List of Russian-language novelists

"Russian Writers" by Sergei Levitsky, 1856.

This is a list of authors who have written works of fiction in the Russian language. The list encompasses novelists and writers of short fiction.

For the plain list, see Category:Russian novelists.

See also: List of Russian-language writers, List of Russian-language poets, List of Russian-language playwrights, List of Russian artists, List of Russian architects, List of Russian inventors, List of Russian explorers, Russian literature, Russian culture

Alphabetical list

A

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Fyodor Abramov (1920–1983)	The New Life Wooden Horses Two Winters and Three Summers	Memorial plaque in St. Petersburg.
	M. Ageyev (1898–1973)	Cocain Romance
	Chinghiz Aitmatov (1928–2008)	Jamilya The White Ship The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years	At a book signing in St. Petersburg. 2007	Aitmatov (left) at the 2007 Cologne Literature Festival with Publishing Director Lucien Leitess (center) and Mongolian writer Galsan Tschinag (right).
	David Aizman (1869-1922)	The Countrymen
	Sergey Aksakov (1791–1859)	The Scarlet Flower The Family Chronicle Years of Childhood A Russian Schoolboy	Memorial to Aksakov.	The Aksakov Family Coat of Arms.
	Vasily Aksyonov (1932–2009)	The Burn Colleagues Generations of Winter The Winter's Hero
	Boris Akunin (born 1956)	Erast Fandorin series Nicholas Fandorin series Sister Pelagia series	Akunin at the HeadRead literary festival, 2011.
	Mikhail Albov (1851-1911)	On the New Road
	Yuz Aleshkovsky (born 1929)	The Hand Kangaroo
	Alexander Amfiteatrov (1862–1938)	Napoleonder	Napoleon Bonaparte.	Painting of Napoleon by David, 1812.
	Daniil Andreyev (1906–1959)	Roza Mira	Daniil's parents Leonid Andreyev and Countess Anna Wielhorska.
	Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919)	Darkness The Abyss The Red Laugh The Seven Who Were Hanged	1909 book cover
	Aleksey Apukhtin (1840–1893)	From Death to Life The Archive of Countess D	Illustration from Apukhtin's novel From Death to Life.	Memorial plaque in Bolkhov.
	Maria Arbatova (born 1957)		Maria Arbatova in 2009.
	Mikhail Artsybashev (1878–1927)	Sanin Ivan Lande Breaking Point Tales of the Revolution	Artsybashev with the actress Yavorskaya, 1915.	Drawing of Artsybashev.
Monument in Krasnoyarsk.	Viktor Astafyev (1924–2001)	Queen Fish Sad Detective To Live Your Life	Vladimir Putin speaking with Astafyev's widow. 2004
	Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925)	Ninochka	Drawing of Averchenko.	Averchenko, c1905.

B

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Isaak Babel (1894–1940)	Red Cavalry Odessa Tales	Red Cavalry poster, 1919.	Red Cavalry poster, 1920.
	Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009)	The Foothold Forever Nineteen South of the Main Offensive
	Natalya Baranskaya (1908–2004)	A Week Like Any Other
	Pavel Bazhov (1879–1950)	The Malachite Casket	Commemorative coin featuring Bazhov.	Bazhov in his youth.
	Dmitry Begichev (1786–1855)	The Kholmsky Family
	Alexander Bek (1903–1972)	And Not to Die The Story of an Inventor
	Andrei Bely (1880–1934)	Petersburg Kotik Letaev The Silver Dove	Portrait by Léon Bakst.	Plaque at Bely's birth house on Arbat Street in Moscow.
	Alexander Belyayev (1884–1942)	Ariel Amphibian Man	Drawing by Belyayev.	Another of his drawings.
	Nina Berberova (1901–1993)	The Accompanist The Tattered Cloak The Italics are Mine The Book of Happiness	With her husband, 1925.
	Alexander Bestuzhev (1797–1837)	The Test On Bivouac	1823 title page from Bestuzhev's magazine Polar Star.	An engraving of Bestuzhev.
	Vitaly Bianki (1894–1959)	Whose Nose is Better?
	Aleksei Bibik (1878–1976)
	Andrei Bitov (born 1937)	Pushkin House The Monkey Link Life in Windy Weather A Captive of the Caucasus
	Nikolai Blagoveshchensky (1837–1889)	Before the Dawn
	Pyotr Boborykin (1836-1921)	China Town
	Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928)	Red Star	A drawing of Bogdanov.
	Vladimir Bogomolov (1926–2003)	Ivan The Moment of Truth
	Yuri Bondarev (born 1924)	Silence The Shore The Hot Snow
	Leonid Borodin (born 1938)	Partings The Third Truth The Story of a Strange Time The Year of Miracle and Grief
	Valery Bryusov (1873–1924)	The Fiery Angel The Republic of the Southern Cross	A drawing of Bryusov.	An Armenian stamp featuring Bryusov
	Yury Buida (born 1954)	The Zero Train The Prussian Bride Sinbad the Sailor
	Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940)	The White Guard The Master and Margarita Heart of a Dog The Fatal Eggs		Soviet stamp featuring Behemoth.
	Kir Bulychev (1934–2003)	Half a Life Great Gusliar Earth and Elsewhere Alisa Selezneva
	Ivan Bunin (1870–1953)	Dry Valley The Village Dark Avenues The Life of Arseniev	Soviet Nobel Laureates in Literature.

C

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Aleksey Chapygin (1870–1937)	Stepan Razin	Stepan Razin, picture by Kustodiev.
	Lidia Charskaya (1875–1938)	Princess Dzhavakha	Charskaya, c1910
	Alexander Chekhov (1855–1913)		The Chekhov family.	Alexander's son Michael Chekhov.
	Anton Chekhov (1860–1904)	The Lady with the Dog The Bet The Black Monk	Title page from Collected Works Volume 1.	An example from one of Chekhov's manuscripts.
	Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828–1889)	What Is to Be Done?	Title page of What Is to Be Done?
	Evgeny Chirikov (1864–1932)	The Magician Strained Relations Marka of the Pits	At his desk, 1904.	Portrait by Repin, 1906.
	Lydia Chukovskaya (1907–1996)	Sofia Petrovna
	Georgy Chulkov (1879–1939)		Chulkov (left), with fellow Soviet writers.

D

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Yuli Daniel (1925–1988)	This is Moscow Speaking
	Grigory Danilevsky (1829–1890)	Moscow in Flames The Princess Tarakanova	Moscow in Flames.	Princess Tarakanova by Konstantin Flavitsky.
	Grigoriy Demidovtsev (born 1960)		Certificate of membership in the Union of Russian Writers.	Demidovtsev in 2007.
	Valentina Dmitryeva (1859–1947)	Hveska, The Doctor's Watchman	Dmitryeva, c1890.	Dmitryeva, 1895.
	Leonid Dobychin (1894-1936)	The Town of N Encounters with Lise
	Yury Dombrovsky (1909–1978)	The Faculty of Useless Knowledge The Keeper of Antiquities
	Vlas Doroshevich (1864–1922)	Legends and Stories of the East	Doroshevich c.1910.
	Lyubov Dostoyevskaya (1869–1926)	The Emigrant	Anna Dostoyevskaya (wife of Fyodor Dostoyevsky) with their daughter Lyubov and son Fyodor.	Anna Dostoyevskaya.
	Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881)	Notes from Underground Crime and Punishment The Idiot Demons The Brothers Karamazov The House of the Dead The Gambler "White Nights" "A Gentle Creature" "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"	Raskolnikov and Marmeladov from Crime and Punishment.	Dostoyevsky's notes for chapter 5 of The Brothers Karamazov
	Mikhail Dostoyevsky (1820–1864)		Vremya (Time), the paper published by Fyodor and Mikhail Dostoyevsky.	Portrait, 1870.
	Sergei Dovlatov (1941–1990)	The Zone Affiliate
	Alexander Druzhinin (1824–1864)	Polinka Saks The Story of Aleksei Dmitrich	Druzhinin (2nd from right), with his fellow writers from Sovremennik.	Druzhinin in 1856.
	Vladimir Dudintsev (1918–1998)	White Garments A New Year's Tale Not by Bread Alone

E

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967)	The Thaw The Spring The Storm The Fall of Paris	Ehrenburg (left), with Hemingway (center), and Regler (right), 1937.	Photo of Ehrenburg.
	Sergey Elpatyevsky (1854–1933)	Pity Me! The Homeless Ones
	Asar Eppel (1935–2012)	The Grassy Street Red Caviar Sandwiches
	Victor Erofeyev (born 1947)	Russian Beauty Life with an Idiot
	Alexander Ertel (1855–1908)	The Specialist A Greedy Peasant	Ertel, c1890
	Mikhail Evstafiev (born 1963)	Two Steps from Heaven

F

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Alexander Fadeyev (1901–1956)	The Rout The Young Guard	Soviet medal named for Fadeyev.	Soviet stamp featuring Fadeyev.
Monument to Fedin in Saratov.	Konstantin Fedin (1892–1977)	Early Joys The Conflagration Cities and Years No Ordinary Summer	Soviet stamp featuring Fedin.
	Olga Forsh (1873–1961)	Palace and Prison Pioneers of Freedom
	Dmitry Furmanov (1891–1926)	Chapayev	Photo of Vasily Chapayev.	Soviet stamp featuring Vasily Chapayev.

G

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Arkady Gaidar (1904–1941)	Chuk and Gek The Blue Cup Timur and his Gang	Soviet stamp featuring Gaidar.
	Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky (1852–1906)	Practical Training	Portrait by Israel Pass, 1905.	Bas-relief dedication at the Laspi Pass.
	Vsevolod Garshin (1855–1888)	Four Days The Red Flower	The Red Flower	Photo of Garshin, 1877.
	Yuri German (1910-1967)	Ivan Lapshin The Cause You Serve
	Anatoly Gladilin (born 1935)	Moscow Racetrack	Gladilin in Moscow, 2011.
	Fyodor Gladkov (1883–1958)	Cement Restless Youth
	Dmitry Glukhovsky (born 1979)	Metro 2033
	Pyotr Gnedich (1855-1925)	The Burden of this World
	Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852)	Dikanka Taras Bulba The Overcoat Dead Souls	Title page of the first edition of Dead Souls, 1842.	Nozdryov from Dead Souls.
	Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891)	A Common Story Oblomov The Precipice	Oblomov.
	Maxim Gorky (1868–1936)	Mother Through Russia The Artamonov Business Twenty-six Men and a Girl	With Leo Tolstoy.	With Anton Chekhov.
	Nina Gorlanova (born 1947)
	Daniil Granin (born 1919)	Into the Storm Those Who Seek	With Dmitry Medvedev, 2009.
	Dmitry Grigorovich (1822–1900)	The Fishermen	Self-portrait of Grigorovich in his 20s.	Portrait by Kramskoi.
	Alexander Grin (1880–1932)	Scarlet Sails The Seeker of Adventure	The Scarlet Sails celebration in St Petersburg.	From the 2010 celebration.
	Isabella Grinevskaya (1864–1944)
	Vasily Grossman (1905–1964)	The Road Life and Fate Forever Flowing	Memorial plaque in Donetsk.
	Elena Guro (1887-1913)	Autumnal Dream The Hurdy-Gurdy The Little Camels of the Sky	Guro's portrait of her husband Mikhail Matyushin.	Elena and Mikhail.
	Andrei Gusev (born 1952)	With Chronos’ Permit The World According to Novikoff	Gusev in Moscow, 2009.
	Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky (1867–1963)	The Land of the Fathers The Land of the Children

H

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

I

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Ilf and Petrov Ilf (1897–1937) Petrov (1903–1942)	The Twelve Chairs The Little Golden Calf	The Twelve Chairs Monument in Odessa.	Another view of the Twelve Chairs monument.
	Fazil Iskander (born 1929)	Chik and His Friends Sandro of Chegem The Gospel According to Chegem The Thirteenth Labour of Hercules	Iskander with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.	Abkhazian coin featuring Iskander.
	Alexei Ivanov (born 1969)
	Vsevolod Ivanov (1895–1963)	Fertility The Child

K

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Nikolay Karamzin (1766–1826)	Poor Liza	"Poor Liza", painting by Orest Kiprensky, 1827.	Stamp featuring Karamzin.
	Nikolay Karazin (1842–1908)	The Two-Legged Wolf From North to South	From North to South book cover.
	Nikolay Karonin-Petropavlovsky (1853–1892)	First Storm
	Vladimir Karpov (1922–2010)	The Commander
	Anna Kashina	In the Name of the Queen
	Ivan Kataev (1902-1937)	The Wife Immortality
	Valentin Kataev (1897–1986)	Time Forward! The Embezzlers A White Sail Gleams The Cottage in the Steppe
	Veniamin Kaverin (1902–1989)	Open Book The Two Captains The Unknown Artist
	Emmanuil Kazakevich (1913–1962)	Star: A Story The Blue Notebook
	Yury Kazakov (1927–1982)	Going To Town Adam and Eve
	Yuri Khanon (born 1965)	Skryabin As a Face Antedate Memories Alphonse, who didn't was	Erik Satie, “Antedate Memories”	“Alphonse, who didn't was”
	Daniil Kharms (1905–1942)	The Old Woman	Graffiti of Kharms on a wall in Kharkiv.	Caricature of Kharms by Antonovsky
	Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya (1824–1889)	The Boarding School Girl	Photograph, c1880s.	Engraving c1860s.
	Marusya Klimova (born 1961)		Klimova in 2006.
	Vsevolod Kochetov (1912-1973)	The Zhurbin Family What Do You Want Then?
	Ivan Kokorev (1825–1853)
	Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952)	Red Love A Great Love Love of Worker Bees	Soviet stamp featuring Kollontai.	Kollontai in her youth.
	Vladimir Korolenko (1853–1921)	Bad Company Makar's Dream The Blind Musician		The Korolenko Library in Kharkiv.
	Sofia Kovalevskaya (1859–1891)	Nihilist Girl	Bust of Kovalevskaya.	Commemorative coin.
	Vadim Kozhevnikov (1909–1984)	Shield and Sword
	Nadezhda Kozhevnikova (born 1949)	Attorney Alexandra Tikhonovna
	Eugene Kozlovsky (born 1946)
	Vsevolod Krestovsky (1840-1895)	Knights of Industry	Krestovsky, c1870.
	Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887–1950)	Quadraturin
	Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954)
	Aleksandr Kuprin (1870–1938)	The Duel Yama: The Pit The Bracelet of Garnets	A cartoon featuring Kuprin.	Photo of Kuprin.
	Andrey Kurkov (born 1961)	Death and the Penguin Penguin Lost
	Ivan Kushchevsky (1847–1876)	Nikolai Negorev	Portrait of Kushchevsky.
	Mikhail Kuzmin (1872–1936)	Wings	Portrait of Kuzmin by Alexander Golovin, 1910.	Photo of Kuzmin.
	Anatoly Kuznetsov (1929-1979)	Babi Yar

L

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Lazar Lagin (1903–1979)	The Old Genie Hottabych
	Yulia Latynina (born 1966)	The Insider
	Boris Lavrenyov (1891–1953)	The Forty-First The Heavenly Cap Such a Simple Thing The Courageous Heart
	Ivan Lazhechnikov (1792–1869)	The Heretic	Portrait of Lazhechnikov.
	Leonid Leonov (1899–1995)	The Badgers Soviet River The Thief The Russian Forest
	Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841)	A Hero of Our Time	Title page from the first edition of A Hero of Our Time, 1840.	Pechorin's Duel from A Hero of Our Time. Picture by Mikhail Vrubel.
	Nikolai Leskov (1831–1895)	Lefty The Sealed Angel The Enchanted Wanderer Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk		Drawing of Leskov.
	Alexander Levitov (1835–1877)	Leatherhide the Cobbler	Levitov, c1860s.
	Nikolay Leykin (1841–1906)	Our Folk Abroad	Photo of Leykin.
	Vladimir Lichutin (born 1940)
	Eduard Limonov (born 1943)	It's Me, Eddie His Butler's Story Memoir of a Russian Punk	At a book presentation, 2008.	With Garry Kasparov at the Dissenters March in St. Petersburg, 2008.
	Dmitri Lipskerov (born 1964)
	Sergey Lukyanenko (born 1968)	Night Watch Day Watch Twilight Watch Last Watch	Photo, 2001.
	Lev Lunts (1901–1924)	Native Land

M

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Grigori Machtet (1852–1901)
	Vladimir Makanin (born 1937)	Baize-Covered Table With Decanter
	Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak (1852–1912)	Verotchka's Tales A Gold Nugget The Privalov Fortune	Cover of Verotchka's Tales.	Title page of Verotchka's Tales.
	Anatoly Marienhof (1897–1962)	Cynics	With the poet Sergei Yesenin, 1915.
	Alexandra Marinina (born 1957)
	Boleslav Markevich (1822–1884)	The Turning Point
	Vladilen Mashkovtsev (1929–1997)
	Pavel Melnikov (1818–1883)
	Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1865–1941)	Christ and Antichrist (trilogy)	Merezhkovsky (right), with his wife Zinaida Gippius and friend Dmitry Filosofov.	Portrait by Repin, 1900.
	Daniil Mordovtsev (1830-1905)	The Tsar and the Hetman
	Viktor Muyzhel (1880-1924)	The Year
	Viktor Muravin (born 1929)	The Diary of Vikenty Angarov

N

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)	Mary The Defense The Gift Lolita	Playing chess with his wife Vera.	Nabokov's first publication.
	Yuri Nagibin (1920–1994)	The Pipe Arise and Walk
	Vasily Narezhny (1780–1825)	A Russian Gil Blas
	Nikolay Naumov (1838-1901)	Strength Breaks the Straw
	Andrei Navrozov (born 1956)
	Viktor Nekrasov (1911–1987)	Front-line Stalingrad Kira Georgievna
	Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko (1845-1936)	Peasant Tales of Russia
	Alexander Neverov (1886–1923)	City of Bread	Drawing of Neverov.
	Friedrich Neznansky (born 1932)	Red Square Night Wolves
	Nikolay Nosov (1908–1976)	Neznaika	Russian stamp featuring Neznaika.
	Alexey Novikov-Priboy (1877-1944)	Tsushima The Captain The Sea Beckons

O

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Vladimir Obruchev (1863–1956)	Plutonia Sannikov Land
	Olga Obukhova (born 1941)
	Vladimir Odoevsky (1803–1869)	Two Princesses The Living Corpse The Year 4338: Petersburg Letters	Odoevsky's dedication in a book he presented to Lermontov.	Odoevsky (at back), with the composers Mily Balakirev (left) and Mikhail Glinka. Painting by Repin.
	Bulat Okudzhava (1924–1997)	A Taste of Liberty Good-bye, Schoolboy! The Art of Needles and Sins		Stamp featuring Okudzhava.
	Yury Olesha (1899–1960)	Envy Three Fat Men The Cherry Pit	Olesha in 1958.
	Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936)	Born of the Storm How the Steel Was Tempered	Stamp featuring Ostrovsky.
	Mikhail Osorgin (1878-1942)	Quiet Street My Sister's Story
	Valentin Ovechkin (1904-1968)	Greetings from the Front

P

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Marina Palei (born 1955)	Rendezvous	Palei in Komarovo.
	Ivan Panaev (1812-1862)	Lions in the Provinces	Portrait by Levitsky, 1856.
	Avdotya Panaeva (1820-1893)	A Woman's Lot
	Vera Panova (1905–1973)	Seryozha Looking Ahead The Train Span of the Year	Plaque for Panova in St. Petersburg.
	Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)	Doctor Zhivago The Childhood of Luvers	Soviet Nobel Laureates in Literature.	Memorial plaque at Pasternak's birthplace in Moscow.
	Konstantin Paustovsky (1892–1968)	A Tale of Life (6 novel series)
	Pyotr Pavlenko (1899-1951)	Happiness Steppe Sunlight The Lost Son
	Oleg Pavlov (born 1970)
	Karolina Pavlova (1807–1893)	A Double Life	A drawing of Pavlova.
	Victor Pelevin (born 1962)	Omon Ra
	Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (born 1938)	Immortal Love
	Valentin Pikul (1928–1990)
	Boris Pilnyak (1894–1938)	The Naked Year The Death of the Army Commander The Volga Falls into the Caspian Sea
	Aleksey Pisemsky (1821–1881)	Nina The Simpleton One Thousand Souls An Old Man's Sin	Portrait of Pisemsky, c.1860.	Engraving of Pisemsky.
	Andrei Platonov (1899–1951)	Fro Dzhan The Foundation Pit
	Boris Polevoy (1908–1981)	He Came Back We Are Soviet People The Story of a Real Man
	Nikolay Pomyalovsky (1835–1863)	Seminary Sketches	An engraving of Pomyalovsky.
	Ignaty Potapenko (1856–1929)	A Russian Priest The General's Daughter	Potapenko (right), with Chekhov and Mamin-Sibiryak. c1895
	Dmitri Prigov (1940–2007)	Live in Moskow
	Zakhar Prilepin (born 1975)
	Alexander Prokhanov (born 1938)	Empire's Last Soldier
	Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837)	The Queen of Spades The Captain's Daughter	The first page from the serialized version of The Captain's Daughter.	Monument to Pushkin in Moscow.

R

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Alexander Radishchev (1749–1802)	Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow	Title page from the first edition, 1790.	Bust at the entrance of the Radishchev Art Museum in Saratov.
	Valentin Rasputin (born 1937)	Money for Maria Farewell to Matyora	Rasputin receiving an award from Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
	Aleksey Remizov (1877–1957)	The Clock The Indefatigable Cymbal
	Fyodor Reshetnikov (1841–1871)	The Podlipnayans	Drawing of Reshetnikov.
	Panteleimon Romanov (1884-1938)	Three Pairs of Silk Stockings Without Bird-Cherry Blossoms
	Mikhail Roshchin (1933-2010)	First Love Twenty Minutes or So The Devil's Wheel in Kobuleti
	Dina Rubina (born 1953)	The Blackthorn	Dina Rubina, 2007.
	Anatoly Rybakov (1911–1998)	Children of the Arbat Fear Dust and Ashes
	Vladimir Rybakov (born 1947)	Creature The Brand The Burden The Afghans
	Vyacheslav Rybakov (born 1954)	Artist The Trial Sphere
	Maria Rybakova (born 1973)

S

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Irina Saburova (1907-1979)	Because of the Violets
	German Sadulaev (born 1973)	I am a Chechen!
	Boris Savinkov (1879–1925)	The Pale Horse What Never Happened
	Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889)	Provincial Sketches The Golovlyov Family The History of a Town	Stamp featuring Shchedrin.	Saltykov-Schedrin Memorial House in Tver.
	Genrikh Sapgir (1928–1999)
	Sergey Semyonov (1868–1922)	Gluttons The Servant	Semyonov, c1900.
	Yulian Semyonov (1931–1993)	Seventeen Instants of Spring
	Alexander Serafimovich (1863–1949)	Sand Nikita The Iron Flood The Little Miner
	Sergey Sergeyev-Tsensky (1875–1958)	Brusilov's Break-Through
	Marietta Shaginyan (1888–1982)	Mess-Mend
	Varlam Shalamov (1907–1982)	The Kolyma Tales	Commemorative plaque at his birth house in Vologda.	From the Shalamov Memorial Museum in Vologda.
	Olga Shapir (1850-1916)	The Settlement
	Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874–1952)	Deborah
	Mikhail Shishkin (born 1961)		Portrait, 2006.	At the Tallinn Literature Festival, 2010,
	Vyacheslav Shishkov (1873-1945)	Children of Darkness
	Ivan Shmelyov (1873–1950)	The Stone Age
	Mikhail Sholokhov (1905–1984)	Virgin Soil Upturned And Quiet Flows the Don The Don Flows Home to the Sea	Soviet Nobel Laureates in Literature.
	Ilya Shtemler (born 1933)
	Vasily Shukshin (1929–1974)	Stories from a Siberian Village
	Konstantin Simonov (1915–1979)	Days and Nights The Living and the Dead	Photo of Simonov, 1943.	Illustration of Simonov.
	Andrei Sinyavsky (1925–1997)	Fantastic Stories
	Stepan Skitalets (1869–1941)	The Blacksmith The Love of a Scene Painter	With Maxim Gorky.	Skitalets (left) with fellow Sreda members.
	Vasily Sleptsov (1836–1878)	The Ward	An engraving of Sleptsov.
	Sofia Soboleva (1840-1884)	Pros and Cons
	Sasha Sokolov (born 1943)	A School for Fools
	Vladimir Sollogub (1813–1882)	The Snowstorm	Sollogub with fellow contributors to Sovremennik.
	Fyodor Sologub (1863–1927)	The Petty Demon The Created Legend	Sologub in 1913	Sologub and Anastasia Chebotarevskaya.
	Vladimir Soloukhin (1924–1997)	Verdict
	Leonid Solovyov (1906–1962)	Tale of Hodja Nasreddin
	Vsevolod Solovyov (1849–1903)
	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008)	The First Circle Cancer Ward The Red Wheel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich	Ivan Denisovich book cover.
	Orest Somov (1793–1833)	Mommy and Sonny
	Vladimir Sorokin (born 1955)	The Queue
	Konstantin Staniukovich (1843–1903)	Bobtail Maximka The Convict Running to the Shrouds	Photo of Stanyukovich.
Boris Strugatsky	Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Arkady (1925–1991) Boris (1933-2012)	Prisoners of Power The Kid from Hell Hard to Be a God Roadside Picnic
	Mikhail Sushkov (1775–1792)	The Russian Werther

T

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov (1885–1938)	Chocolate
	Nadezhda Teffi (1872–1952)	Time Strangers Close Friends	Teffi during World War 1.
	Nikolay Teleshov (1867–1957)	The Duel	Bust of Teleshov, 1956.	Teleshov with members of the Sreda, 1902.
	Vladimir Tendryakov (1923–1984)	Son-in-Law Three, Seven, Ace
	Sergey Terpigorev (1841-1895)	The Ice Broke
	Nikolay Tikhonov (1896–1979)	War
	Vladislav Titov (1934–1987)
	Tatyana Tolstaya (born 1951)	The Slynx White Walls
	Aleksey K. Tolstoy (1817–1875)	Prince Serebrenni	Portrait by Ilya Repin.	Monument to Tolstoy.
	Aleksey N. Tolstoy (1883–1945)	Buratino Aelita Peter the First The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin	Stamp featuring the character Buratino.
	Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)	The Cossacks War and Peace Anna Karenina The Death of Ivan Ilyich	The ninth draft of the beginning of War and Peace.	Title page of the first edition of Anna Karenina, 1878.
	Edward Topol (born 1938)	Red Square
	Yury Trifonov (1925–1981)	Another Life The Old Man The Disappearance The Long Good-Bye
	Gavriil Troyepolsky (1905–1995)	White Bim Black Ear
	Alexei Tsvetkov (born 1947)
	Evgenia Tur (1815–1892)	Antonina The Shalonski Family
	Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883)	A Sportsman's Sketches Home of the Gentry On the Eve Fathers and Sons	Title page of Fathers and Sons.	Portrait by Ilya Repin.
	Yury Tynyanov (1894–1943)	Lieutenant Kijé	Soviet poster for the film version of Lieutenant Kijé	[1]

U

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Anya Ulinich (born 1973)	Petropolis
	Lyudmila Ulitskaya (born 1943)	Sonechka The Funeral Party Medea and Her Children Daniel Stein
	Gleb Uspensky (1843–1902)	The Steam Chicken	Uspensky in his 20s, 1868.	Soviet stamp featuring Uspensky.
	Nikolay Uspensky (1837–1889)	Porridge The Village Schoolmaster

V

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Pyotr Valuyev (1815–1890)		Engraving of Valuev, 1865.
	Tatiana Vedenska (born 1976)
	Mikhail Veller (born 1948)	The Guru
	Alexander Veltman (1800–1870)	The Wanderer	Veltman, c1830.
	Anastasiya Verbitskaya (1861–1928)	The Keys to Happiness	Verbitskaya, c1900.
	Vikenty Veresaev (1867–1945)	Sisters The Deadlock In the Steppe	With Leonid Andreyev.	Painting of Veresayev by Sergey Malyutin, 1919.
	Lidia Veselitskaya (1857–1936)	Mimi's Marriage
	Nikolai Virta (1906-1976)	Alone
	Georgi Vladimov (1931–2003)	Faithful Ruslan
	Vladimir Voinovich (born 1932)	Moscow 2042 Private Ivan Chonkin
	Zinaida Volkonskaya (1792-1862)	The Dream: A Letter
	Alexander Volkov (1891–1977)	The Wizard of the Emerald City
	Marko Vovchok (1833–1907)	Ukrainian Folk Tales	Ukrainian stamp featuring Vovchok.
	Julia Voznesenskaya (born 1940)	The Women's Decameron

Y

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Alexander Yakovlev (1886–1953)	The Peasant
	Alexander Yashin (1913–1968)	A Feast of Rowan Berries
	Ivan Yefremov (1908–1972)	Andromeda Razor's Edge The Bull's Hour The Land of Foam
	Dmitri Yemets (born 1974)	Tanya Grotter series
	Venedict Yerofeyev (1938-1990)	Moscow-Petushki
	Yevgeny Yevtushenko (born 1933)	Wild Berries	On the right, with Richard Nixon
	Semyon Yushkevich (1868–1927)		On the right with Yevgeny Chirikov.

Z

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Mikhail Zagoskin (1789–1852)	Tales of Three Centuries	Engraving of Zagoskin.
	Sergey Zalygin (1913–2000)	The South American Variant
	Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937)	We A Provincial Tale	A Provincial Tale book cover.	Zamyatin, c.1919.
	Boris Zaytsev (1881–1972)	Anna
	Yulia Zhadovskaya (1824-1883)	The Backward Girl
	Vera Zhelikhovsky (1835–1896)	The General's Will
	Maria Zhukova (1804–1855)	Evenings on the Karpovka
	Zinovy Zinik (born 1945)	The Mushroom-Picker
	Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866–1907)	The Tragic Menagerie
	Nikolay Zlatovratsky (1845–1911)	Old Shadows
	Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895–1958)	The Galosh Scenes from the Bathhouse	In uniform. 1915/16	Stamp featuring Zoshchenko.

See also

• List of Russian-language playwrights
• List of Russian-language poets
• Russian literature
• Russian language
• Russian culture

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