List of Russian-language playwrights

Notable authors who have written dramatic works in the Russian language include:

The Moscow Art Theatre
Margalo Gillmore (Consuelo) & Richard Bennett (He) in He Who Gets Slapped , 1922.
Richard Bennett (He, left) & Louis Calvert (Baron Regnart, right) in He Who Gets Slapped , 1922.
Maria Arbatova in 2009
Artsybashev with the actress Yavorskaya, 1915
Drawing of Artsybashev
Drawing of Averchenko
Averchenko, c. 1920
Vera Komissarzhevskaya in The Scale
1926 production of The Days of the Turbins
2011 production of Zoyka's Apartment
Portrait of Catherine, 1745
Portrait, 1794
Konstantin Stanislavski as Vershinin in Three Sisters
Chekhov's wife Olga Knipper , who played Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard
At his desk, 1904
Portrait by Repin , 1906
The Grand Duke in military dress, 1891
With his wife Elizaveta, 1894
Certificate of membership in the Union of Russian Writers
Demidovtsev in 2007
V. Denisov and a San Francisco director V.Zavarina, 1994
Drawing of Evreinov, 1921
Memorial plaque in Paris
Statue of Fonvizin, part of the Millennium of Russia monument
The Fonvizin Family Coat of Arms
Portrait of Gippius by Ilya Repin , 1894
Portrait by Léon Bakst , 1906
Fyodor Paramonov as Anton Antonovich in The Government Inspector
Cover of the first edition of The Government Inspector , 1836
Konstantin Stanislavski as Satin in The Lower Depths
1905 production of Children of the Sun by the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre
Stanislavski as Famusov in Woe from Wit
Title page of Griboyedov's manuscript of Woe from Wit , 1824
Guro's self-portrait
Elena and Mikhail Matyushin
1927 production of Armoured Train 14-69
Postcard featuring Kapnist
Kataev's brother, the writer Yevgeni Petrov
Caricature of Kharms by Antonovsky
Layout of scenery for the play based on the play by V. Kirshon The Court
Kokoshkin's grave at the Donskoy Monastery 's necropolis in Moscow
in the Sverdlovsk Regional Universal Scientific Library Vissarion Belinsky
Kolyada Theater in Yekaterinburg
Monument to Krylov in St Petersburg
Illustration The Cat and the Сook by Sergei Gribkov
Title page from one of Kukolnik's dramas, 1834
Plaque for Kukolnik in Taganrog
With the poet Sergei Yesenin , 1915
Soviet stamp featuring Marshak
A young Mayakovsky
Soviet stamp featuring Mayakovsky
Mikhailov receiving an award from Vladimir Putin in 2003
Talking with Vladimir Putin in 2003
Nabokov's first published work
Drawing of Neverov
Stanislavski (left) and Vasily Kachalov in Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man
Monument to Osrovsky at the Maly Theatre in Moscow
Plaque for Panova in St. Petersburg
Petrushevskaya in 2009
At a booksigning in New York with Keith Gessen , 2009
A Bitter Fate . Lizaveta. Picture by Ilya Repin .
Engraving of Pisemsky
The Stone Guest . Don Juan and Doña Ana. Picture by Ilya Repin .
Portrait by Konstantin Somov
Stepanycheva in 2009
Prov Sadovsky as Rasplyuyev in Krechinsky's Wedding (first part of Pictures of the Past ).
Cover of the first edition of Pictures of the Past .
Portrait of Sumarokov by Fedor Rokotov .
Tarakhovskaya's birth house in Taganrog
Tchaikovsky's brother, the composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Ivan the Terrible . Picture by Viktor Vasnetsov .
Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich
Stamp featuring Tolstoy
Stanislavski as Zvezdintsev in The Fruits of Enlightenment , 1891
Stanislavski as Prince Abrezhov in The Living Corpse , 1911
Stanislavski and Knipper in A Month in the Country , 1909
A scene from A Month in the Country
Vvedensky after arrest in 1941
Verbitskaya in 1898
Zakharov with Dmitry Medvedev in 2008