List of Russian language playwrights

This is a list of authors who have written dramatic works in the Russian language

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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See also: List of Russian language writers, List of Russian language poets, List of Russian language novelists, List of Russian artists, List of Russian architects, List of Russian inventors, List of Russian explorers, Russian culture

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Russian 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...

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	Alexander Ablesimov Alexander Ablesimov Aleksander 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)	The Miller
	Alexander Afinogenov Alexander 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)	Fear Crank A Far Place
	Leonid Andreyev Leonid Andreyev Leonid 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)	Anathema Tsar Hunger The Life of Man He Who Gets Slapped He Who Gets Slapped He Who Gets Slapped is a 1924 film starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, and John Gilbert. It was directed by Victor Sjöström. The film is based on the Russian play Тот, кто получает пощёчины by playwright Leonid Andreyev, which was published in 1914 and in English, as He Who Gets Slapped, in 1922...
	Maria Arbatova Maria Arbatova Maria 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)	On the Road to Ourselves
	Aleksei Arbuzov Aleksei Arbuzov Aleksei 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)	Tanya A Long Road
	Mikhail Artsybashev Mikhail Artsybashev Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev ; was a Russian writer and playwright, and a major proponent of the literary style known as naturalism... (1878-1927)	War
	Arkady Averchenko (1881-1925)

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	Isaac Babel Isaac Babel Isaak 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)	Maria Maria (play) The play Maria, a portrait of the sordid underbelly of Soviet society during the Russian Civil War, was written by Isaac Babel during the mid 1930s.-Plot:... Sunset Sunset (play) The play Sunset was written by Isaac Babel in 1926 and based on his short story collection The Odessa Tales.-Plot:The play is sent in Moldavanka, Odessa's Jewish Quarter in 1913...
	Pyotr Boborykin Pyotr 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)	The Scale
	Oleg Bogayev Oleg Bogayev Oleg 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)
	Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhaíl 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)	Flight Flight (play) Flight is a play by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov. It is set during the end of the Russian Civil War, when the remnants of the White Army are desperately resisting the Red Army on the Crimean isthmus... Zoya's Apartment Adam and Eve The Days of the Turbins

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	Catherine the Great Catherine II and opera Catherine 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)	Fevey Fevey Fevey 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...
	Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov Anton 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)	The Seagull The Seagull The Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896... Uncle Vanya Uncle Vanya Uncle Vanya is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897 and received its Moscow première in 1899 in a production by the Moscow Art Theatre, under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski.... Three Sisters Three Sisters (play) Three Sisters is a play by Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov, perhaps partially inspired by the situation of the three Brontë sisters, but most probably by the three Zimmermann sisters in Perm... The Cherry Orchard The Cherry Orchard The 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...
	Evgeny Chirikov (1864-1932)	The Peasant
	Grand Duke Constantine Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia was a grandson of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, and a poet and playwright of some renown... (1858-1915)	King of Judea

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	Grigoriy Demidovtsev Grigoriy Demidovtsev Grigoriy Demidovtsev is the pen name of Grigoriy Anatolyevich Petrov , a Russian fiction writer and a playwright... (born 1960)

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	Nikolai Erdman Nikolai Erdman Nikolay 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)	The Suicide The 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...
	Nikolai Evreinov Nikolai Evreinov Nikolai 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)	A Merry Death The Chief Thing The Presentation of Love The Storming of the Winter Palace The Storming of the Winter Palace The 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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	Denis Fonvizin Denis Fonvizin Denis 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:... (1744/45-1792)	The Minor
	Olga Forsh Olga 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)	The Substitute Lecturer

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	Alexander Galich (1918-1977)
	Zinaida Gippius Zinaida Gippius Zinaida 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)	The Green Ring
	Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Gogol Nikolai 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)	Marriage The Government Inspector
	Dmitry Gorchakov Dmitry Gorchakov Prince 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)	King for a Day
	Grigori Gorin Grigori Gorin Grigori 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)
	Maxim Gorky Maxim Gorky Alexei 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)	Summerfolk Summerfolk (play) Summerfolk is a play written in 1903 by Maxim Gorky. Based in part on the life of the writer Anton Chekhov, it takes place in 1904—the same year that Chekhov died... The Lower Depths The Lower Depths The 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,... Children of the Sun
	Aleksandr Griboyedov (1795-1829)	Woe from Wit Woe from Wit Woe from Wit is Alexander Griboyedov's comedy in verse, satirizing the society of post-Napoleonic Moscow, or, as a high official in the play styled it, "a pasquinade on Moscow."The play, written in 1823 in the countryside and in Tiflis, was not passed by the censorship for the stage, and...
	Isabella Grinevskaya Isabella Grinevskaya Isabella Grinevskaya was the pen name of Berta Friedberg, daughter of the author Abraham Shalom Friedberg and the first wife of Mordechai Spector.... (1864-1944)
	Elena Guro Elena Guro Elena 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... (1887-1913)	The Hurdy-Gurdy

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	Vsevolod Ivanov Vsevolod Ivanov Vsevolod 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)	Armoured Train 14-69

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	Vasily Kapnist Vasily Kapnist Count Vasily Vasilievich Kapnist , , was a Russian poet and playwright who wrote in somewhat rough Russian language.... (1758-1823)	Chicane
	Valentin Kataev Valentin Kataev Valentin 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)	Quadrature of the Circle
	Pavel Katenin Pavel Katenin Pavel Aleksandrovich Katenin , , was a belated Russian classicist poet, dramatist, and literary critic who also contributed to the evolution of Russian Romanticism.... (1792-1853)	Andromache
	Yevgeny Kharitonov Yevgeny 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)	Under House Arrest
	Daniil Kharms Daniil Kharms Daniil 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)
	Mikhail Kheraskov Mikhail Kheraskov Mikhail 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)
	Vladimir Kirshon Vladimir Kirshon Vladimir 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)	Bread The Miraculous Alloy
	Yakov Knyazhnin Yakov Knyazhnin Yakov 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)	Olga The Cranks The Braggart Vadim the Bold
	Eugene Kozlovsky Eugene Kozlovsky Eugene Antonovich Kozlovsky is a Russian writer, journalist, theatre director and film director. He lives in Moscow.- Tales :* Moskvaburgskiye povesti / Tales of Moscowburg... (born 1946)
	Ivan Krylov Ivan Krylov Ivan 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)	Philomela
	Nestor Kukolnik Nestor Kukolnik Nestor 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)	A Life for the Tsar A Life for the Tsar A 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,...

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	Ivan Lazhechnikov Ivan Lazhechnikov Ivan 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)	Oprichnik
	Leonid Leonov Leonid Leonov Leonid 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)
	Dmitri Lipskerov Dmitri Lipskerov Dmitri 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)
	Lev Lunts Lev Lunts Lev 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)	Native Land

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	Anatoly Marienhof Anatoly Marienhof Anatoly 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)
	Samuil Marshak Samuil Marshak Samuil 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)	Smart Things The Twelve Months
	Mikhail Matinsky Mikhail Matinsky Mikhail 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... (1760-c1820)	Regeneration Saint-Petersburg's Trade Stalls
	Vladimir Mayakovsky Vladimir Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet poet and playwright, among the foremost representatives of early-20th century Russian Futurism.- Early life :... (1893-1930)	The Bedbug The Bathhouse Mystery-Bouffe Mystery-Bouffe Myster-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,...
	Sergey Mikhalkov Sergey Mikhalkov Sergey 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)	Three Plus Two

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	Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir 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)	The Waltz Invention The Waltz Invention The Waltz Invention is a tragicomedy in three acts written by Vladimir Nabokov in Russian as Izobretenie Val'sa in 1938. It was first published in Russkie Zapiski in Paris in the same year. Nabokov translated it at that time into English for the first time...
	Löb Nevakhovich (1776/78-1831)
	Alexander Neverov Alexander Neverov Alexander Sergeyevich Neverov , , was a Russian/Soviet writer and teacher. Neverov was his pseudonym; his real last name was Skobelev.-Early life:... (1886-1923)	Baba Hunger
	Nikolai Nikolev Nikolai Nikolev Nikolay 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)
	Osip Notovich Osip Notovich Osip 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)	Shady Business

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	Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886)	The Storm The Poor Bride Poverty is No Vice Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man is a five-act comedy by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. The play offers a satirical treatment of bigotry and charts the rise of a double-dealer who manipulates other people's vanities...
	Valentin Ovechkin Valentin 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)	A Time to Reap
	Vladislav Ozerov Vladislav Ozerov Vladislav Aleksandrovich Ozerov was the most popular Russian dramatist in the first decades of the 19th century.... (1769-1816)	Dmitry Donskoy

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	Vera Panova Vera 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)	Ivan Kosogor In Old Moscow
	Lyudmila Petrushevskaya Lyudmila Petrushevskaya Lyudmila 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)
	Aleksey Pisemsky Aleksey Pisemsky Aleksey 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)	A Bitter Fate A Bitter Fate A 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... The Hypochondriac Lieutenant Gladkov The Financial Genius
	Nikolai Pogodin Nikolai Pogodin Nikolai 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)	Aristocrats
	Mikhail Popov (1742-1790)	Anyuta Anyuta Anyuta 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 ....
	Alexander Preys (1905-1942)
	Iosif Prut Iosif Prut Iosif 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)
	Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)	Boris Godunov The Stone Guest The Stone Guest The Stone Guest is a poetic drama by Alexander Pushkin based on the Spanish legend of Don Juan. The Stone Guest was written in 1830 as part of his four short plays known as The Little Tragedies... Mozart and Salieri The Covetous Knight

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	Edvard Radzinsky Edvard Radzinsky Edvard 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)
	Vyacheslav Rybakov Vyacheslav Rybakov Vyacheslav Rybakov is a well known Soviet and Russian science fiction author and an orientalist, interested in the medieval bureaucracy of China... (born 1954)

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	Natalya Sats Natalya Sats Natalya Sats was a Russian music teacher and director of the Moscow Musical Theater for Children, now named after her... (1903-1993)
	Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874-1952)	Summer Picture
	Evgeny Shvarts Evgeny Shvarts Evgeny Lvovich Shvarts was a Soviet writer and playwright whose works include twenty-five plays and screenplays for three films .- Life :... (1896-1958)	The Dragon
	Fyodor Sologub Fyodor Sologub Fyodor 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:... (1863-1927)	The Triumph of Death
	Ksenya Stepanycheva Ksenya Stepanycheva Ksenya 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)	Pink Bow
	Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin Aleksandr 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)	The Case Krechinsky's Wedding The Death of Tarelkin
	Alexander Sumarokov Alexander Sumarokov Alexander 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)	Khorev

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	Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya Yelizaveta 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)	By the Pike's Wish
	Modest Tchaikovsky Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian dramatist, opera librettist and translator.-Early life:Modest Ilyich was born in Alapayevsk, the younger brother of the future composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He graduated from the School of Jurisprudence with a degree in law... (1850-1916)
	Nadezhda Teffi Nadezhda Teffi Nadezhda 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)	The Woman Question
	Viktoriya Tokareva Viktoriya Tokareva Viktoriya 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)
	Aleksey K. Tolstoy Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy Count 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)	The Death of Ivan the Terrible The Death of Ivan the Terrible The 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... Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich Tsar Boris
	Aleksey N. Tolstoy Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy Aleksey 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... (1883-1945)
	Leo Tolstoy Leo Tolstoy Lev 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)	The Power of Darkness The Power of Darkness The Power of Darkness is a five-act drama by Leo Tolstoy. Written in 1886, the play was banned in Russia until 1902.The central character is a peasant, Nikita, who seduces and abandons a young girl Marinka; then the lovely Anisija murders her own husband to marry Nikita. He impregnates his new... The Fruits of Enlightenment The Fruits of Enlightenment The Fruits of Enlightenment, aka Fruits of Culture is a play by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. It satirizes the persistence of unenlightened attitudes towards the peasants amongst the Russian landed aristocracy... The Living Corpse The Living Corpse The Living Corpse is a Russian play by Leo Tolstoy. Although written around 1900, it was only published shortly after his death—Tolstoy had never considered the work finished...
	Sergei Tretyakov Sergei Tretyakov Sergei 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)	I Want a Baby I 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...
	Ivan Turgenev Ivan Turgenev Ivan 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)	A Month in the Country A Month in the Country (play) A Month in the Country is a comedy in five acts by Ivan Turgenev. It was written in France between 1848 and 1850 and was first published in 1855...

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	Eduard Uspensky (born 1937)

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	Alexander Vampilov Alexander Vampilov Alexander 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)	Elder Son
	Anastasya Verbitskaya Anastasya Verbitskaya Anastasya Alekseyevna Verbitskaya , , was a Russian novelist, playwright, screenplay writer, publisher and feminist.- Early life :... (1861-1928)	Mirages
	Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900-1951)	Optimistic Tragedy

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	Mark Zakharov Mark Zakharov Mark Anatolyevich Zakharov is a Soviet and Russian theatrical director and playwright. He was also a professor of the Moscow Theatre Institute .... (born 1933)
	Boris Zaytsev Boris Konstantinovich Zaytsev -References:... (1881-1972)
	Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov Aleksey 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)
	Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal Lydia 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)