List of Russian-language novelists
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.

"Russian Writers" by Sergei Levitsky, 1856
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Narine Abgaryan (b.1971)  | 
Three Apples Fell From the Sky Manyunya  | 
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| Fyodor Abramov (1920–1983)  | 
The New Life Wooden Horses Two Winters and Three Summers  | 
![]() Memorial plaque in St. Petersburg  | 
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| M. Ageyev (1898–1973)  | 
Novel with Cocaine | ![]() First edition cover  | 
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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)  | 
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David Aizman (1869–1922)  | 
The Countrymen | ||
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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  | 
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Boris Akunin (born 1956)  | 
Erast Fandorin series Nicholas Fandorin series Sister Pelagia series  | 
![]() Akunin at the HeadRead literary festival, 2011  | 
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Mikhail Albov (1851–1911)  | 
On the New Road | ||
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Yuz Aleshkovsky (born 1929)  | 
The Hand Kangaroo  | 
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Alexander Amfiteatrov (1862–1938)  | 
Napoleonder  The Fire Flower  | 
![]() Painting of Napoleon by David, 1812  | |
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Daniil Andreyev (1906–1959)  | 
Roza Mira | ![]() Daniil's parents Leonid Andreyev and Countess Anna Wielhorska  | 
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Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919)  | 
Darkness The Abyss The Red Laugh The Seven Who Were Hanged  | 
![]() 1909 book cover  | 
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Yury Annenkov (1889–1974)  | 
A Tale of Trivia | ![]() Annenkov's 1917 self-portrait  | 
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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  | 
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Maria Arbatova (born 1957)  | 
My name is Woman | ![]() Maria Arbatova in 2009  | 
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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  | 
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Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925)  | 
Ninochka | ![]() Drawing of Averchenko  | 
![]() Averchenko, c. 1905  | 
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Isaak Babel (1894–1940)  | 
Red Cavalry The Odessa Tales  | 
![]() Red Cavalry poster, 1919  | 
![]() Red Cavalry poster, 1920  | 
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Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009)  | 
The Foothold Forever Nineteen South of the Main Offensive  | 
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| Natalya Baranskaya (1908–2004)  | 
A Week Like Any Other | |||
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Pavel Bazhov (1879–1950)  | 
The Malachite Box | ![]() Commemorative coin featuring Bazhov  | 
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Dmitry Begichev (1786–1855)  | 
The Kholmsky Family | ||
| Alexander Bek (1903–1972)  | 
And Not to Die The Story of an Inventor The New Appointment  | 
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Andrei Bely (1880–1934)  | 
Petersburg Kotik Letaev The Silver Dove Moscow  | 
![]() First edition of Petersburg, 1916  | 
![]() First edition of The Silver Dove, 1910  | 
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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  | 
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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? | |||
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Aleksei Bibik (1878–1976)  | 
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Andrei Bitov (1937–2018)  | 
Pushkin House The Monkey Link Life in Windy Weather A Captive of the Caucasus  | 
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| Nikolai Blagoveshchensky (1837–1889)  | 
Before the Dawn | |||
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Pyotr Boborykin (1836–1921)  | 
China Town | ||
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Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928)  | 
Red Star | ![]() A drawing of Bogdanov  | 
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| Vladimir Bogomolov (1926–2003)  | 
Ivan The Moment of Truth  | 
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| Yuri Bondarev (1924–2020)  | 
Silence The Shore The Hot Snow  | 
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| Leonid Borodin (1938–2011)  | 
Partings The Third Truth The Story of a Strange Time The Year of Miracle and Grief  | 
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Valery Bryusov (1873–1924)  | 
The Fiery Angel The Republic of the Southern Cross  | 
![]() A drawing of Bryusov  | 
![]() An Armenian stamp featuring Bryusov  | 
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Yury Buida (born 1954)  | 
The Zero Train The Prussian Bride Sinbad the Sailor  | 
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Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940)  | 
The White Guard The Master and Margarita Heart of a Dog The Fatal Eggs  | 
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Kir Bulychev (1934–2003)  | 
Half a Life Great Gusliar Earth and Elsewhere Alisa Selezneva  | 
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Ivan Bunin (1870–1953)  | 
Dry Valley The Village Dark Avenues The Life of Arseniev  | 
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| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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Aleksey Chapygin (1870–1937)  | 
Stepan Razin | ![]() Stepan Razin, picture by Kustodiev  | 
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| Sergei Charchoun (1888–1975)  | 
Dolgolikov | |||
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Lidia Charskaya (1875–1938)  | 
Princess Dzhavakha | ![]() Charskaya, c. 1910  | 
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Alexander Chekhov (1855–1913)  | 
![]() The Chekhov family  | 
![]() Alexander's son Michael Chekhov  | |
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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  | 
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Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828–1889)  | 
What Is to Be Done? | ![]() Title page of What Is to Be Done?  | 
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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 | |||
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Georgy Chulkov (1879–1939)  | 
![]() Chulkov (left), with fellow Soviet writers  | 
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| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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| Yuli Daniel (1925–1988)  | 
This is Moscow Speaking | |||
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Grigory Danilevsky (1829–1890)  | 
Moscow in Flames The Princess Tarakanova  | 
![]() Moscow in Flames  | 
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Grigoriy Demidovtsev (born 1960)  | 
Certificate of membership in the Union of Russian Writers  | 
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Valentina Dmitryeva (1859–1947)  | 
Hveska, The Doctor's Watchman | ![]() Dmitryeva, c. 1890  | 
![]() Dmitryeva, 1895  | 
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Leonid Dobychin (1894–1936)  | 
The Town of N Encounters with Lise  | 
![]() First edition cover  | 
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Yury Dombrovsky (1909–1978)  | 
The Faculty of Useless Knowledge The Keeper of Antiquities  | 
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Vlas Doroshevich (1864–1922)  | 
Legends and Stories of the East | ![]() Doroshevich c.1910  | 
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Lyubov Dostoyevskaya (1869–1926)  | 
The Emigrant | ![]() Anna Dostoyevskaya (wife of Fyodor Dostoyevsky) with their daughter Lyubov and son Fyodor  | 
![]() Anna Dostoyevskaya  | 
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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  | 
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Mikhail Dostoyevsky (1820–1864)  | 
![]() Vremya (Time), the paper published by Fyodor and Mikhail Dostoyevsky  | 
![]() Portrait, 1870  | |
| Sergei Dovlatov (1941–1990)  | 
The Zone Affiliate  | 
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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  | 
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| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967)  | 
Julio Jurenito The Thaw  | 
![]() Julio Jurenito  | 
![]() Photo of Ehrenburg  | 
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Sergey Elpatyevsky (1854–1933)  | 
Pity Me! The Homeless Ones  | 
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Asar Eppel (1935–2012)  | 
The Grassy Street Red Caviar Sandwiches  | 
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Victor Erofeyev (born 1947)  | 
Russian Beauty Life with an Idiot  | 
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Alexander Ertel (1855–1908)  | 
The Specialist A Greedy Peasant  | 
![]() Ertel, c. 1890  | 
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| Mikhail Evstafiev (born 1963)  | 
Two Steps from Heaven | |||
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| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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| Alexander Fadeyev (1901–1956)  | 
The Rout The Young Guard  | 
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| Konstantin Fedin (1892–1977)  | 
Early Joys The Conflagration Cities and Years No Ordinary Summer  | 
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| Olga Forsh (1873–1961)  | 
Palace and Prison Pioneers of Freedom  | 
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Dmitry Furmanov (1891–1926)  | 
Chapayev | ![]() Photo of Vasily Chapayev  | 
![]() Soviet stamp featuring Vasily Chapayev  | 
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| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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| Arkady Gaidar (1904–1941)  | 
Chuk and Gek The Blue Cup Timur and his Gang  | 
![]() Soviet stamp featuring Gaidar  | 
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Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky (1852–1906)  | 
Practical Training | ![]() Portrait by Israel Pass, 1905  | 
![]() Bas-relief dedication at the Laspi Pass  | 
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Vsevolod Garshin (1855–1888)  | 
Four Days The Red Flower  | 
![]() The Red Flower  | 
![]() Photo of Garshin, 1877  | 
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Gaito Gazdanov (1903–1971)  | 
An Evening with Claire Night Roads The Spectre of Alexander Wolf  | 
![]() First edition of An Evening with Claire  | 
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| Yuri German (1910–1967)  | 
Ivan Lapshin The Cause You Serve  | 
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Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945)  | 
The Devil's Doll Roman-Tzarevich  | 
![]() Portrait by Ilya Repin  | 
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Anatoly Gladilin (1935–2018)  | 
Moscow Racetrack | ![]() Gladilin in Moscow, 2011  | 
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Fyodor Gladkov (1883–1958)  | 
Cement Restless Youth  | 
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Dmitry Glukhovsky (born 1979)  | 
Metro 2033 | ||
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Pyotr Gnedich (1855–1925)  | 
The Burden of this World | ||
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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  | 
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Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891)  | 
A Common Story Oblomov The Precipice  | 
![]() Title page of Oblomov  | 
![]() Title page of The Precipice  | 
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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)  | 
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Daniil Granin (1919–2017)  | 
Into the Storm Those Who Seek  | 
![]() With Dmitry Medvedev, 2009  | 
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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  | |
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Isabella Grinevskaya (1864–1944)  | 
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| Vasily Grossman (1905–1964)  | 
The Road Life and Fate Forever Flowing  | 
![]() Memorial plaque in Donetsk  | 
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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  | 
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Andrei Gusev (born 1952)  | 
With Chronos' Permit On the Edge of Magellanic Clouds The World According to Novikoff  | 
![]()  Andrei Gusev in Moscow, 2009  | 
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Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky (1867–1963)  | 
The Land of the Fathers The Land of the Children  | 
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Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)  | 
Who is to Blame? | ![]() Statue of Herzen in Moscow  | 
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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  | |
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Alexei Ivanov (born 1969)  | 
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Vsevolod Ivanov (1895–1963)  | 
Armoured Train 14-69 U The Kremlin The Secret of Secrets  | 
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Nikolay Karamzin (1766–1826)  | 
Poor Liza | ![]() Poor Liza, painting by Orest Kiprensky, 1827  | 
![]() Stamp featuring Karamzin  | 
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Nikolay Karazin (1842–1908)  | 
The Two-Legged Wolf From North to South  | 
![]() From North to South book cover  | 
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Nikolay Karonin-Petropavlovsky (1853–1892)  | 
First Storm | ||
| Vladimir Karpov (1922–2010)  | 
The Commander | |||
| Anna Kashina | In the Name of the Queen | |||
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Ivan Kataev (1902–1937)  | 
The Wife Immortality  | 
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| Valentin Kataev (1897–1986)  | 
Time Forward! The Embezzlers A White Sail Gleams The Cottage in the Steppe  | 
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| Veniamin Kaverin (1902–1989)  | 
Open Book The Two Captains The Unknown Artist  | 
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| Emmanuil Kazakevich (1913–1962)  | 
Star: A Story The Blue Notebook  | 
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| Yury Kazakov (1927–1982)  | 
Going To Town Adam and Eve  | 
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Yuri Khanon (born 1965)  | 
Skryabin As a Face Antedate Memories Alphonse, who didn't was  | 
![]() Erik Satie, "Antedate Memories"  | 
![]() “Alphonse, who didn't was"  | 
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Daniil Kharms (1905–1942)  | 
The Old Woman | ![]() Graffiti of Kharms on a wall in Kharkiv  | 
![]() Caricature of Kharms by Antonovsky  | 
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Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya (1824–1889)  | 
The Boarding School Girl | ![]() Photograph, c. 1880s  | 
![]() Engraving c. 1860s  | 
| Sofia Khvoshchinskaya (1824–1865)  | 
City Folk and Country Folk | |||
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Marusya Klimova (born 1961)  | 
![]() Klimova in 2006  | 
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| Vsevolod Kochetov (1912–1973)  | 
The Zhurbin Family What Do You Want Then?  | 
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| Ivan Kokorev (1825–1853)  | 
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| Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952)  | 
Red Love A Great Love Love of Worker Bees  | 
![]() Soviet stamp featuring Kollontai  | 
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Vladimir Korolenko (1853–1921)  | 
Bad Company Makar's Dream The Blind Musician  | 
![]() The Korolenko Library in Kharkiv  | |
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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 | |||
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Eugene Kozlovsky (born 1946)  | 
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Vsevolod Krestovsky (1840–1895)  | 
Knights of Industry | ![]() Krestovsky, c. 1870  | 
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Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887–1950)  | 
Quadraturin | ||
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Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954)  | 
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Aleksandr Kuprin (1870–1938)  | 
The Duel Yama: The Pit The Bracelet of Garnets  | 
![]() A cartoon featuring Kuprin  | 
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Andrey Kurkov (born 1961)  | 
Death and the Penguin Penguin Lost  | 
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Ivan Kushchevsky (1847–1876)  | 
Nikolai Negorev | ![]() Portrait of Kushchevsky  | 
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Mikhail Kuzmin (1872–1936)  | 
Wings | ![]() Portrait of Kuzmin by Alexander Golovin, 1910  | 
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| Anatoly Kuznetsov (1929–1979)  | 
Babi Yar | |||
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| Lazar Lagin (1903–1979)  | 
The Old Genie Hottabych | |||
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Yulia Latynina (born 1966)  | 
The Insider | ||
| Boris Lavrenyov (1891–1953)  | 
The Forty-First The Heavenly Cap Such a Simple Thing The Courageous Heart  | 
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Ivan Lazhechnikov (1792–1869)  | 
The Heretic | ![]() Portrait of Lazhechnikov  | 
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Leonid Leonov (1899–1995)  | 
The Badgers Soviet River The Thief The Pyramid  | 
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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.  | 
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Nikolai Leskov (1831–1895)  | 
The Cathedral Folk The Sealed Angel The Enchanted Wanderer Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk  | 
![]() Drawing of Leskov  | |
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Alexander Levitov (1835–1877)  | 
Leatherhide the Cobbler | ![]() Levitov, c. 1860s  | 
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Nikolay Leykin (1841–1906)  | 
Our Folk Abroad | ![]() Photo of Leykin  | 
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Vladimir Lichutin (born 1940)  | 
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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)  | 
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Sergey Lukyanenko (born 1968)  | 
Night Watch Day Watch Twilight Watch Last Watch  | 
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Lev Lunts (1901–1924)  | 
Native Land | ||
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Grigori Machtet (1852–1901)  | 
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Vladimir Makanin (1937–2017)  | 
Baize-Covered Table With Decanter | ||
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Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938)  | 
The Egyptian Stamp | ![]() Mandelstam after arrest in 1934  | 
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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  | 
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Anatoly Marienhof (1897–1962)  | 
Cynics | ![]() With the poet Sergei Yesenin, 1915  | 
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Alexandra Marinina (born 1957)  | 
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Boleslav Markevich (1822–1884)  | 
The Turning Point | ||
| Vladilen Mashkovtsev (1929–1997)  | 
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Pavel Melnikov (1818–1883)  | 
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Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1865–1941)  | 
Christ and Antichrist (trilogy) | ![]() Merezhkovsky (right), with his wife Zinaida Gippius and friend Dmitry Filosofov  | 
![]() Portrait by Repin, 1900  | 
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Daniil Mordovtsev (1830–1905)  | 
The Tsar and the Hetman | ||
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Viktor Muyzhel (1880–1924)  | 
The Year | ||
| Viktor Muravin (born 1929)  | 
The Diary of Vikenty Angarov | |||
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)  | 
Mary The Defense The Gift Lolita  | 
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| Yuri Nagibin (1920–1994)  | 
The Pipe Arise and Walk  | 
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Vasily Narezhny (1780–1825)  | 
A Russian Gil Blas | ||
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Nikolay Naumov (1838–1901)  | 
Strength Breaks the Straw | ||
| Andrei Navrozov (born 1956)  | 
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| Viktor Nekrasov (1911–1987)  | 
Front-line Stalingrad Kira Georgievna  | 
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Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko (1845–1936)  | 
Peasant Tales of Russia | ||
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Alexander Neverov (1886–1923)  | 
City of Bread | ![]() Drawing of Neverov  | 
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| Friedrich Neznansky (1932–2013)  | 
Red Square Night Wolves  | 
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| Nikolay Nosov (1908–1976)  | 
Neznaika | ![]() Russian stamp featuring Neznaika  | 
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Alexey Novikov-Priboy (1877–1944)  | 
Tsushima The Captain The Sea Beckons  | 
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Vladimir Obruchev (1863–1956)  | 
Plutonia Sannikov Land  | 
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Vladimir Odoevsky (1803–1869)  | 
Two Princesses The Living Corpse The Year 4338: Petersburg Letters  | 
![]() Odoevsky's dedication in a book he presented to Lermontov  | 
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Bulat Okudzhava (1924–1997)  | 
A Taste of Liberty Good-bye, Schoolboy! The Art of Needles and Sins  | 
![]() Stamp featuring Okudzhava  | |
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Yury Olesha (1899–1960)  | 
Envy Three Fat Men The Cherry Pit  | 
![]() 1929 edition of Envy  | 
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| Vladimir Orlov (1936–2014)  | 
Danilov, the Violist | |||
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Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936)  | 
Born of the Storm How the Steel Was Tempered  | 
![]() Stamp featuring Ostrovsky  | 
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| Mikhail Osorgin (1878–1942)  | 
Quiet Street My Sister's Story  | 
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| Valentin Ovechkin (1904–1968)  | 
Greetings from the Front | |||
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| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Marina Palei (born 1955)  | 
Rendezvous | ![]() Palei in Komarovo  | 
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Ivan Panaev (1812–1862)  | 
Lions in the Provinces | ![]() Portrait by Levitsky, 1856  | 
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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  | 
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| Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)  | 
Doctor Zhivago The Childhood of Luvers  | 
![]() Soviet Nobel Laureates in Literature  | 
![]() Memorial plaque at Pasternak's birthplace in Moscow  | |
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Konstantin Paustovsky (1892–1968)  | 
A Tale of Life (6 novel series) | ||
| Pyotr Pavlenko (1899–1951)  | 
Happiness Steppe Sunlight The Lost Son  | 
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Oleg Pavlov (1970–2018)  | 
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Karolina Pavlova (1807–1893)  | 
A Double Life | ![]() A drawing of Pavlova  | 
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| Victor Pelevin (born 1962)  | 
Omon Ra | |||
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Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (born 1938)  | 
The Time: Night | ||
| Valentin Pikul (1928–1990)  | 
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Boris Pilnyak (1894–1938)  | 
The Naked Year The Death of the Army Commander The Volga Falls into the Caspian Sea  | 
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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  | 
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| Boris Polevoy (1908–1981)  | 
He Came Back We Are Soviet People The Story of a Real Man  | 
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Nikolay Pomyalovsky (1835–1863)  | 
Seminary Sketches | ![]() An engraving of Pomyalovsky  | 
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Ignaty Potapenko (1856–1929)  | 
A Russian Priest The General's Daughter  | 
![]() Potapenko (right), with Chekhov and Mamin-Sibiryak. c. 1895  | 
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Dmitri Prigov (1940–2007)  | 
Live in Moskow | ||
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Zakhar Prilepin (born 1975)  | 
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Alexander Prokhanov (born 1938)  | 
Empire's Last Soldier | ||
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Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837)  | 
The Queen of Spades The Captain's Daughter  | 
![]() The first page from the serialized version of The Captain's Daughter  | 
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| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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Alexander Radishchev (1749–1802)  | 
Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow | ![]() Title page from the first edition, 1790  | 
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| Valentin Rasputin (1937–2015)  | 
Money for Maria Farewell to Matyora  | 
![]() Rasputin receiving an award from Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin  | 
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Aleksey Remizov (1877–1957)  | 
The Clock Sisters of the Cross The History of the Tinkling Cymbal and Sounding Brass  | 
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Fyodor Reshetnikov (1841–1871)  | 
The Podlipnayans | ![]() Drawing of Reshetnikov  | 
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Panteleimon Romanov (1884–1938)  | 
Three Pairs of Silk Stockings Without Bird-Cherry Blossoms  | 
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| Mikhail Roshchin (1933–2010)  | 
First Love Twenty Minutes or So The Devil's Wheel in Kobuleti  | 
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Dina Rubina (born 1953)  | 
The Blackthorn | ![]() Dina Rubina, 2007  | 
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| Anatoly Rybakov (1911–1998)  | 
Children of the Arbat Fear Dust and Ashes  | 
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| Vladimir Rybakov (1947–2018)  | 
Creature The Brand The Burden The Afghans  | 
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Vyacheslav Rybakov (born 1954)  | 
Artist The Trial Sphere  | 
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| Maria Rybakova (born 1973)  | 
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| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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| Irina Saburova (1907–1979)  | 
Because of the Violets | |||
| German Sadulaev (born 1973)  | 
I am a Chechen! | |||
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Ilya Salov (1834–1902)  | 
Butuzka | ||
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Boris Savinkov (1879–1925)  | 
The Pale Horse What Never Happened  | 
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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  | 
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Genrikh Sapgir (1928–1999)  | 
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Sergey Semyonov (1868–1922)  | 
Gluttons The Servant  | 
![]() Semyonov, c. 1900  | 
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| Yulian Semyonov (1931–1993)  | 
Seventeen Instants of Spring | |||
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Alexander Serafimovich (1863–1949)  | 
Sand Nikita The Iron Flood The Little Miner  | 
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Sergey Sergeyev-Tsensky (1875–1958)  | 
Brusilov's Break-Through | ||
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Marietta Shaginyan (1888–1982)  | 
Mess-Mend | ||
| Varlam Shalamov (1907–1982)  | 
The Kolyma Tales | ![]() From the Shalamov Memorial Museum in Vologda  | ||
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Olga Shapir (1850–1916)  | 
The Settlement | ||
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Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874–1952)  | 
Deborah | ||
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Alexander Sheller (1838–1900)  | 
Putrid Moors | ||
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Mikhail Shishkin (born 1961)  | 
![]() In 2006  | 
![]() In 2010  | |
| Vyacheslav Shishkov (1873–1945)  | 
Children of Darkness | |||
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Ivan Shmelyov (1873–1950)  | 
The Stone Age | ||
| Mikhail Sholokhov (1905–1984)  | 
And Quiet Flows the Don | ![]() Mikhail Sholokhov  | 
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| Ilya Shtemler (born 1933)  | 
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| Vasily Shukshin (1929–1974)  | 
Stories from a Siberian Village | |||
| Konstantin Simonov (1915–1979)  | 
Days and Nights The Living and the Dead  | 
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| Andrei Sinyavsky (1925–1997)  | 
Fantastic Stories | |||
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Stepan Skitalets (1869–1941)  | 
The Blacksmith The Love of a Scene Painter  | 
![]() With Maxim Gorky  | 
![]() Skitalets (left) with fellow Sreda members  | 
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Vasily Sleptsov (1836–1878)  | 
The Ward | ![]() An engraving of Sleptsov  | 
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| Sofia Soboleva (1840–1884)  | 
Pros and Cons | |||
| Sasha Sokolov (born 1943)  | 
A School for Fools | |||
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Vladimir Sollogub (1813–1882)  | 
The Snowstorm | ![]() Sollogub with fellow contributors to Sovremennik  | 
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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 | |||
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Vsevolod Solovyov (1849–1903)  | 
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008)  | 
The First Circle Cancer Ward The Red Wheel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich  | 
![]() Ivan Denisovich book cover  | 
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| Orest Somov (1793–1833)  | 
Mommy and Sonny | |||
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Vladimir Sorokin (born 1955)  | 
The Queue | ||
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Konstantin Staniukovich (1843–1903)  | 
Bobtail Maximka The Convict Running to the Shrouds  | 
![]() Photo of Stanyukovich  | 
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![]() 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  | 
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| Mikhail Sushkov (1775–1792)  | 
The Russian Werther | |||
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| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov (1885–1938)  | 
Chocolate | ||
| Nadezhda Teffi (1872–1952)  | 
Time Strangers Close Friends  | 
![]() Teffi during World War 1  | 
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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  | 
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Sergey Terpigorev (1841–1895)  | 
The Ice Broke | ||
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Nikolay Tikhonov (1896–1979)  | 
War | ||
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Vladislav Titov (1934–1987)  | 
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Tatyana Tolstaya (born 1951)  | 
The Slynx White Walls  | 
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Aleksey K. Tolstoy (1817–1875)  | 
Prince Serebrenni | ![]() Portrait by Ilya Repin  | 
![]() Monument to Tolstoy  | 
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Aleksey N. Tolstoy (1883–1945)  | 
Buratino Aelita Peter the First The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin  | 
![]() Stamp featuring the character Buratino  | 
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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  | 
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Edward Topol (born 1938)  | 
Red Square | ||
| Yury Trifonov (1925–1981)  | 
Another Life The Old Man The Disappearance The Long Good-Bye  | 
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| Gavriil Troyepolsky (1905–1995)  | 
White Bim Black Ear | |||
| Alexei Tsvetkov (born 1947)  | 
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Evgenia Tur (1815–1892)  | 
Antonina The Shalonski Family  | 
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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  | 
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Yury Tynyanov (1894–1943)  | 
Lieutenant Kijé | [1]  | |
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| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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Anya Ulinich (born 1973)  | 
Petropolis | ||
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Pavel Ulitin (1918–1986)  | 
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Lyudmila Ulitskaya (born 1943)  | 
Sonechka The Funeral Party Medea and Her Children Daniel Stein  | 
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Gleb Uspensky (1843–1902)  | 
The Steam Chicken | ![]() Uspensky in his 20s, 1868  | 
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Nikolay Uspensky (1837–1889)  | 
Porridge The Village Schoolmaster  | 
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Pyotr Valuyev (1815–1890)  | 
![]() Engraving of Valuev, 1865  | 
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Konstantin Vaginov (1899–1934)  | 
Goat Song Works and Days of Svistonov  | 
![]() First edition cover of Goat Song  | 
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Tatiana Vedenska (born 1976)  | 
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Mikhail Veller (born 1948)  | 
The Guru | ||
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Alexander Veltman (1800–1870)  | 
The Wanderer | ![]() Veltman, c. 1830  | 
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Anastasiya Verbitskaya (1861–1928)  | 
The Keys to Happiness | ![]() Verbitskaya, c. 1900  | 
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Vikenty Veresaev (1867–1945)  | 
Sisters The Deadlock In the Steppe  | 
![]() With Leonid Andreyev  | 
![]() Painting of Veresayev by Sergey Malyutin, 1919  | 
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Lidia Veselitskaya (1857–1936)  | 
Mimi's Marriage | ||
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Igor Vishnevetsky (born 1964)  | 
Leningrad Non-Elective Affinities  | 
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| Nikolai Virta (1906–1976)  | 
Alone | |||
| Georgi Vladimov (1931–2003)  | 
Faithful Ruslan | |||
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Vladimir Voinovich (1932–2018)  | 
Moscow 2042 Private Ivan Chonkin  | 
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Zinaida Volkonskaya (1792–1862)  | 
The Dream: A Letter | ||
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Alexander Volkov (1891–1977)  | 
The Wizard of the Emerald City | ||
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Marko Vovchok (1833–1907)  | 
Ukrainian Folk Tales | ![]() Ukrainian stamp featuring Vovchok  | 
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| Julia Voznesenskaya (1940–2015)  | 
The Women's Decameron | |||
| Alexander Vvedensky (1904–1941)  | 
Murderers You are Fools | ![]() Vvedensky after arrest in 1941  | 
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| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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| 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  | 
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| 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  | 
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Semyon Yushkevich (1868–1927)  | 
![]() On the right with Yevgeny Chirikov  | 
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Mikhail Zagoskin (1789–1852)  | 
Tales of Three Centuries | ![]() Engraving of Zagoskin.  | 
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| Sergey Zalygin (1913–2000)  | 
The South American Variant | |||
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Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937)  | 
We A Provincial Tale  | 
![]() A Provincial Tale book cover.  | 
![]() Zamyatin, c.1919.  | 
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Boris Zaytsev (1881–1972)  | 
Anna | ||
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Ilia Zdanevich (1894–1975)  | 
Rapture | ||
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Yulia Zhadovskaya (1824–1883)  | 
The Backward Girl | ||
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Vera Zhelikhovsky (1835–1896)  | 
The General's Will | ||
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Boris Zhitkov (1882–1938)  | 
Viktor Vavich | ![]() First edition of Viktor Vavich  | 
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| Maria Zhukova (1804–1855)  | 
Evenings on the Karpovka | |||
| Zinovy Zinik (born 1945)  | 
The Mushroom-Picker | |||
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Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866–1907)  | 
The Tragic Menagerie | ||
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Nikolay Zlatovratsky (1845–1911)  | 
Old Shadows | ||
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Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895–1958)  | 
Youth Restored Blue Book Before Sunrise  | 
![]() Before Sunrise  | 
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See also
    
    
References
    
- The well-known M*A*S*H episode about Captain Tuttle has a storyline based on Lieutenant Kijé.
 
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