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.

"Russian Writers" by Sergei Levitsky , 1856
Memorial plaque in St. Petersburg
First edition cover
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)
Memorial to Aksakov
The Aksakov Family Coat of Arms
Akunin at the HeadRead literary festival, 2011
Napoleon Bonaparte
Painting of Napoleon by David , 1812
Daniil's parents Leonid Andreyev and Countess Anna Wielhorska
1909 book cover
Annenkov's 1917 self-portrait
Illustration from Apukhtin's novel From Death to Life
Memorial plaque in Bolkhov
Maria Arbatova in 2009
Artsybashev with the actress Yavorskaya, 1915
Drawing of Artsybashev
Monument in Krasnoyarsk .
Vladimir Putin speaking with Astafyev's widow, 2004
Drawing of Averchenko
Averchenko, c. 1905
Red Cavalry poster, 1919
Red Cavalry poster, 1920
Commemorative coin featuring Bazhov
Bazhov in his youth
First edition of Petersburg , 1916
First edition of The Silver Dove , 1910
Drawing by Belyayev
Another of his drawings
With her husband, 1925
1823 title page from Bestuzhev's magazine Polar Star
An engraving of Bestuzhev
A drawing of Bogdanov
A drawing of Bryusov
An Armenian stamp featuring Bryusov
Soviet stamp featuring Behemoth
Soviet Nobel Laureates in Literature
Stepan Razin , picture by Kustodiev
Charskaya, c. 1910
The Chekhov family
Alexander's son Michael Chekhov
Title page from Collected Works Volume 2
An example from one of Chekhov's manuscripts
Title page of What Is to Be Done?
At his desk, 1904
Portrait by Repin , 1906
Chulkov (left), with fellow Soviet writers
Moscow in Flames
Princess Tarakanova by Konstantin Flavitsky
Certificate of membership in the Union of Russian Writers
Demidovtsev in 2007
Dmitryeva, c. 1890
Dmitryeva, 1895
First edition cover
Doroshevich c.1910
Anna Dostoyevskaya (wife of Fyodor Dostoyevsky) with their daughter Lyubov and son Fyodor
Anna Dostoyevskaya
Raskolnikov and Marmeladov from Crime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky's notes for chapter 5 of The Brothers Karamazov
Vremya ( Time ), the paper published by Fyodor and Mikhail Dostoyevsky
Portrait, 1870
Druzhinin (2nd from right), with his fellow writers from Sovremennik
Druzhinin in 1856
Julio Jurenito
Photo of Ehrenburg
Ertel, c. 1890
Soviet stamp featuring Fadeyev
Photo of Vasily Chapayev
Soviet stamp featuring Vasily Chapayev
Soviet stamp featuring Gaidar
Portrait by Israel Pass, 1905
Bas-relief dedication at the Laspi Pass
The Red Flower
Photo of Garshin, 1877
First edition of An Evening with Claire
Portrait by Ilya Repin
Gladilin in Moscow, 2011
Title page of the first edition of Dead Souls , 1842
Nozdryov from Dead Souls
Title page of Oblomov
Title page of The Precipice
With Leo Tolstoy
First publication of The Life of Klim Samgin in Krasnaya Nov , 1927
With Dmitry Medvedev , 2009
Self-portrait of Grigorovich in his 20s
Portrait by Kramskoi
The Scarlet Sails celebration in St Petersburg
From the 2010 celebration
Memorial plaque in Donetsk
Guro's portrait of her husband Mikhail Matyushin
Elena and Mikhail
Andrei Gusev in Moscow, 2009
Statue of Herzen in Moscow
The Twelve Chairs Monument in Odesa
Another view of the Twelve Chairs monument
Iskander with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
Abkhazian coin featuring Iskander
Poor Liza , painting by Orest Kiprensky , 1827
Stamp featuring Karamzin
From North to South book cover
Erik Satie , "Antedate Memories"
“ Alphonse , who didn't was"
Caricature of Kharms by Antonovsky
Photograph, c. 1880s
Engraving c. 1860s
Klimova in 2006
Soviet stamp featuring Kollontai
Kollontai in her youth
The Korolenko Library in Kharkiv
Bust of Kovalevskaya
Commemorative coin
Krestovsky, c. 1870
A cartoon featuring Kuprin
Photo of Kuprin
Portrait of Kushchevsky
Portrait of Kuzmin by Alexander Golovin , 1910
Photo of Kuzmin
Portrait of Lazhechnikov
Title page from the first edition of A Hero of Our Time , 1840
Pechorin's Duel from A Hero of Our Time . Picture by Mikhail Vrubel .
Drawing of Leskov
Levitov, c. 1860s
Photo of Leykin
At a book presentation, 2008
With Garry Kasparov at the Dissenters March in St. Petersburg, 2008
Photo, 2001
Mandelstam after arrest in 1934
Cover of Verotchka's Tales
Title page of Verotchka's Tales
With the poet Sergei Yesenin , 1915
Merezhkovsky (right), with his wife Zinaida Gippius and friend Dmitry Filosofov
Portrait by Repin , 1900
Nabokov's first publication
Drawing of Neverov
Russian stamp featuring Neznaika
Odoevsky's dedication in a book he presented to Lermontov
Odoevsky (at back), with the composers Mily Balakirev (left) and Mikhail Glinka . Painting by Repin .
Stamp featuring Okudzhava
1929 edition of Envy
Stamp featuring Ostrovsky
Palei in Komarovo
Portrait by Levitsky , 1856
Plaque for Panova in St. Petersburg
Soviet Nobel Laureates in Literature
Memorial plaque at Pasternak's birthplace in Moscow
A drawing of Pavlova
Portrait of Pisemsky, c.1860
Engraving of Pisemsky
An engraving of Pomyalovsky
Potapenko (right), with Chekhov and Mamin-Sibiryak . c. 1895
The first page from the serialized version of The Captain's Daughter
Title page from the first edition, 1790
Rasputin receiving an award from Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
Drawing of Reshetnikov
Dina Rubina, 2007
Title page of the first edition of The Golovlyov Family
Ugryum-Burcheyev from The History of a Town
Semyonov, c. 1900
From the Shalamov Memorial Museum in Vologda
In 2006
In 2010
Mikhail Sholokhov
In 1967
With Maxim Gorky
Skitalets (left) with fellow Sreda members
An engraving of Sleptsov
Sollogub with fellow contributors to Sovremennik
Sologub in 1913
Sologub and Anastasia Chebotarevskaya
Ivan Denisovich book cover
Photo of Stanyukovich
Boris Strugatsky
Teffi during World War 1
Bust of Teleshov, 1956
Teleshov with members of the Sreda , 1902
Portrait by Ilya Repin
Monument to Tolstoy
Stamp featuring the character Buratino
The ninth draft of the beginning of War and Peace
Title page of the first edition of Anna Karenina , 1878
Title page of Fathers and Sons
Portrait by Ilya Repin
Uspensky in his 20s, 1868
Soviet stamp featuring Uspensky
Engraving of Valuev, 1865
First edition cover of Goat Song
Veltman, c. 1830
Verbitskaya, c. 1900
With Leonid Andreyev
Painting of Veresayev by Sergey Malyutin , 1919
Ukrainian stamp featuring Vovchok
Vvedensky after arrest in 1941
On the right, with Richard Nixon
On the right with Yevgeny Chirikov
Engraving of Zagoskin.
A Provincial Tale book cover.
Zamyatin, c.1919.
First edition of Viktor Vavich
Before Sunrise