List of Russian-language novelists

This is a list of authors who have written works of fiction in the Russian language. The list encompasses novelists and writers of short fiction.

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Narine Abgaryan (b.1971)	Three Apples Fell From the Sky Manyunya
	Fyodor Abramov (1920–1983)	The New Life Wooden Horses Two Winters and Three Summers	Memorial plaque in St. Petersburg
	M. Ageyev (1898–1973)	Novel with Cocaine	First edition cover
	Chinghiz Aitmatov (1928–2008)	Jamilya The White Ship The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years	At a book signing in St. Petersburg, 2007	Aitmatov (left) at the 2007 Cologne Literature Festival with Publishing Director Lucien Leitess (center) and Mongolian writer Galsan Tschinag (right)
	David Aizman (1869–1922)	The Countrymen
	Sergey Aksakov (1791–1859)	The Scarlet Flower The Family Chronicle Years of Childhood A Russian Schoolboy	Memorial to Aksakov	The Aksakov Family Coat of Arms
	Vasily Aksyonov (1932–2009)	The Burn Colleagues Generations of Winter The Winter's Hero
	Boris Akunin (born 1956)	Erast Fandorin series Nicholas Fandorin series Sister Pelagia series	Akunin at the HeadRead literary festival, 2011
	Mikhail Albov (1851–1911)	On the New Road
	Yuz Aleshkovsky (1929–2022)	The Hand Kangaroo
	Alexander Amfiteatrov (1862–1938)	Napoleonder The Fire Flower	Napoleon Bonaparte	Painting of Napoleon by David, 1812
	Daniil Andreyev (1906–1959)	Roza Mira	Daniil's parents Leonid Andreyev and Countess Anna Wielhorska
	Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919)	Darkness The Abyss The Red Laugh The Seven Who Were Hanged	1909 book cover
	Yury Annenkov (1889–1974)	A Tale of Trivia	Annenkov's 1917 self-portrait
	Aleksey Apukhtin (1840–1893)	From Death to Life The Archive of Countess D	Illustration from Apukhtin's novel From Death to Life	Memorial plaque in Bolkhov
	Maria Arbatova (born 1957)	My name is Woman	Maria Arbatova in 2009
	Mikhail Artsybashev (1878–1927)	Sanin Ivan Lande Breaking Point Tales of the Revolution	Artsybashev with the actress Yavorskaya, 1915	Drawing of Artsybashev
Monument in Krasnoyarsk.	Viktor Astafyev (1924–2001)	Queen Fish Sad Detective To Live Your Life The Cursed and the Slain	Vladimir Putin speaking with Astafyev's widow, 2004
	Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925)	Ninochka	Drawing of Averchenko	Averchenko, c. 1905

Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
Isaak Babel (1894–1940)	Red Cavalry The Odessa Tales	Red Cavalry poster, 1919	Red Cavalry poster, 1920
Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009)	The Foothold Forever Nineteen South of the Main Offensive
Natalya Baranskaya (1908–2004)	A Week Like Any Other
Pavel Bazhov (1879–1950)	The Malachite Box	Commemorative coin featuring Bazhov	Bazhov in his youth
Dmitry Begichev (1786–1855)	The Kholmsky Family
Alexander Bek (1903–1972)	And Not to Die The Story of an Inventor The New Appointment
Andrei Bely (1880–1934)	Petersburg Kotik Letaev The Silver Dove Moscow	First edition of Petersburg, 1916	First edition of The Silver Dove, 1910
Alexander Belyaev (1884–1942)	Professor Dowell's Head Ariel Amphibian Man	Drawing by Belyayev	Another of his drawings
Nina Berberova (1901–1993)	The Accompanist The Tattered Cloak The Italics are Mine The Book of Happiness	With her husband, 1925
Alexander Bestuzhev (1797–1837)	The Test On Bivouac	1823 title page from Bestuzhev's magazine Polar Star	An engraving of Bestuzhev
Vitaly Bianki (1894–1959)	Whose Nose is Better?
Aleksei Bibik (1878–1976)
Andrei Bitov (1937–2018)	Pushkin House The Monkey Link Life in Windy Weather A Captive of the Caucasus
Nikolai Blagoveshchensky (1837–1889)	Before the Dawn
Pyotr Boborykin (1836–1921)	China Town
Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928)	Red Star	A drawing of Bogdanov
Vladimir Bogomolov (1926–2003)	Ivan The Moment of Truth
Yuri Bondarev (1924–2020)	Silence The Shore The Hot Snow
Leonid Borodin (1938–2011)	Partings The Third Truth The Story of a Strange Time The Year of Miracle and Grief
Valery Bryusov (1873–1924)	The Fiery Angel The Republic of the Southern Cross	A drawing of Bryusov	An Armenian stamp featuring Bryusov
Yury Buida (born 1954)	The Zero Train The Prussian Bride Sinbad the Sailor
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940)	The White Guard The Master and Margarita Heart of a Dog The Fatal Eggs		Soviet stamp featuring Behemoth
Kir Bulychev (1934–2003)	Half a Life Great Gusliar Earth and Elsewhere Alisa Selezneva
Ivan Bunin (1870–1953)	Dry Valley The Village Dark Avenues The Life of Arseniev	Soviet Nobel Laureates in Literature

Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
Aleksey Chapygin (1870–1937)	Stepan Razin	Stepan Razin, picture by Kustodiev
Sergei Charchoun (1888–1975)	Dolgolikov
Lidia Charskaya (1875–1938)	Princess Dzhavakha	Charskaya, c. 1910
Alexander Chekhov (1855–1913)		The Chekhov family	Alexander's son Michael Chekhov
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904)	A Dreary Story Ward No. 6 The Duel Peasants	Title page from Collected Works Volume 2	An example from one of Chekhov's manuscripts
Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828–1889)	What Is to Be Done?	Title page of What Is to Be Done?
Evgeny Chirikov (1864–1932)	The Magician Strained Relations Marka of the Pits	At his desk, 1904	Portrait by Repin, 1906
Lydia Chukovskaya (1907–1996)	Sofia Petrovna
Georgy Chulkov (1879–1939)		Chulkov (left), with fellow Soviet writers

Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
Yuli Daniel (1925–1988)	This is Moscow Speaking
Grigory Danilevsky (1829–1890)	Moscow in Flames The Princess Tarakanova	Moscow in Flames	Princess Tarakanova by Konstantin Flavitsky
Grigoriy Demidovtsev (born 1960)		Certificate of membership in the Union of Russian Writers	Demidovtsev in 2007
Valentina Dmitryeva (1859–1947)	Hveska, The Doctor's Watchman	Dmitryeva, c. 1890	Dmitryeva, 1895
Leonid Dobychin (1894–1936)	The Town of N Encounters with Lise	First edition cover
Yury Dombrovsky (1909–1978)	The Faculty of Useless Knowledge The Keeper of Antiquities
Vlas Doroshevich (1864–1922)	Legends and Stories of the East	Doroshevich c.1910
Lyubov Dostoyevskaya (1869–1926)	The Emigrant	Anna Dostoyevskaya (wife of Fyodor Dostoyevsky) with their daughter Lyubov and son Fyodor	Anna Dostoyevskaya
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881)	Notes from Underground Crime and Punishment The Idiot Demons The Brothers Karamazov The House of the Dead The Gambler "White Nights" "A Gentle Creature" "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"	Raskolnikov and Marmeladov from Crime and Punishment	Dostoyevsky's notes for chapter 5 of The Brothers Karamazov
Mikhail Dostoyevsky (1820–1864)		Vremya (Time), the paper published by Fyodor and Mikhail Dostoyevsky	Portrait, 1870
Sergei Dovlatov (1941–1990)	The Zone Affiliate
Alexander Druzhinin (1824–1864)	Polinka Saks The Story of Aleksei Dmitrich	Druzhinin (2nd from right), with his fellow writers from Sovremennik	Druzhinin in 1856
Vladimir Dudintsev (1918–1998)	White Garments A New Year's Tale Not by Bread Alone

Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967)	Julio Jurenito The Thaw	Julio Jurenito	Photo of Ehrenburg
Sergey Elpatyevsky (1854–1933)	Pity Me! The Homeless Ones
Asar Eppel (1935–2012)	The Grassy Street Red Caviar Sandwiches
Victor Erofeyev (born 1947)	Russian Beauty Life with an Idiot
Alexander Ertel (1855–1908)	The Specialist A Greedy Peasant	Ertel, c. 1890
Mikhail Evstafiev (born 1963)	Two Steps from Heaven

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Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
Alexander Fadeyev (1901–1956)	The Rout The Young Guard		Soviet stamp featuring Fadeyev
Konstantin Fedin (1892–1977)	Early Joys The Conflagration Cities and Years No Ordinary Summer
Olga Forsh (1873–1961)	Palace and Prison Pioneers of Freedom
Dmitry Furmanov (1891–1926)	Chapayev	Photo of Vasily Chapayev	Soviet stamp featuring Vasily Chapayev

Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
Arkady Gaidar (1904–1941)	Chuk and Gek The Blue Cup Timur and his Gang	Soviet stamp featuring Gaidar
Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky (1852–1906)	Practical Training	Portrait by Israel Pass, 1905	Bas-relief dedication at the Laspi Pass
Vsevolod Garshin (1855–1888)	Four Days The Red Flower	The Red Flower	Photo of Garshin, 1877
Gaito Gazdanov (1903–1971)	An Evening with Claire Night Roads The Spectre of Alexander Wolf	First edition of An Evening with Claire
Yuri German (1910–1967)	Ivan Lapshin The Cause You Serve
Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945)	The Devil's Doll Roman-Tzarevich	Portrait by Ilya Repin
Anatoly Gladilin (1935–2018)	Moscow Racetrack	Gladilin in Moscow, 2011
Fyodor Gladkov (1883–1958)	Cement Restless Youth
Avdotia Glinka (1795–1863)	Countess Polina Leonid Stepanovich and Liudmilla Sergeeva
Dmitry Glukhovsky (born 1979)	Metro 2033
Pyotr Gnedich (1855–1925)	The Burden of this World
Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852)	Dikanka Taras Bulba The Overcoat Dead Souls	Title page of the first edition of Dead Souls, 1842	Nozdryov from Dead Souls
Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891)	A Common Story Oblomov The Precipice	Title page of Oblomov	Title page of The Precipice
Maxim Gorky (1868–1936)	Mother Through Russia Stories of 1922–1924 The Artamonov Business The Life of Klim Samgin	With Leo Tolstoy	First publication of The Life of Klim Samgin in Krasnaya Nov, 1927
Nina Gorlanova (born 1947)
Daniil Granin (1919–2017)	Into the Storm Those Who Seek	With Dmitry Medvedev, 2009
Dmitry Grigorovich (1822–1900)	The Fishermen	Self-portrait of Grigorovich in his 20s	Portrait by Kramskoi
Alexander Grin (1880–1932)	Scarlet Sails The Seeker of Adventure	The Scarlet Sails celebration in St Petersburg	From the 2010 celebration
Isabella Grinevskaya (1864–1944)
Vasily Grossman (1905–1964)	Stalingrad Life and Fate Forever Flowing	Memorial plaque in Donetsk
Elena Guro (1887–1913)	Autumnal Dream The Hurdy-Gurdy The Little Camels of the Sky	Guro's portrait of her husband Mikhail Matyushin	Elena and Mikhail
Andrei Gusev (born 1952)	With Chronos' Permit On the Edge of Magellanic Clouds The World According to Novikoff	Andrei Gusev in Moscow, 2009
Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky (1867–1963)	The Land of the Fathers The Land of the Children

Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
Ilf and Petrov Ilf (1897–1937) Petrov (1903–1942)	The Twelve Chairs The Little Golden Calf	The Twelve Chairs Monument in Odesa	Another view of the Twelve Chairs monument
Fazil Iskander (1929–2016)	Chik and His Friends Sandro of Chegem The Gospel According to Chegem The Thirteenth Labour of Hercules	Iskander with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev	Abkhazian coin featuring Iskander
Alexei Ivanov (born 1969)
Vsevolod Ivanov (1895–1963)	Armoured Train 14-69 U The Kremlin The Secret of Secrets

Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
Nikolay Karamzin (1766–1826)	Poor Liza	Poor Liza, painting by Orest Kiprensky, 1827	Stamp featuring Karamzin
Nikolay Karazin (1842–1908)	The Two-Legged Wolf From North to South	From North to South book cover
Nikolay Karonin-Petropavlovsky (1853–1892)	First Storm
Vladimir Karpov (1922–2010)	The Commander
Anna Kashina	In the Name of the Queen
Ivan Kataev (1902–1937)	The Wife Immortality
Valentin Kataev (1897–1986)	Time Forward! The Embezzlers A White Sail Gleams The Cottage in the Steppe
Veniamin Kaverin (1902–1989)	Open Book The Two Captains The Unknown Artist
Emmanuil Kazakevich (1913–1962)	Star: A Story The Blue Notebook
Yury Kazakov (1927–1982)	Going To Town Adam and Eve
Yuri Khanon (born 1965)	Skryabin As a Face Antedate Memories Alphonse, who didn't was	Erik Satie, "Antedate Memories"	“Alphonse, who didn't was"
Daniil Kharms (1905–1942)	The Old Woman		Caricature of Kharms by Antonovsky
Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya (1824–1889)	The Boarding School Girl	Photograph, c. 1880s	Engraving c. 1860s
Sofia Khvoshchinskaya (1824–1865)	City Folk and Country Folk
Marusya Klimova (born 1961)		Klimova in 2006
Vsevolod Kochetov (1912–1973)	The Zhurbin Family What Do You Want Then?
Ivan Kokorev (1825–1853)
Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952)	Red Love A Great Love Love of Worker Bees	Soviet stamp featuring Kollontai	Kollontai in her youth
Vladimir Korolenko (1853–1921)	Bad Company Makar's Dream The Blind Musician		The Korolenko Library in Kharkiv
Sofia Kovalevskaya (1859–1891)	Nihilist Girl	Bust of Kovalevskaya	Commemorative coin
Vadim Kozhevnikov (1909–1984)	Shield and Sword
Nadezhda Kozhevnikova (born 1949)	Attorney Alexandra Tikhonovna
Eugene Kozlovsky (1946–2023)
Vsevolod Krestovsky (1840–1895)	Knights of Industry	Krestovsky, c. 1870
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887–1950)	Quadraturin
Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954)
Aleksandr Kuprin (1870–1938)	The Duel Yama: The Pit The Bracelet of Garnets	A cartoon featuring Kuprin	Photo of Kuprin
Andrey Kurkov (born 1961)	Death and the Penguin Penguin Lost
Ivan Kushchevsky (1847–1876)	Nikolai Negorev	Portrait of Kushchevsky
Mikhail Kuzmin (1872–1936)	Wings	Portrait of Kuzmin by Alexander Golovin, 1910	Photo of Kuzmin
Anatoly Kuznetsov (1929–1979)	Babi Yar