Leo Tolstoy
Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time
russian male short story writers
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer, and political prisoner
Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (English: ; Russian: , tr. Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, IPA: [lksandr sre(j)vt pukn] (listen); 6 June [O.S. 26 May] 1799 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern …
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (Russian: , tr. Nikolay Vasil’yevich Gogol’, IPA: [nklaj vsiljvd ol]; Ukrainian: , romanized: Mykola Vasyl’ovych Hohol’; 1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1809 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian novelist, short story writer and playwright of Ukrainian origin.Gogol was one of the first to use the technique of the grotesque, …
Ivan Goncharov
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (, also US: ; Russian: , tr. Ivn Aleksndrovich Goncharv, IPA: [van lksandrvd ntrof]; 18 June [O.S. 6 June] 1812 27 September [O.S. 15 September] 1891) was a Russian novelist best known for his novels The Same Old Story (1847), Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice (1869, also translated as Malinovka Heights). He …
Vasily Grossman
Soviet writer and journalist
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (UK: , US: ; Russian: , tr. Fydor Mikhylovich Dostoyvskiy, IPA: [fdr mxajlvd dstjefskj] (listen); 11 November 1821 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and journalist. Dostoevsky’s literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century …
Mikhail Bulgakov
Russian writer, medical doctor and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century