# 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.

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| | 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 |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 2 | 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 | |
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| 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 | | |
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| 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 | | |
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| 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 |
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| 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) | Stalingrad 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 | | |
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| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
| | 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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| 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 |
| 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 | | |
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| 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 | | |
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| 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 | | |
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| 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 | | |
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| 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 | | |
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| 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 | |
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| Author | Notable works | 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) | | |
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| 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 | | |
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| 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 | | |
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| 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 | | |
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| 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 | |
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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 | |
| 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 |
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| 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 | |