List of Russian-language novelists

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"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.

Alphabetical list[edit]

A[edit]

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Narine Abgaryan
(b.1971)
Three Apples Fell From the Sky
Manyunya
Fyodor Abramov
(1920–1983)
The New Life
Wooden Horses
Two Winters and Three Summers
Memorial plaque in St. Petersburg
M. Ageyev
(1898–1973)
Novel with Cocaine
First edition cover
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
The Fire Flower
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
Yury Annenkov
(1889–1974)
A Tale of Trivia
Annenkov's 1917 self-portrait
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)
My name is Woman
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
The Cursed and the Slain
Vladimir Putin speaking with Astafyev's widow, 2004
Arkady Averchenko
(1881–1925)
Ninochka
Drawing of Averchenko
Averchenko, c. 1905

B[edit]

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Isaak Babel
(1894–1940)
Red Cavalry
The 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 Box
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
The New Appointment
Andrei Bely
(1880–1934)
Petersburg
Kotik Letaev
The Silver Dove
Moscow
First edition of Petersburg, 1916
First edition of The Silver Dove, 1910
Alexander Belyaev
(1884–1942)
Professor Dowell's Head
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
(1937–2018)
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
(1924–2020)
Silence
The Shore
The Hot Snow
Leonid Borodin
(1938–2011)
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[edit]

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Aleksey Chapygin
(1870–1937)
Stepan Razin
Stepan Razin, picture by Kustodiev
Sergei Charchoun
(1888–1975)
Dolgolikov
Lidia Charskaya
(1875–1938)
Princess Dzhavakha
Charskaya, c. 1910
Alexander Chekhov
(1855–1913)
The Chekhov family
Alexander's son Michael Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
(1860–1904)
A Dreary Story
Ward No. 6
The Duel
Peasants
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[edit]

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, c. 1890
Dmitryeva, 1895
Leonid Dobychin
(1894–1936)
The Town of N
Encounters with Lise
First edition cover
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[edit]

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Ilya Ehrenburg
(1891–1967)
Julio Jurenito
The Thaw
Julio Jurenito
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, c. 1890
Mikhail Evstafiev
(born 1963)
Two Steps from Heaven

F[edit]

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Alexander Fadeyev
(1901–1956)
The Rout
The Young Guard
Soviet stamp featuring Fadeyev
Konstantin Fedin
(1892–1977)
Early Joys
The Conflagration
Cities and Years
No Ordinary Summer
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[edit]

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
Gaito Gazdanov
(1903–1971)
An Evening with Claire
Night Roads
The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
First edition of An Evening with Claire
Yuri German
(1910–1967)
Ivan Lapshin
The Cause You Serve
Zinaida Gippius
(1869–1945)
The Devil's Doll
Roman-Tzarevich
Portrait by Ilya Repin
Anatoly Gladilin
(1935–2018)
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
Title page of Oblomov
Title page of The Precipice
Maxim Gorky
(1868–1936)
Mother
Through Russia
Stories of 1922–1924
The Artamonov Business
The Life of Klim Samgin
With Leo Tolstoy
First publication of The Life of Klim Samgin in Krasnaya Nov, 1927
Nina Gorlanova
(born 1947)
Daniil Granin
(1919–2017)
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
On the Edge of Magellanic Clouds
The World According to Novikoff
Andrei Gusev in Moscow, 2009
Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky
(1867–1963)
The Land of the Fathers
The Land of the Children

H[edit]

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

I[edit]

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 Odesa
Another view of the Twelve Chairs monument
Fazil Iskander
(1929–2016)
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)
Armoured Train 14-69
U
The Kremlin
The Secret of Secrets

K[edit]

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
Caricature of Kharms by Antonovsky
Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya
(1824–1889)
The Boarding School Girl
Photograph, c. 1880s
Engraving c. 1860s
Sofia Khvoshchinskaya
(1824–1865)
City Folk and Country Folk
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, c. 1870
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[edit]

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 Pyramid
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)
The Cathedral Folk
The Sealed Angel
The Enchanted Wanderer
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Drawing of Leskov
Alexander Levitov
(1835–1877)
Leatherhide the Cobbler
Levitov, c. 1860s
Nikolay Leykin
(1841–1906)
Our Folk Abroad
Photo of Leykin
Vladimir Lichutin
(born 1940)
Eduard Limonov
(1943–2020)
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[edit]

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Grigori Machtet
(1852–1901)
Vladimir Makanin
(1937–2017)
Baize-Covered Table With Decanter
Osip Mandelstam
(1891–1938)
The Egyptian Stamp
Mandelstam after arrest in 1934
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[edit]

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Monument to Nabokov at Montreux. Vladimir Nabokov
(1899–1977)
Mary
The Defense
The Gift
Lolita
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
(1932–2013)
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[edit]

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Vladimir Obruchev
(1863–1956)
Plutonia
Sannikov Land
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
1929 edition of Envy
Vladimir Orlov
(1936–2014)
Danilov, the Violist
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[edit]

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
(1970–2018)
Karolina Pavlova
(1807–1893)
A Double Life
A drawing of Pavlova
Victor Pelevin
(born 1962)
Omon Ra
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
(born 1938)
The Time: Night
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)
Chevengur
Dzhan
The Foundation Pit
Happy Moscow
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. c. 1895
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

R[edit]

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Alexander Radishchev
(1749–1802)
Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow
Title page from the first edition, 1790
Valentin Rasputin
(1937–2015)
Money for Maria
Farewell to Matyora
Rasputin receiving an award from Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
Aleksey Remizov
(1877–1957)
The Clock
Sisters of the Cross
The History of the Tinkling Cymbal and Sounding Brass
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
(1947–2018)
Creature
The Brand
The Burden
The Afghans
Vyacheslav Rybakov
(born 1954)
Artist
The Trial Sphere
Maria Rybakova
(born 1973)

S[edit]

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Irina Saburova
(1907–1979)
Because of the Violets
German Sadulaev
(born 1973)
I am a Chechen!
Ilya Salov
(1834–1902)
Butuzka
Boris Savinkov
(1879–1925)
The Pale Horse
What Never Happened
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
(1826–1889)
The Golovlyov Family
The History of a Town
Modern Idyll
Old Years in Poshekhonye
Title page of the first edition of The Golovlyov Family
Ugryum-Burcheyev from The History of a Town
Genrikh Sapgir
(1928–1999)
Sergey Semyonov
(1868–1922)
Gluttons
The Servant
Semyonov, c. 1900
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
From the Shalamov Memorial Museum in Vologda
Olga Shapir
(1850–1916)
The Settlement
Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik
(1874–1952)
Deborah
Alexander Sheller
(1838–1900)
Putrid Moors
Mikhail Shishkin
(born 1961)
In 2006
In 2010
Vyacheslav Shishkov
(1873–1945)
Children of Darkness
Ivan Shmelyov
(1873–1950)
The Stone Age
Mikhail Sholokhov
(1905–1984)
And Quiet Flows the Don
Mikhail Sholokhov
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
In 1967
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[edit]

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
[1]

U[edit]

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Anya Ulinich
(born 1973)
Petropolis
Pavel Ulitin
(1918–1986)
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[edit]

Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration
Pyotr Valuyev
(1815–1890)
Engraving of Valuev, 1865
Konstantin Vaginov
(1899–1934)
Goat Song
Works and Days of Svistonov
First edition cover of Goat Song
Tatiana Vedenska
(born 1976)
Mikhail Veller
(born 1948)
The Guru
Alexander Veltman
(1800–1870)
The Wanderer
Veltman, c. 1830
Anastasiya Verbitskaya
(1861–1928)
The Keys to Happiness
Verbitskaya, c. 1900
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
Igor Vishnevetsky
(born 1964)
Leningrad
Non-Elective Affinities
Nikolai Virta
(1906–1976)
Alone
Georgi Vladimov
(1931–2003)
Faithful Ruslan
Vladimir Voinovich
(1932–2018)
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
(1940–2015)
The Women's Decameron
Alexander Vvedensky
(1904–1941)
Murderers You are Fools
Vvedensky after arrest in 1941

Y[edit]

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
(1933–2017)
Wild Berries
On the right, with Richard Nixon
Semyon Yushkevich
(1868–1927)
On the right with Yevgeny Chirikov

Z[edit]

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
Ilia Zdanevich
(1894–1975)
Rapture
Yulia Zhadovskaya
(1824–1883)
The Backward Girl
Vera Zhelikhovsky
(1835–1896)
The General's Will
Boris Zhitkov
(1882–1938)
Viktor Vavich
First edition of Viktor Vavich
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)
Youth Restored
Blue Book
Before Sunrise
Before Sunrise

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ The well-known M*A*S*H episode about Captain Tuttle has a storyline based on Lieutenant Kijé.