Editing List of Russian people (section)

===Literature===
{{main|Russian writers}}

====Novel and short story authors====
{{main|Russian novelists}}

[[File:Dostoevskij 1872.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]]]
[[File:Портрет Гоголя.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Nikolai Gogol]]]]

[[File:Ilya Efimovich Repin (1844-1930) - Portrait of Leo Tolstoy (1887).jpg|thumb|90px|[[Leo Tolstoy]]]]
*[[Chinghiz Aitmatov]], [[Kyrgyz language|Kyrgyz]] and Russian writer, author of ''[[Jamila (novel)|Jamilya]]''
*[[Vasily Aksyonov]], author of the Moscow [[saga]] ''[[Generations of Winter]]''
*[[Boris Akunin]], famous for his [[detective fiction]], author of ''[[The Diamond Chariot]]''
*[[Sholem Aleichem]], important [[History of the Jews in Russia|Russian Jewish]] writer, the famous musical ''[[Fiddler on the Roof]]'' was based on Aleichem's story ''[[Tevye|Tevye the Dairyman]]''
*[[Isaac Babel]], well-known [[History of the Jews in Russia|Russian Jewish]] writer, author of ''[[The Odessa Tales]]''
*[[Andrei Bely]], author of the novel ''[[Petersburg (novel)|Petersburg]]'', poet
*[[Alexander Belyayev]], major science fiction writer, author of ''[[Amphibian Man]]'' and ''[[Ariel (novel)|Ariel]]''
*[[Valery Bryusov]], important [[Russian symbolism|symbolist]] writer, author of the novel ''[[The Fiery Angel (novel)|The Fiery Angel]]''
*[[Mikhail Bulgakov]], author of ''[[The Master and Margarita]]'', which ''[[The Times]]'' of London has called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century
*[[Kir Bulychev]], author of the science fiction anthology ''[[Half a Life (Kir Bulychev)|Half a Life]]''
*[[Ivan Bunin]], short story writer and poet, first Russian to be awarded the [[Nobel Prize for Literature]]
*[[Anton Chekhov]], famous for his short stories and plays; author of ''[[The Lady with the Dog]]'', ''[[The Black Monk (short story)|The Black Monk]]''
*[[Nikolai Chernyshevsky]], influential revolutionary writer, author of ''[[What Is to Be Done? (novel)|What Is to Be Done?]]''
*[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]], author of ''[[Crime and Punishment]]'', ''[[The Idiot (novel)|The Idiot]]'', ''[[The Possessed (novel)|The Possessed]]'', ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]''
*[[Sergei Dovlatov]], Russian writer who [[Emigration|emigrated]] to the US, author of the novel ''[[Affiliate (novel)|Affiliate]]''
*[[Dmitry Glukhovsky]], author of the [[post-apocalyptic novel]] ''[[Metro 2033 (novel)|Metro 2033]]''
*[[Nikolai Gogol]], considered the "father" of Russian [[Realism (arts)|realism]], author of ''[[The Overcoat]]'', ''[[The Nose (Gogol)|The Nose]]'', ''[[Dead Souls]]''
*[[Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov|Ivan Goncharov]], author of ''[[Oblomov]]''
*[[Maxim Gorky]], founder of [[socialist realism]], author of ''[[Twenty-six Men and a Girl]]''
*[[Vasily Grossman]], author of ''[[Life and Fate]]'', described by ''[[Le Monde]]'' as "the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century"
*[[Ilf and Petrov]] popular satirists, authors of ''[[The Twelve Chairs]]''
*[[Nikolai Karamzin]], prominent [[sentimentalist]] writer and major historian, author of ''Poor Liza''
*[[Valentin Katayev]], author of the industrial novel ''[[Time, Forward! (novel)|Time, Forward!]]''
*[[Veniamin Kaverin]], author of the social and adventure novel ''[[The Two Captains]]''
*[[Daniil Kharms]], Soviet [[surrealist]] and [[absurdist fiction|absurdist]] writer
*[[Mikhail Lermontov]], author of ''[[A Hero of our Time]]'', poet
*[[Nikolai Leskov]], author of ''[[Lefty (story)|Lefty]]'' and ''[[Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (novel)|Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk]]''
*[[Sergey Lukyanenko]], most popular contemporary Russian [[sci-fi]] writer, author of the ''[[Night Watch (Lukyanenko novel)|Night Watch]]''
*[[Vladimir Nabokov]], author of ''[[Lolita]]'', which was ranked at #4 on the list of the [[Modern Library 100 Best Novels]]
*[[Nikolay Nosov]], [[children's writer]], author of the popular ''[[Neznaika]]'' series
*[[Vladimir Obruchev]], geologist and explorer, author of the [[science fiction]] and travel novels ''[[Hollow Earth|Plutonia]]'' and ''[[Sannikov Land]]''
*[[Yuri Olesha]], author of the innovative novel ''[[Envy (Olesha novel)|Envy]]''
*[[Nikolai Ostrovsky]], [[socialist realist]] writer, best known for his novel ''[[How the Steel Was Tempered]]''
*[[Boris Leonidovich Pasternak|Boris Pasternak]], author of ''[[Doctor Zhivago (novel)|Doctor Zhivago]]'', poet and translator, [[Nobel Prize]] winner (was forced to decline the prize)
*[[Viktor Pelevin]], [[Postmodernism|postmodernist]] writer, author of the short novel ''[[Omon Ra]]''
*[[Andrei Platonov]], author of ''[[The Foundation Pit]]''
*[[Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin|Aleksandr Pushkin]], the greatest Russian poet, novelist, author of ''[[The Captain's Daughter]]''
*[[Alexander Radishchev]], [[Political radicalism|radical]] writer, author of ''[[Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow]]''
*[[Ayn Rand]], creator of [[Objectivism]], author of ''[[The Fountainhead]]'', and ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''
*[[Varlam Shalamov]], ''[[Gulag]]'' survivor, author of ''[[Kolyma Tales]]''
*[[Mikhail Sholokhov]], [[Nobel Prize for Literature]], author of ''[[And Quiet Flows the Don]]''
*[[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], [[Nobel Prize for Literature]], author of ''[[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]''
*[[Vladimir Sorokin]], one of the most popular writers in modern Russian literature
*[[Boris and Arkady Strugatsky]], [[collaborative]] duo of Soviet science fiction writers
*[[Tatyana Tolstaya]], writer, [[TV host]], [[publicist]], novelist, and [[essayist]] from the [[Tolstoy family]]
*[[Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy]], [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] writer, best known for his works of [[science fiction]], author of ''[[Aelita (novel)|Aelita]]''
*[[Leo Tolstoy]], widely considered to be one of the world's greatest novelists, author of ''[[War and Peace]]'', ''[[Anna Karenina]]'', and ''[[The Death of Ivan Ilyich]]''
*[[Ivan Turgenev]], author of ''[[A Sportsman's Sketches]]'', which had an influence on the abolition of [[serfdom]] in Russia
*[[Yury Tynyanov]], important member of the [[Russian Formalism|Russian Formalist]] school, author of ''[[Lieutenant Kijé]]''
*[[Eduard Uspensky]], children's writer known for his fictional characters [[Gena the Crocodile]] and [[Cheburashka]]
*[[Vladimir Voinovich]], author of the well-known novel ''[[The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin]]''
*[[Ivan Yefremov]], paleontologist and science fiction writer, founder of [[taphonomy]], author of ''[[The Land of Foam]]'', ''[[Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale]]'' and ''[[Thais of Athens]]''
*[[Yevgeny Zamyatin]], author of the [[dystopia]]n novel ''[[We (novel)|We]]'', which influenced [[George Orwell]]'s ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'', and [[Ayn Rand]]'s ''[[Anthem (novella)|Anthem]]''

====Philosophers and critics====
{{main|Russian philosophers}}

[[File:Pavel Florensky.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Pavel Florensky]]]]
[[File:KhomyakovA AvtoportretABR.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Aleksey Khomyakov]]]]
[[File:Vladimir Solovyov 1892 by Nikolay Yarochenko.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)|Vladimir Solovyov]]]]
*[[Mikhail Bakhtin]], philosopher, literary critic, [[semiotician]], and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language
*[[Mikhail Bakunin]], well-known [[revolutionary]] and theorist of [[collectivist anarchism]]
*[[Vissarion Belinsky]], influential critic, and editor of two major literary magazines: ''[[Otechestvennye Zapiski]]'', and ''[[Sovremennik]]''
*[[Nikolai Berdyaev]], religious and political philosopher
*[[Helena Blavatsky]], founder of [[Theosophy (Blavatskian)|Theosophy]] and the [[Theosophical Society]]
*[[Alexander Bogdanov]], [[physician]], philosopher, science fiction writer, and a key figure in the early history of the [[Bolshevik]]s
*[[Nikolay Chernyshevsky]], famous for his philosophical novel ''[[What Is to Be Done? (novel)|What is To Be Done?]]'', he was the leader of the revolutionary democratic movement of the 1860s, and an influence on [[Vladimir Lenin]]
*[[Nikolay Danilevsky]], [[natural history|naturalist]], [[Economics|economist]], [[Ethnology|ethnologist]], philosopher, historian, and [[ideologue]] of the [[pan-Slavism]] and [[Slavophile]] movements
*[[Sergei Diaghilev]], art critic and impresario
*[[Nikolay Dobrolyubov]], [[Literary criticism|literary critic]], [[journalist]], and [[revolutionary]] [[Social democracy|democrat]]
*[[Pavel Florensky]], [[Russian Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] [[theologian]], philosopher, mathematician, [[electrical engineering|electrical engineer]], and [[inventor]]
*[[Leonid Grinin]], important modern [[sociologist]] and philosopher of history
*[[Alexander Herzen]], highly influential proponent of [[populism]], [[socialism]], and [[collectivization]]
*[[Mikhail Katkov]], conservative journalist and literary critic influential during the reign of [[Alexander III of Russia|Alexander III]]
*[[Ivan Kireyevsky]], literary critic and philosopher, co-founder of the [[Slavophile]] movement
*[[Aleksey Khomyakov]], religious poet and philosopher, co-founder of the [[Slavophile]] movement, coined the term ''[[sobornost]]''
*[[Peter Kropotkin]], naturalist, geographer and one of the world's foremost [[Anarchist communism|anarcho-communist]]s
*[[Peter Lavrovitch Lavrov|Pyotr Lavrov]], prominent Russian philosopher, publicist, sociologist, and [[theorist]] of [[narodism]]
*[[Konstantin Leontiev]], [[Conservatism|conservative]], [[monarchist]] [[reactionary]] philosopher
*[[Aleksei Losev]], one of the most prominent figures in Russian philosophical and religious thought of the 20th century
*[[Nikolay Novikov]], writer and philanthropist, a man of [[Russian Enlightenment]], often considered to be the first Russian [[journalist]]
*[[Peter D. Ouspensky]], [[Western esotericism|esoteric]] philosopher, author of ''[[In Search of the Miraculous]]''
*[[Dmitri Pisarev]], [[Political radicalism|radical]] writer and social critic whose works had an important influence on [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]]
*[[Ayn Rand]], [[Objectivism|Objectivist]] philosopher, best known for her novels ''[[The Fountainhead]]'' and ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''
*[[Lev Shestov]], influential Ukrainian/Russian [[existentialist]] philosopher, author of the well-known works ''Penultimate Words'' and ''All Things are Possible''
*[[Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)|Vladimir Solovyov]], philosopher, poet, pamphleteer, and literary critic, who played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry at the end of the 19th century
*[[Vladimir Stasov]], preeminent 19th-century [[art critic]] in Russia
*[[Leo Tolstoy]], [[Christian anarchism|Christian anarchist]] and [[Christian pacifism|pacifist]], whose ideas and social writings were the basis of the [[Tolstoyan]] movement
*[[Leon Trotsky]], [[Bolshevik]], and [[Marxist]], one of the leaders of the [[October Revolution|Russian Revolution of 1917]]

====Playwrights====
{{main|Russian playwrights}}
[[File:Chekhov 1898 by Osip Braz.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Anton Chekhov]]]]
[[File:Alexander Ostrovsky by Vasily Perov.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Alexander Ostrovsky]]]]
*[[Leonid Andreyev]], author of many popular plays, including ''[[He Who Gets Slapped]]''
*[[Hizgil Avshalumov]], soviet novelist, poet and playwright
*[[Mikhail Bulgakov]], popular Soviet writer, author of the play [[Flight (play)|Flight]]
*[[Anton Chekhov]], famous for his short stories and plays, author of ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]'', ''[[Uncle Vanya]]'', ''[[Three Sisters (play)|Three Sisters]]'', ''[[The Seagull]]''
*[[Denis Fonvizin]], known chiefly for his famous play ''The Minor''
*[[Nikolai Gogol]], author of the great [[satirical]] play ''[[The Government Inspector]]''
*[[Maxim Gorky]], author of ''[[The Lower Depths]]'', a hallmark of [[socialist realism]]
*[[Aleksandr Griboyedov]], author of the popular play ''[[Woe from Wit]]''
*[[Mikhail Lermontov]], author of the play ''[[Masquerade (play)|Masquerade]]''
*[[Vladimir Mayakovsky]], one of the foremost representatives of ''[[Russian Futurism]]''
*[[Alexander Ostrovsky]], known for his plays dealing with the [[merchant]] class, most notably ''[[The Storm (Ostrovsky)|The Storm]]''
*[[Aleksey Pisemsky]], realist writer, author of the well-known play ''[[A Bitter Fate]]'', considered to be the first Russian realistic tragedy
*[[Alexander Pushkin]], Russia's national poet, also known for his plays, including ''[[Boris Godunov (play)|Boris Godunov]]'' and ''[[The Stone Guest (play)|The Stone Guest]]''
*[[Alexander Sumarokov]], poet and playwright who single-handedly created classical theatre in Russia
*[[Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy]], author of historical dramas, including ''[[The Death of Ivan the Terrible]]'' and ''[[Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich]]''
*[[Leo Tolstoy]], one of the greatest Russian writers, author of the plays ''[[The Power of Darkness]]'', ''[[The Fruits of Enlightenment]]'', and ''[[The Living Corpse]]''
*[[Ivan Turgenev]], author of the well known play ''[[A Month in the Country (play)|A Month in the Country]]''

====Poets====
{{main|Russian poets}}
[[File:Anna Akhmatova 1913-1914 by Savely Sorin.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Anna Akhmatova]]]]
[[File:Blok somov.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Aleksandr Blok]]]]
[[File:Mayakovsky 1912.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Vladimir Mayakovsky]]]]
[[File:AleksandrPushkin.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Alexander Pushkin]]]]
[[File:Sergey Yesenin.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Sergei Yesenin]]]]
* [[Zharaskan Abdirash]], Soviet-era Kazakh poet
* [[Anna Akhmatova]], [[modernist]] poet, author of ''Requiem''
* [[Bella Akhmadulina]], Soviet and Russian poet who has been cited by [[Joseph Brodsky]] as the best living poet in the Russian language
* [[Innokenty Annensky]], poet, critic, and translator, representative of the first wave of [[Russian Symbolism]]
* [[Konstantin Balmont]], [[symbolism (arts)|symbolist]] poet, one of the major figures of the [[Silver Age of Russian Poetry]]
* [[Evgeny Baratynsky]], lauded by [[Alexander Pushkin]] as the finest Russian elegiac poet, rediscovered by [[Anna Akhmatova]] and [[Joseph Brodsky]] as a supreme poet of thought
* [[Konstantin Batyushkov]], an important precursor of [[Alexander Pushkin]]
* [[Andrey Bely]], [[Symbolism (movement)|symbolist]] poet, namesake of the important [[Andrei Bely Prize]]
* [[Alexander Blok]], leader of the [[Russian Symbolism|Russian Symbolist movement]], author of "[[The Twelve (poem)|The Twelve]]"
* [[Joseph Brodsky]], winner of the 1987 [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]
* [[Korney Chukovsky]], one of the most popular children's poets in the [[Russian language]]
* [[Denis Davydov]], guerilla fighter and soldier-poet of the [[Napoleonic Wars]], invented a genre of ''[[hussar]] poetry'' noted for its hedonism and bravado
* [[Gavrila Derzhavin]], one of the greatest Russian poets before [[Alexander Pushkin]]
* [[Aleksandr Drakokhrust]], Soviet poet
* [[Gabriel El-Registan]], one of the writers of the [[National Anthem of the Soviet Union]]
* [[Afanasy Fet]], had a profound influence on the [[Russian Symbolists]], especially [[Innokenty Annensky|Annensky]] and [[Alexander Blok|Blok]]
* [[Nikolay Gumilyov]], founded the [[Acmeist poetry|acmeism]] movement
* [[Vyacheslav Ivanov (poet)|Vyacheslav Ivanov]], poet and playwright associated with the [[Russian Symbolism]] movement
* [[Antiochus Kantemir]], Russian poet-satirist, activist of early [[Russian Enlightenment]]
* [[Velimir Khlebnikov]], influential member of the [[Russian Futurist movement]], regarded by his contemporariesas as "a poet's poet"
* [[Ivan Krylov]], Russia's best known [[Fable|fabulist]]
* [[Yuri Kublanovsky]], poet, essayist, critic and art historian
* [[Mikhail Lermontov]], most important Russian poet after [[Alexander Pushkin]]'s death, his influence on later [[Russian literature]] is still felt in modern times
* [[Osip Mandelstam]], [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poet]], author of ''Tristia''
* [[Vladimir Mayakovsky]], among the most important representatives of early 20th-century [[Russian Futurism]]
* [[Apollon Maykov]], his lyrical poems often showcase images of Russian villages, nature, and Russian history
* [[Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov|Nikolai Nekrasov]], one of Russia's most popular poets, author of the long poem Who is Happy in Russia?
* [[Boris Leonidovich Pasternak|Boris Pasternak]], author of the influential poem "My Sister Life", [[Nobel Prize]] winner (was forced to decline the prize)
* [[Nikolai Ogarev]], known to every Russian, not only as a poet, but as the fellow-exile and collaborator of [[Alexander Herzen]] on ''[[Kolokol (newspaper)|Kolokol]]'', a newspaper printed in England and smuggled into Russia
* [[Yakov Polonsky]], leading [[Alexander Pushkin|Pushkinist]] poet
* [[Symeon of Polotsk]], academically trained [[Baroque literature|Baroque]] Belarusian born Russian poet
* [[Alexander Pushkin]], greatest Russian poet, author of ''[[Eugene Onegin]]''
* [[Ilya Selvinsky]], leader of the [[Constructivism (art)|Constructivist]] movement
* [[Igor Severyanin]], Russian lyrical poet who presided over the circle of the so-called Ego-Futurists
* [[Boris Slutsky]], one of the most important representatives of the [[War generation of Russian poets]]
* [[Fyodor Sologub]], influential [[Symbolism (movement)|symbolist]] poet and writer
* [[Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy]], popular poet and dramatist, known for his humorous and satirical verse
* [[Vasily Trediakovsky]], helped lay the foundations of classical [[Russian literature]]
* [[Marina Tsvetaeva]], known primarily for her lyric poetry, widely admired by her fellow poets
* [[Aleksandr Tvardovsky]], chief editor of [[Novy Mir]] for many years, author of ''[[Vasili Tyorkin]]''
* [[Fyodor Tyutchev]], [[Romanticism|romantic]] poet, author of ''The Last Love''
* [[Maximilian Voloshin]], [[Symbolism (movement)|Symbolist poet]], famous [[freemason]]
* [[Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov|Pyotr Yershov]], author of the famous fairy-tale poem ''The Humpbacked Horse''
* [[Sergei Yesenin]], one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century
* [[Yevgeny Yevtushenko]], Soviet/Russian poet, director of several films
* [[Nikolay Zabolotsky]], one of the founders of the [[Russian avant-garde]] [[absurdist fiction|absurdist]] group [[Oberiu|OBERIU]]
* [[Vasily Zhukovsky]], credited with introducing the [[Romanticism|Romantic Movement]] to [[Russian literature]]