page_title: List of Russian people
section_title: Novel and short story authors
hierarchical_section_title: List of Russian people / Art / Literature / Novel and short story authors
caption_attribution_description: Español: Retrato de Lev Nikoláyevich Tolstói
context_page_description: This is a list of people associated with the modern Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, Imperial Russia, Russian Tsardom, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Kievan Rus', and other predecessor states of Russia.
  Regardless of ethnicity or emigration, the list includes famous natives of Russia and its predecessor states, as well as people who were born elsewhere but spent most of their active life in Russia.
context_section_description: Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyz and Russian writer, author of 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 Russian Jewish writer, the famous musical Fiddler on the Roof was based on Aleichem's story Tevye the Dairyman
  Isaac Babel, well-known Russian Jewish writer, author of The Odessa Tales
  Andrei Bely, author of the novel Petersburg, poet
  Alexander Belyayev, major science fiction writer, author of Amphibian Man and Ariel
  Valery Bryusov, important symbolist writer, author of the 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
  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
  Nikolai Chernyshevsky, influential revolutionary writer, author of What Is to Be Done?
  Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author of Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed, The Brothers Karamazov
  Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer who emigrated to the USA, author of the novel Affiliate
  Dmitry Glukhovsky, author of the post-apocalyptic novel Metro 2033
  Nikolai Gogol, considered the "father" of Russian realism, author of The Overcoat, The Nose, Dead Souls
  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!
  Veniamin Kaverin, author of the social and adventure novel The Two Captains
  Daniil Kharms, Soviet surrealist and absurdist writer
  Mikhail Lermontov, author of A Hero of our Time, poet
  Nikolai Leskov, author of Lefty and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
  Sergey Lukyanenko, most popular contemporary Russian sci-fi writer, author of the 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 Plutonia and Sannikov Land
  Yuri Olesha, author of the innovative novel Envy
  Nikolai Ostrovsky, socialist realist writer, best known for his novel How the Steel Was Tempered
  Boris Pasternak, author of Doctor Zhivago, poet and translator, Nobel Prize winner (was forced to decline the prize)
  Viktor Pelevin, postmodernist writer, author of the short novel Omon Ra
  Andrei Platonov, author of The Foundation Pit
  Aleksandr Pushkin, the greatest Russian poet, novelist, author of The Captain's Daughter
  Alexander Radishchev, 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 writer, best known for his works of science fiction, author of 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 
caption: Leo Tolstoy
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