Poets

Anna Akhmatova (1899-1966)
Anna Andreevna Gorenko
Birthplace: Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1912 - Evening
  • 1914 - Beads
  • 1922 - Anno Domini
  • 1940 - The Willow Tree
  • 1962 - Poem Without a Hero
  • 1963 - Requiem

Eduard Georgiyevich Bagritsky (1895-1934)
Eduard Dzyubin
Birthplace: Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1926 - Lay About Opanas
  • 1932 - The Last Night
  • 1932 - The Victors

Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (1880-1920)
Birthplace: St. Petersburg
  • 1904 - Songs About the Lady Fair
  • 1918 - The Scythians
  • 1918 - The Twelve

Joseph Brodsky (1940-????)
Birthplace: St. Petersburg
Awards: Nobel Prize 1987
  • 1970 - A Halt in the Wilderness
  • 1980 - A Part of Speech
  • 1884 - To Urania
  • 1992 - Watermark

Valery Bryusov (1873-1924)
Birthplace: Moscow
Areas: Critic, Poet, Translator
  • 1902 - Now That I Have Awakened
  • 1905 - The Earth
  • 1905 - The Republic of the Southern Cross
  • 1906 - In an Underground Prison
  • 1907 - Axis of the Earth
  • 1907 - The Last Martyrs
  • 1908 - The Fiery Angel
  • 1912 - The Altar of Victory
  • 1912 - Mirror of Shadows
  • 1913 - Nights and Days
  • 1914 - In the Mirror
  • 1920 - Latest Dreams
  • 1934 - Jupiter Overthrown

Lidiia Alekséevna Chárskaia (1875-1937)
Birthplace: ??
Areas: Actress, Children's Writer, Poet, Prose Writer
  • 1903 - Princess Dzhavakha
  • 1905 - A Daring Life
  • 1909 - For What?
  • 1910 - The Little Siberian
  • 1924 - Little Princess Nina
  • 1926 - Fledglings
  • 1926 - The Tartar Princess

Kornei Ivanovitch Chukovsky (1882-1969)

Nikolay Vasilyevich Korneychukov
Birthplace: ??
Areas: Critic, Poet
  • 1963 - Alive as Life

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

Sergey Esenin (1895-1925)

Sergey Yesenin
Birthplace: Konstantinovo
  • 1916 - Mourning for the Dead
  • 1973 - Confessions of a Hooligan

Nikolay Mikhaylovich Karamzin (1766-1826)

Birthplace: Mikhaylovka
Areas: Historian, Journalist, Poet
  • 1792 - Poor Lisa
  • 1829 - History of the Russian State

Nadezhda Dmitievna Khvoshchinskaia (1824-1889)
Birthplace: Riazan
Areas: Critic, Fiction writer, Poet
  • 1853 - A Few Summer Days
  • 1858 - Brother Dear
  • 1860 - In Hope of Better Days
  • 1871 - Ursa Major

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

Osip Emilevich Mandelstam (1891-1938)
Birthplace: Warsaw, Poland
  • 1913 - Stone
  • 1922 - Sad Things
  • 1928 - Poems

Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930)
Birthplace: Bagdadi, Georgia
  • 1918 - Mystery Bouffe
  • 1929 - The Bed Bug
  • 1930 - The Bath-House

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

Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821-1877)
Birthplace: Nemirov, Ukraine
Areas: Poet, Publisher
  • 1863 - Red-Nosed Frost
  • 1876 - Who Can Live Happy in Russia
  • 1929 - Poems

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960)
Birthplace: Moscow
Areas: Novelist, Poet
Awards: Nobel Prize 1958
  • 1914 - A Twin Cloud
  • 1924 - The Childhood of Lyuvers
  • 1931 - Safe Conduct
  • 1943 - On Early Trains
  • 1957 - Dr. Zhivago
  • 1959 - Essay in Autobiography

Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837)
Birthplace: Moscow
Areas: Poet, Writer
  • 1820 - Ode to Liberty
  • 1820 - Ruslin and Lyudmila
  • 1825 - Boris Godunov
  • 1827 - The Gypsies
  • 1829 - The Journey to Aryrum
  • 1831 - Eugene Onegin
  • 1833 - The Bronze Horsemen
  • 1834 - The Queen of Spades
  • 1836 - The Captain's Daughter

Alexander Radishchev (1749-1802)

Birthplace: Moscow
Areas: Poet, Prose writer
  • 1790 - Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow

Irina Borisovna Ratushinskaya (1954-????)

Birthplace: Odessa, Ukraine
Areas: Poet
  • 1988 - Grey Is the Colour of Hope

Fyodor Sologub (1863-1927)

Fyodor Kuz'mich Teternikov
Birthplace: St. Petersburg
Areas: Dramatist, Novelist, Poet
  • 1907 - The Little Demon
  • 1912 - The Created Legend

Vladimir Sergeyevich Soloviev (1853-1900)

Birthplace: Moscow
Areas: Philosopher, Poet, Theologian
  • 1874 - The Crisis of Western Philosophy: Against the Positivists
  • 1894 - The Meaning of Love

Aleksandr Petrovich Sumarokov (1717-1777)

Birthplace: St. Petersburg
Areas: Dramatist, Poet
  • 1772 - The Imaginary Cuckold
  • 1806 - Demetrius, the Imposter

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1882-1945)
Birthplace: Nikolayevsk
Areas: Dramatist, Novelist, Poet
  • 1922 - Nikita's Childhood
  • 1925 - Azure Cities
  • 1926 - The Death-Box
  • 1937 - Bread
  • 1945 - Peter the Great
  • 1945 - The Road to Calvary

Marina Tsvetayeva (1892-1941)

Birthplace: Moscow
  • 1957 - The Desmesne of the Swans
  • 1971 - Selected Poems

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1933-????)
Birthplace: Zima
  • 1955 - The Third Snow
  • 1961 - Zima Junction
  • 1962 - Babi Yar
  • 1972 - Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty

Iuliia Valerianovna Zhádovskaia (1824-1883)
Birthplace: ??
Areas: Fiction writer, Poet
  • 1857 - Apart from the Great World
  • 1861 - Woman's Story
  • 1861 - Behind the Times