Novelists

Sergei Timofeyevich Aksakov (1791-1859)
Birthplace: Ufa
  • 1834 - The Blizzard
  • 1856 - A Family Chronicle
  • 1856 - Reminisces
  • 1858 - Years of Childhood

Mark Aleksandrovich Aldonov (1886-1957)
M. A. Landau
Birthplace: Kiev, Ukraine
  • 1924 - Sainte Helena
  • 1926 - The Ninth Thermidor
  • 1928 - The Devil's Bridge
  • 1936 - The Fifth Seal
  • 1947 - Before the Deluge

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891-1940)
Birthplace: Kiev, Ukraine
Areas: Novelist, Playwright, Short-story writer
  • 1920 - Zoyka's Apartment
  • 1923 - Deviltry
  • 1924 - The Fatal Eggs
  • 1925 - The White Guards
  • 1926 - The Days of the Turbins
  • 1927 - The Crimson Island
  • 1938 - The Master and Marguerita

Fyodor Mihailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
Birthplace: Moscow
  • 1846 - Poor Folk
  • 1859 - Uncle's Dream
  • 1861 - The House of the Dead
  • 1862 - The Insulted and the Injured
  • 1862 - Village of Stepanchikovo
  • 1864 - Letters from the Underworld
  • 1866 - Crime and Punishment
  • 1867 - The Gambler
  • 1869 - The Idiot
  • 1870 - The Eternal Husband
  • 1872 - The Possessed
  • 1875 - A Raw Youth
  • 1880 - The Brothers Karamazov

Vladimir Dmitriyevich Dudintsev (1918-????)

Birthplace: ??
  • 1956 - Not by Bread Alone

Il'ya Grigor'yevich Erenburg (1891-1967)
Birthplace: Kiev, Ukraine
Areas: Journalist, Novelist, Poet
  • 1919 - Julio Jurentio
  • 1929 - The Love of Jeanette Ney
  • 1934 - Out of Chaos
  • 1945 - The Fall of Paris
  • 1947 - Burya
  • 1951 - The Ninth Ware
  • 1954 - The Thaw

Konstantin Aleksandrovich Fedin (1892-1970)
Birthplace: Saratov
  • 1924 - Cities and Years
  • 1945 - Early Joys
  • 1948 - No Ordinary Summer

Nicolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809-1852)
Birthplace: Poltava
Areas: Dramatist, Humourist, Novelist
  • 1832 - Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka
  • 1835 - Arabesques
  • 1835 - Mirgorod
  • 1836 - The Inspector General
  • 1842 - Dead Souls
  • 1885 - Taras Bulba
  • 1842 - The Overcoat
  • ???? - The Nose

Ivan Alexandrovitch Goncharov (1812-1891)

Birthplace: Simbirsk
Areas: Novelist, Travel writer
  • 1847 - A Common Story
  • 1858 - Oblomov

Dmitry Vasil'yevich Grigorovich (1822-1899)
Birthplace: Simbirsk
  • 1846 - The Village
  • 1853 - The Fishermen
  • 1856 - The Migrants

Valentin Petrovich Katayev (1897-????)
Birthplace: Odessa, Ukraine
Areas: Dramatist, Novelist
  • 1926 - The Embezzlers
  • 1928 - Squaring the Circle
  • 1932 - Forward, Oh Time
  • 1936 - Lone White Sail

Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938)
Birthplace: Narovchat
Areas: Novelist, Short-story writer

Leonid Leonov (1899-1994)
Birthplace: Moscow
Areas: Novelist, Playwright

Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov (1814-1841)
Birthplace: Moscow
Areas: Novelist, Poet
  • 1837 - The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov
  • 1839 - The Demon
  • 1840 - A Hero of Our Time
  • 1840 - October
  • 1842 - Masquerade

Dmitriy Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (1865-1941)
Birthplace: St. Petersburg
Areas: Critic, Novelist, Poet
  • 1905 - Christ and the Antichrist
  • 1929 - Napoleon
  • 1937 - Jesus the Unknown
  • 1939 - Dante

Fyodor Ivanovich Panfyorov (1896-1960)

Birthplace: Pavlovka
  • 1936 And Then the Harvest

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960)
Birthplace: Moscow
Areas: Novelist, Poet
Awards: Nobel Prize 1958

Aleksey Pisemsky (1820-1881)

Birthplace: Kostroma
Areas: Dramatist, Novelist
  • 1858 - A Thousand Souls
  • 1859 - A Bitter Fate

Andrei Platonov (1899-1951)
Birthplace: ??
Areas: Novelist, Short-story writer

Alexander Serafimovich (1863-1949)
Aleksandr Serafimovich Popov
Birthplace: Nizhne-Kumoyarsky
Awards: Stalin Prize 1943
  • 1908 - Sand, and Other Stories
  • 1912 - A Town in the Steppe
  • 1924 - The Iron Flood

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984)
Birthplace: Veshanskaya
Awards: Nobel Prize 1965

Andry Donatovich Sinyavsky (1925-????)
Abram Tertz
Birthplace: Moscow
Areas: Critic, Novelist

Fyodor Sologub (1863-1927)

Fyodor Kuz'mich Teternikov
Birthplace: St. Petersburg
Areas: Dramatist, Novelist, Poet

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1882-1945)
Birthplace: Nikolayevsk
Areas: Dramatist, Novelist, Poet

Leo Nikolaievich Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Birthplace: Yasnaya Polyana