Ia adalah salah satu pengarang paling populer dalam sastra Rusia:
A
sunting- Bavasan Abiduev (1909โ1940), penyair dan salah satu pendiri sastra anak-anak Buryat
- Alexander Ablesimov (1742โ1783), penulis naskah opera, penyair, dramawan, satiris, dan jurnalis
- Fyodor Abramov (1920โ1983), novelis dan penulis cerita pendek, Two Winters and Three Summers
- Grigory Adamov (1886โ1945) penulis fiksi ilmiah, The Mystery of the Two Oceans
- Georgy Adamovich (1892โ1972), poet, critic, memoirist, translator
- Anastasia Afanasieva (kelahiran 1982), dokter, penyair, penulis & penterjemah
- Alexander Afanasyev (1826โ1871), folklorist who recorded and published over 600 Russian folktales and fairytales, Russian Fairy Tales
- Alexander Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky (1816โ1875), poet, writer, ethnographer and translator
- Alexander Afinogenov (1904โ1941), playwright, A Far Place
- M. Ageyev (1898โ1973), pseudonymous writer, Novel with Cocaine
- Chinghiz Aitmatov (1928โ2008), Kyrgyz novelist and short story writer, Jamilya, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
- David Aizman (1869โ1922), Russian-Jewish writer and playwright
- Bella Akhmadulina (1937โ2010), poet, short story writer, and translator, The String
- Anna Akhmatova (1889โ1966), acmeist poet, Requiem, Poem Without a Hero
- Ivan Aksakov (1823โ1886), journalist, slavophile
- Konstantin Aksakov (1817โ1860), playwright, critic and writer, slavophile
- Sergey Aksakov (1791โ1859), novelist and miscellaneous writer, The Scarlet Flower
- Vasily Aksyonov (1932โ2009), novelist and short story writer, Generations of Winter
- Boris Akunin (born 1956), author, essayist, translator and literary critic, Erast Fandorin series, Sister Pelagia series
- Mikhail Albov, (1851โ1911), novelist and short story writer
- Mark Aldanov (died 1957), novelis sejarah
- Andrey Aldan-Semenov (1908โ1985), Gulag penulis memoar
- Lidiia Alekseeva (1909โ1989), Latvian poet and writer of short stories
- Mikhail Alekseyev (1918โ2007) writer and editor, My Stalingrad
- Sholem Aleichem (1859โ1916), Russian Jewish writer, Wandering Stars
- Margarita Aliger (1915โ1992), poet, translator, and journalist, Zoya
- Yuz Aleshkovsky (1929โ2022), writer, poet, playwright and performer of his own songs, Kangaroo
- Boris Almazov (1827โ1876), poet, translator and literary critic
- Alexander Amfiteatrov (1862โ1938), writer and historian, Napoleonder
- Daniil Andreyev (1906โ1959), writer, poet, and Christian mystic, Roza Mira
- Leonid Andreyev (1871โ1919), novelist, playwright and short story writer, The Seven Who Were Hanged, The Life of Man
- Sergey Andreyevsky (1847โ1918), writer, poet, literary critic, The Book on Death
- Irakly Andronikov (1908โ1990), writer, historian, philologist and media personality
- Anna Mitrofanovna Anรญchkova (1868/1869 โ 1935), writer and translator who wrote under the pseudonym Ivan Strannik
- Pavel Annenkov (1813โ1887), critic and memoirist, The Extraordinary Decade
- Yury Annenkov (1889โ1974), artist and writer, A Tale of Trivia
- Innokenty Annensky (1855โ1909), poet, critic and translator, representative of the first wave of Russian Symbolism
- Lev Anninsky (1934โ2019) writer, literary historian and critic
- Pavel Antokolsky (1896โ1978), poet, All We Who in His Name
- Maxim Antonovich (1835โ1918), critic, essayist, memoirist, translator and philosopher
- Elena Apreleva (1846โ1923), writer, memoirist, playwright, Guilty without Guilt
- Aleksey Apukhtin (1840โ1893), poet and writer, From Death to Life
- Maria Arbatova (born 1957), novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet and journalist
- Aleksei Arbuzov (1908โ1986), playwright, A Long Road
- Vladimir Arnoldi (1871โ1924), children's author and professor of biology
- Mikhail Artsybashev (1878โ1927), naturalist writer and playwright, Sanin
- Nikolai Aseev (1889โ1963), futurist poet, Night Flute
- Viktor Astafyev (1924โ2001), novelist and short story writer, Sad Detective
- Lera Auerbach (Averbakh) (born 1973), poet, writer and composer
- Mikhail Avdeev (1821โ1876), novelist and playwright, Tamarin trilogy
- Arkady Averchenko (1881โ1925), satirical writer and playwright, Ninochka
- Vasily Avseenko (1842โ1913), writer, journalist and literary critic
- Hizgil Avshalumov (1913โ2001), Soviet novelist, poet and playwright
- Gennadiy Aygi (1934โ2006), Chuvash poet and translator
- Vasily Azhayev (1915โ1968), novelis, Far from Moscow
B
sunting- Semyon Babayevsky (1909โ2000), novelist and short story writer, Golden Star Chavalier
- Isaak Babel (1894โ1940), short story writer, The Odessa Tales, Red Cavalry
- Eduard Bagritsky (1895โ1934), constructivist poet, February
- Grigory Baklanov (1923โ2009), novelist and magazine editor, Forever Nineteen
- Ivan Bakhtin (1756โ1818), poet, satirist and politician
- Mikhail Bakhtin (1895โ1975), philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar, "Epic and Novel"
- Mikhail Bakunin (1814โ1876), revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism, God and the State, Statism and Anarchy
- Konstantin Balmont (1867โ1942), symbolist poet and translator, Burning Buildings, Let Us Be Like the Sun
- Jurgis Baltruลกaitis (1873โ1944), poet and translator, The Pendulum
- Kazimir Barantsevich (1851โ1927), writer and poet, Family Hearth
- Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800โ1844), poet, The Gipsy
- Natalya Baranskaya (1908โ2004), novelist and short story writer, A Week Like Any Other
- Ivan Barkov (1732โ1768), comic and erotic poet, Luka Mudischev
- Anna Barkova (1901โ1976), poet and writer, Gulag survivor
- Elpidifor Barsov (1836โ1917), literary historian, ethnographer, folklorist, philologist
- Agniya Barto (1906โ1981), Russian-Jewish poet and children's writer
- Alexander Bashlachev (1960โ1988), poet, musician, guitarist, and singer-songwriter
- Fyodor Batyushkov (1857โ1920), philologist, essayist, literary and theatre historian
- Konstantin Batyushkov (1787โ1855), poet, essayist and translator
- Nikolai Bazhin (1843โ1908), writer, journalist and critic, The History of One People's Partnership
- Pavel Bazhov (1879โ1950), fairy tale author, The Malachite Casket
- Demyan Bedny (1883โ1945), poet and satirist, New Testament Without Defects
- Dmitry Begichev (1786โ1855), writer and politician
- Alexander Bek (1903โ1972), novelist, And Not to Die
- Ekaterina Beketova (1855โ1892), poet, writer, and translator
- Vissarion Belinsky (1811โ1848), writer, literary critic and philosopher
- Vasily Belov (1932โ2012), writer, poet and dramatist, Eves, The Year of a Major Breakdown
- Andrei Bely (1880โ1934), symbolist poet, writer and essayist, The Silver Dove, Petersburg
- Alexander Belyayev (1884โ1942), science fiction author, Amphibian Man
- Vladimir Benediktov (1807โ1873); poet and translator
- Nina Berberova (1901โ1993), novelist and short story writer, The Book of Happiness
- Nikolai Berg (1823โ1884), poet, journalist, translator and historian
- Olga Bergholz (1910โ1975), poet, playwright and memoirist
- Alexander Bestuzhev (1797โ1837), novelist, short story writer and Decembrist, An Evening on Bivouac
- Vitaly Bianki (1894โ1959), nature and children's writer
- Aleksei Bibik (1878โ1976), working-class novelist and short story writer
- Andrei Bitov (1937โ2018), novelist and short story writer, Pushkin House
- Nikolai Blagoveshchensky (1837โ1889), writer, journalist and biographer
- Helena Blavatsky (1831โ1891), a founder of Theosophy and the Theosophical Society, The Secret Doctrine, Isis Unveiled
- Pyotr Blinov (1913โ1942), Udmurt writer and journalist
- Alexander Blok (1880โ1921), poet, "The Twelve"
- Pyotr Boborykin (1836โ1921), writer, playwright and journalist, China Town
- Oleg Bogayev (born 1970), playwright, The Russian National Postal Service
- Andrei Bogdanov (1692โ1766), bibliographer and ethnographer
- Alexander Bogdanov (1873โ1928), novelist, physician, economist and philosopher, Red Star
- Vladimir Bogomolov (1926โ2003), novelist and short story writer, Ivan
- Vladimir Bogoraz (1865โ1936), revolutionary, writer and anthropologist
- Yuri Bondarev (1924โ2020), novelist and short story writer, The Shore
- Leonid Borodin (1938โ2011), novelist and journalist, The Story of a Strange Time
- Genrikh Borovik (born 1929), publicist, writer, playwright and filmmaker
- Vasily Botkin (1812โ1869), critic, essayist and translator
- Valeri Brainin-Passek (born 1948), Russian/German musicologist, music manager, composer and poet
- Osip Brik (1888โ1945), avant garde writer and literary critic
- Joseph Brodsky (1940โ1996), poet and essayist, Nobel Prize Winner
- Valery Bryusov (1873โ1924), poet, novelist and short story writer, The Fiery Angel
- Yury Buida (born 1954), novelist and short story writer, The Zero Train
- Vladimir Bukovsky (1942โ2019), writer and dissident
- Mikhail Bulgakov (1891โ1940), novelist, short story writer and playwright, Heart of a Dog, The White Guard, The Master and Margarita
- Faddey Bulgarin (1789โ1859), Polish-born writer and journalist
- Kir Bulychev (1934โ2003), science fiction author, Half a Life
- Ivan Bunin (1870โ1953), first Russian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, The Village, The Life of Arseniev, Dark Avenues
- Anna Bunina (1774โ1829), poet, Though Poverty's No Stain
- Viktor Burenin (1841โ1926), writer, critic, playwright, librettist and satirical poet
- David Burliuk (1882โ1967), illustrator, publicist and author associated with Russian Futurism
- Dmitry Bykov (born 1967)
- Pyotr Bykov (1844โ1930) literary historian, poet and translator
- Vasil Bykov (1924โ2003)
C
sunting- Dimitrie Cantemir (1673โ1723), philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer and geographer
- Catherine the Great, (1729โ1796), patroness of the arts, music and theatre, and opera librettist, Fevey
- Pyotr Chaadayev (1794โ1856), philosopher, Philosophical Letters
- Aleksey Chapygin (1870โ1937), novelist and short story writer, Stepan Razin
- Lidia Charskaya (1875โ1938), novelist and actress
- Nikolai Chayev (1824โ1914), writer, poet and playwright, Svat Faddeyich
- Alexander Chekhov (1855โ1913), writer and journalist
- Anton Chekhov (1860โ1904), short story writer and playwright, The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, "Ward No. 6", The Lady with the Dog"
- Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828โ1889), writer, journalist and politician, What Is to Be Done?
- Evgeny Chirikov (1864โ1932), novelist, short story writer and playwright, The Magician
- Sasha Chorny (1880โ1932), poet, satirist and children's writer
- Korney Chukovsky (1882โ1969), children's poet, Wash'em'clean
- Lydia Chukovskaya (1907โ1996), writer and poet, Sofia Petrovna
- Georgy Chulkov (1879โ1939), poet, editor, writer and critic
D
sunting- Denis Davydov (1784โ1839), soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars
- Vladimir Dal (1801โ1872), writer and lexicographer, Explanatory Dictionary
- Yuli Daniel (1925โ1988), dissident writer, poet and translator, This is Moscow Speaking
- Grigory Danilevsky (1829โ1890), historical and ethnographical novelist, Moscow in Flames
- Anton Delvig (1798โ1831), poet, journalist and magazine editor
- Grigoriy Demidovtsev (born 1960), writer and playwright
- Andrey Dementyev (1928โ2018), poet and writer
- Boris Derevensky (born 1962), writer and historian
- Regina Derieva (1949โ2013), poet, writer and essayist
- Gavrila Derzhavin (1743โ1816), poet and statesman, Let the Thunder of Victory Sound!
- Nikolai Devitte (1811โ1844), poet, harpist and songwriter, Not for Me.
- Andrei Dmitriev (born 1956), novelist and short story writer, winner of the 2012 Russian Booker Prize
- Ivan Dmitriev (1760โ1837), sentimentalist poet and Russian Minister of Justice
- Valentina Dmitryeva (1859โ1947), writer, doctor and teacher, Hveska, the Doctor's Watchman
- Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836โ1861), literary critic, journalist, poet and essayist
- Leonid Dobychin (1894โ1936), novelist and short story writer, The Town of N
- Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky (1915โ1994) poet and songwriter
- Yury Dombrovsky (1909โ1978), poet, writer and Gulag survivor, The Faculty of Useless Knowledge
- Vlas Doroshevich (1864โ1922), journalist, writer and drama critic, The Way of the Cross
- Lyubov Dostoyevskaya (1869โ1926), novelist and biographer, The Emigrant
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821โ1881), writer, essayist, journalist and editor, Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, The Brothers Karamazov, The House of the Dead, The Gambler, "White Nights", "A Gentle Creature", "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"
- Mikhail Dostoyevsky (1820โ1864), writer, critic and editor, Vremya
- Sergei Dovlatov (1941โ1990), novelist, short story writer and journalist, Affiliate
- Spiridon Drozhzhin (1848โ1930), poet, At the Village Assembly
- Yulia Drunina (1924โ1991), poet and politician
- Alexander Druzhinin (1824โ1864), writer and magazine editor, Polinka Saks
- Vladimir Dudintsev (1918โ1998), novelist, Not by Bread Alone
- Sergey Durov (1816โ1869), poet, translator, writer, and political activist
- Nadezhda Durova (1783โ1866), soldier and writer, The Cavalry Maiden
E
sunting- Yevgeny Edelson (1824โ1868), literary critic, essayist and translator
- Ilya Ehrenburg (1891โ1967), novelist and WWII war correspondent, The Black Book, The Thaw
- Natan Eidelman (1930โ1989), author, biographer and historian
- Grigory Eliseev (1821โ1891) essayist, historian, editor, and publisher.
- Sergey Elpatyevsky (1854โ1933), novelist and short story writer, Pity Me!
- Nikolai Engelhardt (1867โ1942), writer, critic, poet, journalist and memoirist
- Asar Eppel (1935โ2012), writer and translator, Red Caviar Sandwiches
- Nikolai Erdman (1900โ1970), playwright, The Suicide
- Victor Erofeyev (born 1947), writer, literary critic and magazine editor, Russian Beauty
- Alexander Ertel (1855โ1908), novelist and short story writer, A Greedy Peasant
- Mikhail Evstafiev (born 1963), artist, photographer and writer, Two Steps from Heaven
- Nikolai Evreinov (1879โ1953), director, dramatist and theatre practitioner, The Storming of the Winter Palace
F
sunting- Alexander Fadeyev (1901โ1956), novelist, known for his war fiction, The Rout, The Young Guard
- Konstantin Fedin (1892โ1977), novelist, Cities and Years
- Georgy Fedotov (1886โ1951), religious philosopher, historian and essayist
- Afanasy Fet (1820โ1892), poet and translator
- Vera Figner (1852โ1942), revolutionary and writer, member of Narodnaya Volya
- Terty Filippov (1825โ1899) folklorist, essayist, editor and pedagogue
- Dmitry Filosofov (1872โ1940) essayist, critic, religious thinker, editor and political activist
- Konstantin Fofanov (1862โ1911), poet, considered to be a precursor of the symbolists, Shadows and Mystery
- Denis Fonvizin (1744โ1792), dramatist, The Minor
- Olga Forsh (1873โ1961), writer, dramatist, memoirist and scenarist, Palace and Prison
- Ruvim Frayerman (1891โ1972) writer, poet, essayist and journalist, Wild Dog Dingo
- Dmitry Furmanov (1891โ1926), writer, known for his Russian Civil War novel Chapayev
G
sunting- Cherubina de Gabriak (1887โ1928), pseudonymous poet
- Arkady Gaidar (1904โ1941), children's writer, Timur and His Squad
- Alexey Galakhov (1807โ1892), writer, memoirist and literary historian, The History of Russian Literature
- Alexander Galich (1918โ1977), poet, screenwriter, playwright and singer-songwriter
- Alisa Ganieva (pseudonym Gulla Khirachev) (born 1985), writer and essayist
- Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky (1852โ1906), writer, essayist and engineer, Practical Training
- Vsevolod Garshin (1855โ1888), short story writer, "Four Days", "The Red Flower"
- Aleksei Gastev (1882โ1939), avant garde poet
- Gaito Gazdanov (1903โ1971), novelist and short story writer, An Evening with Claire, The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
- Mikhail Gerasimov (1889โ1939), working-class poet
- Yuri German (1910โ1967), writer, playwright, screenwriter and journalist, The Cause You Serve
- Vladimir Gilyarovsky (1853โ1935), writer and journalist, The Stories of the Slums
- Lidiya Ginzburg (1902โ1990), literary critic and a survivor of the Siege of Leningrad, Blockade Diary
- Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904โ1977), Gulag memoirist, Journey into the Whirlwind, Within the Whirlwind
- Zinaida Gippius (1869โ1945), essayist, memoirist, writer, poet and playwright, The Green Ring
- Anatoly Gladilin (1935โ2018), novelist, Moscow Racetrack
- Fyodor Gladkov (1883โ1958), novelist and short story writer, Cement
- Nikolay Glazkov (1919โ1979), poet, creator of the term "Samizdat"
- Fyodor Glinka (1786โ1880), poet and playwright, Karelia
- Boris Glinsky (1860โ1917) writer, publicist, publisher, editor and politician
- Dmitry Glukhovsky (born 1979), writer and journalist, Metro 2033
- Nikolay Gnedich (1784โ1833), poet and translator, The Fishers
- Pyotr Gnedich (1855โ1925), novelist, poet, playwright, translator, theatre entrepreneur and art historian
- Nikolai Gogol (1809โ1852), writer and dramatist, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, The Government Inspector, Dead Souls
- Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov (1848โ1913), poet, Songs and Dances of Death
- Boris Golovin (born 1955), singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist
- Ivan Goncharov (1812โ1891), novelist, Oblomov
- Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936โ2013), poet, translator and civil rights activist
- Ivan Gorbunov (1831โ1896), writer and stage actor, The Scenes from People's Life
- Dmitry Gorchakov (1758โ1824), poet, playwright and satirist
- Grigori Gorin (1940โ2000), writer, playwright and screenwriter, The Very Same Munchhausen
- Maxim Gorky (1868โ1936), novelist, short story writer and playwright, The Lower Depths, Mother, My Childhood. In the World. My Universities, The Life of Klim Samgin
- Nina Gorlanova (born 1947), novelist and short story writer
- Sergey Gorodetsky (1884โ1967), poet, one of the founders of the acmeist school
- Daniil Granin (1919โ2017), novelist, Those Who Seek
- Nikolay Gretsch (1787โ1867), journalist, writer and magazine editor, Northern Bee
- Aleksander Griboyedov (1795โ1828), dramatist and statesman, Woe from Wit
- Dmitry Grigorovich (1822โ1900), novelist, The Fishermen
- Oleg Grigoriev (1943โ1992), poet and artist
- Apollon Grigoryev (1822โ1864), poet, literary and theatrical critic, translator and memoirist
- Alexander Grin (1880โ1932), author of novels and stories set in Grinlandia, Scarlet Sails
- Isabella Grinevskaya (1864โ1944), poet, writer and playwright
- Vasily Grossman (1905โ1964), writer and war correspondent, Life and Fate
- Vitali Gubarev (1912โ1981), journalist and writer
- Igor Guberman (born 1936), writer and satirical poet
- Semyon Gudzenko (1922โ1953), poet of the World War II generation
- Lev Gumilev (1912โ1992), historian, ethnologist and anthropologist
- Nikolay Gumilev (1886โ1921), poet, founder of the acmeist movement
- Elena Guro (1877โ1913), futurist writer and painter, The Hurdy-Gurdy
- Andrei Gusev (born 1952), writer and journalist, The World According to Novikoff
- Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky (1867โ1963), novelist, The Land of the Fathers
H
sunting- Yelena Hahn, writer for Biblioteka Dlya Chteniya and Otechestvennye Zapiski, mother of Helena Blavatsky
- Alexander Herzen (1812โ1870), essayist, novelist, philosopher and magazine editor, Who is to Blame?
I
sunting- Ilf and Petrov (Ilf 1897โ1937) (Petrov 1903โ1942), satirical writers, The Twelve Chairs, The Little Golden Calf
- Vera Inber (1890โ1972), poet and writer, Lalla's Interests
- Mikhail Isakovsky (1900โ1973), poet and songwriter, Katyusha
- Fazil Iskander, (1929โ2016), Abkhaz writer, Sandro of Chegem
- Alexei Ivanov (born 1969), novelist and screenwriter
- Georgy Ivanov (1894โ1958), poet and essayist, Disintegration of the Atom
- Vsevolod Ivanov (1895โ1963), writer and plawright, Armoured Train 14-69
- Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866โ1949), poet, playwright, philosopher, translator and literary critic
- Yuri Ivask (1907โ1986), poet, essayist, literary critic and historian
- Ryurik Ivnev (1891โ1981), poet, novelist and translator
- Sergey Izgiyayev (1922โ1972), poet, playwright and translator
- Alexander Izmaylov (1779โ1831), fabulist, poet and novelist
K
sunting- Gavril Kamenev (1772โ1803), poet, writer and translator
- Vasily Kamensky (1884โ1961), poet, playwright and artist, one of the first Russian aviators
- Antiochus Kantemir (1708โ1744), writer and poet, On the Envy and Pride of Evil-Minded Courtiers
- Nikolay Karamzin (1766โ1826), poet, writer and historian, Poor Liza
- Alexander Karasyov (born 1971), writer, Russian War Prose
- Pyotr Karatygin (1805โ1879), playwright, actor and memoirist
- Nikolay Karazin (1842โ1908), painter and writer, The Two-Legged Wolf
- Nikolay Karonin-Petropavlovsky (1853โ1892), narodnik writer, First Storm
- Evtikhy Pavlovich Karpov (1857โ1926), playwright and theatre director
- Vladimir Karpov (1922โ2010), novelist and magazine editor, The Commander
- Vasily Kapnist (1758โ1823), poet and playwright, Chicane
- Lev Kassil (1905โ1970), writer of juvenile and young adult literature
- Ivan Kataev (1902โ1937), novelist and short story writer, Immortality
- Valentin Kataev (1897โ1986), writer and playwright, Time, Forward!
- Pavel Katenin (1792โ1853), classicist poet, dramatist and literary critic
- Mikhail Katkov (1818โ1887), journalist and publicist, Moscow News
- Veniamin Kaverin (1902โ1989), novelist, The Two Captains
- Emmanuil Kazakevich (1913โ1962), writer, poet and playwright, The Blue Notebook
- Yury Kazakov (1927โ1982), short story writer, Going To Town
- Rimma Kazakova (1932โ2008), poet, Let's Meet in the East
- Dmitri Kedrin (1907โ1945), poet, Confession
- Yuri Khanon (born 1965), novelist and eccentric, Skryabin As a Face
- Mark Kharitonov (born 1937), writer, poet, and translator, Lines of Fate
- Yevgeny Kharitonov (1941โ1981), writer, poet, playwright and theater director
- Daniil Kharms (1905โ1942), novelist, short story writer and playwright, The Old Woman, Incidences, Elizaveta Bam
- Ivan Khemnitser (1745โ1784), satirical poet, The Rich Man and the Poor Man
- Mikhail Kheraskov (1733โ1807), poet, writer and playwright, Vladimir Reborn
- Velimir Khlebnikov (1885โ1922), futurist poet and author, Incantation by Laughter
- Nikolai Khmelnitsky (1789โ1845), playwright, literary critic and translator, Chatterbox
- Vladislav Khodasevich (1886โ1939), poet and literary critic
- Aleksey Khomyakov (1804โ1860), poet, co-founder of the slavophile movement
- Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya (1824โ1889), writer, critic and translator, The Boarding-School Girl
- Ivan Kireyevsky (1806โ1856), writer, co-founder of the slavophile movement
- Dmitry Khvostov (1757โ1835), poet and fabulist
- Vladimir Kirshon (1902โ1938), playwright, The Miraculous Alloy
- Marusya Klimova (born 1961), writer and translator
- Daniel Kluger (born 1951), author and songwriter
- Nikolai Klyuev (1884โ1937), peasant poet, A Northern Poem
- Viktor Klyushnikov (1841โ1892), writer, editor and journalist, The Haze
- Yakov Knyazhnin (1740/42โ1791), playwright, poet and translator, The Braggart
- Vsevolod Kochetov (1912โ1973), novelist and journalist, The Zhurbin Family
- Pavel Kogan (1918โ1942), poet and military interpreter
- Ivan Kokorev (1825โ1853), short story writer and essayist
- Alexandra Kollontai (1872โ1952), writer, feminist and important political figure, Love of Worker Bees
- Aleksey Koltsov (1809โ1842), poet, An Old Man's Song
- Mikhail Koltsov (1898โ1940/42), journalist and satirist
- Fyodor Koni (1809โ1889), dramatist, theatre critic, literary historian, editor and memoirist
- Evgenia Konradi (1838โ1898), essayist, journalist, writer, and women's education advocate
- Lev Kopelev (1912โ1997), writer, journalist and dissident
- Apollon Korinfsky (1868โ1937), writer, poet, essayist, translator and memoirist
- Oleksandr Korniychuk (1905โ1972), playwright, literary critic and state official, In the Steppes of Ukraine
- Vladimir Korolenko (1853โ1921), writer and memoirist, The Blind Musician
- Nestor Kotlyarevsky (1863โ1925), writer, publicist, literary critic and historian, The Nineteenth Century
- Arkady Kots (1872โ1943), poet and translator, Proletarian Songs
- Yury Koval (1938โ1995), writer and artist
- Sofia Kovalevskaya (1859โ1891), writer and mathematician, Nihilist Girl
- Vadim Kozhevnikov (1909โ1984), novelist and short story writer, Shield and Sword
- Nadezhda Kozhevnikova (born 1949), writer and journalist, Attorney Alexandra Tikhonovna
- Ivan Kozlov (1779โ1840), poet and translator, The Monk
- Eugene Kozlovsky (born 1946), writer, journalist, theatre director and film director
- Vasili Krasovsky (1782โ1824), poet, Scrolls of the Muse
- Andrey Krayevsky (1810โ1889), journalist, publicist, publisher and editor, Otechestvennye Zapiski
- Vsevolod Krestovsky (1840โ1895), writer, Knights of Industry
- Peter Kropotkin (1842โ1921), writer and anarchist theorist, In Russian and French Prisons
- Aleksei Kruchenykh (1886โ1968), futurist poet, co-creator of the literary concept "Zaum"
- Vladimir Krupin (born 1941), writer, editor and religious author, Aqua Vitae
- Ivan Krylov (1769โ1844), major fabulist and dramatist
- Gleb Krzhizhanovsky (1872โ1959), poet, author of the Russian version of the Warszawianka
- Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887โ1950), short story writer, Quadraturin
- Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954), poet and novelist
- Pyotr Kudryavtsev (1816โ1858), writer, historian, literary critic, philologist and journalist
- Nestor Kukolnik (1809โ1868), playwright, poet and librettist, A Life for the Tsar
- Aleksandr Kuprin (1870โ1938), novelist and short story writer, The Duel
- Wilhelm Kรผchelbecker (1797โ1846), poet and magazine editor, Mnemozina
- Nikolai Kurochkin (1830โ1884), poet, editor, translator and essayist
- Vasily Kurochkin (1831โ1875), satirical poet, journalist and translator
- Vladimir Kurochkin (1829โ1885), dramatist, translator, editor and publisher
- Ivan Kushchevsky (1847โ1876), novelist and short story writer, Nikolai Negorev
- Alexander Kushner (born 1936), poet and essayist, The First Impression
- Dmitry Kuzmin (born 1968), poet, critic and publisher
- Mikhail Kuzmin (1872โ1936), poet and novelist, Wings
- Anatoly Kuznetsov (1929โ1979), novelist, Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel
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sunting- Lazar Lagin (1903โ1979), satirist and children's writer, Old Khottabych
- Yuri Laptev (1903โ1984), writer and journalist, Zarya
- Yulia Latynina (born 1966), writer and journalist, The Insider
- Boris Lavrenyov (1891โ1959), writer and playwright, Such a Simple Thing
- Pyotr Lavrov (1823โ1900), prominent theorist of narodism, philosopher, publicist and sociologist.
- Ivan Lazhechnikov (1792โ1869), historical novelist, The Heretic
- Vasily Lebedev-Kumach (1898โ1949), poet and lyricist, Serdtse
- Anatoly Leman (1859โ1913), writer and editor, The Gentry's Tale
- Vladimir Lenin (1870โ1924), revolutionary and Marxist theoretician and publicist
- Leonid Leonov (1899โ1994), major novelist and short story writer, The Thief
- Konstantin Leontiev (1831โ1891), philosopher and essayist
- Mikhail Lermontov (1814โ1841), major poet, playwright and novelist, A Hero of Our Time
- Nikolai Leskov (1831โ1895), novelist, short story writer and journalist, Lady Macbeth of the Mtensk District, The Cathedral Clergy, The Enchanted Wanderer
- Alexander Levitov (1835โ1877), short story writer, Leatherhide the Cobbler
- Nikolay Leykin (1841โ1906), writer and publisher, Fragments Magazine
- Vladimir Lichutin (born 1940), writer and essayist
- Mikhail Lifshitz (1905โ1983), Marxian literary critic and philosopher of art
- Viktor Likhonosov (1936โ2021), writer and editor, Unwritten Memoirs. Our Little Paris.
- Eduard Limonov (1943โ2020), writer and dissident, It's Me, Eddie
- Dmitri Lipskerov (born 1964), writer and playwright, The Forty Years of Changzhoeh
- Mirra Lokhvitskaya (1869โ1905), poet and playwright
- Mikhail Lomonosov (1711โ1765), polymath, scientist, writer and linguistic reformer
- Vladimir Lugovskoy (1901โ1957), constructivist poet
- Sergey Lukyanenko (born 1968), popular science-fiction and fantasy author, The Stars Are Cold Toys
- Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875โ1933), journalist and publicist
- Lev Lunts (1901โ1924), writer, playwright, essayist and critic, member of the Serapion Brothers
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sunting- Grigori Machtet (1852โ1901), novelist, short story writer and poet
- Vladimir Makanin (1937โ2017), novelist and short story writer, Antileader
- Sergey Malitsky (born 1962), fantasy fiction writer
- Aleksandr Malyshkin (1892โ1938), novelist and prose writer
- Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak (1852โ1912), novelist, The Privalov Fortune
- Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899โ1980), writer and memoirist, Hope Against Hope, Hope Abandoned
- Osip Mandelstam (1891โ1938), poet and writer, member of the acmeist school, The Stone
- Anatoly Marienhof (1897โ1962), novelist, poet and playwright, A Novel Without Lies
- Alexandra Marinina (born 1957), writer of detective stories
- Evgeny Markov (1835โ1903), writer, critic and ethnographer, Black Earth Field
- Georgi Markov (1911โ1991), novelist, screenwriter, playwright
- Maria Markova (born 1982), poet
- Boleslav Markevich (1822โ1884), writer, essayist, journalist, literary critic and translator
- Samuil Marshak (1887โ1964), writer, translator and children's poet, The Twelve Months
- Vladilen Mashkovtsev (1929โ1997), poet, writer and journalist
- Mikhail Matinsky (1750โ1820), scientist, dramatist, librettist and opera composer.
- Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893โ1930), futurist poet, writer and playwright, Mystery-Bouffe
- Apollon Maykov (1821โ1897), poet and translator
- Valerian Maykov (1823โ1847), literary critic, brother of Apollon Maykov
- Vasily Maykov (1728โ1778), poet, fabulist, playwright and translator
- Lev Mei (1822โ1862), poet and playwright, The Tsar's Bride
- Pavel Melnikov (1818โ1883), ethnographical novelist, In the Forests
- Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1866โ1941), poet and novelist, Christ and Antichrist
- Aleksey Merzlyakov (1778โ1830), poet, critic, translator and professor
- Arvo Mets (1937โ1997), poet and translator, Resemblance
- Alexander Mezhirov (1923โ2009), poet, translator and critic
- Sergey Mikhalkov (1913โ2009), children's writer, satirist and songwriter, author of the National Anthem of the Soviet Union
- Nikolay Mikhaylovsky (1842โ1904), publicist, literary critic, sociologist and narodnik theoretician
- Dmitry Minayev (1835โ1889), satirical poet, journalist, translator and literary critic
- Nikolai Minsky (1855โ1937), poet, writer and translator, From the Gloom to the Light
- Boris Mozhayev (1923โ1996), writer, playwright, script-writer and editor, Alive
- Daniil Mordovtsev (1830โ1905), writer and historian of Ukrainian descent
- Yunna Morits (born 1937), poet and artist, The Vine
- Sergey Mstislavsky (1876โ1943), writer, dramatist, publicist, anthropologist, editor and political activist
- Viktor Muyzhel (1880โ1924), writer and painter
- Viktor Muravin (born 1929), novelist, The Diary of Vikenty Angarov
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sunting- Vladimir Nabokov (1899โ1977), poet and novelist, wrote first in Russian, then in English, author of Lolita
- Nikolai Nadezhdin (1804โ1856), literary critic and ethnographer
- Semyon Nadson (1862โ1887), poet, Pity the Stately Cypress Trees
- Yuri Nagibin (1920โ1994), novelist, short story writer and screenwriter
- Vladimir Narbut (1888โ1938), acmeist poet and magazine editor
- Vasily Narezhny (1780โ1825), novelist, A Russian Gil Blas
- Sergey Narovchatov (1919โ1981), writer and magazine editor, Novy Mir
- Nikolai Naumov, (1838โ1901), essayist and short story writer, Cobweb
- Filipp Nefyodov (1838โ1902), writer, journalist, editor, ethnographer and archeologist, Among People
- Nikolay Nekrasov (1821โ1878), major poet and magazine editor, Who Can be Happy and Free in Russia?
- Viktor Nekrasov (1911โ1987), novelist, Front-line Stalingrad
- Viktor Nekipelov (1928โ1989), poet, writer and dissident
- Miroslav Nemirov (1961โ2016), poet and songwriter
- Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko (1845โ1936), novelist, essayist and war correspondent
- Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858โ1943), theatre director, writer and playwright, co-founder of the Moscow Art Theatre
- Lรถb Nevakhovich (1776/78โ1831), Russia-Jewish writer and playwright
- Alexander Neverov (1886โ1923), writer and playwright, City of Bread
- Friedrich Neznansky (1932โ2013), crime novelist, Red Square
- Ivan Nikitin (1824โ1861), poet and writer, Kulak
- Nikolai Nikolev (1758โ1815), poet and playwright
- Pavel Nilin (1908โ1981), writer, journalist and playwright, Man Goes Uphill
- Nikolay Nosov (1908โ1976), children's writer, Neznaika
- Yevgeny Nosov (1925โ2002), writer, Usvyat Warriors
- Osip Notovich (1849โ1914), publisher, playwright and essayist
- Alexey Novikov-Priboy (1877โ1944), novelist and short story writer, The Captain
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sunting- Vladimir Obruchev (1863โ1956), science fiction writer, Sannikov Land
- Alexander Odoevsky (1802โ1839), poet and playwright, activist of the Decembrist Revolt
- Vladimir Odoevsky (1803โ1869), philosopher, writer, music critic, philanthropist and pedagogue, The Living Corpse
- Irina Odoyevtseva (1895โ1990), poet, novelist and memoirist
- Nikolay Ogarev (1813โ1877), poet, historian and political activist
- Bulat Okudzhava (1924โ1997), poet, writer and singer-songwriter, The Art of Needles and Sins
- Yury Olesha (1899โ1960), novelist and short story writer, Envy
- Nikolay Oleynikov (1898โ1937), editor, avant-garde poet and playwright
- Vladimir Orlov (author) (1936โ2014), novelist
- Mikhail Osorgin (1878โ1942), journalist, novelist, short story writer and essayist
- Sergey Ostrovoy (1911โ2005), poet, author of lyrics to many popular Soviet songs
- Alexander Ostrovsky (1823โ1886), major playwright, The Storm
- Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904โ1936), socialist realist writer, How the Steel Was Tempered
- Valentin Ovechkin (1904โ1968), writer, playwright, journalist and war correspondent, Greetings from the Front
- Vladislav Ozerov (1769โ1816), playwright, Dmitry Donskoy
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sunting- Marina Palei (born 1955), scriptwriter, publicist, novelist and translator, Rendezvous
- Alexander Palm (1822โ1885), poet, novelist and playwright, Petrashevsky Circle member, Alexey Slobodin
- Liodor Palmin (1841โ1891), poet, translator and journalist
- Ivan Panaev (1812โ1862), writer, critic and publisher/editor of Sovremennik magazine
- Avdotya Panaeva (1820โ1893), novelist, short story writer and memoirist
- Vera Panova (1905โ1973), novelist, short story writer, journalist and playwright, Seryozha
- Valentin Parnakh (1891โ1951), poet, translator, choreographer and musician, founder of Russian jazz music
- Sophia Parnok (1885โ1933), poet, playwright and translator
- Andrei Parshev (born 1955), political writer
- Boris Pasternak (1890โ1960), poet and novelist, not permitted by the Soviet Union to accept the Nobel Prize, Doctor Zhivago
- Pyotr Patrushev (1942โ2016), writer and dissident
- Konstantin Paustovsky (1892โ1968), writer, Nobel Prize nominee, Story of a Life
- Pyotr Pavlenko (1899โ1951), writer, Happiness
- Oleg Pavlov (1970โ2018), novelist and short story writer
- Karolina Pavlova (1807โ1893), poet and novelist, A Double Life
- Vladimir Pecherin (1807โ1885), poet and writer, Notes from Beyond the Tomb
- Victor Pelevin (born 1962), modern writer, Omon Ra
- Yakov Perelman (1882โ1942), science writer, Physics for Entertainment
- Pyotr Pertsov (1868โ1947), publisher, editor, literary critic, journalist and memoirist
- Nick Perumov (born 1963), fantasy and science fiction writer
- Pyotr Petrov (1827โ1891), writer, arts historian, genealogist and bibliographer, The Tsar's Judgement
- Mariya Petrovykh (1908โ1979), poet and translator
- Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (born 1938), modern writer and playwright, The Time: Night
- Valentin Pikul (1928โ1990), novelist, At the Last Frontier
- Boris Pilnyak (1894โ1938), novelist, The Naked Year
- Dmitry Pisarev (1840โ1868), critic and publicist
- Aleksey Pisemsky (1821โ1881), novelist and dramatist, A Bitter Fate
- Andrei Platonov (1899โ1951), novelist, short story writer and playwright, Chevengur, The Foundation Pit
- Georgi Plekhanov (1857โ1918), writer, revolutionary and Marxist theoretician
- Aleksey Pleshcheyev (1825โ1893), radical poet, Step Forward! Without Fear or Doubt
- Pyotr Pletnyov (1792โ1866), poet, dedicatee of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
- Mikhail Pogodin (1800โ1875), historian and journalist
- Nikolai Pogodin (1900โ1962), playwright, journalist and magazine editor
- Antony Pogorelsky (1787โ1837), fantasy fiction writer, Dvoinik
- Evgeny Pogozhev (1870โ1931), religious writer, essayist and journalist (pen name E. Poselyanin)
- Konstantin Podrevsky (1888โ1930), poet, translator, lyricist, Dorogoi dlinnoyu
- Boris Polevoy (1908โ1981), writer and journalist, The Story of a Real Man
- Ksenofont Polevoy (1801โ1867), writer, literary critic, journalist, publisher and translator
- Nikolai Polevoy (1796โ1846), writer, historian and magazine editor, The Moscow Telegraph
- Pyotr Polevoy (1839โ1902), writer, playwright, translator, critic and literary historian
- Alexander Polezhayev (1804โ1838), satirical poet, Sashka
- Elizaveta Polonskaya (1890โ1969), poet, translator, and journalist, the only female member of the Serapion Brothers
- Leonid Polonsky (1833โ1913), writer, journalist, editor and publisher, Mad Musician
- Yakov Polonsky (1819โ1898), poet, Georgian Night
- Nikolay Pomyalovsky (1835โ1863), novelist and short story writer, Seminary Sketches
- Mikhail Popov (1742โ1790), writer, poet, dramatist and opera librettist, Anyuta
- Nikolay Popovsky (1730โ1760), poet and translator
- Vasili Popugaev (1778/79โ1816), poet, novelist and translator
- Oleg Postnov (born 1962), novelist and translator
- Ignaty Potapenko (1856โ1929), writer and playwright, A Russian Priest
- Michael Prawdin (1894โ1970), historical writer
- Alexander Preys (1905โ1942), playwright and librettist, The Nose
- Dmitri Prigov (1940โ2007), writer and artist, Live in Moscow
- Zakhar Prilepin (born 1975), writer and dissident, member of the National Bolshevik Party
- Maria Prilezhayeva (1903โ1989), children's writer, The Life of Lenin
- Mikhail Prishvin (1873โ1954), journalist and writer
- Valentyn Prodaievych (born 1960), journalist and writer, lives in Florida
- Alexander Prokhanov (born 1938), writer and newspaper editor, Empire's Last Soldier
- Alexander Prokofyev (1900โ1971), poet and war correspondent
- Iosif Prut (1900โ1996), playwright and screenwriter
- Kozma Prutkov (1803โ1863), satirist, pseudonym of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy and his cousins
- Alexander Pushkin (1799โ1837), poet, novelist and dramatist, Eugene Onegin
- Vasily Pushkin (1766โ1830), poet, uncle of Alexander Pushkin
- Konstantin Pyatnitsky (1864โ1938), journalist, publisher and memoirist
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sunting- Alexander Radishchev (1749โ1802), radical writer and social critic, Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow
- Edvard Radzinsky (born 1936), writer, playwright, TV personality, screenwriter and historian
- Vladimir Rayevsky (1795โ1872), penyair dan Desembris
- Valentin Rasputin (1937โ2015), novelist, Farewell to Matyora
- Irina Ratushinskaya (1954โ2017) dissident poet and writer, Grey is the Color of Hope
- Razumnik Ivanov-Razumnik (1878โ1946), writer, philosopher and literary critic
- Yevgeny Rein (born 1935), poet and writer, The Names of Bridges
- Vera Reznik (born 1944), writer, translator and literary scholar
- Aleksey Remizov (1877โ1957), modernist writer, calligrapher and folklore enthusiast, The Clock, Sisters of the Cross
- Fyodor Reshetnikov (1841โ1871), novelist, The Podlipnayans
- Mikhail Rosenheim (1820โ1887), poet, editor, publicist and translator
- Robert Rozhdestvensky (1932โ1994), poet, Flags of Spring
- Helena Roerich (1879โ1949), philosopher, writer and public figure
- Nicholas Roerich (1874โ1947), painter, philosopher, scientist, writer, traveler and public figure
- Konstantin Romanov (1858โ1915), poet and playwright, The King of the Jews
- Panteleimon Romanov (1884โ1938), writer, Without Bird-Cherry Blossoms
- Mikhail Roshchin (1933โ2010), playwright, screenwriter and short story writer
- Yevdokiya Rostopchina (1811โ1858), poet and writer, Forced Marriage
- Vasily Rozanov (1856โ1919), writer and philosopher
- Robert Rozhdestvensky (1932โ1994), poet, Flags of Spring
- Dina Rubina (born 1953), novelist and short story writer, The Blackthorn
- Anatoly Rybakov (1911โ1998), novelist, Children of the Arbat
- Vladimir Rybakov (1947โ2018), novelist and journalist, The Afghans: A Novella of Soviet Soldiers in Afghanistan
- Vyacheslav Rybakov (born 1954), science fiction author and orientalist, The Trial Sphere
- Maria Rybakova (born 1973), novelist and short story writer
- Pavel Rybnikov (1831โ1885), ethnographer, folklorist and literary historian
- Kondraty Ryleyev (1795โ1826), poet, publisher and a leader of the Decembrist Revolt
- Yuri Rytkheu (1930โ2008), Chukchi writer, A Dream in Polar Fog
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sunting- Irina Saburova (1907โ1979), writer, poet, translator, and magazine editor
- Dmitry Sadovnikov (1847โ1883), poet, folklorist and ethnographer, "Iz-za ostrova na strezhen"
- Boris Sadovskoy (1881โ1952), poet, writer and literary critic
- German Sadulaev (born 1973), Chechen writer, I am a Chechen!
- Evgeny Salias De Tournemire (1840โ1908), writer, The Krutoyar Princess
- Ilya Salov (1834โ1902), writer, playwright and translator, Butuzka
- Yuri Samarin (1819โ1876), publicist and critic
- Vladimir Sanin (1928โ1989), writer of travel fiction
- Genrikh Sapgir (1928โ1999), poet and novelist
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826โ1889), novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist, The History of a Town, The Golovlyov Family
- Boris Savinkov (1879โ1925), writer and revolutionary terrorist, What Never Happened
- Feodosy Savinov (1865โ1915), poet, Rodnoye
- Ilya Selvinsky (1899โ1968), poet, leader of the constructivist school
- Sergey Semyonov (1868โ1922), peasant writer, Gluttons
- Yulian Semyonov (1931โ1993), writer of spy fiction and crime fiction, Seventeen Instants of Spring
- Osip Senkovsky (1800โ1858), Polish-Russian orientalist, journalist, writer and entertainer.
- Alexander Serafimovich (1863โ1949), writer, The Iron Flood
- Andrey Sergeev (1933โ1998), poet, translator and writer
- Sergei Sergeyev-Tsensky (1875โ1958), writer and academician, Brusilov's Breakthrough
- Efraim Sevela (1928โ2010), writer, screenwriter, director and producer
- Igor Severyanin (1887โ1941), ego futurist poet, The Cup of Thunder
- Marietta Shaginyan (1888โ1982), writer of Armenian descent, Mess-Mend
- Alexander Shakhovskoy (1777โ1846) playwright, writer, poet, librettist and critic, The New Stern
- Varlam Shalamov (1907โ1982), short story writer and poet, Kolyma Tales
- Olga Shapir (1850โ1916), writer and feminist, The Settlement
- Pyotr Shchebalsky (1810โ1886), critic, editor and literary historian
- Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874โ1952), poet, writer, playwright and translator, Deborah
- Vladimir Shchiglev (1840โ1903), satirical poet and playwright
- Stepan Shchipachev (1889โ1980), poet, Lines of Love
- Vadim Shefner (1915โ2002), poet and writer
- Alexander Sheller (1838โ1900), writer, poet and essayist, Putrid Moors
- Nikolay Sherbina (1821โ1869), poet, To the Sea
- Vadim Shershenevich (1893โ1942), futurist poet, writer and screenwriter, A Kiss From Mary Pickford
- Stepan Shevyryov (1806โ1864), poet, writer, critic and philologist
- Mikhail Shishkin (born 1961), modern writer, The Taking of Izmail
- Vyacheslav Shishkov (1873โ1945), writer, known for his descriptions of Siberia
- Maria Shkapskaya (1891โ1952), poet and journalist
- Ivan Shmelyov (1873โ1950), novelist, The Sun of the Dead
- Mikhail Sholokhov (1905โ1984), Nobel Prizeโwinning writer, And Quiet Flows the Don
- Gennady Shpalikov (1937โ1974), poet and screenwriter, I Step Through Moscow
- Nikolai Shpanov (1896โ1961), author
- Vasily Shukshin (1929โ1974), actor, writer, screenwriter and movie director, Roubles in Words, Kopeks in Figures
- Pavel Shumil (born 1957), science fiction author
- Evgeny Shvarts (1896โ1958), writer, playwright and screenwriter, The Dragon
- Konstantin Simonov (1915โ1979), novelist and poet, "Wait for Me"
- Andrei Sinyavsky (1925โ1997), writer, publisher and dissident, Fantastic Stories
- Alexander Skabichevsky (1838โ1911), writer and literary critic
- Stepan Skitalets (1869โ1941), poet and writer, The Love of a Scene Painter
- Tim Skorenko (born 1983), writer, poet, singer-songwriter, and journalist.
- Victor Skumin (born 1948), writer and magazine editor
- Olga Slavnikova (born 1957), novelist and literary critic
- Vasily Sleptsov (1836โ1878), novelist, short story writer and playwright, Hard Times, "The Ward"
- Konstantin Sluchevsky (1837โ1904), poet and magazine editor
- Boris Slutsky (1919โ1986), representative of the War generation of Russian poets
- Nikolai Snessarev (1856โ1928), publicist, writer, literary critic and politician
- Sofia Soboleva (1840โ1884), writer and journalist, Pros and Cons
- Anatoly Sofronov (1911โ1990), writer, poet, playwright, scriptwriter, editor and literary administrator, The Cookie
- Sasha Sokolov (born 1943), novelist, A School for Fools
- Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov (1882โ1975), author, journalist and short-story writer, Childhood
- Vladimir Sollogub (1813โ1882), writer and poet, The Snowstorm
- Fyodor Sologub (1863โ1927), symbolist poet, playwright and novelist, The Petty Demon
- Vladimir Soloukhin (1924โ1997), writer, journalist and poet, Verdict
- Leonid Solovyov (1906โ1962), writer and playwright, Tale of Hodja Nasreddin
- Vladimir Solovyov (1853โ1900), philosopher, poet, pamphleteer and literary critic
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918โ2008), Nobel Prizeโwinning writer, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Gulag Archipelago
- Orest Somov (1793โ1833), writer, journalist, literary critic and translator, Mommy and Sonny
- Vladimir Sorokin (born 1955), popular postmodern writer and dramatist
- Konstantin Staniukovich (1843โ1903), sea stories writer, Maximka
- Mikhail Stasyulevich (1826โ1911), writer, literary historian, editor and publisher
- Vladimir Stavsky (1900โ1943), writer, editor and literary administrator, Fighting for Motherland
- Alexander Stein (1906โ1993), writer, playwright, scriptwriter and memoirist
- Ksenya Stepanycheva (born 1978), playwright, Pink Bow
- Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky (1851โ1895), writer, publicist and revolutionary, King Stork and King Log
- Fyodor Stepun (1884โ1965), Russian-German writer, philosopher, historian and sociologist
- Dmitry Strelnikov (born 1969), poet, essayist and novelist
- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Arkady 1925โ1991) (Boris 1933โ2012), science fiction writers, Hard to Be a God
- Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817โ1903), playwright, Scenes from the Past
- Alexander Sumarokov (1717โ1777), early poet and playwright
- Ivan Surikov (1841โ1880), peasant poet
- Alexey Surkov (1899โ1983), poet, editor, literary critic, "Zemlyanka"
- Mikhail Sushkov (1775โ1792), writer, The Russian Werther
- Alexei Suvorin (1834โ1912), publisher and journalist
- Viktor Suvorov (born 1947), writer and historian
- Fyodor Svarovsky (born 1971), poet
- Mikhail Svetlov (1903โ1964), poet and journalist, Song of Kakhovka
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sunting- Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (1891โ1968), poet, playwright, translator and children's writer
- Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov (1885โ1938), writer, Chocolate
- Arseny Tarkovsky (1907โ1989), poet and translator
- Valery Tarsis (1906โ1983), novelist and dissident, Ward 7
- Nadezhda Teffi (1872โ1952), humorist writer, All About Love
- Nikolay Teleshov (1867โ1957), writer and memoirist, organizer of the Moscow Sreda
- Vladimir Tendryakov (1923โ1984), novelist and short story writer, Three, Seven, Ace
- Yuri Terapiano (1892โ1980), poet, writer, translator, literary critic and historian
- Sergey Terpigorev (1841โ1895), writer and essayist
- Nikolai Tikhonov (1896โ1979), writer and poet, member of the Serapion Brothers
- Vladislav Titov (1934โ1987), novelist who lost both arms in a coal mine accident, Defying Death
- Pyotr Tkachev (1844โ1886), publicist, writer and critic
- Viktoriya Tokareva (born 1937), screenwriter and short story writer
- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817โ1875), poet, dramatist and novelist, The Death of Ivan the Terrible
- Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1882โ1945), novelist and science fiction writer, The Garin Death Ray
- Ilya Tolstoy (1866โ1933), author of a memoir about his father Leo Tolstoy
- Leo Tolstoy (1828โ1910) novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist and public figure, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Resurrection, Hadji Murat
- Tatyana Tolstaya (born 1951), writer, TV host, publicist, novelist and essayist
- Edward Topol (born 1938), novelist and journalist, Red Square
- Sergey Trakhimenok (born 1950), novelist, playwrights, screenwriter and short story writer, detective story writer
- Vasily Trediakovsky (1703โ1768), poet, essayist and playwright
- Konstantin Trenyov (1876โ1945), playwright and short story writer, Lyubov Yarovaya
- Sergei Tretyakov (1892โ1937), playwright, I Want a Baby
- Yury Trifonov (1925โ1981), novelist and short story writer, The House on the Embankment
- Gavriil Troyepolsky (1905โ1995), novelist, White Bim Black Ear
- Mikhail Tsetlin (1882โ1945), poet, playwright, novelist, memoirist and translator
- Marina Tsvetaeva (1892โ1941), poet and essayist, The Rat-Catcher
- Alexei Tsvetkov (born 1947), poet, novelist and journalist
- Nikolai Tsyganov (1797โ1832), poet, folklorist, singer and actor, Russian Songs
- Evgenia Tur (1815โ1892), writer, critic, journalist and publisher, Antonina
- Sergey Turbin (1821โ1884), playwright and journalist
- Ivan Turgenev (1818โ1883), novelist and playwright, A Sportsman's Sketches, Home of the Gentry, Fathers and Sons
- Veronika Tushnova (1911โ1965), poet and translator, Memory of the Heart
- Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910โ1971), poet, war correspondent and editor of Novy Mir, Vasily Tyorkin
- Yury Tynyanov (1894โ1943), writer, literary critic, translator, scholar and screenwriter
- Fyodor Tyutchev (1803โ1873), poet, The Last Love
U
sunting- Vladimir Uflyand (1937โ2007), poet, The Working Week Comes To An End
- Pavel Ulitin (1918โ1986), writer
- Lyudmila Ulitskaya (born 1943), novelist and short-story writer, Medea and Her Children
- Alexander Urusov (1843โ1900), literary critic, translator, lawyer and philanthropist
- Eduard Uspensky (1937โ2018), children's writer, Cheburashka series
- Gleb Uspensky (1843โ1902), novelist, short story writer and essayist, The Power of the Land
- Nikolay Uspensky (1837โ1889), short story writer, A Good Existence
- Iosif Utkin (1903โ1944), poet and journalist, Dear Childhood
V
sunting- Konstantin Vaginov (1899โ1934), poet and novelist, Goat Song, The Works and Days of Svistonov
- Pyotr Valuyev (1815โ1890), statesman, novelist, poet and essayist
- Alexander Vampilov (1937โ1972), playwright, Elder Son
- Mikhail Veller (born 1948), writer and journalist, The Guru
- Alexander Veltman (1800โ1870), writer, one of the pioneers of Russian science fiction
- Dmitry Venevitinov (1805โ1827), philosophical poet
- Anastasiya Verbitskaya (1861โ1928), novelist, playwright, screenplay writer, publisher and feminist, The Keys to Happiness
- Vikenty Veresaev (1867โ1945), writer and medical doctor, Memoirs of a Physician
- Lidia Veselitskaya (1857โ1936), writer, translator and memoirist, Mimi's Marriage
- Sergey Vikulov (1922โ2006), poet, essayist, memoirist and editor, Nash Sovremennik
- Tony Vilgotsky (born 1980), horror and fantasy writer, columnist
- Nikolai Virta (1906โ1976), writer and playwright, Alone
- Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900โ1951), playwright, Optimistic Tragedy
- Igor Vishnevetsky (born 1964), poet and music historian
- Georgi Vladimov (1931โ2003), dissident writer, Faithful Ruslan
- Dmitry Vodennikov (born 1968), poet and essayist
- Vladimir Voinovich (1932โ2018), satirical novelist, The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
- Zinaida Volkonskaya (1792โ1862), writer, poet, singer, composer, salonist and lady in waiting
- Alexander Volkov (1891โ1977), novelist and mathematician, The Wizard of the Emerald City
- Anri Volokhonsky (1936โ2017), poet and translator
- Maximilian Voloshin (1877โ1932), poet, translator, art and literary critic
- Konstantin Vorobyov (1919โ1975), writer, Slain Near Moscow
- Vatslav Vorovsky (1871โ1923), Marxist revolutionary, literary critic, diplomat and publicist
- Julia Voznesenskaya (1940โ2015), novelist, The Women's Decameron
- Zoya Voskresenskaya (1907โ1992), children's writer, diplomat, NKVD foreign office secret agent, Mother's Heart
- Andrei Voznesensky (1933โ2010), poet and writer, First Frost
- Alexander Vvedensky (1904โ1941), poet, co-founder of OBERIU
- Arseny Vvedensky (1844โ1909), writer, journalist, literary critic and historian
- Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792โ1878), poet, representative of the Golden Age of Russian poetry
- Vladimir Vysotsky (1938โ1980), singer, songwriter, poet and actor
Y
sunting- Alexander Yakovlev (1886โ1953), writer and essayist, The Peasant
- Pyotr Yakubovich (1860โ1911), poet and writer, member of Narodnaya Volya
- Pavel Yakushkin (1822โ1872), writer, ethnographer and folklorist
- Alexander Yashin (1913โ1968), writer associated with the Village Prose movement
- Ieronim Yasinsky (1850โ1931), novelist, poet, essayist and memoirist
- Nikolay Yazykov (1803โ1846), poet and slavophile
- Ivan Yefremov (1908โ1972), paleontologist, science fiction author and social thinker, Andromeda
- Dmitri Yemets (born 1974), author of fantasy literature for children and young adults, Tanya Grotter
- Venedikt Yerofeyev (1938โ1990), writer and playwright, Moscow-Petushki
- Pyotr Yershov (1815โ1869), fairy tale writer, poet and playwright, The Humpbacked Horse
- Sergei Yesenin (1895โ1925), poet, Land of Scoundrels
- Tatyana Yesenina (1918โ1992), writer and daughter of Sergei Yesenin, Zhenya, the Wonder of the Twentieth Century
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933โ2017), poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, editor, and film director
- Semyon Yushkevich (1868โ1927), writer and playwright
Z
sunting- Nikolay Zabolotsky (1903โ1958), poet, children's writer and translator, one of the founders of the absurdist group OBERIU
- Boris Zakhoder (1918โ2000), poet, children's writer and translator
- Mikhail Zagoskin (1789โ1852), historical novelist, Tales of Three Centuries
- Boris Zaitsev (1881โ1972), writer and playwright, Anna
- Mark Zakharov (1933โ2019), theatrical director, playwright and actor
- Sergey Zalygin (1913โ2000), novelist and magazine editor, The South American Variant
- Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884โ1937), novelist, short story writer and playwright, We
- Vsevolod Zelchenko (born 1972), poet
- Mikhail Zenkevich (1886โ1973), poet and translator, Wild Porphyry
- Yulia Zhadovskaya (1824โ1883), poet and writer, Apart from the Great World
- Vera Zhelikhovsky (1835โ1896), novelist and children's writer, The General's Will
- Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov (1821โ1908), poet and dramatist, co-creator of Kozma Prutkov
- Boris Zhitkov (1882โ1938), novelist, short story writer, playwright and children's writer, Viktor Vavich
- Maria Zhukova (1804โ1855), writer, Evenings on the Karpovka
- Vasily Zhukovsky (1783โ1852), poet, translator and magazine editor
- Zinovy Zinik (born 1945), novelist and broadcaster, The Mushroom-Picker
- Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866โ1907), writer and playwright, The Tragic Menagerie
- Nikolai Zlatovratsky (1845โ1911), novelist and short story writer, Old Shadows
- Mikhail Znamensky (1833โ1892), writer, memoirist, caricaturist, archeologist and ethnographer, The Vanished Men
- Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895โ1958), satirical short story writer and novelist, The Galosh
- Rafail Zotov (1795โ1871), playwright, novelist, journalist, translator and theatre critic, Jealous Wife








