Most Famous Russian Writers

50 Russian Writers in view out of 630

Fyodor Dostoevsky Russian Novelist 1821 – 1881

#85 Wiki

Leo Tolstoy Russian Writer 1828 – 1910

#92 Wiki

Anton Chekhov Russian Playwright 1860 – 1904

#130 Wiki

Alexander Pushkin Russian Poet 1799 – 1837

#275 Wiki

Rosa Luxemburg Russian Philosopher 1871 – 1919

#479 Wiki

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russian Writer 1918 – 2008

#517 Wiki

Nikolai Gogol Russian Novelist 1809 – 1852

#762 Wiki

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Mikhail Bulgakov Russian Novelist 1891 – 1940

#797 Wiki

Maxim Gorky Russian Writer 1868 – 1936

#828 Wiki

Anna Akhmatova Russian Writer 1889 – 1966

#1,259 Wiki

Ivan Bunin Russian Writer 1870 – 1953

#1,301 Wiki

Ivan Turgenev Russian Writer 1818 – 1883

#1,302 Wiki

Lev Vygotsky Russian Philosopher 1896 – 1934

#1,687 Wiki

Sergei Yesenin Russian Poet 1895 – 1925

#2,338 Wiki

Mikhail Sholokhov Russian Writer 1905 – 1984

#2,391 Wiki

Yevgeny Yevtushenko Russian Poet 1932 – 2017

#2,918 Wiki

Chinghiz Aitmatov Russian Author 1928 – 2008

#3,211 Wiki

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy Russian Playwright 1883 – 1945

#3,958 Wiki

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Nikolay Chernyshevsky Russian Novelist 1828 – 1889

#4,044 Wiki

Georgi Plekhanov Russian Philosopher 1856 – 1918

#4,054 Wiki

Fyodor Tyutchev Russian Writer 1803 – 1873

#4,456 Wiki

Nikolay Nekrasov Russian Poet 1821 – 1878

#4,464 Wiki

Sergei Diaghilev Russian Art Critic 1872 – 1929

#4,510 Wiki

Sholem Aleichem Russian Playwright 1859 – 1916

#4,773 Wiki

Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin Russian Writer 1826 – 1889

#4,976 Wiki

Aleksandr Kuprin Russian Writer 1870 – 1938

#5,390 Wiki

Nikolai Leskov Russian Writer 1831 – 1895

#5,622 Wiki

Nikolay Karamzin Russian Writer 1766 – 1826

#6,189 Wiki

Yevgeny Zamyatin Russian Writer 1884 – 1937

#6,337 Wiki

Vasily Zhukovsky Russian Poet 1783 – 1852

#6,637 Wiki

Gavrila Derzhavin Russian Poet 1743 – 1816

#6,663 Wiki

Varlam Shalamov Russian Writer 1907 – 1982

#6,871 Wiki

Vasily Shukshin Russian Writer 1929 – 1974

#7,399 Wiki

Boris Akunin Russian Writer Born 1956

#7,622 Wiki

Konstantin Balmont Russian Poet 1867 – 1942

#7,973 Wiki

Velimir Khlebnikov Russian Poet 1885 – 1922

#8,466 Wiki

Afanasy Fet Russian Poet 1820 – 1892

#8,539 Wiki

Nathalie Sarraute Russian Writer 1900 – 1999

#8,877 Wiki

Lesya Ukrainka Russian Poet 1871 – 1913

#8,974 Wiki

Alexander Bogdanov Russian Philosopher 1873 – 1928

#9,143 Wiki

Sergei Lukyanenko Russian Writer Born 1968

#9,223 Wiki

Vissarion Belinsky Russian Critic 1811 – 1848

#9,533 Wiki

Hayim Nahman Bialik Russian Poet 1873 – 1934

#10,782 Wiki

Zinaida Gippius Russian Poet 1869 – 1945

#10,940 Wiki

Sophia Tolstaya Russian Writer 1844 – 1919

#11,055 Wiki

Vladimir Sorokin Russian Playwright Born 1955

#11,882 Wiki

Alexander Grin Russian Writer 1880 – 1932

#12,149 Wiki

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Alexander Zinoviev Russian Philosopher 1922 – 2006

#13,050 Wiki

Lyudmila Ulitskaya Russian Writer Born 1943

#13,262 Wiki

Sergei Bulgakov Russian Philosopher 1871 – 1944

#13,465 Wiki

By the numbers

Inside Russia Writers

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Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous russia writers born in each.

Notable Births by Decade

Notable births among Russia Writers peaked in the 1900s with 68 people.

What Russia Writers Are Known For

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Biggest Most distinctive

Writer are Russia Writers's biggest group — 32% of all notables (204).

Russia Writers over-index on playwright — 20.3× the global rate.

Writer20432%
Poet16626%
Historian629.8%
Journalist416.5%
Philosopher375.9%
Linguist294.6%
Playwright243.8%
Author213.3%

Playwright2420.3×
Poet16613.5×
Literary1012.5×
Linguist2912.3×
Philosopher379.7×
Historian628.3×
Writer2047.8×
Journalist416.8×