Editing List of Russian people (section)

====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]]''