1. Nikolay Gumilev (1886)

Russian Writer

Russian poet and literary critic best known for a 1921 poetry collection entitled The Tent and for an individual poem called "The Tram That Lost Its Way." His other works...

2. Nikolai Erdman (1900)

Russian Writer

Remembered for his 1928 play The Suicide, this Soviet writer also penned a 1924 dramatic work titled The Mandate, as well as the screenplay for the 1928 silent movie The...

3. Boris Stomakhin (1974)

Russian Writer

Boris Vladimirovich Stomakhin is a Russian radical political activist and editor of Radical politics periodical. He was convicted to five years in prison on charges of inciting ethnic hatred...

4. Andrei Soldatov (1975)

Russian Writer

Andrei Alekseyevich Soldatov is a Russian investigative journalist and Russian security services expert. Together with famous journalist Irina Borogan he is a co-founder and editor of the Agentura. Ru web...

5. Alisa Ganieva (1985)

Russian Writer

Alisa Arkadyevna Ganieva is a Russian author writing short prose and essays. In 2009 she was awarded the Debut literary prize for her debut novel Salaam Dalgat! published using the...

6. Alexei Sholokhov (1975)

Russian Writer

Alexei Sholokhov is a Russian horror writer known for his novels They The Cellar and The Body. He also was and still is one of the ghost writers for Alexander...

7. Zakhar Prilepin (1975)

Russian Writer

Yevgenii Nikolaevich Prilepin writing as Zahar Prilepin and sometimes using another pseudonym Evgeny Lavlinsky this one mostly for journalistic publications is a Russian writer and a member of Russia's...

8. Grigory Svirsky (1921)

Russian Writer

Grigory Tsezarevich Svirsky is a Russian-Canadian writer. He was a military pilot during World War II then worked as a journalist. After publishing several books Svirsky openly criticized censorship...

9. Valery Popov (writer) (1938)

Russian Writer

Valery Georgievich Popov is a Russian writer one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of fiction. He has written about twenty books for adults and children as...

10. Ivan Krylov (1769)

Russian Writer

Ivan Andreyevich Krylov is Russia's best known fabulist. While many of his earlier fables were loosely based on Aesop's and La Fontaine's later fables were original work often satirizing...

11. Felix Kandel (1932)

Russian Writer

x Kandel is a Russian-born writer residing in Jerusalem Israel.

12. Ilya Shtemler (1933)

Russian Writer

Ilya Shtemler is a Soviet and Russian writer.

13. Anatoly Pristavkin (Unknow)

Russian Writer

Anatoly Ignatovich Pristavkin was a prominent Russian writer and public figure. His mother died when he was nine and his father died in World War II leaving Anatoly orphan....

14. Alexander Prokhanov (1938)

Russian Writer

Alexander Andreyevich Prokhanov is a Soviet and Russian writer. He is a member of the secretariat of the Writers Union of the Russian Federation and the editor-in-chief of Russia's most...

15. Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943)

Russian Writer

Lyudmila Evgenyevna Ulitskaya is a critically acclaimed modern Russian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in the town of Davlekanovo in Bashkiria and grew up in Moscow where she...

16. Sasha Sokolov (1943)

Russian Writer

Sasha Sokolov is a paradoxical writer of Russian literature. He became known worldwide in the 1970s after his first novel A School for Fools had been published by Ardis Publishing...

17. Platon Kerzhentsev (1881)

Russian Writer

Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev real name Lebedev was a Russian state and party official journalist playwright and arts theorist who was involved with the Proletkult movement.

18. Marina Boroditskaya (Unknow)

Russian Writer

Marina Yakovlevna Boroditskaya is a Russian children's poet and translator. Boroditskaya was born in Moscow. She graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. She is an author...

19. Alexei Parshchikov (1954)

Russian Writer

Alexei Maximovich Parshchikov was a Russian poet critic and translator. Born in Olga Primorsky Krai Russian SFSR to the family of a famous physician Maxim Reiderman and a surgeon...

20. Vyacheslav Rybakov (1954)

Russian Writer

Vyacheslav Rybakov is a well known Soviet and Russian science fiction author and an orientalist interested in the medieval bureaucracy of China. He received a 1987 Governmental Award of the...

21. Irina Ratushinskaya (1954)

Russian Writer

Irina Borisovna Ratushinskaya is a prominent Russian dissident poet and writer.

22. Ilya Kormiltsev (1959)

Russian Writer

Ilya Valeryevich Kormiltsev - d. February 4 2007 London UK) was a Russian poet translator and publisher. Kormiltsev is most famous for working as songwriter and producer in Nautilus Pompilius...

23. Eugen V. Witkowsky (1950)

Russian Writer

Eugen V. Witkowsky is a Russian fiction and fantasy writer literary scholar poet and translator.

24. Oleg Khlevniuk (1959)

Russian Writer

Oleg V. Khlevniuk is a senior researcher at the State Archive of the Russian Federation in Moscow. Much of his writing on Stalinist Soviet Union is based on newly released...

25. Oleg Khafizov (1959)

Russian Writer

Oleg Esgatovich Khafizov — Russian writer.

26. Rouslan Saghabalyan (1951)

Russian Writer

Rouslan Saghabalyan is a Russian writer journalist and screenwriter of Armenian origin. He has also written under pen name Sagarus.

27. Elena Fanailova (1962)

Russian Writer

Elena Nikolayevna Fanailova is a Russian poet. Born in Voronezh she graduated from the Voronezh Medical Institute and earned a degree in journalism from Voronezh State University. She worked for...

28. Alexander Vassiliev (1962)

Russian Writer

sons of a similar name see Alexander Vasilyev. Alexander Vassiliev is a Russian journalist writer and espionage historian living in London.

29. Boris Savinkov (1879)

Russian Writer

Boris Viktorovich Savinkov was a Russian writer and revolutionary terrorist. As one of the leaders of the Fighting Organisation of the Socialist Revolutionary Party he was responsible for the...

30. Darya Dontsova (Unknow)

Russian Writer

Darya Dontsova – is a Russian writer of detective novels. She produced several dozen such commercially successful books and also cookery books and three autobiographies. She is a member...

31. Dmitri Lipskerov (1964)

Russian Writer

Dmitri Mikhailovich Lipskerov is a Russian writer and dramatist.

32. Vladimir Sorokin (1955)

Russian Writer

Vladimir Georgievich Sorokin is a contemporary postmodern Russian writer and dramatist one of the most popular in modern Russian literature. Sorokin who lives in Moscow has been critical of...

33. Marina Palei (1955)

Russian Writer

Marina Anatolyevna Palei is a Russian scriptwriter journalist novelist and translator.

34. Gennady Katsov (1956)

Russian Writer

Gennady Katsov Russian: Геннадий Кацов is a Russian-American poet and journalist well-known figure in the literature of Moscow in 1980s as a writer poet and one of the creators of...

35. Vyacheslav Shalygin (1968)

Russian Writer

Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Shalygin is a Russian science fiction writer born in 1968 in Novosibirsk where he still lives.

36. Dmitry Vodennikov (1968)

Russian Writer

Dmitry Vodennikov is a Russian poet and essayist. In 2002 he was named as one of the ten best living Russian poets in a poll of 110 leading Russian...

37. Shapi Kaziev (1956)

Russian Writer

Shapi Magomedovitch Kaziev is a Russian writer playwright and script writer. He is the author of historical novels and other books.

38. Viatcheslav Repin (1960)

Russian Writer

Viatcheslav Repin is a French writer of Russian extraction born 1960 in Tomsk. He writes in French and Russian and is the author of novels short stories and essays.

39. Boris Akunin (1956)

Russian Writer

Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili a Russian writer of Georgian origin. He is best known as writer of detective and historical fiction but he's...

40. Marina Gershenovich (1960)

Russian Writer

Marina Iosifovna Gershenovich is a Russian poet and translator born in the city of Novosibirsk Soviet Union who resides in Düsseldorf Germany. Marina Gershenovich does not belong to any formal...

41. Grigoriy Demidovtsev (1960)

Russian Writer

Grigoriy Demidovtsev is the pen name of Grigoriy Anatolyevich Petrov a Russian fiction writer and a playwright. Since 2001 he publishes Biznes Segodnya.

42. Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Mironov (1961)

Russian Writer

Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Mironov is a Russian writer and officer of the Soviet then Russian army. He participated in several late- and post-Soviet conflicts including events in Transnistria Gerorgia The...

43. Pavel Shumil (1957)

Russian Writer

Pavel Shumil is a Russian science fiction author.

44. Alexandra Marinina (1957)

Russian Writer

Alexandra Marinina Russian: Алекса́ндра Мари́нина is a best-selling Russian writer of detective stories.

45. Dmitry Shipov (Unknow)

Russian Writer

Dmitry Nikolaevich Shipov — Russian politician.

46. Sergei Trufanov (1880)

Russian Writer

Sergei Michailovich Trufanov was a lapsed hieromonk a charismatic churchman an enfant terrible of the Orthodox church panslavist and deist. In his youth he was influenced by ideas of the...

47. Nikolai Starikov (1970)

Russian Writer

Starikov Nikolai Viktorovich — is a Russian writer opinion journalist and political figure. The author describes the genre of his works as historically political detective a thrilling mix of geopolitics...

48. Ekaterina Sedia (1970)

Russian Writer

Ekaterina Sedia was born in Russia on July 9 1970. She immigrated to the United States and attended college in New Jersey to obtain her Ph. D. She is best...

49. Mikhail Samarsky (1996)

Russian Writer

Mikhail Samarsky is Russian writer blogger public figure.

50. Maxim Kononenko (1971)

Russian Writer

Maksim Kononenko is a Russian journalist writer TV show host and political activist computer programmer. Known on the Internet as Mr. Parker he is famous for his blog http://vladimir. vladimirovich....