Writers
- Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
- Birthplace: Voronezh
- Awards: Nobel Prize 1933
- 1910 - The Village
- 1915 - The Gentleman from San Francisco1925 - Mitya's Love
- 1930 - The Well of Days
- Feodor Vasilyevich Gladkov (1883-1958)
- Birthplace: Chernavka
- Awards: Stalin Prize 1950
- 1925 - Cement
- 1938 - Energy
- 1949 - Story of Childhood
- Maxim Gorky (1870-1953)
- Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov
- Birthplace: Nizhi Novgorod
- 1898 - Sketches and Stories
- 1902 - The Lower Depths
- 1914 - My Childhood
- 1916 - My Apprenticeship
- 1923 - My Universities
- Sof'ia Dmitrievna Khvoshchinskaia (1828-1865)
- Iv. Vesen'ev
- Birthplace: Riazan
- 1858 - Aunty's Legacy
- 1861 - A Provincial Lament
- 1862 - Earthly Joys and Joys of Our Back Street
- 1862 - A Little About Our Customs
- 1863 - City and Country Folk
- 1864 - Our Urban Life
- Anatoli Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (1930-1979)
- A. Anatoli
- Birthplace: Kiev, Ukraine
- 1957 - The Continuation of a Legend
- 1966 - Babi Yar
- 1969 - The Fire
- Nadezha Mandelstam (1899-1980)
- Birthplace: ??
- 1970 - Hope Against Hope
- Vladimir Nabakov (1899-1977)
- Birthplace: St. Petersburg
- 1938 - Laughter in the Dark
- 1945 - The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
- 1947 - Speak, Memory
- 1947 - Bend Sinister
- 1955 - Lolita
- 1957 - Pnin
- 1962 - Pale Fire
- 1969 - Ada
- 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
- 1968 - The Complete Prose Tales of Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin
N. Shchedrin (1826-1889)
- Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov
- Birthplace: Spas-Ugol
- 1880 - The Golovlev Family
- 1885 - Fables
- Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-????)
- Birthplace: Kislovodsk
- Awards: Nobel Prize 1970; Templeton Prize for Progress 1983; Russian State Literature Prize 1990
- 1962 - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- 1968 - Cancer Ward
- 1968 - The First Circle
- 1972 - August 1914
- 1975 - Lenin in Zurich
- 1978 - The Gulag Archipeligo
- 1980 - The Oak and the Calf
- 1999 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life
- Ivan Sergeievich Turgenev (1818-1883)
- Birthplace: Orel
- 1849 - A Month in the Country
- 1852 - A Sportsman's Sketches
- 1856 - Rudin
- 1859 - A Nest of Gentlefolk
- 1860 - On the Eve
- 1862 - Fathers and Sons
- 1867 - Smoke
- 1876 - Virgin Soil
- Birthplace: Voronezh
