Russian Writers

This is a list of authors who have written works of prose and poetry in the Russian language.

For separate lists by literary field:
* List of Russian-language novelists
* List of Russian-language playwrights
* List of Russian-language poets

A

* Bavasan Abiduev (1909–1940), poet and one of the founders of Buryat children's literature
* Alexander Ablesimov (1742–1783), opera librettist, poet, dramatist, satirist and journalist
*Fyodor Abramov (1920–1983), novelist and short story writer, ''Two Winters and Three Summers''
* Grigory Adamov (1886–1945) science fiction writer, ''The Mystery of the Two Oceans''
*Georgy Adamovich (1892–1972), poet, critic, memoirist, translator
*Anastasia Afanasieva (born 1982), physician, poet, writer & translator
*Alexander Afanasyev (1826–1871), folklorist who recorded and published over 600 Russian folktales and fairytales, ''Russian Fairy Tales''
* Alexander Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky (1816–1875), poet, writer, ethnographer and translator
* Alexander Afinogenov (1904–1941), playwright, ''A Far Place''
* M. Ageyev (1898–1973), pseudonymous writer, ''Novel with Cocaine''
* Chinghiz Aitmatov (1928–2008), Kyrgyz novelist and short story writer, '' Jamilya'', '' The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years''
* David Aizman (1869–1922), Russian-Jewish writer and playwright
*Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), poet, short story writer, and translator, ''The String''
*Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), acmeist poet, ''Requiem'', ''Poem Without a Hero''
*Ivan Aksakov (1823–1886), journalist, slavophile
*Konstantin Aksakov (1817–1860), playwright, critic and writer, slavophile
*Sergey Aksakov (1791–1859), novelist and miscellaneous writer, '' The Scarlet Flower''
* Vasily Aksyonov (1932–2009), novelist and short story writer, '' Generations of Winter''
*Boris Akunin (born 1956), author, essayist, translator and literary critic, '' Erast Fandorin series'', '' Sister Pelagia series''
* Mikhail Albov, (1851–1911), novelist and short story writer
* Mark Aldanov (died 1957), historical novelist
* Andrey Aldan-Semenov (1908–1985), Gulag memoirist
* Lidiia Alekseeva (1909–1989), Latvian poet and writer of short stories
*Mikhail Alekseyev (1918–2007) writer and editor, ''My Stalingrad''
*Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916), Russian Jewish writer, '' Wandering Stars''
* Margarita Aliger (1915–1992), poet, translator, and journalist, ''Zoya''
* Yuz Aleshkovsky (1929–2022), writer, poet, playwright and performer of his own songs, ''Kangaroo''
* Boris Almazov (1827–1876), poet, translator and literary critic
*Alexander Amfiteatrov (1862–1938), writer and historian, ''Napoleonder''
* Daniil Andreyev (1906–1959), writer, poet, and Christian mystic, '' Roza Mira''
* Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919), novelist, playwright and short story writer, '' The Seven Who Were Hanged'', '' The Life of Man''
*Sergey Andreyevsky (1847–1918), writer, poet, literary critic, ''The Book on Death''
* Irakly Andronikov (1908–1990), writer, historian, philologist and media personality
* Anna Mitrofanovna Aníchkova (1868/1869 – 1935), writer and translator who wrote under the pseudonym Ivan Strannik
* Pavel Annenkov (1813–1887), critic and memoirist, ''The Extraordinary Decade''
* Yury Annenkov (1889–1974), artist and writer, ''A Tale of Trivia''
* Innokenty Annensky (1855–1909), poet, critic and translator, representative of the first wave of Russian Symbolism
* Lev Anninsky (1934–2019) writer, literary historian and critic
* Pavel Antokolsky (1896–1978), poet, ''All We Who in His Name''
* Maxim Antonovich (1835–1918), critic, essayist, memoirist, translator and philosopher
*Elena Apreleva (1846–1923), writer, memoirist, playwright, ''Guilty without Guilt''
* Aleksey Apukhtin (1840–1893), poet and writer, ''From Death to Life''
*Maria Arbatova (born 1957), novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet and journalist
*Aleksei Arbuzov (1908–1986), playwright, ''A Long Road''
* Vladimir Arnoldi (1871–1924), children's author and professor of biology
*Mikhail Artsybashev (1878–1927), naturalist writer and playwright, '' Sanin''
* Nikolai Aseev (1889–1963), futurist poet, ''Night Flute''
* Viktor Astafyev (1924–2001), novelist and short story writer, '' Sad Detective''
* Lera Auerbach (Averbakh) (born 1973), poet, writer and composer
* Mikhail Avdeev (1821–1876), novelist and playwright, ''Tamarin'' trilogy
*Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925), satirical writer and playwright, ''Ninochka''
* Vasily Avseenko (1842–1913), writer, journalist and literary critic
* Hizgil Avshalumov (1913–2001), Soviet novelist, poet and playwright
*Gennadiy Aygi (1934–2006), Chuvash poet and translator
* Vasily Azhayev (1915–1968), novelist, ''Far from Moscow''

B

*Semyon Babayevsky (1909–2000), novelist and short story writer, ''Golden Star Chavalier''
* Isaak Babel (1894–1940), short story writer, ''The Odessa Tales'', '' Red Cavalry''
* Eduard Bagritsky (1895–1934), constructivist poet, ''February''
* Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009), novelist and magazine editor, ''Forever Nineteen''
* Ivan Bakhtin (1756–1818), poet, satirist and politician
*Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975), philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar, " Epic and Novel"
*Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876), revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism, ''God and the State'', '' Statism and Anarchy''
*Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942), symbolist poet and translator, ''Burning Buildings'', ''Let Us Be Like the Sun''
* Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873–1944), poet and translator, ''The Pendulum''
*Kazimir Barantsevich (1800–1844), poet, ''The Gipsy''
* Natalya Baranskaya (1908–2004), novelist and short story writer, ''A Week Like Any Other''
* Ivan Barkov (1732–1768), comic and erotic poet, ''Luka Mudischev''
* Anna Barkova (1901–1976), poet and writer, Gulag survivor
* Elpidifor Barsov (1836–1917), literary historian, ethnographer, folklorist, philologist
* Agniya Barto (1906–1981), Russian-Jewish poet and children's writer
* Alexander Bashlachev (1960–1988), poet, musician, guitarist, and singer-songwriter
* Fyodor Batyushkov (1857–1920), philologist, essayist, literary and theatre historian
* Konstantin Batyushkov (1787–1855), poet, essayist and translator
*Nikolai Bazhin