Portal:Russian authors

Prose writers

 * Leonid Andreyev
 * Anna Anichkova (also as Ivan Strannik)
 * Mikhail Artsybashev
 * Arkady Averchenko
 * Ivan Bunin
 * Anton Chekhov
 * Nikolay Chernyshevsky
 * Evgeny Chirikov
 * Vlas Doroshevich
 * Fyodor Dostoyevsky
 * Sergey Elpatyevsky
 * Vsevolod Garshin
 * Nikolai Gogol
 * Ivan Goncharov
 * Maxim Gorky
 * Alexander Grin
 * Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky
 * Vladimir Korolenko
 * Dmitrii Kouznetsov
 * Vsevolod Krestovsky
 * Fyodor Kryukov
 * Alexander Kuprin
 * Mikhail Lermontov
 * Nikolai Leskov
 * Andrei Lubensky
 * Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak
 * Yakov Okunev
 * Ignaty Potapenko
 * Alexander Pushkin
 * Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
 * Stepan Skitalets
 * Fyodor Sologub
 * Konstantin Staniukovich
 * Vladimir Tchertkoff
 * Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
 * Leo Tolstoy
 * Ivan Turgenev
 * Gleb Uspensky
 * Vikenty Veresaev
 * Vera Zhelikhovsky

Poets

 * Evgeny Baratynsky
 * Vasily Bashkin
 * Andrei Bely
 * Alexander Blok
 * Valery Bryusov
 * Georgy Chulkov
 * Ada Chumachenko
 * Gavrila Derzhavin
 * Simon Frug
 * Zinaida Gippius
 * Viktor Gusev
 * Victor Hofman
 * Vyacheslav Ivanov
 * Daniil Kharms
 * Velimir Khlebnikov
 * Arkady Kots
 * Ivan Krylov
 * Mikhail Kuzmin
 * Mikhail Lermontov
 * Mikhail Lomonosov
 * Osip Mandelstam
 * Vladimir Mayakovsky
 * Dmitry Merezhkovsky
 * Nikolai Minsky
 * Nikolay Nekrasov
 * Ivan Nikitin
 * Boris Pasternak
 * Alexander Pushkin
 * Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov
 * Zinaida Shishova
 * Fyodor Sologub
 * Vladimir Solovyov
 * Lyubov Stolitza
 * Marina Tsvetaeva
 * Pyotr Yakubovich
 * Sergei Yesenin

Biographers

 * Paul Birukoff (Tolstoy's biographer)

Ethnographers and Folklorists

 * Alexander Afanasyev (collector of Russian folk-tales)
 * Emil Bretschneider (sinologist)
 * Bogdan Bronnitsyn (collector of Russian folk-tales)
 * E. A. Chudinsky (collector of Russian folk-tales)
 * Ivan Petrovich Larionov (composer, writer and folklorist)
 * Mikhail Maksimovich
 * Grigory Potanin (explorer, linguist, folklore collector)

Military

 * Yuri Danilov
 * Nikolai Golovin
 * Aleksey Kuropatkin
 * Konstantin Nikolayevich Romanov

Politicians

 * Ber Borochov (Marxist-Zionist writer and leader)
 * Pavel Dolgorukov (one of the founders and first leaders of the Constitutional Democratic party of Russia)
 * Aleksey Kuropatkin
 * Yekaterina Kuskova
 * Vladimir Kuzmin-Karavayev
 * Sergey Lavrov (Minister of Foreign Affairs of modern Russia)
 * Vladimir Lenin (communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist)
 * Maxim Litvinov
 * Georgy Lvov
 * Alexander Meyendorff (jurist, politician and professor)
 * Pavel Milyukov (historian and liberal politician)
 * Vyacheslav Molotov (Soviet Prime minister and Foreign Minister)
 * Sergey Sazonov
 * Ivan Ivanovich Tolstoy
 * Leon Trotsky (Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist)
 * Pyotr Valuyev (statesman and writer)

Political thinkers

 * Mikhail Bakunin (anarchist)
 * Ber Borochov (Marxist-Zionist writer and leader)
 * Nikolay Chernyshevsky (revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher, critic, and socialist)
 * Yuri Galanskov (human rights activist and dissident)
 * Peter Kropotkin (anarcho-communist)
 * Vladimir Lenin (communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist)
 * Leon Trotsky (Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist)

Rulers of Russia
Note. Russian supreme leaders, such as Russian tsars, emperors, Soviet general secretaries, and modern Russia's presidents, are to be collected here. Authors of this section are sorted in timeline order (not alphabetic), and the numbers in braces indicate years of periods of their ruling.

Russian tsars

 * Peter I the Great (1682—1721)

Russian emperors

 * Peter I the Great (1721—1725)
 * Catherine II (1762—1796)
 * Alexander I (1801—1825)
 * Nicholas I (1825—1855)
 * Alexander II (1855—1881)

General Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

 * Vladimir Lenin (1917—1924)
 * Joseph Stalin (1924—1953)
 * Nikita Khrushchev (1953—1964)
 * Leonid Brezhnev (1964—1982)
 * Mikhail Gorbachev (1985—1991)

Presidents of modern Russia

 * Boris Yeltsin (1991—1999)
 * Dmitry Medvedev (2008—2012)
 * Vladimir Putin (2000—2008, 2012— )

Scientists

 * Nikolay Borodin (ichtiologist)
 * Karl Eduard von Eichwald (geologist and physician)
 * Paul Sophus Epstein (mathematical physicist)
 * Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (botanist)
 * Joseph Hamel (scientist, medical doctor, chemical engineer)
 * Vladimir Ignatowski (physicist)
 * Afrikan Nikolaevich Krishtofovich (paleobotanist)
 * Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz (physicist)
 * Ivan Ivanovich Lepechin (zoologist, botanist)
 * Mikhail Lomonosov (scientist, writer and polymath)
 * Jabbar Manaf oglu Mammadov (professor in Baku, Azerbaijan)
 * Dmitri Mendeleev (chemist)
 * Alexander Pogodin (historian, philologist)
 * Yurii Shirokov (physicist)
 * Benjamin Tarnowski (medicine doctor)
 * Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory)
 * Vladimir Vernadsky (mineralogist and geochemist)
 * Paul Vinogradoff (historian and medievalist)
 * Aleksandr Ivanovich Woeikoff (meteorologist, geographer)
 * Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (medical doctor, creator of Esperanto)

Travelers and Explorers

 * Ivan Ivanovich Lepechin (naturalist, zoologist, botanist and explorer)
 * Nikolay Przhevalsky (geographer who explored Central and Eastern Asia)
 * Gombojab Tsybikov (explorer of Tibet, ethnographer, politician and educator)
 * Mikhail Ivanovitch Veneioukov (traveler, geographer, ethnographer)

Other
Note. This section is for collecting those authors who could not be assuredly attributed to any of previous sections.
 * Alexandre Benois (artist and decorator, art critic)
 * Mikhail Bernatzky (writer and tutor on economical topics)
 * Helena Blavatsky (esoterist, theosophist)
 * Dimitry of Rostov (metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church, and church writer)
 * Joseph Markus Goldstein (professor of political economy)
 * Matvei Golovinski (secret service operative)
 * Yisrael Meir Kagen (influential rabbi of the Musar movement)
 * Tamara Karsavina (ballerina and writer on ballet and theatre)
 * Oscar M. Kartoschinsky (writer on economical topics)
 * Alexei Lvov (composer)
 * Vasily Morozov (pupil of Leo Tolstoy and writer of recollections on him)
 * Sergei Nilus (religious writer and mystic)
 * Lazar Popoff (writer on art and painting)
 * Sergei Schulenburg (engineer and constructor)
 * Dmitri Smirnov (composer)
 * Igor Stravinsky (composer)
 * Ilya Tolstoy (son of Leo Tolstoy and writer of recollections on him)
 * Sophie Tolstoya (diarist, wife of Leo Tolstoy)
 * Zinaida Vengerova (literature critic)