A - Chinghiz Aitmatov, author
- Anna Akhmatova, poet
- Bella Akhmadulina, poet
- Sholem Aleichem (Russian:Шолом-Алейхем)
- Ivan Aksakov, poet
- Konstantin Aksakov, poet
- Sergey Aksakov (1791–1859), novelist and miscellaneous writer
- Vasily Aksyonov, author
- Boris Akunin (born 1956), author, essayist, translator, literary critic
- Mark Aldanov, author
- Aleksandr Amfiteatrov (1862–1938), novelist.
- Leonid Andreyev, author, Judas Iscariot
- Daniil Andreyev, Rose of the World
- Pavel Annenkov, publicist
- Innokenty Annensky, poet
- Alexei Apukhtin, poet
- Mikhail Artsybashev, author
- Nikolai Aseyev, poet
- Viktor Astafyev, author
- Lera Auerbach (Averbakh), poet and author
- Arkady Averchenko, playwright
- Gennadiy Aygi (1934–2006), author, translator
B - Isaac Babel (1894–1940), author
- Pavel Bazhov, fair tales author, The Malachite Casket
- Mikhail Bakhtin, philosopher
- Mikhail Bakunin, anarchist
- Konstantin Balmont, poet
- Evgeny Baratynsky, poet
- Natalya Baranskaya, author, "A Week Like Any Other"
- Ivan Barkov, poet
- Konstantin Batyushkov, poet
- Demyan Bedny, poet
- Aleksandr Bek (1903–1972), author
- Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848), writer, literary critic and philosopher
- Andrei Bely (1880–1934), poet and author, Petersburg
- Alexander Belyayev (1884–1942), science fiction author
- Olga Berggolts, poet
- Aleksei Bibik (1878–1976), working-class writer
- Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891) "The Secret Doctrine", "Isis Unveiled"
- Alexander Blok, poet
- Alexander Bogdanov, novelist, physician, economist, and philosopher, Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia
- Vladimir Bogoraz, writer
- Valeri Brainin-Passek
- Osip Brik
- Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996), poet and essayist, Nobel Prize Winner
- Valery Bryusov (1873–1924), poet and author, The Fiery Angel
- Vladimir Bukovsky (born 1942), writer and dissident
- Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940), playwright and author, Master and Margarita
- Faddey Bulgarin, writer and journalist
- Kir Bulychev (1934–2003), science fiction author
- Ivan Bunin (1870–1953), first Russian Nobel Prize Winner
- David Burlyuk, poet
C - Dimitrie Cantemir
- Pyotr Chaadaev, philosopher
- Nikolai Chernyshevsky,
- Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), short stories author and playwright,The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, The Seagull
- Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828–1889), writer, journalist, politician
- Sasha Chorny, poet
- Korney Chukovsky
- Lydia Chukovskaya
- Georgy Chulkov, poet
D - Denis Davydov, poet
- Vladimir Dal, writer and lexicographer
- Grigory Danilevsky, writer
- Anton Delvig, poet
- Gavrila Derzhavin, poet
- Yury Dombrovsky, author
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), novelist, Crime and Punishment,The Idiot, Notes From Underground, The Brothers Karamazov
- Sergei Dovlatov, author
- Nadezhda Durova, writer
- Osip Dymov, writer
E - Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967), novelist and WWII war correspondent
- Natan Eidelman
- Victor Erofeyev
F - Aleksander Fadeev (1901–1956). The Young Guard.
- Konstantin Fedin
- Afanasy Fet, poet
- Vera Figner,
- Denis Fonvizin (1744–1792), dramatist
- Dmitry Furmanov, Chapayev
G - Arkady Gaidar (Arkady Gaydar) (1904–1941)
- Vsevolod Garshin, writer
- Mikhail Gerasimov (poet), worker-poet (1889–1939)
- Vladimir Gilyarovsky, writer and poet
- Lydia Ginzburg
- Yevgenia Ginzburg, memoirist
- Zinaida Gippius, essayist, memoirist, author
- Fyodor Glinka, poet and playwright
- Nikolai Gnedich, poet
- Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), prose writer and dramatist. One of the major Russian writers.
- Arseniy Golenishchev-Kutuzov, poet
- Boris Golovin, writer, poet and signer
- Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891), novelist. One of the major Russian writers.
- Natalya Gorbanevskaya (born 1936), poet
- Maxim Gorky (1868–1936), novelist, My Universities, Mother
- Sergei Gorodetsky, poet
- Daniil Granin (born 1918), novelist, Bison (Zubr)
- Aleksandr Griboyedov (1795–1828), dramatist and statesman
- Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian rock band Aquarium
- Dmitry Grigorovich
- Apollon Grigoryev, poet and critic
- Alexander Grin, author, Alye Parusa
- Vasily Grossman, novelist, Life and Fate
- Vitali Gubarev (1912–1981), journalist and writer
- Igor Guberman, satirist
- Lev Gumilev, historian
- Nikolay Gumilyov, poet
H - Alexander Herzen, essayist, philosopher
I - Ilya Ilf with Yevgeni Petrov, satirist, The Twelve Chairs, The Golden Calf
- Fazil Iskander, (born 1929), novelist
- Georgy Ivanov, poet and writer
- Vsevolod Ivanov, author
- Vyacheslav Ivanov, poet and playwright
K - Vasily Kamensky, poet
- Nikolay Karamzin (1766–1826), poet, author, historian
- Ivan Kasatkin, writer and poet
- Lev Kassil
- Valentin Kataev
- Pavel Katenin, poet and playwright
- Mikhail Katkov, publicist
- Daniil Kharms, absurdist
- Velimir Khlebnikov, futurist poet and author
- Vladislav Khodasevich, poet
- Ivan Kireyevsky, writer
- Nikolai Klyuyev, poet
- Alexei Koltsov, poet
- Mikhail Koltsov, journalist and satirist
- Lev Kopelev
- Vladimir Korolenko, writer
- Arkady Kots, poet
- Ivan Kozlov, poet
- Peter Kropotkin, anarchist theorist
- Ivan Krylov (1769–1844), writer of fables and dramatist
- Anatoly Kudryavitsky, poet and novelist
- Nestor Kukolnik, playwright and poet
- Aleksandr Kuprin, Duel
- Wilhelm Küchelbecker, poet
- Mikhail Kuzmin (1872–1936)
- Gleb Krzhizhanovsky, poet
L - Lazar Lagin
- Yulia Latynina
- Peter Lavrovich Lavrov (1823–1900), socialist and revolutionist
- Leonid Leonov
- Konstantin Leontyev, writer
- Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841), poet, playwright and novelist. One of the major Russian writers.
- Nikolai Leskov (1831–1895), storyteller, novelist, and journalist,Lady MacBeth of the Mtensk District
- Eduard Limonov
- Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), linguistic reformer
- Anatoly Lunacharsky, journalist and publicist
| M - Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak
- Nadezhda Mandelstam
- Osip Mandelstam, poet
- Alexandra Marinina
- Vladimir Mayakovsky, futurist poet
- Pavel Melnikov, writer
- Dmitry Merezhkovsky, poet, founder of the Symbolist movement in Russia
- Lev Mey, poet
- Nikolai Minsky, poet
- Mikhail Mikhailov, poet
- Nikolai Mikhailovsky, publicist and critic
- Nikolai Morozov, poet
N - Nikolai Nadezhdin, critic
- Semen Nadson, poet
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), poet and novelist, wrote first in Russian, then in English, author of Lolita
- Vladimir Narbut, (1888 – 1944 or 1938]), poet
- Sergey Narovchatov, (1919–1981)
- Nikolay Nekrasov, poet
- Viktor Nekrasov, In trenches of Stalingrad
- Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, theatre director, writer, and playwright
- Ivan Nikitin, poet
- Valery Nikolayevsky, historical writer, poet
- Nikolay Nosov
O - Vladimir Obruchev, writer
- Vladimir Odoevsky, writer
- Nikolay Ogarev (1813–1877), poet
- Yury Olesha, satirist
- Aleksandr Ostrovsky, playwright
- Nikolai Ostrovsky
- Vladislav Ozerov, playwright
P - Valentin Parnakh, poet and founder of Russian Jazz music
- Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), poet and novelist, was not permitted by USSR to accept the Nobel Prize, Doctor Zhivago
- Pyotr Patrushev
- Konstantin Paustovsky, author
- Nikolai Pavlov, writer and poet
- Karolina Pavlova, poet
- Vladimir Pecherin, poet
- Victor Pelevin (born 1962), novelist, Omon Ra
- Yakov Perelman
- Yevgeni Petrov, wrote with Ilya Ilf, The Twelve Chairs, The Golden Calf
- Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, author
- Boris Pilnyak
- Dimitri Pisarev, critic and publicist
- Aleksey Pisemsky (1821–1881), novelist and dramatist.
- Andrei Platonov, author, Chevengur
- Pyotr Pletnyov, poet
- Georgy Plekhanov, revolutionary and a Marxist theoretician
- Aleksey Plescheev, poet
- Mikhail Pogodin, journalist and writer
- Nikolai Polevoy, critic and writer
- Yakov Polonsky, poet
- Nikolay Pomyalovsky, writer
- Mikhail Prishvin, writer
- Kozma Prutkov, satirist, pseudonym of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
- Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), poet, novelist and dramatist. Considered to be the greatest Russian poet of all time. Eugene Onegin
- Vasily Pushkin, poet
R - Alexander Radishchev (1749–1802), social critic
- Ayn Rand (1905–1982), American novelist and philosopher born inSt. Petersburg, Russia
- Valentin Rasputin, author, Farewell to Matyora
- Irina Ratushinskaya
- Aleksey Remizov (1877–1957), modernist writer, calligrapher and folklore enthusiast
- Fyodor Reshetnikov, writer
- Robert Rozhdestvensky (1932-1994), writer
- Helena Roerich (1879–1949)
- Yevdokiya Rostopchina, poet and writer
- Vasily Rozanov, writer
- Anatoly Rybakov, writer
- Vyacheslav Rybakov
- Kondratiy Ryleyev, poet
- Yuri Rytkheu (b. 1930), from the Arctic Chukotka Peninsula
S - Genrikh Sapgir (1928-1999), poet and novelist
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889), satirist
- Sergei Semyonov, writer
- Osip Senkovsky, writer
- Alexander Serafimovich, novelist, The Iron Flood
- Sergei Sergeyev-Tsensky, writer and academician
- Efraim Sevela
- Igor Severyanin, poet
- Marietta Shaginyan (1888-1982), Russian writer of Armenian descent.
- Varlam Shalamov (1907–1982), author of tales about Gulag
- Vadim Shefner
- Vadim Shershenevich, poet
- Mikhail Shishkin
- Ivan Shmelyov, writer
- Mikhail Sholokhov, (1905-1984) novelist, And Quiet Flows the Don
- Vasily Shukshin
- Pavel Shumil, science fiction author
- Konstantin Simonov
- Andrei Sinyavsky
- Konstantin Sluchevsky, poet
- Boris Slutsky
- Vladimir Sollogub, writer and poet
- Fyodor Sologub, poet, dramatist and novelist, The Petty Demon
- Leonid Solovyov
- Vladimir Solovyov,
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (born 1918), author, Nobel Prize for Literature, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Orest Somov, poet
- Vladimir Sorokin
- Dmitry Strelnikov, poet, essayist, novelist
- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
- Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin, playwright
- Alexander Sumarokov
- Mikhail Sushkov
- Alexei Suvorin, publicist
- Viktor Suvorov (born 1947)
T - Yevgeniy Tarasov, poet
- Nadezhda Teffi
- Vladimir Tendryakov
- Pyotr Tkachyov, publicist and critic
- Viktoriya Tokareva, author
- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817–1875), poet, dramatist and novelist.
- Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1882–1945), novelist
- Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) novelist, War and Peace, Anna Karenina
- Tatyana Tolstaya, essayist, novelist
- Vasily Trediakovsky
- Gavriil Troyepolsky, novelist, White Bim Black Ear
- Marina Tsvetaeva, poetess
- Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883), novelist and dramatist. One of the major Russian writers.
- Aleksandr Tvardovsky
- Yury Tynyanov
- Fyodor Tyutchev
U - Lyudmila Ulitskaya
- Gleb Uspensky (1843-1902), writer
V - Mikhail Veller
- Dmitry Venevitinov, poet
- Vladimir Voinovich, satirist
- Maximilian Voloshin, poet
- Marko Vovchok, writer
- Pyotr Vyazemsky, poet
Y - Nikolai Yazykov, poet
- Pyotr Yakubovich, poet and writer
- Ivan Yefremov, science fiction
- Nicholas Yermakov (birth name of Simon Hawke)
- Venedict Yerofeyev
- Pyotr Yershov
- Sergei Yesenin, poet
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Z - Nikolay Zabolotsky
- Mikhail Zagoskin, writer
- Boris Zaitsev, writer
- Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937), author of We
- Iuliia Valerianovna Zhadovskaia
- Boris Zhitkov
- Vasily Zhukovsky, poet
- Mikhail Zoshchenko, satirist
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