List of Russian-language writers

• List of Russian-language novelists
• List of Russian-language playwrights
• List of Russian-language poets

  A

• Bavasan Abiduev, poet and one of the founders of Buryat children's literature
• Alexander Ablesimov, opera librettist, poet, dramatist, satirist and journalist
• Fyodor Abramov, novelist and short story writer, Two Winters and Three Summers
• Grigory Adamov science fiction writer, The Mystery of the Two Oceans
• Georgy Adamovich, poet, critic, memoirist, translator
• Anastasia Afanasieva, physician, poet, writer & translator
• Alexander Afanasyev, folklorist who recorded and published over 600 Russian folktales and fairytales, Russian Fairy Tales
• Alexander Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky, poet, writer, ethnographer and translator
• Alexander Afinogenov, playwright, A Far Place
• M. Ageyev, pseudonymous writer, Novel with Cocaine
• Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyz novelist and short story writer, Jamilya, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
• David Aizman, Russian-Jewish writer and playwright
• Bella Akhmadulina, poet, short story writer, and translator, The String
• Anna Akhmatova, acmeist poet, Requiem, Poem Without a Hero
• Ivan Aksakov, journalist, slavophile
• Konstantin Aksakov, playwright, critic and writer, slavophile
• Sergey Aksakov, novelist and miscellaneous writer, The Scarlet Flower
• Vasily Aksyonov, novelist and short story writer, Generations of Winter
• Boris Akunin, author, essayist, translator and literary critic, Erast Fandorin series, Sister Pelagia series
• Mikhail Albov,, novelist and short story writer
• Mark Aldanov, historical novelist
• Andrey Aldan-Semenov, Gulag memoirist
• Lidiia Alekseeva, Latvian poet and writer of short stories
• Mikhail Alekseyev writer and editor, My Stalingrad
• Sholem Aleichem, Russian Jewish writer, Wandering Stars
• Margarita Aliger, poet, translator, and journalist, Zoya
• Yuz Aleshkovsky, writer, poet, playwright and performer of his own songs, Kangaroo
• Boris Almazov, poet, translator and literary critic
• Alexander Amfiteatrov, writer and historian, Napoleonder
• Daniil Andreyev, writer, poet, and Christian mystic, Roza Mira
• Leonid Andreyev, novelist, playwright and short story writer, The Seven Who Were Hanged, The Life of Man
• Sergey Andreyevsky, writer, poet, literary critic, The Book on Death
• Irakly Andronikov, writer, historian, philologist and media personality
• Anna Mitrofanovna Aníchkova, writer and translator who wrote under the pseudonym Ivan Strannik
• Pavel Annenkov, critic and memoirist, The Extraordinary Decade
• Yury Annenkov, artist and writer, A Tale of Trivia
• Innokenty Annensky, poet, critic and translator, representative of the first wave of Russian Symbolism
• Lev Anninsky writer, literary historian and critic
• Pavel Antokolsky, poet, All We Who in His Name
• Maxim Antonovich, critic, essayist, memoirist, translator and philosopher
• Elena Apreleva, writer, memoirist, playwright, Guilty without Guilt
• Aleksey Apukhtin, poet and writer, From Death to Life
• Maria Arbatova, novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet and journalist
• Aleksei Arbuzov, playwright, A Long Road
• Vladimir Arnoldi, children's author and professor of biology
• Mikhail Artsybashev, naturalist writer and playwright, Sanin
• Nikolai Aseev, futurist poet, Night Flute
• Viktor Astafyev, novelist and short story writer, Sad Detective
• Lera Auerbach , poet, writer and composer
• Mikhail Avdeev, novelist and playwright, Tamarin trilogy
• Arkady Averchenko, satirical writer and playwright, Ninochka
• Vasily Avseenko, writer, journalist and literary critic
• Hizgil Avshalumov, Soviet novelist, poet and playwright
• Gennadiy Aygi, Chuvash poet and translator
• Vasily Azhayev, novelist, ''Far from Moscow''

  B

• Semyon Babayevsky, novelist and short story writer, Golden Star Chavalier
• Isaak Babel, short story writer, The Odessa Tales, Red Cavalry
• Eduard Bagritsky, constructivist poet, February
• Grigory Baklanov, novelist and magazine editor, Forever Nineteen
• Ivan Bakhtin, poet, satirist and politician
• Mikhail Bakhtin, philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar, "Epic and Novel"
• Mikhail Bakunin, revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism, God and the State, Statism and Anarchy
• Konstantin Balmont, symbolist poet and translator, Burning Buildings, Let Us Be Like the Sun
• Jurgis Baltrušaitis, poet and translator, The Pendulum
• Kazimir Barantsevich, writer and poet, Family Hearth
• Yevgeny Baratynsky, poet, The Gipsy
• Natalya Baranskaya, novelist and short story writer, A Week Like Any Other
• Ivan Barkov, comic and erotic poet, Luka Mudischev
• Anna Barkova, poet and writer, Gulag survivor
• Elpidifor Barsov, literary historian, ethnographer, folklorist, philologist
• Agniya Barto, Russian-Jewish poet and children's writer
• Alexander Bashlachev, poet, musician, guitarist, and singer-songwriter
• Fyodor Batyushkov, philologist, essayist, literary and theatre historian
• Konstantin Batyushkov, poet, essayist and translator
• Nikolai Bazhin, writer, journalist and critic, The History of One People's Partnership
• Pavel Bazhov, fairy tale author, The Malachite Casket
• Demyan Bedny, poet and satirist, New Testament Without Defects
• Dmitry Begichev, writer and politician
• Alexander Bek, novelist, And Not to Die
• Ekaterina Beketova, poet, writer, and translator
• Vissarion Belinsky, writer, literary critic and philosopher
• Vasily Belov, writer, poet and dramatist, Eves, The Year of a Major Breakdown
• Andrei Bely, symbolist poet, writer and essayist, The Silver Dove, Petersburg
• Alexander Belyayev, science fiction author, Amphibian Man
• Vladimir Benediktov ; poet and translator
• Nina Berberova, novelist and short story writer, The Book of Happiness
• Nikolai Berg, poet, journalist, translator and historian
• Olga Bergholz, poet, playwright and memoirist
• Alexander Bestuzhev, novelist, short story writer and Decembrist, An Evening on Bivouac
• Vitaly Bianki, nature and children's writer
• Aleksei Bibik, working-class novelist and short story writer
• Andrei Bitov, novelist and short story writer, Pushkin House
• Nikolai Blagoveshchensky, writer, journalist and biographer
• Helena Blavatsky, a founder of Theosophy and the Theosophical Society, The Secret Doctrine, Isis Unveiled
• Pyotr Blinov, Udmurt writer and journalist
• Alexander Blok, poet, "The Twelve"
• Pyotr Boborykin, writer, playwright and journalist, China Town
• Oleg Bogayev, playwright, The Russian National Postal Service
• Andrei Bogdanov, bibliographer and ethnographer
• Alexander Bogdanov, novelist, physician, economist and philosopher, Red Star
• Vladimir Bogomolov, novelist and short story writer, Ivan
• Vladimir Bogoraz, revolutionary, writer and anthropologist
• Yuri Bondarev, novelist and short story writer, The Shore
• Leonid Borodin, novelist and journalist, The Story of a Strange Time
• Genrikh Borovik, publicist, writer, playwright and filmmaker
• Vasily Botkin, critic, essayist and translator
• Valeri Brainin-Passek, Russian/German musicologist, music manager, composer and poet
• Osip Brik, avant garde writer and literary critic
• Joseph Brodsky, poet and essayist, Nobel Prize Winner
• Valery Bryusov, poet, novelist and short story writer, The Fiery Angel
• Yury Buida, novelist and short story writer, The Zero Train
• Vladimir Bukovsky, writer and dissident
• Mikhail Bulgakov, novelist, short story writer and playwright, Heart of a Dog, The White Guard, The Master and Margarita
• Faddey Bulgarin, Polish-born writer and journalist
• Kir Bulychev, science fiction author, Half a Life
• Ivan Bunin, first Russian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, The Village, The Life of Arseniev, Dark Avenues
• Anna Bunina, poet, Though Poverty's No Stain
• Viktor Burenin, writer, critic, playwright, librettist and satirical poet
• David Burliuk, illustrator, publicist and author associated with Russian Futurism
• Dmitry Bykov
• Pyotr Bykov literary historian, poet and translator
• Vasil Bykov

  C

• Dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer and geographer
• Catherine the Great,, patroness of the arts, music and theatre, and opera librettist, Fevey
• Pyotr Chaadayev, philosopher, Philosophical Letters
• Aleksey Chapygin, novelist and short story writer, Stepan Razin
• Lidia Charskaya, novelist and actress
• Nikolai Chayev, writer, poet and playwright, Svat Faddeyich
• Alexander Chekhov, writer and journalist
• Anton Chekhov, short story writer and playwright, The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, "Ward No. 6", The Lady with the Dog"
• Nikolay Chernyshevsky, writer, journalist and politician, What Is to Be Done?
• Evgeny Chirikov, novelist, short story writer and playwright, The Magician
• Sasha Chorny, poet, satirist and children's writer
• Korney Chukovsky, children's poet, Wash'em'clean
• Lydia Chukovskaya, writer and poet, Sofia Petrovna
• Georgy Chulkov, poet, editor, writer and critic