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

Alphabetical list

A

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	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

B

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

C

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

D

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

E

Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
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

F

Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
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

G

Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
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

H

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)	Who is to Blame?	Statue of Herzen in Moscow

I

Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
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
Alexei Ivanov (born 1969)
Vsevolod Ivanov (1895–1963)	Armoured Train 14-69 U The Kremlin The Secret of Secrets

K

Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
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

L

Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
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

M

Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
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

N

Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
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

O

Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
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

P

Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
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

R

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)

S

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

T

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		^[1]

U

Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
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

V

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

Y

Author	Notable works	Illustration
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

Z

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