburgIlya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg was a Soviet writer, journalist, translator, and cultural figure.Ehrenburg is among the most prolific and notable authors of the Soviet Union; he published around one hundred titles. He became known first and foremost as a novelist and a journalist - in particular, as a...
(1891-1967), novelist and WWIIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
war correspondent, The Black Book, The Thaw - Natan EidelmanNatan EidelmanNatan Eidelman , was a Russian author and historian. He wrote several books on about the life and work of Alexander Pushkin, Decembrists Sergey Muravyov-Apostol and Mikhail Lunin, and historian Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin.-Bibliography:*Conspiracy Against the Tsar. A Portrait of the Decembrists...
(1930-1989), author, biographer and historian - Sergey ElpatyevskySergey ElpatyevskySergey Yakovlovich Elpatyevsky , November 3, 1854 – January 9, 1933, was a Russian writer and doctor.-Early life:Elpatyevsky was born in the village of Novoselki-Kudrino, Vladimir Province, into the family of a village priest. He studied at a religious school, and, after graduating in 1868,...
(1854-1933), novelist and short story writer, Pity Me! - Asar EppelAsar Eppel-Biography:Eppel was born in Ostankino, a suburb of Moscow. He studied architecture at the Institute of Civil Engineering. He worked as a translator in the Soviet Union, being unable to publish his fictional works under the Soviet Government...
(born 1935), writer and translator, Red Caviar Sandwiches - Nikolai ErdmanNikolai ErdmanNikolay Robertovich Erdman was a Soviet dramatist and screenwriter primarily remembered for his work with Vsevolod Meyerhold in the 1920s. His plays, notably The Suicide , form a link in Russian literary history between the satirical drama of Nikolai Gogol and the post-World War II Theatre of the...
(1900-1970), playwright, The SuicideThe Suicide (play)The Suicide is a 1928 play by the Russian playwright Nikolai Erdman. Its performance was proscribed during the Stalinist era and it was only produced in Russia several years after the death of its writer... - Victor ErofeyevVictor ErofeyevVictor Vladimirovich Erofeyev is a Russian writer. As son of a high-ranking Soviet diplomat Vladimir Erofeyev, he spent some of his childhood in Paris, which accounts for why much of his work has been translated from Russian into French, while comparatively little has reached English.Erofeyev...
(born 1947), writer, literary critic and magazine editor, Russian BeautyRussian beautyRussian Beauty - is a novel written by Victor Erofeyev, released in 1990 and translated into more than 20 languages. At first it was published in France under the name «La Belle de Moscou» .... - Alexander ErtelAlexander ErtelAlexander Ivanovich Ertel , , was a Russian novelist and short story writer.-Biography:Ertel was born near Voronezh, where his father was a Russified German estate agent. He never completed school, and was largely self-educated. He published his first collection of stories called Notes from the...
(1855-1908), novelist and short story writer, A Greedy Peasant - Mikhail EvstafievMikhail EvstafievMikhail Aleksandrovich Evstafiev , is a Russian artist, photographer, and writer.He began painting and photographing at an early age. His mother, grandmother and great grandfather — all prominent Russian sculptors — inspired him to develop his own style in art...
(born 1963), artist, photographer and writer, Two Steps from HeavenTwo Steps From HeavenTwo Steps From Heaven is a novel by Russian author Mikhail Evstafiev.-Plot summary:The events of the novel take place in the mid-1980s during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and soon after the troop withdrawal, back in the then Soviet Union... - Nikolai EvreinovNikolai EvreinovNikolai Nikolayevich Evreinov was a Russian director, dramatist and theatre practitioner associated with Russian Symbolism.- Life :The son of a French woman and a Russian engineer, Evreinov developed a keen interest in theatre from an early age, penning his first play at the age of 7. Six years...
(1879-1953), director, dramatist and theatre practitioner, The Storming of the Winter PalaceThe Storming of the Winter PalaceThe Storming of the Winter Palace was a 1920 mass spectacle, based on historical events that took place in Petrograd during the 1917 October Revolution....
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- Alexander Fadeyev (1901-1956), novelist, known for his war fiction, The Rout, The Young Guard
- Konstantin FedinKonstantin Fedin-Biography:Born in Saratov of humble origins, Fedin studied in Moscow and Germany and was interned there during World War I. After his release he worked as an interpreter in the first Soviet embassy in Berlin...
(1892-1977), novelist, Cities and Years - Afanasy FetAfanasy FetAfanasy Afanasyevich Fet , was a Russian poet regarded as one of the finest lyricists in Russian literature.-Origins:...
(1820-1892), major poet and translator - Vera FignerVera FignerVera Nikolayevna Figner was a Russian revolutionary and narodnik born in Kazan, Russia.-Biography:...
(1852-1942), revolutionary and writer, member of Narodnaya VolyaNarodnaya VolyaNarodnaya Volya was aRussian left-wing terrorist organization, best known for the successful assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia. It created a centralized and well disguised organization in a time of diverse liberation movements in Russia... - Konstantin FofanovKonstantin Fofanov-Early life:Konstantin was born into a family of St. Petersburg merchants. His father had been born a peasant, but had risen to the merchant class through the selling of firewood. Konstantin was one of ten children. At the age of six he began attending a primary school. He later attended the cheap...
(1862-1911), poet, considered to be a precursor of the symbolists, Shadows and Mystery - Denis FonvizinDenis FonvizinDenis Ivanovich Fonvizin was a playwright of the Russian Enlightenment, whose plays are still staged today. His main works are two satirical comedies which mock contemporary Russian gentry.-Life:...
(1744-1792), dramatist, The Minor - Olga ForshOlga Forsh-Early life:Forsh was born in the fortress at Gunib, in Dagestan, the daughter of a major general in the Russian Imperial Army. Her father met her mother, Nina Shakhetdinova, an Azerbaijanian, while he was stationed in the Caucasus. Nina died when Olga was very young...
(1873-1961), writer, dramatist, memoirist and scenarist, Palace and Prison - Dmitry Furmanov (1891-1926), writer, known for his Russian Civil WarRussian Civil WarThe Russian Civil War was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed to the Soviets, under the domination of the Bolshevik party. Soviet forces first assumed power in Petrograd The Russian Civil War (1917–1923) was a...
novel ChapayevVasily ChapayevVasily Ivanovich Chapayev or Chapaev was a celebrated Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War.-Biography:...
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- Cherubina de GabriakCherubina de GabriakCherubina de Gabriak was a literary pseudonym of Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva possibly together with Maximilian Voloshin.-Mysterious poet:...
(1887-1928), pseudonymous poet - Arkady GaidarArkady GaidarArkady Petrovich Golikov Gaidar was born in the town of Lgov in Imperial Russia, now in Kursk Oblast, Russia, to a family of teachers. Gaidar spent his childhood in Arzamas. In August 1918, Gaidar became a member of the Bolsheviks, volunteering for the Red Army in December of that year, still aged...
(1904-1941), children's writer, Timur and His Squad - Alexander Galich (1918-1977), poet, screenwriter, playwright and singer-songwriter
- Nikolai Garin-MikhailovskyNikolai Garin-MikhailovskyNikolai Georgievich Garin-Mikhailovsky Nikolai Georgievich Garin-Mikhailovsky Nikolai Georgievich Garin-Mikhailovsky (Russian: Никола́й Гео́ргиевич Га́рин-Михайло́вский, was a Russian writer and essayist, locating engineer and railroad constructor....
(1852-1906), writer, essayist and engineer, Practical Training - Vsevolod GarshinVsevolod GarshinVsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin ; was a Russian author of short stories.- Life :When Garshin was seven years old, he witnessed his father commit suicide.During the Russo-Turkish War, Garshin,...
(1855-1888), short story writer, The Red Flower - Aleksei GastevAleksei GastevAleksei Kapitonovich Gastev was a participant in the Russian Revolution of 1905, a pioneer of scientific management in Russia, a trade-union activist and an avant garde poet.- Youth of a Revolutionary :...
(1882-1939), avant garde poet - Mikhail GerasimovMikhail Gerasimov (poet)Mikhail Prokofyevich Gerasimov was one of the most widely-read working-class poets in early twentieth century Russia. Initially embracing the Bolshevik revolution as a liberating event and participating in the effort to create a new "proletarian culture," following the New Economic Policy he...
(1889–1939), worker-poet - Yuri GermanYuri GermanYuri Pavlovich German was a Soviet Russian writer, playwright, screenwriter, and journalist.- Life :German was born in Riga and accompanied his father, an artillery officer, during the Civil War. He graduated from high school in Kursk and studied at the Technical School of Performing Arts in...
(1910-1967), writer, playwright, screenwriter and journalist, The Cause You Serve - Vladimir GilyarovskyVladimir GilyarovskyVladimir Alekseyevich Gilyarovsky , was a Russian writer and newspaper journalist, best known for his reminiscences of life in pre-Revolutionary Moscow , which he first published in a book form in 1926.-Biography:...
(1853-1935), writer and journalist, The Stories of the Slums - Lidiya Ginzburg (1902-1990), literary critic and a survivor of the Siege of LeningradSiege of LeningradThe Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad Blockade was a prolonged military operation resulting from the failure of the German Army Group North to capture Leningrad, now known as Saint Petersburg, in the Eastern Front theatre of World War II. It started on 8 September 1941, when the last...
, Blockade Diary - Yevgenia GinzburgYevgenia GinzburgYevgenia Ginzburg was a Russian author who served an 18-year sentence in the Gulag. Her given name is often Latinized to Eugenia.-Family and early career:...
(1904-1977), known for her memoirs of the GulagGulagThe Gulag was the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems. While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of...
, Journey into the WhirlwindJourney into the WhirlwindJourney into the Whirlwind is the English title of the critically acclaimed memoir by Eugenia Ginzburg. It was published in English in 1967, some thirty years after the story begins....
, Within the Whirlwind - Zinaida GippiusZinaida GippiusZinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, was a Russian poet, playwright, editor, short story writer and religious thinker, regarded as a co-founder of Russian symbolism and seen as "one of the most enigmatic and intelligent women of her time in Russia"....
(1869-1945), essayist, memoirist, writer, poet and playwright, The Green Ring - Anatoly GladilinAnatoly GladilinAnatoly Tikhonovich Gladilin is a Russian writer and poet who defected from the Soviet Union in 1976 and has since lived in Paris....
(born 1935), novelist, Moscow Racetrack - Fyodor GladkovFyodor GladkovFyodor Vasilyevich Gladkov was a Soviet Socialist realist writer born on in Chernavka, Saratov gubernia to a family of Old Believers. He died on December 20, 1958 in Moscow. Gladkov joined a Communist group in 1904, and in 1905 went to Tiflis and was arrested there for revolutionary activities....
(1883-1958), novelist and short story writer, CementCement (novel)Cement is a Russian novel by Fyodor Gladkov . Published in 1925, the book is arguably the first in Soviet Socialist Realist literature to depict the struggles of post-Revolutionary reconstruction in the Soviet Union... - Nikolay GlazkovNikolay GlazkovNikolai Ivanovich Glazkov ; , was a Soviet poet renowned for his uncanny and ironic verse, his alcoholism, and for jokingly coining the term samizdat, which came to be internationally known.-Life:Glazkov was born in the village of Lyskovo, in what is now Nizhegorodskaya Oblast, Russia...
(1919-1979), poet, creator of the term "SamizdatSamizdatSamizdat was a key form of dissident activity across the Soviet bloc in which individuals reproduced censored publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader...
" - Fyodor GlinkaFyodor GlinkaFyodor Nikolaevich Glinka was a Russian poet and author.-Biography:Glinka was born at Smolensk in 1786, and was specially educated for the army. In 1803 he obtained a commission as an officer, and two years later took part in the Austrian campaign...
(1786-1880), poet and playwright, Karelia - Dmitry GlukhovskyDmitry GlukhovskyDmitry A. Glukhovsky is a professional Russian author and journalist. Glukhovsky started in 2002 by publishing his first novel, Metro 2033, on his own website to be viewed for free. The novel has later become an interactive experiment, drawing in many readers, and has since been made into a video...
(born 1979), writer and journalist, Metro 2033 - Nikolay GnedichNikolay GnedichNikolay Ivanovich Gnedich was a Russian poet and translator best known for his idyll The Fishers...
(1784-1833), poet and translator, The Fishers - Nikolai GogolNikolai GogolNikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism...
(1809-1852), major prose writer and dramatist, Dead SoulsDead SoulsDead Souls is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. Gogol himself saw it as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book as a "novel in verse". Despite supposedly completing the trilogy's second part, Gogol... - Arseny Golenishchev-KutuzovArseny Golenishchev-KutuzovArseny Arkadyevich Golenishchev-Kutuzov , was a Russian poet known in part for writing the texts of Modest Mussorgsky's two song cycles of the 1870s: Sunless and Songs and Dances of Death....
(1848-1913), poet, Songs and Dances of DeathSongs and Dances of DeathSongs and Dances of Death is a song cycle for voice and piano by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, written in the mid-1870s, to poems by Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov, a relative of the composer.... - Boris GolovinBoris GolovinBoris Golovin is a Russian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Golovin published his first book of poetry in Moscow in 1987.-Education:1975 - 1979. Moscow State University, faculty of journalism.1982 - 1987...
(born 1955), singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist - Ivan GoncharovIvan GoncharovIvan Alexandrovich Goncharov was a Russian novelist best known as the author of Oblomov .- Biography :Ivan Goncharov was born in Simbirsk ; his father was a wealthy grain merchant and respected official who was elected mayor of Simbirsk several times...
(1812-1891), major novelist, OblomovOblomovOblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the novel, often seen as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian literature... - Natalya GorbanevskayaNatalya GorbanevskayaNatalya Yevgenyevna Gorbanevskaya is a Russian poet, translator of Polish literature and civil rights activist. She is also a citizen of Poland.- Life :Gorbanevskaya graduated from Leningrad University in 1964 and became a technical editor and translator...
(born 1936), poet, translator and civil rights activist - Dmitry GorchakovDmitry GorchakovPrince Dmitry Petrovich Gorchakov was a Russian writer, dramatist and poet, best known for his satyrical verses and three comical operas, staged in the end of XVIII century.- Biography:...
(1758-1824), poet, playwright, satirist - Grigori GorinGrigori GorinGrigori Israelevich Gorin was a Soviet/Russian dramatist and a prose writer.-Biography:Graduated from the Sechenov 1st Moscow Medical Institute in 1963, worked as an ambulanceman for some time....
(1940-2000), writer, playwright and screenwriter, The Very Same MunchhausenThe Very Same MunchhausenThe Very Same Munchausen is a 1979 Soviet television movie directed by Mark Zakharov, based on a script by Grigoriy Gorin. The film relays the story of the baron's life after the adventures portrayed in the book, particularly his struggle to prove himself sane... - Maxim GorkyMaxim GorkyAlexei Maximovich Peshkov , primarily known as Maxim Gorky , was a Russian and Soviet author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist.-Early years:...
(1868-1936), novelist, short story writer and playwright, The Lower DepthsThe Lower DepthsThe Lower Depths is perhaps Maxim Gorky's best-known play. It was written during the winter of 1901 and the spring of 1902. Subtitled "Scenes from Russian Life," it depicted a group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga. Produced by the Moscow Arts Theatre on December 18,... - Nina GorlanovaNina GorlanovaNina Viktorovna Gorlanova is a modern short-story writer and novelist who has been living in a provincial Russian city Perm. Perm was depicted as 'Youryatin' in Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago.-Biography:...
(born 1947), novelist and short story writer - Sergey Gorodetsky (1884-1967), poet, one of the founders of the acmeist school
- Daniil GraninDaniil GraninDaniil Alexandrovich Granin is an author born in the former Soviet Union. He started writing in the 1930s when he was still an engineering student at the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute...
(born 1919), novelist, Those Who Seek - Nikolay GretschNikolay GretschNikolay Ivanovich Gretsch was a leading Russian grammarian of the 19th century. Although he was primarily interested in philology, it is as a journalist that he is primarily remembered....
(1787-1867), journalist, writer and magazine editor, Northern BeeNorthern BeeNorthern Bee was a semi-official Russian political and literary newspaper published in St. Petersburg from 1825 to 1864. It was an unofficial organ of Section Three - the secret police.... - Aleksander Griboyedov (1795-1828), dramatist and statesman, Woe from Wit
- Dmitry GrigorovichDmitry Grigorovich- Early life :Grigorovich was born in Simbirsk, where his family were members of the landed gentry. His father was Russian and his mother French. From 1832 to 1835 he studied at several French and German private schools in Moscow...
(1822-1900), novelist, The Fishermen - Oleg GrigorievOleg GrigorievOleg Grigoriev was a Russian poet and artist. He is regarded as a successor of the Oberiu tradition. Many of his short poems became modern folklore.-Biography:...
(1943-1992), poet and artist - Apollon GrigoryevApollon GrigoryevApollon Aleksandrovich Grigoryev was a Russian poet, literary and theatrical critic, translator, memoirist, as well as the author of a number of popular songs and romances....
(1822-1864), poet, literary and theatrical critic, translator and memoirist - Alexander GrinAlexander GrinAlexander Grin was a Russian writer, notable for his romantic novels and short stories, mostly set in an unnamed fantasy land with a European or Latin American flavor...
(1880-1932), author of novels and stories set in GrinlandiaGrinlandiaGrinlandia is the fantasy world where most of the novels and short stories of Alexander Grin take place. It is a land by the ocean, apparently far from Europe but populated by people with vaguely Western European names and appearance. The name of the country is never mentioned, and the name...
, Scarlet SailsScarlet Sails (tradition)The Scarlet Sails is a celebration in St. Petersburg, Russia is the most massive and famous public event during the White Nights Festival. The tradition is highly popular for spectacular fireworks, numerous music concerts, and a massive water-show including battle among tens of boats full of... - Isabella GrinevskayaIsabella GrinevskayaIsabella Grinevskaya was the pen name of Berta Friedberg, daughter of the author Abraham Shalom Friedberg and the first wife of Mordechai Spector....
(1864-1944), poet, writer and playwright - Vasily GrossmanVasily GrossmanVasily Semyonovich Grossman was a Soviet writer and journalist. Grossman trained as an engineer and worked in the Donets Basin, but changed career in the 1930s and published short stories and several novels...
(1905-1964), major writer and war correspondent, Life and Fate - Vitali GubarevVitali GubarevVitali Georgievich Gubarev was a Soviet fiction writer.In 1931, he started to work as a journalist. He covered the murder of Pavlik Morozov, and he was one who created the myth about him...
(1912-1981), journalist and writer - Igor GubermanIgor GubermanIgor Guberman - Игорь Миронович Губерман is a Russian writer and poet of Jewish ancestry; since 1988 he has lived in Israel. His poetry has received a great deal of acclaim primarily because of his signature aphoristic and satiric quatrains, called "gariki" in Russian ....
(born 1936), writer and satirical poet - Semyon GudzenkoSemyon GudzenkoSemyon Gudzenko who was a Soviet poet, of the World War II generation. He is often compared with Pavel Kogan and Semen Kirsanov....
(1922-1953), poet of the World War II generationWar generation of Russian poetsWar Generation is a name applied to the young Russian poets whose youth was spent fighting in the World War II and whose best poems reflect upon wartime experiences... - Lev GumilevLev GumilevLev Nikolayevich Gumilev , was a Soviet historian, ethnologist and anthropologist. His unorthodox ideas on the birth and death of ethnic groups have given rise to the political and cultural movement known as "Neo-Eurasianism".-Life:His parents were two prominent poets Nikolay Gumilev and Anna...
(1912-1992), historian, ethnologist and anthropologist - Nikolay Gumilev, poet, founder of the acmeist movement
- Elena GuroElena GuroElena Genrikhovna Guro was a Russian Futurist painter, playwright, poet, and writer of fiction.-Early life:Guro was born in St. Petersburg on January 10, 1877. Her father was Genrikh Stepanovich Guro, an officer in the Imperial Russian Army of French descent. Her mother Anna Mikhailovna...
(1877-1913), FuturistFuturismFuturism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century.Futurism or futurist may refer to:* Afrofuturism, an African-American and African diaspora subculture* Cubo-Futurism* Ego-Futurism...
writer and painter, The Hurdy-Gurdy - Sergey Gusev-OrenburgskySergey Gusev-OrenburgskySergey Ivanovich Gusev-Orenburgsky was a Russian writer and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda.-Biography:...
(1867-1963), novelist, The Land of the Fathers
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- Alexander HerzenAlexander HerzenAleksandr Ivanovich Herzen was a Russian pro-Western writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism", and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism...
(1812-1870), essayist, novelist, philosopher and magazine editor, Who is to Blame?
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- Ilf and PetrovIlf and PetrovIlya Ilf Ilya Ilf Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg and Evgeny or Yevgeni Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev or Katayev were two Soviet prose authors of the 1920s and 1930s...
(Ilf 1897-1937) (Petrov 1903-1942), satirical writers, The Twelve ChairsThe Twelve ChairsThe Twelve Chairs is a classic satirical novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, released in 1928. Its main character Ostap Bender reappears in the book's sequel The Little Golden Calf.-Plot:...
, The Little Golden CalfThe Little Golden CalfThe Little Golden Calf is a famous satirical novel by Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, released in 1931. Its main character Ostap Bender, also appeared in a previous novel of the authors called The Twelve Chairs... - Vera InberVera InberVera Mikhailovna Inber, born Shpenzer, was a Russian-Soviet poet and writer.-Biography:...
(1890-1972), poet and writer, Lalla's Interests - Mikhail IsakovskyMikhail IsakovskyMikhail Vasil'evich Isakovsky was a Russian poet, a laureate of 2 USSR State Prizes , a Hero of Socialist Labor...
(1900-1973), poet and songwriter, KatyushaKatyusha (song)Katyusha, Katusha or Katjusha is a Soviet wartime song about a girl longing for her beloved, who is away on military service. The music was composed in 1938 by Matvei Blanter and the lyrics were written by Mikhail Isakovsky. It was first performed by Valentina Batishcheva in the Column Hall of... - Fazil IskanderFazil IskanderFazil Abdulovich Iskander is arguably the most famous Abkhaz writer, renowned in the former Soviet Union for his vivid descriptions of Caucasian life, mostly written in Russian...
, (born 1929), AbkhazAbkhazAbkhaz and Abkhazian may refer to:* Something of, from, or related to Abkhazia, a de facto independent region with partial recognition as a sovereign state, otherwise recognized as part of Georgia...
writer, Chik and His Friends - Alexei IvanovAlexei Viktorovich IvanovAlexei Viktorovich Ivanov is a Russian writer.Ivanov was born in Gorky into a family of shipbuilding engineers. In 1971 the family moved to Perm, where he grew up. In 1987, he entered Ural State University as a journalism student...
(born 1969), novelist and screenwriter - Georgy IvanovGeorgy IvanovGeorgii Vladimirovich Ivanov was a leading poet and essayist of the Russian emigration between the 1930s and 1950s.As a banker's son, Ivanov spent his young manhood in the elite circle of Russian golden youth. He started writing pretentious verses, imitative of Baudelaire and the French...
(1894-1958), poet and essayist - Vsevolod IvanovVsevolod IvanovVsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov was a notable Soviet writer praised for the colourful adventure tales set in the Asiatic part of Russia during the Civil War.-Biography:...
(1895-1963), writer and playwright, Armoured Train 14-69Armoured Train 14-69Armoured Train 14-69 is a 1927 Soviet play by Vsevolod Ivanov. Based on his 1922 novel of the same name, it was the first play that he wrote and remains his most important. In creating his adaptation, Ivanov transformed the passive protagonist of his novel into an active exponent of proletarian... - Vyacheslav IvanovVyacheslav Ivanovich IvanovVyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov was a Russian poet and playwright associated with the Russian Symbolist movement. He was also a philosopher, translator, and literary critic.-Early life:...
(1866-1949), poet, playwright, philosopher, translator and literary critic - Ryurik IvnevRyurik IvnevRurik Ivnev was a Russian poet, novelist and translator.-Early years:Rurik Ivnev was born into a nobleman's family in Tiflis . His father, A. S. Kovalyov, a captain of a Russian army. The children had been brought up by their mother, A. P. Kovalyova-Prince. Among her ancestors was a Dutch count,...
(1891-1981), poet, novelist and translator
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- Gavril KamenevGavril KamenevGavril Petrovich Kamenev was a Russian poet, writer, and translator.Kamenev was born on February 3, 1772, in Kazan and lived there in adverse circumstances , his only bright moments being brief visits to Moscow...
(1772-1803), poet, writer and translator - Vasily KamenskyVasily KamenskyVasily Vasilevich Kamensky was a Russian Futurist poet, playwright, and artist as well as one of the first Russian aviators.Kamensky was born in the Perm district, where his father was an inspector of goldfields...
(1884-1961), poet, playwright and artist, one of the first Russian aviators - Antiochus Kantemir (1708-1744), writer and poet, On the Envy and Pride of Evil-Minded Courtiers
- Nikolay Karamzin (1766-1826), poet, writer and historian, Poor Liza
- Nikolay KarazinNikolay KarazinNikolay Nikolaevich Karazin was a Russian military officer, painter and writer. He is mostly known for his paintings depicting wars and exotic places.-Biography:...
(1842-1908), painter and writer, The Two-Legged Wolf - Nikolay Karonin-PetropavlovskyNikolay Karonin-PetropavlovskyNikolay Elpidiforovich Karonin-Petropavlovsky , October 17, 1853 – May 24, 1892, was a Russian writer. His real name was Nikolay Petropavlovsky; his pen name was S. Karonin. A number of later Russian sources refer to him as Nikolay Karonin-Petropavlovsky.-Biography:Nikolay Petropavlovsky was...
(1853-1892), NarodnikNarodnikNarodniks was the name for Russian socially conscious members of the middle class in the 1860s and 1870s. Their ideas and actions were known as Narodnichestvo which can be translated as "Peopleism", though is more commonly rendered "populism"...
writer, First Storm - Vladimir KarpovVladimir KarpovVladimir Vasilyevich Karpov was a Soviet writer of historical novels and public figure. He was awarded the hero of the Soviet Union for bravery in World War II....
(1922-2010), novelist and magazine editor, The Commander - Vasily KapnistVasily KapnistCount Vasily Vasilievich Kapnist , , was a Russian poet and playwright who wrote in somewhat rough Russian language....
(1758-1823), poet and playwright, Chicane - Lev KassilLev KassilLev Abramovich Kassil was a Soviet writer of juvenile and young adult literature, depicting Soviet life, teenagers and their world, school, sports, cultural life, and war....
(1905-1970), writer of juvenile and young adult literature - Ivan KataevIvan Kataev-Biography:Kataev was born in Moscow. In 1919 he joined the Red Army and the CPSU and participated in the fighting against Anton Denikin. After leaving the military Kataev studied at the Economic Department of Moscow University....
(1902-1937), novelist and short story writer, Immortality - Valentin KataevValentin KataevValentin Petrovich Kataev was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright who managed to create penetrating works discussing post-revolutionary social conditions without running afoul of the demands of official Soviet style. Kataev is credited with suggesting the idea for the Twelve Chairs to his...
(1897-1986), writer and playwright, Time, Forward!Time, Forward! (novel)Time, Forward! is a novel by Valentin Katayev published in 1933. The book takes place over the course of one day and describes the attempts of a group of shock workers to break the record for most batches of concrete mixed in a day.The novel was adapted by Katayev into a screenplay for a 1965... - Pavel KateninPavel KateninPavel Aleksandrovich Katenin , , was a belated Russian classicist poet, dramatist, and literary critic who also contributed to the evolution of Russian Romanticism....
(1792-1853), classicist poet, dramatist and literary critic - Mikhail KatkovMikhail KatkovMikhail Nikiforovich Katkov was a conservative Russian journalist influential during the reign of Alexander III.Katkov was born of a Russian government official and a Georgian noblewoman...
(1818-1887), journalist and publicist, Moscow News - Veniamin KaverinVeniamin KaverinVeniamin Alexandrovich Kaverin was a Soviet writer associated with the early 1920s movement of the Serapion Brothers. The immunologist Lev Zilber was his older brother, and the critic Yury Tynyanov was his brother-in-law....
(1902-1989), novelist, The Two CaptainsThe Two CaptainsThe Two Captains is a novel written by Soviet author Veniamin Kaverin between 1938 and 1944. It is Kaverin's best known work and is considered one of the most popular works of Soviet literature, winning the USSR State Prize in 1946 being reissued 42 times in 25 years... - Emmanuil KazakevichEmmanuil KazakevichEmmanuil Genrikhovich Kazakevich was a Soviet author, poet and playwright of Jewish extraction, writing in Russian and Yiddish.-Early life:...
(1913-1962), writer, poet and playwright, The Blue Notebook - Yury Kazakov (1927-1982), short story writer, Going To Town
- Rimma KazakovaRimma KazakovaRimma Fyodorovna Kazakova was a Soviet/Russian poet. She was known as an author of many popular songs of the Soviet era.She graduated from the history department of Leningrad State University. She worked as a lecturer in Khabarovsk....
(1932-2008), poet, Let's Meet in the East - Dmitri KedrinDmitri Kedrin-External links:*...
(1907-1945), poet, Confession - Yuri KhanonYuri KhanonYuri Khanon is a pen name of Yuri Feliksovich Soloviev-Savoyarov , a Russian composer. Prior to 1993, he wrote under a pen name Yuri Khanin, but later transformed it into Yuri Khanon, spelling it in a pre-1918 Russian style as ХанонЪ. Khanon was born on Juny 16, 1965 in Leningrad...
(born 1965), novelist-eccentric, Skryabin As a Face - Yevgeny KharitonovYevgeny Kharitonov (poet)Yevgeny Vladimirovich Kharitonov was a Russian writer, poet, playwright, and theater director.Born in Novosibirsk, he graduated from the acting department of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. After a brief career as an actor, he returned to university to study filmmaking as a graduate...
(1941-1981), writer, poet, playwright and theater director - Daniil KharmsDaniil KharmsDaniil Kharms was an early Soviet-era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist. One of his pseudonyms, which was signed in Latin alphabet, was Daniel Charms.- Life :...
(1905-1942), absurdistAbsurdismIn philosophy, "The Absurd" refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek value and meaning in life and the human inability to find any...
writer, The Old Woman - Ivan KhemnitserIvan KhemnitserIvan Ivanovitch Chemnitzer or Khemnitzer was a Russian fabulist, born at Yenotayevsk, Astrakhan, the son of a German physician of Chemnitz, who had served in the Russian army under Peter the Great. He participated in the campaigns of the Seven Years' War and afterward devoted himself to mining...
(1745-1784), satirical poet, The Rich Man and the Poor Man - Mikhail KheraskovMikhail KheraskovMikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov was regarded as the most important Russian poet by Catherine the Great and her contemporaries.Kheraskov's father was a Romanian boyar who settled in the Ukraine...
(1733-1807), poet, writer and playwright, Vladimir Reborn - Velimir KhlebnikovVelimir KhlebnikovVelimir Khlebnikov , pseudonym of Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov , was a central part of the Russian Futurist movement, but his work and influence stretch far beyond it.Khlebnikov belonged to Hylaea,...
(1885-1922), futurist poet and author, Incantation by Laughter - Vladislav KhodasevichVladislav KhodasevichVladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich was an influential Russian poet and literary critic who presided over the Berlin circle of Russian emigre litterateurs....
(1886-1939), poet and literary critic - Aleksey KhomyakovAleksey KhomyakovAleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov was a Russian religious poet who co-founded the Slavophile movement along with Ivan Kireyevsky, and became one of its most distinguished theoreticians....
(1804-1860), poet, co-founder of the Slavophile movement - Nadezhda KhvoshchinskayaNadezhda KhvoshchinskayaNadezhda Dmitryevna Khvoshchinskaya , May 20, 1824 – June 8, 1889, was a Russian novelist, poet, literary critic and translator. Her married name was Zayonchkovskaya. She published much of her work under the pseudonym V. Krestovsky...
(1824-1889), writer, critic and translator, The Boarding-School Girl - Ivan Kireyevsky (1806-1856), writer, co-founder of the slavophileSlavophileSlavophilia was an intellectual movement originating from 19th century that wanted the Russian Empire to be developed upon values and institutions derived from its early history. Slavophiles were especially opposed to the influences of Western Europe in Russia. There were also similar movements in...
movement - Vladimir KirshonVladimir KirshonVladimir Mikhailovich Kirshon was a Soviet playwright.Born in Nalchik in the Caucasus into the family of a lawyer, Kirshon served in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and in 1920 joined the Communist Party, which sent him to the Sverdlov Communist University. As a young idealist, he was...
(1902-1938), playwright, The Miraculous Alloy - Marusya Klimova (born 1961), writer and translator
- Nikolai KlyuevNikolai KlyuevNikolai Alekseevich Klyuev , was a notable Russian poet...
(1884-1937), peasant poet, A Northern Poem - Yakov KnyazhninYakov KnyazhninYakov Borisovich Knyazhnin was Russia's foremost tragic author during the reign of Catherine the Great. Knyazhnin's contemporaries hailed him as the true successor to his father-in-law Alexander Sumarokov, but posterity, in the words of Vladimir Nabokov, tended to view his tragedies and comedies...
(1740/42-1791), playwright, poet and translator, The Braggart - Vsevolod KochetovVsevolod KochetovVsevolod Anissimovich Kochetov was a Soviet Russian writer and cultural functionary. He has been described as a party dogmatist and as a classic of socialist realism...
(1912-1973), novelist and journalist, The Zhurbin Family - Pavel Kogan (1818-1942), poet and military interpreter
- Ivan KokorevIvan Timofeevich KokorevIvan Timofeevich Kokorev was a Russian writer.The son of a freed serf, Kokorev's stories and essays began appearing in the 1840s, but he did not become well known until he began his association with the journal Moskvityanin in 1849...
(1825-1853), short story writer and essayist - Alexandra KollontaiAlexandra KollontaiAlexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai was a Russian Communist revolutionary, first as a member of the Mensheviks, then from 1914 on as a Bolshevik. In 1919 she became the first female government minister in Europe...
(1872-1952), writer, feminist and important political figure, Love of Worker Bees - Aleksey KoltsovAleksey KoltsovAleksey Vasilievich Koltsov was a Russian poet who has been called a Russian Burns. His poems, frequently placed in the mouth of women, stylize peasant-life songs and idealize agricultural labour....
(1809-1842), poet, An Old Man's Song - Mikhail KoltsovMikhail KoltsovMikhail Efimovich Koltsov , born Mikhail Efimovich Fridlyand , was a Soviet journalist.-Biography:...
(1898-1940/42), journalist and satirist - Lev KopelevLev KopelevLev Zalmanovich Kopelev was a Soviet author and a dissident.- Biography :...
(1912-1997), writer, journalist and dissident - Vladimir KorolenkoVladimir KorolenkoVladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was a Ukrainian-Russian short story writer, journalist, human rights activist and humanitarian. His short stories were known for their harsh description of nature based on his experience of exile in Siberia...
(1853-1921), writer and memoirist, The Blind Musician - Arkady KotsArkady KotsArkady Yakovlevich Kots was a Russian socialist poet of Jewish descent.Arkady Kots graduated from a mining school in Gorlovka and worked at the Moscow and Donets Coal Basins...
(1872-1943), poet and translator, Proletarian Songs - Sofia KovalevskayaSofia KovalevskayaSofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya , was the first major Russian female mathematician, responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics, and the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe.She was also one of the first females to...
(1859-1891), writer and mathematician, Nihilist Girl - Vadim KozhevnikovVadim KozhevnikovVadim Mikhaylovich Kozhevnikov was a Soviet writer. His daughter Nadezhda Kozhevnikova is also a writer.-Biography:Vadim Kozevnikov was born in the Siberian town of Narym , where his revolutionary-minded father had been sent as an internal exile by the authorities of the Russian Empire.Kozhevnikov...
(1909-1984), novelist and short story writer, Shield and Sword - Nadezhda KozhevnikovaNadezhda KozhevnikovaNadezhda Vadimovna Kozhevnikova is a Russian writer and journalist, and the daughter of Soviet writer Vadim Kozhevnikov.-Biography:In her youth, Kozhevnikova devoted herself to music. She studied in the musical school attached to the Moscow Conservatory. Her interest in literature, however, led...
(born 1949), writer and journalist, Attorney Alexandra Tikhonovna - Ivan KozlovIvan KozlovIvan Ivanovich Kozlov was a Russian Romantic poet and translator. As D. S. Mirsky noted, "his poetry appealed to the easily awakened emotions of the sentimental reader rather than to the higher poetic receptivity"....
(1779-1840), poet and translator, The Monk - Eugene KozlovskyEugene KozlovskyEugene Antonovich Kozlovsky is a Russian writer, journalist, theatre director and film director. He lives in Moscow.- Tales :* Moskvaburgskiye povesti / Tales of Moscowburg...
(born 1946), writer, journalist, theatre director and film director - Vasili KrasovskyVasili KrasovskyVasili Ivanovich Krasovsky was a Russian writer.Krasovsky studied at the gymnasium of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, after which he worked for the body overseeing the Russian mining industry. From 1804 through 1813 Krasovsky was the secretary of the St...
(1782-1824), poet, Scrolls of the Muse - Vsevolod KrestovskyVsevolod KrestovskyVsevolod Vladimirovich Krestovsky , February 23, 1840 – January 30, 1895, was a Russian writer.-Biography:Krestovsky came from an old family of Ukrainian gentry. In 1857 he enrolled in the Historico-Philological faculty of St Petersburg University...
(1840-1895), writer, Knights of Industry - Peter KropotkinPeter KropotkinPrince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, economist, geographer, author and one of the world's foremost anarcho-communists. Kropotkin advocated a communist society free from central government and based on voluntary associations between...
(1842-1921), writer and anarchist theorist, In Russian and French Prisons - Aleksei KruchenykhAleksei KruchenykhAleksei Eliseevich Kruchenykh or Kruchonykh or Kruchyonykh , a well-known poet of the Russian "Silver Age", was perhaps the most radical poet of Russian Futurism, a movement that included Vladimir Mayakovsky, David Burliuk and others. Together with Velimir Khlebnikov, Kruchenykh is considered the...
(1886-1968), Russian Futurist poet, co-creator of the literary concept "ZaumZaumZaum is a word used to describe the linguistic experiments in sound symbolism and language creation of Russian Futurist poets such as Velimir Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh....
" - Ivan KrylovIvan KrylovIvan Andreyevich Krylov is Russia's best known fabulist. While many of his earlier fables were loosely based on Aesop and Jean de La Fontaine, later fables were original work, often satirizing the incompetent bureaucracy that was stifling social progress in his time.-Life:Ivan Krylov was born in...
(1769-1844), major fabulistFableA fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized , and that illustrates a moral lesson , which may at the end be expressed explicitly in a pithy maxim.A fable differs from...
and dramatist - Gleb KrzhizhanovskyGleb KrzhizhanovskyGleb Maximilianovich Krzhizhanovsky was a Soviet economist and a state figure. Academician of USSR Academy of Sciences , Hero of Socialist Labour ....
(1872-1959), poet, author of the Russian version of the Warszawianka - Sigizmund KrzhizhanovskySigizmund KrzhizhanovskySigizmund Dominikovich Krzhizhanovsky was a Russian and Soviet short-story writer who described himself as being "known for being unknown"; the bulk of his writings were published posthumously.-Life:...
(1887-1950), short story writer, Quadraturin - Anatoly KudryavitskyAnatoly KudryavitskyAnthony Kudryavitsky born in Moscow on 17 August 1954, better known by his pen name Anatoly Kudryavitsky , is a Russian-Irish novelist, poet and literary translator.-Biography:...
(born 1954), poet and novelist - Nestor KukolnikNestor KukolnikNestor Vasilievich Kukolnik was a Russian playwright and prose writer of Carpatho-Rusyn origin. Immensely popular during the early part of his career, his works were subsequently dismissed as sententious and sentimental. Today, he is best remembered for having contributed to the libretto of the...
(1809-1868), playwright, poet and librettist, A Life for the TsarA Life for the TsarA Life for the Tsar , as it is known in English, although its original name was Ivan Susanin is a "patriotic-heroic tragic opera" in four acts with an epilogue by Mikhail Glinka. The original Russian libretto, based on historical events, was written by Nestor Kukolnik, Georgy Fyodorovich Rozen,... - Aleksandr KuprinAleksandr KuprinAleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin , was a Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer who is perhaps best known for his story The Duel . Other well-known works include Moloch , Olesya , Junior Captain Rybnikov , Emerald , and The Garnet Bracelet...
(1870-1938), novelist and short story writer, The Duel - Wilhelm KüchelbeckerWilhelm KüchelbeckerWilhelm Küchelbecker was a Russian Romantic poet and Decembrist....
(1797-1846), poet and magazine editor, MnemozinaMnemozinaMnemozina was a quarterly literary almanac, published in Moscow from 1824 to 1825. The full title in the Russian language is Мнемозина, собрание сочинений в стихах и прозе and was a reference to Mnemosyne, a persona in Greek mythology embodying memory... - Ivan KushchevskyIvan KushchevskyIvan Afanasyevich Kushchevsky , born December 24, 1847 – died August 12, 1876, was a Russian writer.-Biography:Kushchevsky was born in Barnaul, Siberia where his father was a minor official. He received his early education at the Tomsk gymnasium. He went to Saint Petersburg in the mid 1860s...
(1847-1876), writer, Nikolai Negorev - Alexander KushnerAlexander KushnerAlexander Semenovich Kushner is a prominent Russian living poet from Saint Petersburg.- Biography :Kushner was born in Leningrad into a Russian-Jewish family; his father was a military engineer. He graduated from Herzen University, and later, between 1959 and 1969, taught Russian literature....
(born 1936), poet and essayist, The First Impression - Dmitry KuzminDmitry KuzminDmitry Vladimirovich Kuzmin , born on December 12, 1968, is a Russian poet, critic, and publisher.-Biography:...
(born 1968), poet, critic and publisher - Mikhail KuzminMikhail KuzminMikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin was a Russian poet, musician and novelist, a prominent contributor to the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.Born into a noble family in Yaroslavl, Kuzmin grew up in St. Petersburg and studied music at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov...
(1872-1936), poet and novelist, Wings - Anatoly KuznetsovAnatoly KuznetsovAnatoly Vasilievich Kuznetsov was a Russian language Soviet writer who described his experiences in German-occupied Kiev during WWII in his internationally acclaimed novel Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel...
(1929-1979), novelist, Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a NovelBabi Yar: A Document in the Form of a NovelBabi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel is an internationally acclaimed documentary novel by Anatoly Kuznetsov about the Babi Yar massacre...
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- Lazar LaginLazar LaginLazar Yosifovych Lagin was the pen name of Lazar Ginzburg , a Soviet satirist and children's writer....
(1903-1979), satirist and children's writer, The Old Genie Hottabych - Yulia LatyninaYulia LatyninaYulia Leonidovna Latynina is a Russian journalist, writer and radio host. She works at the radio station Echo of Moscow. She also writes for Novaya Gazeta and The Moscow Times.-Writer, journalist and radio host:...
(born 1966), journalist, writer and radio host, The Insider - Boris LavrenyovBoris LavrenyovBoris Andreyevich Lavrenyov , born July 5 , 1891 in Kherson, died January 7, 1959 in Moscow, was a Soviet Russian writer and playwright....
(1891-1959), writer and playwright, Such a Simple Thing - Pyotr Lavrov (1823-1900), prominent theorist of narodism, philosopher, publicist and sociologist.
- Ivan LazhechnikovIvan LazhechnikovIvan Ivanovich Lazhechnikov , September 25, 1792 – July 8, 1869, was a Russian writer.-Biography:Lazhechnikov was born into the family of a rich merchant in Kolomna in 1792. He received a well-rounded education from private tutors at home...
(1792-1869), historical novelist, The Heretic - Vasily Lebedev-KumachVasily Lebedev-KumachVasily Ivanovich Lebedev-Kumach Moscow, — 20 February 1949) was a Soviet Russian poet and lyricist.He wrote numerous songs, the most famous being probably Священная война , Песня о Родине and Как много девушек хороших , later immortalized as the Argentine Tango song...
(1898-1949), poet and lyricist, SerdtseSerdtse"Serdtse" is in its version sung by Pyotr Leshchenko one of the most frequently performed Argentine Tango songs not sung in the Spanish language.-Title:... - Leonid LeonovLeonid LeonovLeonid Maximovich Leonov was a Soviet novelist and playwright. He has been dubbed the 20th-century Dostoyevsky for the deep psychological torment of his prose.-Early life:...
(1899-1994), major novelist and short story writer, The Thief - Konstantin LeontievKonstantin LeontievKonstantin Nikolayevich Leontyev was a conservative, monarchist reactionary Russian philosopher who advocated closer cultural ties between Russia and the East in order to oppose the catastrophic egalitarian, utilitarian and revolutionary influences from the West...
(1831-1891), philosopher and essayist - Mikhail LermontovMikhail LermontovMikhail Yuryevich Lermontov , a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", became the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837. Lermontov is considered the supreme poet of Russian literature alongside Pushkin and the greatest...
(1814-1841), major poet, playwright and novelist, A Hero of Our TimeA Hero of Our TimeA Hero of Our Time is a novel by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839 and revised in 1841. It is an example of the superfluous man novel, noted for its compelling Byronic hero Pechorin and for the beautiful descriptions of the Caucasus... - Nikolai LeskovNikolai LeskovNikolai Semyonovich Leskov was a Russian journalist, novelist and short story writer, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, held in high esteem by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others, Leskov is...
(1831-1895), writer and journalist, Lady MacBeth of the Mtensk District - Alexander LevitovAlexander LevitovAlexander Ivanovich Levitov , born August 1, 1835 – died January 16, 1877, was a Russian writer.-Biography:Levitov was born in the village of Dobroye, in Tambov Governorate, where his father was a sexton. He learned to read and write in a school for peasant children set up by his father in...
(1835-1877), short story writer, Leatherhide the Cobbler - Nikolay LeykinNikolay Leykin-Biography:Leykin was born in Saint Petersburg into a merchant family. The merchant class was the subject of the majority of his fiction. His popular work Our Folk Abroad, set in Paris, which went through twenty-five editions, was a light satire on the ignorance and boorishness of Russian business...
(1841-1906), writer and publisher, Fragments MagazineFragments (magazine)Fragments was a Russian humorous, literary and artistic weekly magazine published in St Petersburg from 1881 to 1916.From 1881 to 1906 Fragments was published by the popular writer Nikolay Leykin. From 1906 to 1908 it was ran by the humorist Viktor Bilibin.In the 1880s Fragments was known as the... - Eduard LimonovEduard LimonovEduard Limonov is Russian writer and political dissident, and is the founder and leader of radical National Bolshevik Party. An opponent of Vladimir Putin, Limonov is one of leaders of Other Russia political bloc.-Early life:...
(born 1943), writer and dissident, Memoirs of a Russian Punk - Dmitri LipskerovDmitri LipskerovDmitri Mikhailovich Lipskerov is an acclaimed Russian writer and dramatist. He emerged as a popular author in the late 1990s with two novels: The Forty Years of Changzhoeh and The Gottlieb Space...
(born 1964), writer and playwright, The Forty Years of Changzhoeh - Mirra LokhvitskayaMirra LokhvitskayaMirra Lokhvitskaya was a Russian poet who rose to fame in the late 1890s and, due to the flamboyantly erotic sensuality of her works, was regarded as the "Russian Sappho" by her contemporaries...
(1869-1905), poet and playwright - Mikhail LomonosovMikhail LomonosovMikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Among his discoveries was the atmosphere of Venus. His spheres of science were natural science, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art,...
(1711-1765), polymath, scientist, writer and linguistic reformer - Vladimir LugovskoyVladimir LugovskoyVladimir Alexandrovich Lugovsky was a constructivist poet. In later years, his poetry became filled with imagery and emotion.-References:...
(1901-1957), constructivist poet - Sergey LukyanenkoSergey LukyanenkoSergei Vasilievich Lukyanenko is a science fiction and fantasy author, writing in Russian, and is arguably the most popular contemporary Russian sci-fi writer...
(born 1968), popular science-fiction and fantasy author, The Stars Are Cold ToysThe Stars Are Cold ToysThe Stars Are Cold Toys — Star Shadow are two 1997 books of a space opera duology by Russian science fiction writer Sergey Lukianenko. It's a first-person narration, told by a pilot Pyotr Khrumov, who attempts to prevent destruction of the planet.... - Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875-1933), journalist and publicist
- Lev LuntsLev LuntsLev Natanovich Lunts was a Russian/Jewish writer, playwright, critic, translator, and essayist. He was a member of the Serapion Brothers literary group.-Biography:...
(1901-1924), writer, playwright, essayist and critic, member of the Serapion BrothersSerapion BrothersThe Serapion Brothers was a group of writers formed in Petrograd, Russia in 1921. The group was named after a literary group, Die Serapionsbrüder , to which German romantic author E.T.A. Hoffmann belonged and after which he named a collection of his tales...
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- Grigori MachtetGrigori MachtetGrigori Alexandrovich Machtet was a Russian-language writer of Ukrainian origin. He is the author of the well-known song «Tormented to death by a heavy captivity»....
(1852-1901), novelist, short story writer and poet - Vladimir MakaninVladimir MakaninVladimir Semyonovich Makanin is a Russian writer. - Life :Makanin is a writer of novels and short stories. He graduated from Moscow State University and worked as a mathematician in the Military Academy until the early 1960s. In 1963 he took a course in scriptwriting, and then worked in the...
(born 1937), novelist and short story writer, Antileader - Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak (1852-1912), novelist, The Privalov Fortune
- Nadezhda MandelstamNadezhda MandelstamNadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam was a Russian writer and educator, and the wife of the poet Osip Mandelstam, who died in 1938 in a transit camp to the gulag of Siberia...
(1899-1980), writer and memoirist, Hope Against Hope, Hope Abandoned - Osip MandelstamOsip MandelstamOsip Emilyevich Mandelstam was a Russian poet and essayist who lived in Russia during and after its revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets...
(1891-1938), major poet, member of the acmeist school, The Stone - Anatoly MarienhofAnatoly MarienhofAnatoly Borisovich Marienhof or Mariengof 1897 — 24 April 1962) was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright. He was one of the leading figures of Imaginism. Now he is mostly remembered for his memoirs that depict Russian literary life of the 1920s and his friendship with Sergei Yesenin.- Biography...
(1897-1962), novelist, poet and playwright, A Novel Without Lies - Alexandra MarininaAlexandra MarininaAlexandra Marinina is a best-selling Russian writer of detective stories.-Biography:...
(born 1957), writer of detective stories - Samuil MarshakSamuil MarshakSamuil Yakovlevich Marshak was a Russian and Soviet writer, translator and children's poet. Among his Russian translations are William Shakespeare's sonnets, poems by William Blake and Robert Burns, and Rudyard Kipling's stories. Maxim Gorky proclaimed Marshak to be "the founder of [Russia's ]...
(1887-1964), writer, translator and children's poet, The Twelve Months - Vladilen MashkovtsevVladilen MashkovtsevVladilen Ivanovich Mashkovtsev was a Russian poet, writer and journalist. He wrote 15 books published in the Urals and in Moscow.- Novels :* Zolotoy tsvetok — odolen / Gold Flower Odolen* Vremya krasnogo drakona / The Red Dragon's Time...
(1929-1997), poet, writer and journalist - Mikhail MatinskyMikhail MatinskyMikhail Alexeyevich Matinsky was a Russian scientist, dramatist, librettist and opera composer.-Biography:Matinsky originated from the serfs of Count S. P. Yaguzhinsky. He studied in the gymnasium for the "raznochintsy" at Moscow University and also in Italy. Later he taught mathematics at the...
(1750-1820), scientist, dramatist, librettist and opera composer. - Vladimir MayakovskyVladimir MayakovskyVladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet poet and playwright, among the foremost representatives of early-20th century Russian Futurism.- Early life :...
(1893-1930), futurist poet, writer and playwright, Mystery-BouffeMystery-BouffeMyster-Bouffe is a socialist dramatic play written by Vladimir Mayakovsky in 1918/1921. Mayakovsky stated in a preface to the 1921 edition that "in the future, all persons performing, presenting, reading or publishing Mystery-Bouffe should change the content, making it contemporary, immediate,... - Apollon MaykovApollon MaykovApollon Nikolayevich Maykov was a Russian poet.He was born into the artistic family of Nikolay Apollonovich Maykov, a painter and an academic. In 1834 the family moved to Petersburg. In 1837-1841 Maykov studied law at Saint Petersburg University. At first he was attracted to painting, but he soon...
(1821-1897), poet and translator - Valerian MaykovValerian MaykovValerian Nikolayevich Maykov was a Russian author and literary critic, son of painter Nikolay Maykov, brother of poet Apollon and novelist Vladimir Maykovs...
(1823-1847), literary critic, Apollon Maykov's brother - Lev Mei (1822-1862), poet and playwright, The Tsar's BrideThe Tsar's BrideThe Tsar's Bride is an historical verse drama in four acts by Lev Mei from 1849. Fifty years later Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov used the play as the basis for his opera of the same name. As with Mei's other Russian historical drama, The Maid of Pskov , this play is set in the time of Ivan the...
- Pavel MelnikovPavel Ivanovich MelnikovPavel Ivanovich Melnikov was a Russian writer, known for his opera magna In the Forests and On the Hills, which describe the unique life of Transvolga and its dialects....
(1818-1883), ethnographical novelist, In the Forests - Dmitry MerezhkovskyDmitry MerezhkovskyDmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky, , 1865, St Petersburg – December 9, 1941, Paris) was a Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic. A seminal figure of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry, regarded as a co-founder of the Symbolist movement, Merezhkovsky – with his poet wife Zinaida...
(1865-1941), poet and novelist, founder of the symbolist movement in Russia, Christ and Antichrist - Arvo MetsArvo MetsArvo Antonovich Mets was a Russian poet of Estonian ancestry. He was an expert of Russian free verse. He also translated works of Estonian poets.- Biography :...
(1937-1997), poet and translator, Resemblance - Alexander MezhirovAlexander MezhirovAlexander Petrovich Mezhirov was a Soviet and Russian poet, translator and critic....
(1923-2009), poet, translator and critic - Sergey MikhalkovSergey MikhalkovSergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov was a Soviet and Russian author of children's books and satirical fables who had the opportunity to write the lyrics of his country's national anthem on three different occasions, spanning almost 60 years.-Life and career:...
(1913-2009), children's writer, satirist and song-writer, author of the National Anthem of the Soviet UnionNational Anthem of the Soviet UnionThe National Anthem of the Soviet Union or the State Anthem of the USSR was introduced during World War II on March 15, 1944, replacing The Internationale as the official national anthem of the Soviet Union as well as the national anthem of the Russian SFSR... - Nikolay Mikhaylovsky (1842-1904), publicist, literary critic, sociologist and narodnik theoretician
- Nikolai MinskyNikolai MinskyNikolai Minsky and Nikolai Maksimovich Minsky are pseudonyms of Nikolai Maksimovich Vilenkin , a mystical writer and poet of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry....
(1855-1937), poet, writer and translator, From the Gloom to the Light - Daniil MordovtsevDaniil Mordovtsev-Biography:Mordovtsev's father was a Zaporozhian Cossack and an estate manager. Mordovtsev spent his childhood in Sloboda Ukraine, where he learned the Russian language in school. He graduated from the faculty of history and philology at St. Petersburg University in 1854.Mordovtsev's literary debut...
(1830-1905), writer and historian of Ukrainian descent - Yunna MoritsYunna MoritsYunna Morits , is a Soviet and Russian artist of many talents primarily known as a poet, was born in Kiev, USSR in a Jewish family. Her father Pinchas Moritz, was imprisoned under Stalin, she suffered from tuberculosis in her childhood, and spent years of hardship in the Urals during WWII...
(born 1937), poet and artist, The Vine - Viktor MuyzhelViktor Muyzhel-Biography:Muyzhel was born in the village of Uza, in what is now Pskov Oblast. His father was a minor official. Muyzhel's first published work appeared in 1903. The Russian countryside is the setting for most of his works of fiction, including his novel The Year . He was influenced by Narodnik...
(1880-1924), writer and painter - Viktor MuravinViktor MuravinViktor Muravin is a Soviet dissident and author, best known for his novel Aurora Borealis, also published under the title The Diary of Vikenty Angarov. Born in Vladivostok, in his youth he joined the Pioneers and the Komsomol. At first an ardent communist, he worked as a horse-wrangler and...
(born 1929), novelist, The Diary of Vikenty Angarov
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- Vladimir NabokovVladimir NabokovVladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist...
(1899-1977), poet and novelist, wrote first in Russian, then in English, author of LolitaLolitaLolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris and 1958 in New York, and later translated by the author into Russian... - Nikolai NadezhdinNikolai NadezhdinNikolai Ivanovich Nadezhdin was a Russian literary critic and Russia's first ethnographer.Born in the Zaraisk District of Ryazan guberniya, Nadezhdin graduated from Ryazan Seminary in 1815 and Moscow Religious Academy in 1824...
(1804-1856), literary critic and ethnographer - Semyon Nadson (1862-1887), poet, Pity the Stately Cypress Trees
- Yuri NagibinYuri NagibinYuri Markovich Nagibin was a Soviet writer, screenwriter and novelist.He is best known for his screenplays, but he also has written several novels and novellas, and many short stories. He is known for his novel The Red Tent that he later adapted for the screenplay for the film of the same name...
(1924-1994), novelist, short story writer and screenwriter - Vladimir NarbutVladimir NarbutVladimir Ivanovich Narbut - Russian poet of Ukrainian descent, and member of the Acmeist group, brother of Ukrainian artist and graphic designer Georgy Narbut.-Biography:...
(1888-1938), acmeist poet and magazine editor - Vasily NarezhnyVasily NarezhnyVasily Trofimovich Narezhny was a Ukrainian-born Russian writer renowned for his satiricial depiction of provincial mores in the vein of the 18th-century picaresque novel. His most famous novel is A Russian Gil Blas , a rather coarse imitation of Lesage's work...
(1780-1825), novelist, A Russian Gil Blas - Sergey NarovchatovSergey NarovchatovSergey Narovchatov was a Russian author and editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Novy Mir from 1974 to 1981.-Works:*"Необычное литературоведение" [Unusual study of literature]...
(1919-1981), writer and magazine editor, Novy MirNovy MirNovy Mir is a Russian language literary magazine that has been published in Moscow since January 1925. It was supposed to be modelled on the popular pre-Soviet literary magazine Mir Bozhy , which was published from 1892 to 1906, and its follow-up, Sovremenny Mir , which was published 1906-1917... - Nikolay NaumovNikolay Naumov-Biography:Nikolay was born in 1838, in Tobolsk.He studied at Saint Petersburg University, and in 1859 his works began to be published in local papers. In 1861 he participated in student disturbances associated with reforms in the Russian empire, for which he was expelled from the University. He...
, (1838-1901), essayist and short story writer, Cobweb - Nikolay Nekrasov (1821-1878), major poet and magazine editor, Who Can be Happy and Free in Russia?
- Viktor NekrasovViktor NekrasovViktor Platonovich Nekrasov was a Russian writer, journalist and editor.-Biography:Nekrasov was born in Kiev and graduated with a degree in architecture in 1936. Between 1937 and 1941, he was an actor and set designer with the Kiev Russian Drama Theater...
(1911-1987), novelist, Front-line Stalingrad - Viktor NekipelovViktor NekipelovViktor Aleksandrovich Nekipelov was a Russian poet, writer, Soviet dissident, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group.Pharmacist by occupation, in 1968, he participated in protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia....
(1928-1989), poet, writer and dissident - Vasily Nemirovich-DanchenkoVasily Nemirovich-DanchenkoVasily Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko , 1845, Tiflis , Russian Empire - died September 18, 1936, Prague, Chechoslovakia) was a Russian writer, essayist, journalist, memoirist, and the brother of famous theater director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko...
(1845-1936), novelist, essayist and war correspondent - Vladimir Nemirovich-DanchenkoVladimir Nemirovich-DanchenkoVladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko was a Georgian-born Russian theatre director, writer, pedagogue, playwright, producer and theatre organizer, who founded the Moscow Art Theatre with his colleague, Konstantin Stanislavsky, in 1898.-Biography:Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko was born...
(1858-1943), theatre director, writer and playwright, co-founder of the Moscow Art TheatreMoscow Art TheatreThe Moscow Art Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow that the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Constantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright and director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, founded in 1898. It was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the melodramas... - Löb Nevakhovich (1776/78-1831), Russia-Jewish writer and playwright
- Alexander NeverovAlexander NeverovAlexander Sergeyevich Neverov , , was a Russian/Soviet writer and teacher. Neverov was his pseudonym; his real last name was Skobelev.-Early life:...
(1886-1923), writer and playwright, City of Bread - Friedrich NeznanskyFriedrich NeznanskyFriedrich Neznansky is a popular Russian crime novelist. He is a lawyer by education, practiced law in Moscow, and was an investigator at the Moscow Prosecutor General’s office for fifteen years; his hero in most of his books, Aleksandr Turetsky, reflects that experience. Turetsky is a flawed...
(born 1932), crime novelist, Red Square - Ivan NikitinIvan Savvich NikitinIvan Savvich Nikitin Born in Voronezh into a merchant family, Nikitin was educated in a seminary until 1843. His father's violence and alcoholism brought the family to ruin and forced young Ivan to provide for the household by becoming an innkeeper...
(1824-1861), poet and writer, Kulak - Nikolai NikolevNikolai NikolevNikolay Petrovich Nikolev , , was a Russian poet and playwright.He was brought up and educated in the family of Princess Ekaterina Dashkova, his distant relation. As President of the Russian Academy, Dashkova secured his admission into the academy and helped popularize his tragedies and folk songs...
(1758-1815), poet and playwright - Nikolay NosovNikolay NosovNikolai Nikolaevich Nosov was a Soviet children's literature writer, the author of a number of humorous short stories, a school novel, and the popular trilogy of fairy tale novels about the adventures of Neznaika and his friends.-Early life:...
(1908-1976), children's writer, NeznaikaNeznaikaDunno, or Know-Nothing is an anti-hero created by the Soviet children's writer Nikolay Nosov.Dunno, recognized by his bright blue hat, canary-yellow trousers, orange shirt, and green tie, is the title character of Nosov's world-famous trilogy, The Adventures of Dunno and his Friends , Dunno in Sun... - Osip NotovichOsip NotovichOsip Notovich was born into a Jewish family in the city of Taganrog, studied at the Taganrog Boys' Gymnasium, graduated from the law faculty of the Saint Petersburg University. In 1873-1874, he was the publisher and editor of the newspaper Novoe Vremya...
(1849-1914), publisher, playwright and essayist - Alexey Novikov-PriboyAlexey Novikov-PriboyAleksey Silych Novikov-Priboi was the pen-name of A. S. Novikov, a ethnic Russian writer in the Soviet Union, noted for his stories with a nautical theme.-Biography:Novikov-Priboi was the second son of a peasant family from Tambov Oblast...
(1877-1944), novelist and short story writer, The Captain
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- Vladimir ObruchevVladimir ObruchevVladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev was a Russian and Soviet geologist who specialized in the study of Siberia and Central Asia. He was also one of the first Russian science fiction authors.- Scientific research :...
(1863-1956), science fiction writer, Sannikov LandSannikov LandSannikov Land was a phantom island in the Arctic Ocean. Its supposed existence became something of a myth in 19th-century Russia.Yakov Sannikov and Matvei Gedenschtrom claimed to have seen it during their 1809-1810 cartographic expedition to the New Siberian Islands... - Olga ObukhovaOlga ObukhovaOlga Ivanovna Obukhova is a Russian journalist, writer and translator.Olga Obukhova is the daughter of Ivan Zamchevsky, the former Communist Party secretary of Leningrad and Soviet Ambassador to Yugoslavia. In 1962 she graduated from Moscow State University of International Relations...
(1941), journalist, writer and translator - Alexander OdoevskyAlexander OdoevskyAlexander Ivanovich Odoevsky was a Russian poet and playwright, one of the leading figures of the 1825 Decembrist revolt...
(1802-1839), poet and playwright, activist of the Decembrist RevoltDecembrist revoltThe Decembrist revolt or the Decembrist uprising took place in Imperial Russia on 14 December , 1825. Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his elder brother Constantine removed himself from the line of succession... - Vladimir OdoevskyVladimir OdoevskyPrince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky was a prominent Russian philosopher, writer, music critic, philanthropist and pedagogue. He became known as the "Russian Hoffmann" on account of his keen interest in fantasmagoric tales and musical criticism.-Life:...
(1803-1869), philosopher, writer, music critic, philanthropist and pedagogue, The Living CorpseThe Living Corpse (Odoevsky)The Living Corpse is a Gothic novel written by Vladimir Odoevsky written in 1838 and published in 1844.Written in the first person, it is the story of Vasilii Kuz'mich Aristidov, who wakes up one morning to find himself a ghost. A work of social satire, it reads on a number of levels, and can be... - Irina OdoyevtsevaIrina OdoyevtsevaIrina Vladimirovna Odoyevtseva was a Russian poet, novelist and author of memoirs...
(1895-1990), poet, novelist and memoirist - Nikolay OgarevNikolay OgarevNikolay Platonovich Ogarev , was a Russian poet, historian and political activist. He was deeply critical of the limitations of the Emancipation of the Serfs claiming that the serfs were not free but had simply exchanged one form of serfdom for another.Ogarev was a fellow-exile and collaborator of...
(1813-1877), poet, historian and political activist - Bulat OkudzhavaBulat OkudzhavaBulat Shalvovich Okudzhava was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter. He was one of the founders of the Russian genre called "author song"...
(1924-1997), poet, writer and singer-songwriter, The Art of Needles and Sins - Yury OleshaYury OleshaYury Karlovich Olesha was a Russian and Soviet novelist. He is considered to have been one of the greatest Russian novelists of the 20th-century, one of the few to have succeeded in writing works of lasting artistic value despite the stifling censorship of the era...
(1899-1960), satirical novelist, Envy - Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886), major playwright, The Storm
- Nikolai OstrovskyNikolai OstrovskyNikolai Alexeevich Ostrovsky was a Soviet socialist realist writer, who published his works during the Stalin era...
(1904-1936), socialist realist writer, How the Steel Was TemperedHow the Steel Was TemperedHow the Steel Was Tempered is a socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky during Joseph Stalin's era. Pavel Korchagin is the central character.- Analysis :... - Valentin OvechkinValentin Ovechkin-Early life:Valentin was born in Taganrog, the son of an office employee. He studied at the Taganrog Technical School from 1913 to 1919. He began writing early, while he was still a member of the Komsomol. His first story Saveliev was published in the newspaper Bednota in 1927. Other early works...
(1904-1968), writer, playwright, journalist and war correspondent, Greetings from the Front - Vladislav OzerovVladislav OzerovVladislav Aleksandrovich Ozerov was the most popular Russian dramatist in the first decades of the 19th century....
(1769-1816), playwright, Dmitry Donskoy
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- Marina PaleiMarina PaleiMarina Anatolyevna Palei is a Russian prose-writer, scriptwriter, publicist, novelist and translator.-Life and work:...
(born 1955), scriptwriter, publicist, novelist and translator, Rendezvous - Ivan PanaevIvan PanaevIvan Ivanovich Panaev was a Russian writer, literary critic, journalist and magazine publisher.-Early life:Panaev was born into a gentry family in St Petersburg. He graduated from the Boarding School for the Nobility at Saint Petersburg State University in 1830. He began publishing his works in 1834...
(1812-1862), writer, critic and publisher/editor of the popular magazine SovremennikSovremennikSovremennik was a Russian literary, social and political magazine, published in St. Petersburg in 1836-1866. It came out four times a year in 1836-1843 and once a month after that... - Avdotya PanaevaAvdotya PanaevaAvdotya Yakovlevna Panaeva , née Bryanskaya, , was a Russian novelist, short story writer, memoirist and literary salon holder. She published much of her work under the pseudonym V. Stanitsky.-Biography:...
(1820-1893), novelist, short story writer and memoirist - Vera PanovaVera Panova-Early life:Vera was born into the family of an impoverished merchant in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Her father, Fyodor Ivanovich Panov, built canoes and yachts as a hobby, and founded two yachting clubs in Rostov. When she was five her father drowned in the Don River. After her father's death, her...
(1905-1973), novelist, short story writer, journalist and playwright, SeryozhaSeryozha (novel)Seryozha is a short novel by Soviet writer Vera Panova. Seryozha has also been translated as Time Walked and A Summer to Remember. Seryozha is a diminutive form of the name Sergey.-Plot:... - Valentin ParnakhValentin ParnakhValentin Yakovlevich Parnakh was a Russian poet, translator, choreographer, and musician who is best remembered as a founding father of Soviet jazz.- Early years :...
(1891-1951), poet, translator, choreographer and musician, founder of Russian jazz music - Sophia Parnok (1885-1933), poet, playwright and translator
- Boris PasternakBoris PasternakBoris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian language poet, novelist, and literary translator. In his native Russia, Pasternak's anthology My Sister Life, is one of the most influential collections ever published in the Russian language...
(1890-1960), poet and novelist, not permitted by the Soviet UnionSoviet UnionThe Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
to accept the Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
, Doctor ZhivagoDoctor Zhivago-Original creation:*Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak, published in 1957**Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago, a fictional character and the main protagonist of the book Doctor Zhivago-Adaptations:There are several adaptations based on the Doctor Zhivago book:... - Pyotr PatrushevPyotr PatrushevPyotr Patrushev is a Russian author who escaped a death sentence by swimming from Russia to Turkey across the Black Sea border in 1962....
(born 1942), writer and dissident - Konstantin PaustovskyKonstantin PaustovskyKonstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky was a Russian Soviet writer nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1965.-Early life:Konstantin Paustovsky was born in Moscow. His father, descendant of the Zaporizhia Cossacks, was a railroad statistician, and was “an incurable romantic and Protestant”....
(1892-1968), writer, Nobel Prize nominee, Story of a Life - Pyotr PavlenkoPyotr PavlenkoPyotr Andreyevich Pavlenko , , was a Soviet writer, screenwriter and war correspondent. He became a member of the CPSU in 1920.-Early life:...
(1899-1951), writer, Happiness - Oleg PavlovOleg PavlovOleg Pavlov is a prominent Russian writer, winner of the Russian Booker Prize.Born in Moscow, he served in the Interior Ministry troops near the city of Karaganda...
(born 1970), novelist and short story writer - Karolina PavlovaKarolina PavlovaKarolina Pavlova was a 19th century Russian poet and novelist who stood out from other writers on account of her unique appreciation of exceptional rhymes and imagery.-Biography:...
(1807-1893), poet and novelist, A Double Life - Vladimir PecherinVladimir PecherinFather Vladimir Sergeyvich Pecherin , was a controversial Russian political figure both in nineteenth-century Ireland and in Russia...
(1807-1885), poet and writer, Notes from Beyond the Tomb - Victor PelevinVictor PelevinVictor Olegovich Pelevin is a Russian fiction writer. His books usually carry the outward conventions of the science fiction genre, but are used to construct involved, multi-layered postmodernist texts, fusing together elements of pop culture and esoteric philosophies...
(born 1962), modern writer, Omon RaOmon RaOmon Ra is a short novel by the modern Russian writer Victor Pelevin, published in 1992 by the Tekst Publishing House in Moscow. It was the first novel by Pelevin, who until then was known for his short stories.... - Yakov PerelmanYakov I. PerelmanYakov Isidorovich Perelman was a Russian and Soviet science writer and author of many popular science, including Physics Can Be Fun and Mathematics Can Be Fun ....
(1882-1942), science writer, Physics for Entertainment - Nick PerumovNick PerumovNick Perumov is the pen name of Nikolay Daniilovich Perumov , a Russian fantasy and science fiction writer.- Biography :Perumov was born November 21, 1963 in Leningrad, USSR. He began writing short stories since he was a teenager, and after reading The Lord of the Rings in the early 1980s, he...
(born 1963), fantasy and science fiction writer - Mariya PetrovykhMariya PetrovykhMariya Sergeevna Petrovykh was a Russian poet and translator.- Early life :...
(1908-1979), poet and translator - Lyudmila PetrushevskayaLyudmila PetrushevskayaLyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright.The Moscow-born Petrushevskaya is regarded as one of Russia's most prominent contemporary writers, whose writing combines postmodernist trends with the psychological insights and parodic touches of writers such as...
(born 1938), modern writer and playwright, The Number One - Valentin PikulValentin PikulValentin Savvich Pikul was a popular and prolific Soviet historical novelist of Ukrainian-Russian heritage. He lived and worked in Riga....
(1928-1990), novelist, At the Last Frontier - Boris PilnyakBoris PilnyakBoris Pilnyak was a Russian author. Born Boris Andreyevich Vogau in Mozhaysk, he was a major supporter of anti-urbanism and a critic of mechanized society. These views often brought him into disfavor with Communist critics...
(1894-1938), novelist, The Naked Year - Dimitri PisarevDimitri PisarevDimitri Ivanovich Pisarev was a radical Russian writer and social critic who, according to Georgi Plekhanov, "spent the best years of his life in a fortress"....
(1840-1868), critic and publicist - Aleksey PisemskyAleksey PisemskyAleksey Feofilaktovich Pisemsky was a Russian novelist and dramatist who was regarded as an equal of Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoevsky during his lifetime, but whose reputation suffered a spectacular decline in the 20th century. A realistic playwright, along with Aleksandr Ostrovsky he was...
(1821-1881), major novelist and dramatist, A Bitter FateA Bitter FateA Bitter Fate , also translated as A Bitter Lot, is an 1859 realistic play by Aleksey Pisemsky. The play tackles serfdom in Russia and the social and moral divisions that it creates by means of a story that focuses on a provincial ménage à trois... - Andrei PlatonovAndrei PlatonovAndrei Platonov was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov , a Soviet author whose works anticipate existentialism. Although Platonov was a Communist, his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other Stalinist policies...
(1899-1951), novelist, The Foundation PitThe Foundation PitThe Foundation Pit is a gloomy symbolical and semi-satirical novel by Andrei Platonov. The plot of the novel concerns a group of workers in the early Soviet Union attempting to dig out a huge foundation pit, on the base of which a gigantic House for all Proletariat will be built... - Pyotr PletnyovPyotr PletnyovPyotr Alexandrovich Pletnyov was a minor Russian poet and literary critic, who rose to become the dean of the Saint Petersburg University and academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences ....
(1792-1866), poet, dedicatee of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin - Georgy Plekhanov (1857-1918), writer, revolutionary and Marxist theoretician
- Aleksey PlescheevAleksey PlescheevAleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev was a radical Russian poet of the 19th century, one of the Petrashevsky Circle.Pleshcheyev's first book of poetry, published in 1846, made him famous: «Вперед! без страха и сомненья…» became widely known as "a Russian La Marseillaise" , «На зов друзей»...
(1825-1893), radical poet, Step Forward! Without Fear or Doubt - Mikhail PogodinMikhail PogodinMikhail Petrovich Pogodin was a Russian historian and journalist who, jointly with Nikolay Ustryalov, dominated the national historiography between the death of Nikolay Karamzin in 1826 and the rise of Sergey Solovyov in the 1850s. He is best remembered as a staunch proponent of the Normanist...
(1800-1875), historian and journalist - Nikolai PogodinNikolai PogodinNikolai Fyodorovich Pogodin was a Soviet playwright.Born into a peasant family at Gundorovskaya Stantsiya in the Don Province, young Nikolai Stukalov "spent a wandering childhood with his mother, who travelled from one Cossack village to another taking in sewing"; he worked as a bookbinder and...
(1900-1962), playwright, journalist and magazine editor - Antony PogorelskyAntony PogorelskyAntony Pogorelsky is a penname of Alexey Alexeyevich Perovsky , a Russian prose writer.He was a natural son of A.K...
(1787–1837), fantasy fiction writer, Dvoinik - Boris PolevoyBoris PolevoyBoris Nikolaevich Polevoy was a notable Soviet writer. He is the author of the book Story of a Real Man about a Soviet World War II fighter pilot Alexei Petrovich Maresiev ....
(1908-1981), writer and journalist, The Story of a Real Man - Nikolai PolevoyNikolai PolevoyNikolai Alekseevich Polevoy was a controversial Russian editor, writer, translator, and historian; his brother was the critic and journalist Ksenofont Polevoy and his sister the writer and publisher of folktales Ekaterina Avdeeva.Polevoy was from an old merchant family from Kursk but was born in...
(1796-1846), writer, historian and magazine editor, The Moscow Telegraph - Elizaveta PolonskayaElizaveta PolonskayaElizaveta Grigorevna Polonskaya , born Movshenson, was a Russian Jewish poet, translator, and journalist, the only female member of the Serapion Brothers.-Early life:...
(1890-1969), poet, translator, and journalist, the only female member of the Serapion BrothersSerapion BrothersThe Serapion Brothers was a group of writers formed in Petrograd, Russia in 1921. The group was named after a literary group, Die Serapionsbrüder , to which German romantic author E.T.A. Hoffmann belonged and after which he named a collection of his tales... - Yakov PolonskyYakov PolonskyYakov Petrovich Polonsky was a leading Pushkinist poet who tried to uphold the waning traditions of Russian Romantic poetry during the heyday of realistic prose....
(1819-1898), poet, Georgian Night - Nikolay PomyalovskyNikolay Pomyalovsky- Early life :Pomyalovsky was born in St. Petersburg in 1835. His father was a deacon in the Orthodox Church in Malaya Okhta, a village on the bank of the Neva River, across from St. Petersburg. Pomyalovsky studied at the Alexander Nevsky Theological School , where his lifelong problem with...
(1835-1863), novelist, Seminary Sketches - Mikhail Popov (1742-1790), writer, poet, dramatist and opera librettist, AnyutaAnyutaAnyuta is a one-act comic opera to a libretto by Mikhail Popov. First performed in 1772, it was one of the first operas written in the Russian language ....
- Nikolay Popovsky (1730-1760), poet and translator
- Vasili PopugaevVasili PopugaevVasili Vasilyevich Popugaev was a Russian poet, novelist, and translator. He was one of the leaders of the Free Society of Lovers of Literature, Science, and the Arts.-Life:...
(1778/79-1816), poet, novelist and translator - Ignaty PotapenkoIgnaty PotapenkoIgnaty Nikolayevich Potapenko , born December 30, 1856 – died May 17, 1929, was a Russian writer and playwright.-Biography:Potapenko was born in the village of Fyodorovka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire where his father was a priest. Potapenko studied at Odessa University, and at the...
(1856-1929), writer and playwright, A Russian Priest - Alexander Preys (1905-1942), playwright and librettist, The NoseThe Nose (opera)The Nose is a satirical opera composed by Dmitri Shostakovich. The libretto by Shostakovich, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Georgy Ionin, and Alexander Preis is based on the story The Nose by Nikolai Gogol. The plot concerns a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own...
- Dmitri PrigovDmitri PrigovDmitri Aleksandrovich Prigov was a Russian writer and artist. Prigov was a dissident during the era of the Soviet Union and was briefly sent to a psychiatric hospital in 1986....
(1940-2007), writer and artist, Live in Moscow - Zakhar Prilepin (born 1975), writer and dissident, member of the National Bolshevik Party
- Mikhail PrishvinMikhail PrishvinMikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin was a Russian/Soviet writer.Mikhail Prishvin was born in the family mansion of Krutschevo, near the city of Yelets in what is now Lipetsk Oblast into the family of a merchant. In 1893-1897, he studied at a polytechnic school in Riga and was once arrested for his...
(1873-1954), journalist and writer - Alexander ProkhanovAlexander ProkhanovAlexander Andreyevich Prokhanov is a Soviet and Russian writer. He is a member of the secretariat of the Writers Union of the Russian Federation and the editor-in-chief of ultra-nationalist newspaper "Завтра" ....
(born 1938), writer and newspaper editor - Alexander ProkofyevAlexander ProkofyevAlexander Andreyevich Prokofyev was a Soviet poet. Prokofyev is best recognized for the motifs of Russian folklore found in his works.-Biography:...
(1900-1971), poet and war correspondent - Iosif PrutIosif PrutIosif Leonidovich Prut was a Russian playwright and the first Soviet screenwriter. Prut was awarded the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR .-Biography:...
(1900-1996), playwright and screenwriter - Kozma PrutkovKozma PrutkovKozma Petrovich Prutkov is a fictional author invented by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy and his cousins, three Zhemchuzhnikov brothers, Alexei, Vladimir and Alexander, during the later part of the rule of Nicholas I of Russia....
, satirist, pseudonym of Aleksey Konstantinovich TolstoyAleksey Konstantinovich TolstoyCount Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy , was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist...
and his cousins - Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), poet, novelist and dramatist, considered to be the greatest of Russian poets, Eugene OneginEugene OneginEugene Onegin is a novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin.It is a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary heroes . It was published in serial form between 1825 and 1832...
- Vasily PushkinVasily PushkinVasiliy Lvovich Pushkin was a minor Russian poet best known as an uncle of the much more famous Alexander Pushkin....
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- Alexander RadishchevAlexander RadishchevAlexander Nikolayevich Radishchev was a Russian author and social critic who was arrested and exiled under Catherine the Great. He brought the tradition of radicalism in Russian literature to prominence with the publication in 1790 of his Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow...
(1749-1802), radical writer and social critic, Journey from St. Petersburg to MoscowJourney from St. Petersburg to MoscowThe Journey From St. Petersburg to Moscow , published in 1790, was the most famous work by the Russian writer Aleksandr Nikolayevich Radishchev.... - Edvard RadzinskyEdvard RadzinskyEdvard Stanislavovich Radzinsky is a Russian playwright, writer, TV personality, and film screenwriter. He is also known as an author of several books on history which were characterized as "folk history" by journalists and academic historians.-Biography:Edvard Stanislavovich Radzinsky was born...
(born 1936), writer, playwright, TV personality, screenwriter and historian - Vladimir RaevskyVladimir RaevskyVladimir Fedoseyevich Rayevsky was a Russian poet who participated in the Patriotic war of 1812.After the war, when living in Tiraspol, he became a leading member of the Southern Society of Decembrists. The world's only known statue of him is located in Tiraspol....
(1795-1872), poet and Decembrist - Valentin RasputinValentin RasputinValentin Grigoriyevich Rasputin is a Russian writer. He was born and lived much of his life in the Irkutsk Oblast in Eastern Siberia. Rasputin's works depict rootless urban characters and the fight for survival of centuries-old traditional rural ways of life...
(born 1937), novelist, Farewell to Matyora - Irina RatushinskayaIrina RatushinskayaIrina Borisovna Ratushinskaya is a prominent Russian dissident, poet and writer.Irina was educated at Odessa University, the city of her birth, and was graduated with a Master's Degree in physics in 1976...
(born 1954) dissident poet and writer, Grey is the Color of Hope - Yevgeny ReinYevgeny ReinYevgeny Borisovich Rein is a Russian poet and writer. His poetry won the State Prize of Russia , Pushkin Prize of Russia, and Tsarskoe Selo Art Prize ....
(born 1935), poet and writer, The Names of Bridges - Aleksey RemizovAleksey RemizovAleksei Mikhailovich Remizov was a Russian modernist writer whose creative imagination veered to the fantastic and bizarre. Apart from literary works, Remizov was an expert calligrapher who sought to revive this medieval art in Russia.-Biography:...
(1877-1957), modernist writer, calligrapher and folklore enthusiast, The Clock - Fyodor ReshetnikovFyodor Mikhaylovich ReshetnikovFyodor Mikhaylovich Reshetnikov was a Russian author. In his short 29 ½ years he published to critical acclaim a number of novels dealing with the plight of the lower classes.-Early life:...
(1841-1871), novelist, The Podlipnayans - Robert RozhdestvenskyRobert RozhdestvenskyRobert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky was a Soviet poet who in the broke with the Social Realism in 1950s–1960s and, along with such poets as Andrey Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Bella Akhmadulina, pioneered a newer, fresher, and freer poetry in the Soviet Union.-Life:Robert Rozhdestvensky...
(1932-1994), poet, Flags of Spring - Helena RoerichHelena RoerichHelena Ivanovna Roerich was a Russian philosopher, writer, and public figure. In the early 20th century, she created, in cooperation with the Teachers of the East, a philosophic teaching of Living Ethics . She was an organizer and participant of cultural and enlightened creativity in the U.S.,...
(1879-1949), philosopher, writer and public figure - Nicholas RoerichNicholas RoerichNicholas Roerich, also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh , was a Russian mystic, painter, philosopher, scientist, writer, traveler, and public figure. A prolific artist, he created thousands of paintings and about 30 literary works...
(1874-1947), painter, philosopher, scientist, writer, traveler and public figure - Konstantin RomanovGrand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of RussiaGrand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia was a grandson of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, and a poet and playwright of some renown...
(1858-1915), poet and playwright, The King of the Jews - Panteleimon RomanovPanteleimon Romanov-Biography:Romanov was born into a gentry family in the village of Petrovskoe in what is now Tula Oblast. After completing his law studies at Moscow State University, he devoted himself to literature. He published his first story in 1911, but had little success before the Russian Revolution .He...
(1884-1938), Russian/Soviet writer, Without Bird-Cherry Blossoms - Mikhail RoshchinMikhail RoshchinMikhail Mikhailovich Roshchin was a Russian playwright, screenwriter and short story writer.-Biography:Born to Mikhail N. Gibelman and Claudia Tarasovna Efimov-Tyurkin , Roshchin spent his early childhood in Sevastopol...
(1933-2010), playwright, screenwriter and short story writer - Yevdokiya RostopchinaYevdokiya RostopchinaYevdokia Petrovna Rostopchina, was one of the early Russian women poets.After losing her mother at the age of six, Yevdokia Sushkova grew up in Moscow in the family of her maternal grandfather, Ivan Alexandrovich Pashkov...
(1811-1858), poet and writer, Forced Marriage - Vasily RozanovVasily RozanovVasily Vasilievich Rozanov was one of the most controversial Russian writers and philosophers of the pre-revolutionary epoch. His views have been termed the "religion of procreation", as he tried to reconcile Christian teachings with ideas of healthy sex and family life and not, as his adversary...
(1856-1919), writer and philosopher - Robert RozhdestvenskyRobert RozhdestvenskyRobert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky was a Soviet poet who in the broke with the Social Realism in 1950s–1960s and, along with such poets as Andrey Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Bella Akhmadulina, pioneered a newer, fresher, and freer poetry in the Soviet Union.-Life:Robert Rozhdestvensky...
(1932-1994), poet, Flags of Spring - Dina RubinaDina RubinaDina Ilyinichna Rubina is a Russian-Israeli prose writer. Her most famous work is Dual Surname which was recently turned into a film screened on Russia's Channel One.Rubina writes in Russian.-English Translations:...
(born 1951), novelist and short story writer, The Blackthorn - Anatoly RybakovAnatoly RybakovAnatoly Naumovich Rybakov was a Soviet and Russian writer, the author of the anti-Stalinist Children of the Arbat tetralogy, novel Heavy Sand, and many popular children books including Adventures of Krosh, Dirk, Bronze Bird, etc...
(1911-1998), novelist, Children of the ArbatChildren of the ArbatChildren of the Arbat is a novel by Anatoli Rybakov that recounts the era in the Soviet Union of the build-up to the 'Congress of the Victors', the early years of the second Five Year Plan and the circumstances of the murder of Sergey Kirov prior to the beginning of the Great Purge.Principally... - Vladimir RybakovVladimir RybakovVladimir Rybakov is a Russian writer.Vladimir was born to émigré parents in Paris in 1947, lived in the Soviet Union 1956-1972, including a hitch in the Soviet army, and returned to the West in 1972, since which time he has been a journalist and a novelist with a historical bent...
(born 1947), novelist and journalist, The Afghans: A Novella of Soviet Soldiers in Afghanistan - Vyacheslav RybakovVyacheslav RybakovVyacheslav Rybakov is a well known Soviet and Russian science fiction author and an orientalist, interested in the medieval bureaucracy of China...
(born 1954), science fiction author and orientalist, The Trial Sphere - Maria RybakovaMaria RybakovaMaria Aleksadrovna Rybakova is a Russian writer, whose works are published in multiple languages.-Life:Rybakova is the only daughter of literary critic Natalia Ivanova, deputy editor of journal Znamya, and granddaughter of Russian writer Anatoly Rybakov.She studied Classics starting at the age of...
(born 1973), novelist and short story writer - Kondraty Ryleyev (1795-1826), poet, publisher and a leader of the Decembrist RevoltDecembrist revoltThe Decembrist revolt or the Decembrist uprising took place in Imperial Russia on 14 December , 1825. Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his elder brother Constantine removed himself from the line of succession...
- Yuri RytkheuYuri RytkheuYuri Sergeyevich Rytkheu was a Chukchi writer, who wrote in both his native Chukchi and in Russian. He is considered to be the father of Chukchi literature.- Biography :Yuri Rytkheu was born March 8, 1930 to a family of trappers and hunters...
(b. 1930), Chukchi writer, A Dream in Polar Fog
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- German SadulaevGerman SadulaevGerman Umaralievich Sadulaev is a Chechen writer.- Biography :German Sadulaev was born in 1973, in the town of Shali, in the Chechen-Ingush ASSR, to a Chechen father and Terek Cossack mother....
(born 1973), ChechenChechnyaThe Chechen Republic , commonly referred to as Chechnya , also spelled Chechnia or Chechenia, sometimes referred to as Ichkeria , is a federal subject of Russia . It is located in the southeastern part of Europe in the Northern Caucasus mountains. The capital of the republic is the city of Grozny...
writer, I am a Chechen! - Yuri SamarinYuri SamarinYuri Fyodorovich Samarin was a leading Russian Slavophile thinker and one of the architects of the Emancipation reform of 1861....
(1819-1876), publicist and critic - Genrikh SapgirGenrikh SapgirGenrikh Sapgir was a Russian poet and fiction writer.-Biography:He was born in Biysk to a family of a Moscow engineer on a business trip. The family returned to Moscow fairly soon....
(1928-1999), poet and novelist - Mikhail Saltykov-ShchedrinMikhail Saltykov-ShchedrinMikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin , better known by his pseudonym Shchedrin , was a major Russian satirist of the 19th century. At one time, after the death of the poet Nikolai Nekrasov, he acted as editor of the well-known Russian magazine, the Otechestvenniye Zapiski, until it was banned by...
(1826-1889), major satirist, The Golovlyov Family - Boris SavinkovBoris SavinkovBoris Viktorovich Savinkov was a Russian writer and revolutionary terrorist...
(1879-1925), writer and revolutionary terrorist, What Never Happened - Ilya SelvinskyIlya SelvinskyIlya Selvinsky was a Russian poet, and known leader of the Constructivist movement; as such, he implemented "a scientific approach into the realm of poetry."...
(1899-1968), poet, leader of the constructivist school - Sergey SemyonovSergey Terentyevich SemyonovSergey Terentyevich Semyonov , born March 28, 1868 – died December 3, 1922, was a Russian writer and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda.-Biography:...
(1868-1922), peasant writer, Gluttons - Yulian SemyonovYulian SemyonovYulian Semyonovich Semyonov , pen-name of Yulian Semyonovich Lyandres , was a Soviet and Russian writer of spy fiction and crime fiction.-Career:...
(1931-1993), writer of spy fictionSpy fictionSpy fiction, literature concerning the forms of espionage, was a sub-genre derived from the novel during the nineteenth century, which then evolved into a discrete genre before the First World War , when governments established modern intelligence agencies in the early twentieth century...
and crime fictionCrime fictionCrime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...
, Seventeen Instants of Spring - Osip SenkovskyOsip SenkovskyJózef Julian Sękowski was a Polish-Russian orientalist, journalist, and entertainer.Józef Sękowski was born into an old family of Polish szlachta. During his study in the University of Vilno he became fascinated with all things oriental...
(1800-1858), Polish-Russian orientalist, journalist, writer and entertainer. - Alexander SerafimovichAlexander SerafimovichAlexander Serafimovich was a Russian/Soviet writer and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda.-Early life:...
(1863-1949), writer, The Iron Flood - Sergei Sergeyev-TsenskySergei Sergeyev-TsenskySergei Nikolayevich Sergeyev-Tsensky , was a prolific Russian and Soviet writer and academician...
(1875-1958), writer and academician, Brusilov's Breakthrough - Efraim SevelaEfraim SevelaEfraim Sevela was a Russian writer, screenwriter, director, producer, who after his emigration from the Soviet Union lived in Israel, USA and Russia....
(1928-2010), writer, screenwriter, director and producer - Igor SeveryaninIgor SeveryaninIgor Severyanin was a Russian poet who presided over the circle of the so-called Ego-Futurists.Igor was born in St. Petersburg in the family of an army engineer. Through his mother, he was remotely related to Nikolai Karamzin and Afanasy Fet. In 1904 he left for Manchuria with his father but later...
(1887-1941), ego futuristEgo-FuturismEgo-Futurism was a Russian literary movement of 1910s, developed within the Russian Futurism by Igor Severyanin and his early followers. Ego-Futurism was born in 1911, when Severyanin published a small brochure entitled Prolog . Severyanin decried excessive objectivity of the Cubo-Futurists,...
poet, The Cup of Thunder - Marietta ShaginyanMarietta ShaginyanMarietta Sergeevna Shaginian was a Soviet writer and public activist. She was one of the outstanding communist female-authors with broad philosophical and social views....
(1888-1982), Russian writer of Armenian descent, Mess-Mend - Varlam ShalamovVarlam ShalamovVarlam Tikhonovich Shalamov , baptized as Varlaam, was a Russian writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor.-Early life:Varlam Shalamov was born in Vologda, Vologda Governorate, a Russian city with a rich culture famous for its wooden architecture, to a family of a hereditary Russian Orthodox...
(1907-1982), writer and GulagGulagThe Gulag was the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems. While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of...
survivor, The Kolyma TalesThe Kolyma TalesKolyma Tales is a collection of short stories by Russian author Varlam Shalamov, about labour camp life in the Soviet Union. He began working on this book in 1954 and continued until 1973.-Background:... - Olga ShapirOlga Shapir-Biography:Shapir was born in Oranienbaum in 1850. She was one of nine children. Her father, a peasant, served as an army clerk, for a while under the Decembrist leader Pavel Pestel. Her mother was of Swedish descent....
(1850-1916), writer and feminist, The Settlement - Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874-1952), poet, writer, playwright and translator, Deborah
- Stepan ShchipachevStepan ShchipachevStepan Shchipachev was a Russian poet. He is best known for the poem Lines of Love and the collections Musings , A Man's Hand , and Selected Works .-References:*...
(1889-1980), poet, Lines of Love - Vadim ShefnerVadim ShefnerVadim Sergeevich Shefner Вадим Сергеевич Шефнер was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer who started publishing poetry in 1936. His first poetry collection was published in 1940. He turned to philosophical science fiction in the early 1960s, but continued publishing non-genre fiction and...
(1915-2002), poet and writer - Nikolay SherbinaNikolay SherbinaNikolay Fyodorovich Shcherbina - Russian poet of 19th century.Nikolay Shcherbina was born on December 2, 1821 in Mius district of Don Cossack Host in the mansion of his mother. His father was of Ukrainian descent, and his mother of Greek descent. The parents of Shcherbina moved into the city of...
(1821-1869), poet, To the Sea - Vadim ShershenevichVadim ShershenevichVadim Gabrielevich Shershenevich was a Russian poet.-Earlier years:Shershenevich was born in Kazan, Russia on 25 January 1893 . He was the son of professor of Law Gabriel Feliksovich Shershenevich, a Polish national and a deputy of the first State Duma from the Constitutional Democratic party and...
(1893-1942), futurist poet, writer and screenwriter, A Kiss From Mary PickfordA Kiss From Mary PickfordA Kiss From Mary Pickford is a comedy film made in the Soviet Union, directed by Sergei Komarov and co-written by Komarov and Vadim Shershenevich. The film, starring Igor Ilyinsky, is mostly known today because of a cameo by the popular film couple Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks... - Stepan ShevyryovStepan ShevyryovStepan Petrovich Shevyryov was a Russian poet, translator, literary critic and philologist...
(1806-1864), poet, writer, critic and philologist - Mikhail ShishkinMikhail ShishkinMikhail Pavlovich Shishkin is a Russian writer. He is widely considered as one of the best contemporary Russian writers and praised for depth and complexity of his books and for his perfect command of Russian literary language.-Biography:...
(born 1961), modern writer, The Taking of Izmail - Vyacheslav ShishkovVyacheslav ShishkovVyacheslav Yakovlevich Shishkov was a Soviet and Russian writer known for his descriptions of Siberia. He was awarded the Stalin Prize posthumously ....
(1873-1945), writer, known for his descriptions of Siberia - Maria ShkapskayaMaria Shkapskaya-Early life:Maria was born in Saint Petersburg in 1891, the youngest of 5 children. Her parents were educated and cultured, but the family struggled financially, depending on her father's small pension. Her mother suffered from paralysis and her father had retired from a minor government position...
(1891-1952), poet and journalist - Ivan ShmelyovIvan ShmelyovIvan Sergeyevich Shmelyov was a Russian émigré writer best known for his full-blooded idyllic recreations of the pre-revolutionary past spent in the merchant district of Moscow...
(1873-1850), novelist, The Stone Age - Mikhail Sholokhov (1905-1984), Nobel Prize winning writer, And Quiet Flows the DonAnd Quiet Flows the DonAnd Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don is the first part of the great Don epic Tikhiy Don , written by Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov. It originally appeared in serialized form between 1928 and 1940...
- Gennady ShpalikovGennady ShpalikovGennady Fyodorovich Shpalikov was a Soviet Russian poet and a screenwriter.Born in the town of Segezha, he moved to Moscow with his parents in 1939. In the fall of 1941, he was evacuated to the Kirghiz SSR, together with the Academy of Military Engineers, where his father, Fyodor Grigorievich...
(1937-1974), poet and screenwriter, I Step Through MoscowI Step through MoscowWalking the Streets of Moscow is a 1963 Soviet movie directed by Georgi Daneliya and produced by Mosfilm studios. It stars Nikita Mikhalkov, Alexei Loktev, Evgeniy Steblov and Galina Polskikh. The film also features cameos by four People's Artists of the USSR: Rolan Bykov, Vladimir Basov, Lev... - Vasily ShukshinVasily ShukshinVasily Makarovich Shukshin was a notable Soviet/Russian actor, writer, screenwriter and movie director from the Altay region who specialized in rural themes. Upon his death, Shukshin was interred at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.-Biography:...
(1929-1974), actor, writer, screenwriter and movie director, Roubles in Words, Kopeks in Figures - Pavel Shumil (born 1957), science fiction author
- Evgeny ShvartsEvgeny ShvartsEvgeny Lvovich Shvarts was a Soviet writer and playwright whose works include twenty-five plays and screenplays for three films .- Life :...
(1896-1958), writer, playwright and screenwriter, The Dragon - Konstantin SimonovKonstantin SimonovKonstantin Mikhailovich Simonov was a Russian/Soviet author, known especially as a war poet.-Early years:He was born in Petrograd. His mother was born Princess Obolenskaya, of a Rurikid family. His father, an officer in the Tsar's army, left Russia after the Revolution in 1917. He died in Poland...
(1915-1979), novelist and poet, Wait for Me - Andrei SinyavskyAndrei SinyavskyAndrei Donatovich Sinyavsky was a Russian writer, dissident, political prisoner, emigrant, Professor of Sorbonne University, magazine founder and publisher...
(1925-1997), writer, publisher and dissident, Pkhentz - Stepan SkitaletsStepan SkitaletsStepan Skitalets , , was the pen-name of Stepan Gavrilovich Petrov, a Russian/Soviet poet, writer of fiction and folk musician. The name Skitalets means "wanderer" in Russian.- Early life :...
(1869-1941), poet and writer, The Love of a Scene Painter - Vasily SleptsovVasily SleptsovVasily Alekseyevich Sleptsov , , was a Russian writer and social reformer.-Biography:Sleptsov attended the medical school at Moscow University in 1855-56. He then went to Yaroslavl to try being an actor. He soon returned to Moscow, where he was in government service from 1857 to 1861-62...
(1836-1878), writer and social reformer, The Ward - Konstantin SluchevskyKonstantin SluchevskyKonstantin Konstantinovich Sluchevsky , was a Russian poet.-Biography:Sluchevsky was born in St. Peterburg into a Russian noble family. He graduated from the First Cadet Corps, served in the Imperial Russian Guard, then entered the Academy of the General Staff, but in 1861 he quit the military...
(1837-1904), poet and magazine editor - Boris SlutskyBoris SlutskyBoris Slutsky was a Soviet poet of Russian language.Lived his childhood and youth in Harkov. In the year 1937 entered the law institute of Moscow, and since1939 studied also at the Institute of literature "Maxim Gorky" till 1941....
(1919-1986), important representative of the War generation of Russian poetsWar generation of Russian poetsWar Generation is a name applied to the young Russian poets whose youth was spent fighting in the World War II and whose best poems reflect upon wartime experiences... - Sofia SobolevaSofia Soboleva-Biography:Soboleva was born in Shlisselburg, where her father was an engineer. She was educated at home until the age of eight, and then sent to Madame Kamerat's Pension in St Petersburg. Soboleva began publishing her works in her early twenties. Her early story Pros and Cons was published while...
(1840-1884), writer and journalist, Pros and Cons - Sasha SokolovSasha SokolovSasha Sokolov is a paradoxical writer of Russian literature....
(born 1943), novelist, A School for FoolsA School for FoolsA School for Fools is a novel written by Sasha Sokolov in the 1960s. "A School for Fools" was first circulated via 'samizdat,' or self-publication through underground connections. However, the novel was formally published in 1976 in U.S.... - Ivan Sokolov-MikitovIvan Sokolov-MikitovIvan Sergeevich Sokolov-Mikitov was a Russian/Soviet writer and journalist who took part in numerous journeys and expreditions...
(1882-1975), author, journalist and short-story writer, Childhood - Vladimir Sollogub (1813-1882), writer and poet, The Snowstorm
- Fyodor SologubFyodor SologubFyodor Sologub was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, playwright and essayist. He was the first writer to introduce the morbid, pessimistic elements characteristic of European fin de siècle literature and philosophy into Russian prose.-Early life:...
, symbolist poet, playwright and novelist, The Petty Demon - Vladimir SoloukhinVladimir SoloukhinVladimir Alexeyevich Soloukhin was a Russian poet and writer. Born in Alepino, a village in what is now Vladimir Oblast, he was raised in a peasant family.Soloukhin was educated in a mechanical technicum, where he studied to be a mechanic....
(1924-1997), writer, journalist and poet, Verdict - Leonid SolovyovLeonid SolovyovLeonid Vasilyevich Solovyov was a Russian writer and playwright.Born in Tripoli, Syria where his father taught at the Russian consulate, he began writing as a newspaper correspondent for the Pravda Vostoka, published in Tashkent...
(1906-1962), writer and playwright, Tale of Hodja NasreddinNasreddinNasreddin was a Seljuq satirical Sufi figure, sometimes believed to have lived during the Middle Ages and considered a populist philosopher and wise man, remembered for his funny stories and anecdotes. He appears in thousands of stories, sometimes witty, sometimes wise, but often, too, a fool or... - Vladimir SolovyovVladimir Solovyov (philosopher)Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov was a Russian philosopher, poet, pamphleteer, literary critic, who played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry at the end of the 19th century...
(1853-1900), philosopher, poet, pamphleteer and literary critic - Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was aRussian and Soviet novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his often-suppressed writings, he helped to raise global awareness of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of...
(born 1918), Nobel Prize winning writer, One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichOne Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a novel written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir . The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s, and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov... - Orest SomovOrest SomovOrest Mikhailovich Somov was a Ukrainian romantic writer who wrote in the Russian language. He was a writer, journalist, literary critic, and translator. Somov was born in Vovchansk, Kharkiv Oblast. He studied in the Kharkiv University, then moved to Saint Petersburg.Much of his writing deals...
(1793-1833), writer, journalist, literary critic and translator, Mommy and Sonny - Vladimir SorokinVladimir SorokinVladimir Georgievich Sorokin is a contemporary postmodern Russian writer and dramatist, one of the most popular in modern Russian literature.-Biography:...
(born 1955), popular postmodern writer and dramatist - Konstantin Stanyukovich (1843-1903), known for his sea stories, Maximka
- Ksenya StepanychevaKsenya StepanychevaKsenya Viktorovna Stepanycheva is a Russian playwright.Ksenya Stepanycheva was born in the city of Saratov on the 4th of November 1978, into the family of a military serviceman. She lived with her father in military garrisons in Germany, Ukraine and the subarctic region...
(born 1978), playwright, Pink Bow - Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky (1851-1895), writer, publicist and revolutionary, King Stork and King Log
- Dmitry Strelnikov (born 1969), poet, essayist and novelist
- Arkady and Boris StrugatskyArkady and Boris StrugatskyThe brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are Soviet Jewish-Russian science fiction authors who collaborated on their fiction.-Life and work:...
(Arkady 1925-1991) (Boris born 1933), major science fiction writers, Hard to Be a GodHard to Be a GodHard to be a God is a 1964 sci-fi novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky set in the Noon Universe.The novel follows Anton, an undercover operative from the future planet Earth, in his mission on an alien planet, that is populated by human beings, whose society has not advanced beyond the Middle Ages... - Aleksandr Sukhovo-KobylinAleksandr Sukhovo-KobylinAleksandr Vasilyevich Sukhovo-Kobylin , was a Russian nobleman, chiefly known for the works he authored as an amateur playwright. His sister Evgenia Tur was a popular novelist, critic and journalist.-Biography:...
(1817-1903), playwright, The Case - Alexander SumarokovAlexander SumarokovAlexander Petrovich Sumarokov was a Russian poet and playwright who single-handedly created classical theatre in Russia, thus assisting Mikhail Lomonosov to inaugurate the reign of classicism in Russian literature....
(1717-1777), important early poet and playwright - Mikhail SushkovMikhail SushkovMikhail Vasilyevich Sushkov was a young Russian nobleman and writer of a small body of prose and poetry, notable for his autobiographical suicide novel...
(1775-1792), writer, The Russian Werther - Alexei Suvorin (1834-1912), influential publisher and journalist
- Viktor SuvorovViktor SuvorovViktor Suvorov is the pen name for Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun , a former Soviet and now British writer of Russian and Ukrainian descent who writes primarily in Russian, as well as a former Soviet military intelligence spy who defected to the UK...
(born 1947), writer and historian - Mikhail SvetlovMikhail Arkadyevich SvetlovMikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov , born Scheinkman , was a Soviet Russian poet.-Biography:Svetlov was born into a poor Jewish family. He has been published since 1917. A member of Komsomol since 1919, Svetlov was sent to the First Congress of Proletarian Writers in Moscow in 1920 and took part in the...
(1903-1964), poet and journalist, Song of Kakhovka
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- Yelizaveta TarakhovskayaYelizaveta TarakhovskayaYelizaveta Yakovlevna Tarakhovskaya was a Russian poet, playwright, translator, and author of children's books.-Biography:Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya was born in the city of Taganrog on July 26, 1891 in a pharmacist's family. She is sister to poetess Sophia Parnok and twin sister to founder of...
(1891-1968), poet, playwright, translator and children's writer - Alexander Tarasov-RodionovAlexander Tarasov-RodionovAlexander Ignatyevich Tarasov-Rodionov , October 7, 1885 – September 3, 1938, was a Russian/Soviet writer.-Biography:Alexander was born in Kazan where his father was a surveyor. He studied law at the University of Kazan. In 1905 he joined the Bolshevik party. He was drafted in 1914, and...
(1885-1938), writer, Chocolate - Arseny TarkovskyArseny TarkovskyArseny Alexandrovich Tarkovsky was a prominent Soviet and Russian poet and translator. He is considered one of the great 20th century Russian poets. He was also the father of influential film director Andrei Tarkovsky.-Origin:...
(1907-1989), poet and translator - Valery TarsisValery TarsisValery Yakovlevich Tarsis a Russian novelist who was highly critical of the communist regime.-Biography:Valery was born in Kiev, went to school there and then to Rostov-on-Don University....
(1906-1983), novelist and dissident, Ward 7 - Nadezhda TeffiNadezhda TeffiNadezhda Teffi, known simply as Teffi, was a Russian humorist writer. Teffi is a pseudonym. Her real name was Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lokhvitskaya after her marriage Nadezhda Alexandrovna Buchinskaya...
(1872-1952), humorist writer, All About Love - Nikolay TeleshovNikolay TeleshovNikolay Dmitryevich Teleshov , , was a Russian/Soviet writer.-Biography:Teleshov was born in Moscow where his father was a merchant. His poems were first published in 1884. In the 1880s and 1890s he wrote short stories and novellas, including the story he's best known for, The Duel...
(1867-1957), writer and memoirist, organizer of the Moscow SredaSreda (literary group)The Moscow Literary Sreda was a Moscow literary group founded in 1899 by Nikolay Teleshov. The name Sreda means Wednesday, taken from the day of the week on which writers and other artists met at Teleshov's home. The last meeting of the Sreda took place in 1916... - Vladimir TendryakovVladimir TendryakovVladimir Tendryakov was a Soviet short story writer and novelist.-Biography:He was born at Makorovskaya near Vologda in 1923. His father was a civil servant. He studied at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. He started writing in the late 1940s and graduated with a degree in...
(1923-1984), novelist and short story writer, Three, Seven, Ace - Sergey TerpigorevSergey Terpigorev-Biography:Terpigorev was born on May 12, 1841, in the village of Nikolsky in the Usmansky District into an impoverished noble family. He attended grammar school, and in 1861-62, studied at Saint Petersburg State University...
(1841-1895), writer and essayist - Nikolai Tikhonov (1895-1979), writer and poet, member of the Serapion BrothersSerapion BrothersThe Serapion Brothers was a group of writers formed in Petrograd, Russia in 1921. The group was named after a literary group, Die Serapionsbrüder , to which German romantic author E.T.A. Hoffmann belonged and after which he named a collection of his tales...
- Vladislav TitovVladislav TitovVladislav Andreevich Titov was a Soviet socialist realist writer.At the age of 26 he lost both arms in a coal mine accident. He became a novelist, writing with a pen held by his teeth, and produced several novels, the most famous being Defying death .Titov was born into a wheat farmer's family in...
(1934-1987), novelist who lost both arms in a coal mine accident, Defying Death - Pyotr Tkachev (1844-1886), publicist, writer and critic
- Viktoriya TokarevaViktoriya TokarevaViktoriya Samoilovna Tokareva is a Soviet and Russian screenwriter and short story writer.-Biography :Viktoriya Tokareva was born in 1937 in Leningrad, in the Soviet Union. Her love for literature began at the age of twelve, when her mother read her "Skripka Rotschil'da," , a short story by Chekhov...
(born 1937), screenwriter and short story writer - Aleksey Konstantinovich TolstoyAleksey Konstantinovich TolstoyCount Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy , was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist...
(1817-1875), poet, dramatist and novelist, The Death of Ivan the TerribleThe Death of Ivan the TerribleThe Death of Ivan the Terrible is an historical drama by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy written in 1863 and first published in the January 1866 issue of Otechestvennye zapiski magazine. It is the first part of a trilogy that is followed by Tsar Fiodor Ioannovich and concludes with Tsar Boris. All... - Aleksey Nikolayevich TolstoyAleksey Nikolayevich TolstoyAleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy , nicknamed the Comrade Count, was a Russian and Soviet writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and historical novels...
(1882-1945), novelist and science fiction writer, The Garin Death Ray - Ilya TolstoyIlya Tolstoy-Early life:Ilya was born at Yasnaya Polyana and spent most of his young life there, until the family took a house in Moscow in 1881. He received his early education at home; his mother taught him to read and write, first in Russian, and later in French and English, and his father taught him...
(1866-1933), author of a memoir about his father Leo Tolstoy - Leo TolstoyLeo TolstoyLev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist...
(1828-1910) major novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist and public figure, War and PeaceWar and PeaceWar and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature...
, Anna KareninaAnna KareninaAnna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger... - Tatyana TolstayaTatyana TolstayaTatyana Nikitichna Tolstaya is a Russian writer, TV host, publicist, novelist, and essayist from the Tolstoy family.- Family :She was born into a family of rich literary tradition. Her paternal grandfather was Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, an important Russian-Soviet writer known as 'the Red...
(born 1951), writer, TV host, publicist, novelist and essayist - Edward TopolEdward TopolEdward Vladimirovich Topol , real name Topelberg is a Russian novelist.-Biography:Born in Baku, Topol spent his teenage years finishing local school in Baku and graduated from Azerbaijan State Economic University. He also did his military service in Estonia...
(born 1938), novelist and journalist, Red Square - Vasily Trediakovsky (1703-1768), poet, essayist and playwright
- Sergei TretyakovSergei TretyakovSergei Mikhailovich Tretyakov was a Russian constructivist writer, playwright and special correspondent for Pravda. He graduated 1916 from the department of law at Moscow University...
(1892-1937), playwright, I Want a BabyI Want a Baby-Plot:Milda, a cultural education worker, decides that she wants to have a baby — without a father or a family, bred from best proletarian stock of her choice. The child is to be raised by the communal child-rearing organizations that Milda herself is helping to establish as part of the Bolshevik’s... - Yury TrifonovYury TrifonovYury Valentinovich Trifonov was a leading representative of the so-called Soviet "urban prose", a 1970s movement inspired by the psychologically complicated works of Anton Chekhov and his 20th-century American followers...
(1925-1981), novelist and short story writer, The Long Goodbye - Gavriil TroyepolskyGavriil TroyepolskyGavriil Nikolayevich Troyepolsky was a Soviet writer, best known for his novel White Bim Black Ear.-Biography:...
(1905-1995), novelist, White Bim Black EarWhite Bim Black EarWhite Bim Black Ear is a 1977 Soviet film directed by Stanislav Rostotsky. The movie is based upon the book of the same name, written by Gavriil Troyepolsky. The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.- Plot :... - Marina TsvetaevaMarina TsvetaevaMarina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was a Russian and Soviet poet. Her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century Russian literature. She lived through and wrote of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed it. In an attempt to save her daughter Irina from...
(1892-1941), major poet, The Rat-Catcher - Alexei TsvetkovAlexei TsvetkovAlexei Petrovich Tsvetkov is a Russian poet and essayist. Not to be confused with Alexei Vyacheslavovich Tsvetkov , a younger journalist, an editor of Limonka newspaper.-Biography:Alexei Tsvetkov grew up in Zaporizhia and briefly studied chemistry at the Odessa...
(born 1947), poet, novelist and journalist - Evgenia TurEvgenia TurEvgenia Tur was a Russian writer, critic, journalist and publisher. Her birth name was Elizaveta Vasilyevna Sukhovo-Kobylina. Her full married name was Countess Elizaveta Vasilyevna Salias De Tournemire. The playwright Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin was her brother.-Early years:Elizaveta was born in...
(1815-1892), writer, critic, journalist and publisher, Antonina - Ivan TurgenevIvan TurgenevIvan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches, is a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century...
(1818-1883), major novelist and playwright, A Sportsman's SketchesA Sportsman's SketchesA Sportsman's Sketches was an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition...
, Fathers and SonsFathers and SonsFathers and Sons is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev, his best known work. The title of this work in Russian is Отцы и дети , which literally means "Fathers and Children"; the work is often translated to Fathers and Sons in English for reasons of euphony.- Historical context and notes :The fathers... - Veronika TushnovaVeronika TushnovaVeronika Mikhailovna Tushnova was a Soviet poet and member of the USSR Union of Writers.-Biography:Tushnova graduated from high school where she had pursued advanced studies of foreign languages...
(1915-1965), poet and translator, Memory of the Heart - Aleksandr TvardovskyAleksandr TvardovskyAleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky was a Soviet poet, chief editor of Novy Mir literary magazine from 1950 to 1954 and 1958 to 1970...
(1910-1971), poet, war correspondent and editor of Novy Mir, Vasily Tyorkin - Yury TynyanovYury TynyanovYury Nikolaevich Tynyanov was a famous Soviet/Russian writer, literary critic, translator, scholar and screenwriter. He was an authority on Pushkin and an important member of the Russian Formalist school.-Life and work:...
(1894-1943), writer, literary critic, translator, scholar and screenwriter - Fyodor TyutchevFyodor TyutchevFyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev is generally considered the last of three great Romantic poets of Russia, following Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov.- Life :...
(1803-1873), major poet, The Last Love
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- Vladimir UflyandVladimir UflyandVladimir Uflyand was a Russian poet, famous for such poems as It has For Ages Been Observed; Now, At Last, Even Nikifor's A Suitor; The Peasant; and The Working Week Comes To An End....
(1937-2007), poet, The Working Week Comes To An End - Lyudmila UlitskayaLyudmila UlitskayaLyudmila Evgenyevna Ulitskaya is a critically acclaimed modern Russian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in the town of Davlekanovo in Bashkiria on February 21, 1943...
(born 1943), novelist and short-story writer, Medea and Her Children - Eduard Uspensky (born 1937), children's writer, Cheburashka seriesCheburashkaCheburashka , also known as Topple in earlier English translations, is a character in children's literature, from a 1966 story by the Russian writer Eduard Uspensky. In Estonian the character is called Potsataja...
- Gleb UspenskyGleb Uspensky- Early life :Uspensky was born in the city of Tula, where his father was a government official. He attended the gymnasiums at Tula and Chernihiv, devoting much of his time to the reading of the Russian classics. He studied at the university of St. Petersburg for a short time in 1861, until it was...
(1843-1902), writer and essayist, The Power of the Land - Nikolay UspenskyNikolay UspenskyNikolay Vasilyevich Uspensky , born May 31, 1837 – died November 2, 1889, was a Russian writer, and a cousin of fellow writer Gleb Uspensky.-Biography:...
(1837-1889), short story writer, A Good Existence - Joseph UtkinIosif UtkinIosif Pavlovich Utkin was a Russian poet of the World War II generation.Utkin was born on 13 May at the Khingan station of the Chinese Eastern Railway, which his parents were helping to construct. After his birth the family returned to their native city Irkutsk, where the future poet lived until...
(1903-1944), poet and journalist, Dear Childhood
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- Konstantin VaginovKonstantin VaginovKonstantin Konstantinovich Vaginov was a Russian poet and novelist. In twenties he was a member of almost all the poetic groups of Saint Petersburg. In 1921 he joined Nikolai Gumilyov's Guild of Poets....
(1899-1934), poet and novelist, Journey to Chaos - Pyotr Valuyev (1815-1890), statesman, novelist, poet and essayist
- Alexander VampilovAlexander VampilovAlexander Valentinovich Vampilov was a Russian playwright. His play Elder Son was first performed in 1969, and became a national success two years later. Many of his plays have been filmed or televised in Russia...
(1937-1972), playwright, Elder Son - Mikhail VellerMikhail VellerMikhail Iosifovich Veller is a Russian writer.Mikhail Veller was born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukrainian SSR, USSR in 1948. In 1972 he graduated with a degree in linguistics from Leningrad University...
(born 1948), writer and journalist, The Guru - Alexander VeltmanAlexander VeltmanAlexander Fomich Veltman was one of the most successful Russian prose writers of the 1830s and 1840s, "popular for various modes of Romantic fiction—historical, Gothic, fantastic, and folkloristic." He was one of the pioneers of Russian science fiction....
(1800-1870), writer, one of the pioneers of Russian science fiction - Dmitry VenevitinovDmitry VenevitinovDmitry Vladimirovich Venevitinov was a minor Russian Romantic poet who died at the age of 21, carrying with him one of the greatest hopes of Russian literature....
(1805-1827), philosophical poet - Anastasia Verbitskaya (1861-1928), novelist, playwright, screenplay writer, publisher and feminist, The Keys to Happiness
- Vikenty VeresayevVikenty VeresayevVikenty Vikentyevich Veresaev , , was a Russian writer and medical doctor. His real last name was Smidovich.-Early life:...
(1867-1945), writer and medical doctor, Memoirs of a Physician - Lidia VeselitskayaLidia VeselitskayaLidia Ivanovna Veselitskaya , born March 17, 1857 – died February 23, 1936, was a Russian writer who used the pseudonym V. Mikulich.-Biography:...
(1857-1936), writer, translator and memoirist, Mimi's Marriage - Nikolai VirtaNikolai VirtaNikolai Yevgenyevich Virta was a Soviet writer who developed the theory of "conflictless" drama.-Biography:Nikolai Virta was born in the village of Bolshaya Lazovka near Tambov, into the family of a village priest who was shot in 1921 as a supporter of Aleksandr Antonov...
(1906-1976), writer and playwright, Alone - Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900-1951), playwright, Optimistic Tragedy
- Igor VishnevetskyIgor VishnevetskyIgor Georgievich Vishnevetsky is a notable Russian poet. He has been a contributor and editor in numerous Russian literary journals and anthologies since the 1980s...
(born 1964), poet and music historian - Georgi VladimovGeorgi VladimovGeorgi Nikolaevich Vladimov , real family name Volosevich was a Russian dissident writer.-Biography:...
(1931-2003), dissident writer, Faithful Ruslan - Dmitry VodennikovDmitry VodennikovDmitry Vodennikov is a Russian poet and essayistIn 2002, he was named as one of the ten best living Russian poets in a poll of 110 leading Russian poets and critics, being one of just two poets under 35 in the top ten. Some critics name him as "perhaps the best known poet of his generation",...
(born 1968), poet and essayist - Vladimir VoinovichVladimir VoinovichVladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich is a Russian writer and a dissident...
(born 1932), satirical novelist, The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan ChonkinThe Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan ChonkinThe Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin and its sequels, Pretender to the Throne: The Further Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin , and Displaced Person , constitute the magnum opus of a Soviet dissident writer... - Zinaida VolkonskayaZinaida VolkonskayaPrincess Zinaida Aleksandrovna Volkonskaya , was a Russian writer, poet, singer, composer, salonist and lady in waiting. She was an important figure within the Russian culture life in the 19th-century...
(1792-1862), writer, poet, singer, composer, salonist and lady in waiting - Alexander VolkovAlexander Melentyevich VolkovAlexander Melentyevich Volkov was a Soviet novelist and mathematician.He wrote several historical novels, but is mostly remembered for a series of children's books based on L...
(1891-1977), novelist and mathematician, The Wizard of the Emerald CityThe Wizard of the Emerald CityThe Wizard of the Emerald City is a 1939 children's novel by Russian writer Alexander Melentyevich Volkov. The book is a loose translation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz... - Maximilian VoloshinMaximilian VoloshinMaximilian Alexandrovich Kirienko-Voloshin was a Russian poet and famous Freemason. He was one of the significant representatives of the Symbolist movement in Russian culture and literature...
(1877-1932), poet, translator and famous Freemason, - Vatslav VorovskyV. V. VorovskyVatslav Vatslavovich Vorovsky was a Marxist revolutionary, literary critic, and Soviet Russian diplomat...
(1871-1923), Marxist revolutionary, literary critic, diplomat and publicist - Marko VovchokMarko VovchokMarko Vovchok , 22 December 1833 – 10 August 1907) was a famous Ukrainian and Russian writer of Ukrainian descent. Her pen name, Marko Vovchok, was invented by Panteleimon Kulish.-Biography:...
(1833-1907), novelist, translator and writer of folk tales - Julia VoznesenskayaJulia VoznesenskayaJulia Voznesenskaya ; born 1940 in Leningrad is a Russian author of books with an Orthodox Christian worldview.In 1976 Voznesenskaya was sentenced to four years of exile for Anti-Soviet Propaganda. In 1980 she emigrated to Germany. In 1996-1999 she lived in Lesninsky Russian Orthodox Convent in...
(born 1940), novelist, The Women's Decameron - Andrei Voznesensky (1933-2010), poet and writer, First Frost
- Alexander Vvedensky (1904-1941), poet, co-founder of OBERIUOberiuOBERIU was a short-lived avant-garde collective of Russian Futurist writers, musicians, and artists in the 1920s and 1930s...
- Pyotr VyazemskyPyotr VyazemskyPrince Pyotr Andreyevich Vyazemsky or Petr Andreevich Viazemsky was a leading personality of the Golden Age of Russian poetry.- Biography :...
(1792-1878), poet, leading personality of the Golden Age of Russian poetryGolden Age of Russian PoetryGolden Age of Russian Poetry is the name traditionally applied by Russian philologists to the first half of the 19th century. It is also called the Age of Pushkin, after its most significant poet... - Vladimir VysotskyVladimir VysotskyVladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky was a Soviet singer, songwriter, poet, and actor whose career had an immense and enduring effect on Russian culture. He became widely known for his unique singing style and for his lyrics, which featured social and political commentary in often humorous street...
(1938-1980), singer, songwriter, poet and actor
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- Alexander YakovlevAlexander Stepanovich YakovlevAlexander Stepanovich Yakovlev was a Russian/Soviet writer.-Biography:Yakovlev was born into the family of a house painter in the town of Volsk. He fought in World War 1. His works concentrate on the lives of working class people...
(1886-1953), writer and essayist, The Peasant - Pyotr YakubovichPyotr YakubovichPyotr Filippovich Yakubovich was a was a Russian revolutionary, revolutionary poet and member of Narodnaya Volya during the 1880s. He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Petersburg University . After graduating, he entered the Petersburg Department of Narodnaya Volya...
(1860-1911), poet and writer, member of Narodnaya VolyaNarodnaya VolyaNarodnaya Volya was aRussian left-wing terrorist organization, best known for the successful assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia. It created a centralized and well disguised organization in a time of diverse liberation movements in Russia... - Alexander YashinAlexander YashinAlexander Yakovlevich Yashin was a Soviet writer associated with the Village Prose movement.-Early life:Alexander was born in northern Russia in the village of Bludnovo, Vologda Region, into a poor peasant family. Yashin finished a teacher's training college, and spent some time teaching in a...
(1913-1968), writer associated with the Village ProseVillage ProseVillage Prose was a movement in Soviet literature beginning during the Khrushchev Thaw, which included works that focused on the Soviet rural communities. Some point to the critical essays on collectivization in Novyi mir by Valentin Ovechkin as the starting point of Village Prose, though most of...
movement - Ieronim YasinskyIeronim YasinskyIeronim Ieronimovich Yasinsky , 1850, Kharkiv, Russian Empire, modern Ukraine, - December 31, 1931, Leningrad, USSR) was a Russian novelist, poet, literary critic and essayist, who also published his works under several pseudonyms: Maxim Belinsky, Nezavisimy and M.Tchunosov.-Biography:Yasinsky was...
(1850-1931), novelist, poet, essayist and memoirist - Nikolai Yazykov (1803-1846), poet and slavophile
- Ivan Yefremov (1908-1972), paleontologist, science fiction author and social thinker, AndromedaAndromeda (novel)Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale a.k.a. Andromeda Nebula is a science fiction novel by the Russian writer and paleontologist Ivan Efremov, written and published in 1957. The novel was made into a film in 1967, The Andromeda Nebula- Plot summary :...
- Dmitri YemetsDmitri YemetsDmitri Aleksandrovich Yemets is a Russian author of children's and young adult fantasy literature.He is most famous for his Tanya Grotter series and spin-offs, which he calls "a parody" or, alternatively, as "a sort of Russian answer" to Harry Potter. He has been repeatedly threatened, by J.K...
(born 1974), author of fantasy literature for children and young adults, Tanya GrotterTanya GrotterTanya Grotter is the female protagonist of a Russian fantasy novel series by Dmitri Yemets. Tanya Grotter is an orphan with intentional resemblances to J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter... - Venedict Yerofeyev (1938-1990), writer and playwright, Moscow-PetushkiMoscow-PetushkiMoscow-Petushki, also published as Moscow to the End of the Line, Moscow Stations, and Moscow Circles, is a pseudo-autobiographical postmodernist prose poem by Russian writer and satirist Venedikt Erofeev....
- Pyotr YershovPyotr Pavlovich YershovPyotr Pavlovich Yershov was a Russian poet and author of the famous fairy-tale poem The Humpbacked Horse .-Biography:...
(1815-1869), fairy tale writer, poet and playwright, The Humpbacked Horse - Sergei YeseninSergei YeseninSergei Alexandrovich Yesenin was a Russian lyrical poet. He was one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century but committed suicide at the age of 30...
(1895-1925), major poet, Land of ScoundrelsLand of Scoundrels (poem)Land of Scoundrels or Strana Negodyayev is a poem by Russian poet Sergei Yesenin completed in 1923. It depicts a conflict between freedom-loving anarchist rebel named Nomakh and Bolshevik commissar Rassvetov who dreams of forcefully modernized Russia... - Tatyana YeseninaTatyana YeseninaTatyana Sergeevna Yesenina May 29, 1918 - May 6, 1992, was a Russian writer and the daughter of Sergei Yesenin and his second wife Zinaida Raikh.-Biography:...
(1918-1992), writer and daughter of Sergei Yesenin, Zhenya, the Wonder of the Twentieth Century - Yevgeny YevtushenkoYevgeny YevtushenkoYevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko is a Soviet and Russian poet. He is also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, editor, and a director of several films.-Early life:...
(born 1933), poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, editor, and film director - Semyon YushkevichSemyon YushkevichSemyon Solomonovich Yushkevich ,, was a Russian language writer, and playwright and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda...
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- Nikolay ZabolotskyNikolay ZabolotskyNikolay Alexeyevich Zabolotsky - a Russian poet, children's writer and translator. He was a Modernist and one of the founders of the Russian avant-garde absurdist group Oberiu.-Life and work:...
(1903-1958), poet, children's writer and translator, one of the founders of the absurdist group OBERIUOberiuOBERIU was a short-lived avant-garde collective of Russian Futurist writers, musicians, and artists in the 1920s and 1930s... - Boris ZakhoderBoris ZakhoderBoris Vladimirovich Zakhoder was a Soviet poet and children's writer. He is best known for his translations of Winnie-the-Pooh, Mary Poppins, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other children's classics.- Biography :...
(1918-2000), poet, children's writer and translator - Mikhail ZagoskinMikhail ZagoskinMikhail Nikolayevich Zagoskin , , was a Russian writer. Author of social comedies, historical novels.Zagoskin was born in the village of Ramzay in Penza Oblast...
(1789-1852), historical novelist, Tales of Three Centuries - Boris ZaitsevBoris Konstantinovich Zaytsev-References:...
(1881-1972), writer and playwright, Anna - Mark ZakharovMark ZakharovMark Anatolyevich Zakharov is a Soviet and Russian theatrical director and playwright. He was also a professor of the Moscow Theatre Institute ....
(born 1933), theatrical director, playwright and actor - Sergey Zalygin (1913-2000), novelist and magazine editor, The South American Variant
- Yevgeny ZamyatinYevgeny ZamyatinYevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin was a Russian author of science fiction and political satire. Despite having been a prominent Old Bolshevik, Zamyatin was deeply disturbed by the policies pursued by the CPSU following the October Revolution...
(1884-1937), major science fiction writer and political satirist, WeWe (novel)We is a dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin completed in 1921. It was written in response to the author's personal experiences during the Russian revolution of 1905, the Russian revolution of 1917, his life in the Newcastle suburb of Jesmond, and his work in the Tyne shipyards during the First... - Yulia Zhadovskaya (1824-1883), poet and writer, Apart from the Great World
- Vera ZhelikhovskyVera ZhelikhovskyVera Zhelikhovsky, was a Russian writer, mostly of children's stories. She is Madame Blavatsky's sister.Vera Zhelikhovsky wrote also fantastic stories with heroes having secret knowledge like Cornelius Agrippa, shamans, and Oriental magicians.-English Translations:*The General's Will, , from...
(1835-1896), novelist and children's writer, The General's Will - Aleksey ZhemchuzhnikovAleksey ZhemchuzhnikovAleksey Mikhailovich Zhemchuzhnikov , 1821, Pochep, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire, - March 25 , 1908, Tambov, Russia) was a Russian poet, dramatist, essayist and literary critic, a nephew of Antony Pogorelsky, a cousin to A.K...
(1821-1908), poet and dramatist, co-creator of Kozma PrutkovKozma PrutkovKozma Petrovich Prutkov is a fictional author invented by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy and his cousins, three Zhemchuzhnikov brothers, Alexei, Vladimir and Alexander, during the later part of the rule of Nicholas I of Russia.... - Boris ZhitkovBoris ZhitkovBoris Stepanovich Zhitkov was a Russian author, mainly of children's books.Zhitkov was born in Novgorod; his father was a mathematics teacher and his mother a pianist. His works include numerous books in which he, in a figurative form, described various professions. His books are based on his...
(1882-1938), children's writer and historical novelist - Maria Zhukova (1804-1855), writer, Evenings on the Karpovka
- Vasily ZhukovskyVasily ZhukovskyVasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century...
(1783-1852), poet, translator and magazine editor - Felix ZiegelFelix ZiegelFelix Yurievich Ziegel was a Soviet researcher, Doctor of Science and docent of Cosmology at the Moscow Aviation Institute, author of more than 40 popular books on astronomy and space exploration, generally regarded as a founder of Russian ufology...
(1920-1988), author of more than 40 popular books on astronomy and space exploration - Zinovy ZinikZinovy ZinikZinovy Zinik is a novelist and broadcaster.Zinik was born in Moscow in 1945. He studied painting at an art school and later studied topology at Moscow University. He started writing prose in the 1960s and contributed to the journal Teatr.He emigrated to Israel in 1975...
(born 1945), novelist and broadcaster, The Mushroom-Picker - Lydia Zinovieva-AnnibalLydia Zinovieva-AnnibalLydia Dmitrievna Zinovieva-Annibal was a Russian prose writer and dramatist.Zinovieva-Annibal was associated with the Silver Age of Russian Poetry. She hosted a literary salon, 'The Tower', with her husband, the poet Viacheslav Ivanov...
(1866-1907), writer and playwright, The Tragic Menagerie - Nikolay ZlatovratskyNikolay ZlatovratskyNikolay Nikolayevich Zlatovratsky , born December 26, 1845 – died December 23, 1911, was a Russian writer.-Biography:Zlatovratsky was born in Vladimir, where his father was a minor government official. His father set up a library for local people, and it was here that Zlatovratsky first...
(1845-1911), novelist and short story writer, Old Shadows - Mikhail ZoshchenkoMikhail Zoshchenko-Biography:Zoshchenko was born in 1895, in Poltava, but spent most of his life in St. Petersburg / Leningrad. His Ukrainian father was a mosaicist responsible for the exterior decoration of the Suvorov Museum in Saint Petersburg. The future writer attended the Faculty of Law at the Saint Petersburg...
(1895-1958), satirical short story writer, The Galosh
See also
- List of Russian artists
- List of Russian architects
- List of Russian inventors
- List of Russian explorers
- Russian cultureRussian cultureRussian culture is associated with the country of Russia and, sometimes, specifically with ethnic Russians. It has a rich history and can boast a long tradition of excellence in every aspect of the arts, especially when it comes to literature and philosophy, classical music and ballet, architecture...