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- Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) We, Russians, used to say that Pushkin is our everything (and is praised and loved much more than anyone else). Having died aged at just 37 years of age, this genius managed to cover an enormous amount of topics, genres and forms.
- Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) The first satiric and comedic writer, whose works are incredibly and paradoxically relevant even today. Gogol is an author of comedic plays that are still staged in theaters across the country.
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) This author doesn’t need an additional introduction and is, probably, the most famous (and most prolific) Russian writer. His full collection of works consists of 90 volumes, everything that he wrote during his 82 years of life, including a huge diary and many letters he exchanged with a wide circle of friends.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) Fyodr Dostoevsky had a dramatic life: at 28 years old, he was arrested for spreading banned books and sent to prison in Siberia.
- Leo Tolstoy
- Anna Akhmatova
- Anton Chekhov
- Nikolai Gogol
- Alexander Pushkin
- Ivan Turgenev
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Boris Pasternak
- Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
One of the best-known Russian writers, Leo Tolstoy, is famous for works like Anna Karenina, War and Peace, and The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Though he never won, he received multiple nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize. Tolstoy portrayed the culture and society of Russia in his writing, and literary critics consider ...
One of the best-known and significant Russian poets of the 20th century, Anna Akhmatova, is the pen name of Anna Adreyevna Gorenko. Her poetry spans several forms of poems, including short lyric verses and long cyclic pieces. Requiem is one of her most famous works, and it detailed the suffering of the Russians under Soviet rule.
In the late 19th century, Anton Chekhov wrote plays and short stories. He won the Pushkin Prize for his work and worked as a physician when he was not writing. Some of his most famous plays include Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and Uncle Vanya.
Born in Ukraine in 1809, Nikolai Gogol wrote Russian literature known for its literary realism. His satirical work, The Government Inspector, is a comedy of errors that draws attention to political corruption that was common in Russia. His work is particularly well-known among Russian fiction writers because it has a distinctively Ukrainian tone of...
Alexander Pushkin was a Romantic-era writer of Russian poetry, plays, and novels often called the greatest Russian poet and the founder of literature in Russia. He hailed from Moscow and also lived in Saint Petersburg.The Stone Guest, a dramatic play detailing the fall of Don Juan, and the novel in verse, Eugene Onegin,are two of his most famous wo...
It was through the work of Ivan Turgenev that Russian writing gained a following in the West. His novel Father and Sonsis one of the major works of 19th-century Russia. He often tackled religious and political topics in his writing. Under the rule of Tsar Nicholas I, he fled Russia and moved to Western Europe, where he continued writing and brought...
Mikhail Bulgakov is a prominent playwright and novelist in 20th-century Russia. He started his professional life as a physician, writing about his work in A Young Doctor’s Notebook, before abandoning his medical career to pursue writing full-time after a lengthy illness. Unfortunately, he ran into trouble while living under Stalin’s rule as his pla...
Vladimir Nabokov wrote in Russia and America, with nine Russian novels and many more in the United States. His novel Lolita earned fourth place on the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list in 2007, and he was a seven-time finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. In addition to writing, Nabokov worked as a translator and entomologist before h...
Boris Pasternack is best known for his 1957 novel Doctor Zhivago. This book takes place between the Russian Revolution and World War II, and while it was not published in Russia due to censorship, it was published in Italy. This work earned Pasternak the Nobel Prize for Literature, which the Communist Party of the Soviet Union forced him to decline...
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a science fiction and historical fiction writer who wrote in the early 1900s. His work glorified Stalin and thus was not subject to censorship, and his trilogy, The Road to Calvary, won the Stalin Prize in 1943. Though his later works were heavily pro-Stalin, his early works, like the novel Aelita, were some of the ...
- Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) Portrait of Alexander Pushkin by Orest Kiprensky / State Tretyakov Gallery. And the winner is.... Pushkin! He is absolutely huge in terms of rhymes and rhythms.
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Leo Tolstoy / Carl Bulla. You might think Tolstoy should be in first place, because during the 82 years of his life he wrote 90 volumes of novels, diaries, letters and more...
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) Fyodor Dostoyevsky / TASS. We know that all people are divided into those who love Tolstoy and those who love Dostoyevsky.
- Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) Portrait of Nikolai Gogol by Fyodor Moller / open sources. This writer probably deserves even a higher ranking because he is a rare example of wit and satire, a writer with a brilliant sense of humor!
- Alexei Ivanov. An original writer from the Urals, Alexei Ivanov stands apart from the crowd and aloof from the capital's literary scene: His works seem not to belong to the mainstream literary agenda.
- Alexey Salnikov. Alexey Salnikov is often described as the main literary discovery of the 2010s. His book 'The Petrovs In and Around the Flu', which came out in 2016, made the writer and poet from the Urals famous.
- Boris Akunin. An expert on Japan, Grigori Chkhartishvili is the author of numerous translations of Japanese literature, as well as an ambitious multivolume work titled: 'History of the Russian State', in which he tries to separate the facts from the ideological interpretations of historians of the past.
- Victor Pelevin. Victor Pelevin is considered by many to be the most enigmatic of Russian writers – whom no one has seen in person for twenty years. Yet, every year, he emails his publisher a new novel and, every fall, critics and his many admirers debate whether he is brilliant or just mediocre.
Nov 28, 2023 · Leo Tolstoy: The Epic Storyteller. Leo Tolstoy is one of the most famous and celebrated Russian writers of all time. Born in 1828, Tolstoy is primarily known for his epic novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), which are considered to be amongst the greatest achievements of world literature.
Jun 4, 2024 · By. Jeffrey Somers. Jeff Somers is an award-winning writer who has authored nine novels, over 40 short stories, and "Writing Without Rules," a non-fiction book about the business and craft of writing. Updated on June 04, 2024. Russian literature has long been one of the richest and most interesting branches of the literary tree.
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Nikolai Gogol, 1809 – 1852. Nikolai Gogol. Gogol was a Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer. He was born in Ukraine and was influenced by Ukrainian culture. His works were, and still are, highly popular and have been adapted for film many times. His novel, Taras Bulba, was made into a blockbusting Hollywood film.
