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.

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Narine Abgaryan (b.1971)	Three Apples Fell From the Sky Manyunya
	Fyodor Abramov (1920–1983)	The New Life Wooden Horses Two Winters and Three Summers
	M. Ageyev (1898–1973)	Novel with Cocaine
	Chinghiz Aitmatov (1928–2008)	Jamilya The White Ship The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
	David Aizman (1869–1922)	The Countrymen
	Sergey Aksakov (1791–1859)	The Scarlet Flower The Family Chronicle Years of Childhood A Russian Schoolboy
	Vasily Aksyonov (1932–2009)	The Burn Colleagues Generations of Winter The Winter's Hero
	Boris Akunin (born 1956)	Erast Fandorin series Nicholas Fandorin series Sister Pelagia series
	Mikhail Albov (1851–1911)	On the New Road
	Yuz Aleshkovsky (1929–2022)	The Hand Kangaroo
	Alexander Amfiteatrov (1862–1938)	Napoleonder The Fire Flower
	Daniil Andreyev (1906–1959)	Roza Mira
	Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919)	Darkness The Abyss The Red Laugh The Seven Who Were Hanged
	Yury Annenkov (1889–1974)	A Tale of Trivia
	Aleksey Apukhtin (1840–1893)	From Death to Life The Archive of Countess D
	Maria Arbatova (born 1957)	My name is Woman
	Mikhail Artsybashev (1878–1927)	Sanin Ivan Lande Breaking Point Tales of the Revolution
	Viktor Astafyev (1924–2001)	Queen Fish Sad Detective To Live Your Life The Cursed and the Slain
	Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925)	Ninochka

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Isaak Babel (1894–1940)	Red Cavalry The Odessa Tales
	Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009)	The Foothold Forever Nineteen South of the Main Offensive
	Natalya Baranskaya (1908–2004)	A Week Like Any Other
	Pavel Bazhov (1879–1950)	The Malachite Box
	Dmitry Begichev (1786–1855)	The Kholmsky Family
	Alexander Bek (1903–1972)	And Not to Die The Story of an Inventor The New Appointment
	Andrei Bely (1880–1934)	Petersburg Kotik Letaev The Silver Dove Moscow
	Alexander Belyaev (1884–1942)	Professor Dowell's Head Ariel Amphibian Man
	Nina Berberova (1901–1993)	The Accompanist The Tattered Cloak The Italics are Mine The Book of Happiness
	Alexander Bestuzhev (1797–1837)	The Test On Bivouac
	Vitaly Bianki (1894–1959)	Whose Nose is Better?
	Aleksei Bibik (1878–1976)
	Andrei Bitov (1937–2018)	Pushkin House The Monkey Link Life in Windy Weather A Captive of the Caucasus
	Nikolai Blagoveshchensky (1837–1889)	Before the Dawn
	Pyotr Boborykin (1836–1921)	China Town
	Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928)	Red Star
	Vladimir Bogomolov (1926–2003)	Ivan The Moment of Truth
	Yuri Bondarev (1924–2020)	Silence The Shore The Hot Snow
	Leonid Borodin (1938–2011)	Partings The Third Truth The Story of a Strange Time The Year of Miracle and Grief
	Valery Bryusov (1873–1924)	The Fiery Angel The Republic of the Southern Cross
	Yury Buida (born 1954)	The Zero Train The Prussian Bride Sinbad the Sailor
	Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940)	The White Guard The Master and Margarita Heart of a Dog The Fatal Eggs
	Kir Bulychev (1934–2003)	Half a Life Great Gusliar Earth and Elsewhere Alisa Selezneva
	Ivan Bunin (1870–1953)	Dry Valley The Village Dark Avenues The Life of Arseniev

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Aleksey Chapygin (1870–1937)	Stepan Razin
	Sergei Charchoun (1888–1975)	Dolgolikov
	Lidia Charskaya (1875–1938)	Princess Dzhavakha
	Alexander Chekhov (1855–1913)
	Anton Chekhov (1860–1904)	A Dreary Story Ward No. 6 The Duel Peasants
	Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828–1889)	What Is to Be Done?
	Evgeny Chirikov (1864–1932)	The Magician Strained Relations Marka of the Pits
	Lydia Chukovskaya (1907–1996)	Sofia Petrovna
	Georgy Chulkov (1879–1939)

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Yuli Daniel (1925–1988)	This is Moscow Speaking
	Grigory Danilevsky (1829–1890)	Moscow in Flames The Princess Tarakanova
	Grigoriy Demidovtsev (born 1960)
	Valentina Dmitryeva (1859–1947)	Hveska, The Doctor's Watchman
	Leonid Dobychin (1894–1936)	The Town of N Encounters with Lise
	Yury Dombrovsky (1909–1978)	The Faculty of Useless Knowledge The Keeper of Antiquities
	Vlas Doroshevich (1864–1922)	Legends and Stories of the East
	Lyubov Dostoyevskaya (1869–1926)	The Emigrant
	Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881)	Notes from Underground Crime and Punishment The Idiot Demons The Brothers Karamazov The House of the Dead The Gambler "White Nights" "A Gentle Creature" "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"
	Mikhail Dostoyevsky (1820–1864)
	Sergei Dovlatov (1941–1990)	The Zone Affiliate
	Alexander Druzhinin (1824–1864)	Polinka Saks The Story of Aleksei Dmitrich
	Vladimir Dudintsev (1918–1998)	White Garments A New Year's Tale Not by Bread Alone

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967)	Julio Jurenito The Thaw
	Sergey Elpatyevsky (1854–1933)	Pity Me! The Homeless Ones
	Asar Eppel (1935–2012)	The Grassy Street Red Caviar Sandwiches
	Victor Erofeyev (born 1947)	Russian Beauty Life with an Idiot
	Alexander Ertel (1855–1908)	The Specialist A Greedy Peasant
	Mikhail Evstafiev (born 1963)	Two Steps from Heaven

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Alexander Fadeyev (1901–1956)	The Rout The Young Guard
	Konstantin Fedin (1892–1977)	Early Joys The Conflagration Cities and Years No Ordinary Summer
	Olga Forsh (1873–1961)	Palace and Prison Pioneers of Freedom
	Dmitry Furmanov (1891–1926)	Chapayev

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Arkady Gaidar (1904–1941)	Chuk and Gek The Blue Cup Timur and his Gang
	Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky (1852–1906)	Practical Training
	Vsevolod Garshin (1855–1888)	Four Days The Red Flower
	Gaito Gazdanov (1903–1971)	An Evening with Claire Night Roads The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
	Yuri German (1910–1967)	Ivan Lapshin The Cause You Serve
	Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945)	The Devil's Doll Roman-Tzarevich
	Anatoly Gladilin (1935–2018)	Moscow Racetrack
	Fyodor Gladkov (1883–1958)	Cement Restless Youth
	Dmitry Glukhovsky (born 1979)	Metro 2033
	Pyotr Gnedich (1855–1925)	The Burden of this World
	Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852)	Dikanka Taras Bulba The Overcoat Dead Souls
	Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891)	A Common Story Oblomov The Precipice
	Maxim Gorky (1868–1936)	Mother Through Russia Stories of 1922–1924 The Artamonov Business The Life of Klim Samgin
	Nina Gorlanova (born 1947)
	Daniil Granin (1919–2017)	Into the Storm Those Who Seek
	Dmitry Grigorovich (1822–1900)	The Fishermen
	Alexander Grin (1880–1932)	Scarlet Sails The Seeker of Adventure
	Isabella Grinevskaya (1864–1944)
	Vasily Grossman (1905–1964)	Stalingrad Life and Fate Forever Flowing
	Elena Guro (1887–1913)	Autumnal Dream The Hurdy-Gurdy The Little Camels of the Sky
	Andrei Gusev (born 1952)	With Chronos' Permit On the Edge of Magellanic Clouds The World According to Novikoff
	Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky (1867–1963)	The Land of the Fathers The Land of the Children

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)	Who is to Blame?

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Ilf and Petrov Ilf (1897–1937) Petrov (1903–1942)	The Twelve Chairs The Little Golden Calf
	Fazil Iskander (1929–2016)	Chik and His Friends Sandro of Chegem The Gospel According to Chegem The Thirteenth Labour of Hercules
	Alexei Ivanov (born 1969)
	Vsevolod Ivanov (1895–1963)	Armoured Train 14-69 U The Kremlin The Secret of Secrets

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Nikolay Karamzin (1766–1826)	Poor Liza
	Nikolay Karazin (1842–1908)	The Two-Legged Wolf From North to South
	Nikolay Karonin-Petropavlovsky (1853–1892)	First Storm
	Vladimir Karpov (1922–2010)	The Commander
	Anna Kashina	In the Name of the Queen
	Ivan Kataev (1902–1937)	The Wife Immortality
	Valentin Kataev (1897–1986)	Time Forward! The Embezzlers A White Sail Gleams The Cottage in the Steppe
	Veniamin Kaverin (1902–1989)	Open Book The Two Captains The Unknown Artist
	Emmanuil Kazakevich (1913–1962)	Star: A Story The Blue Notebook
	Yury Kazakov (1927–1982)	Going To Town Adam and Eve
	Yuri Khanon (born 1965)	Skryabin As a Face Antedate Memories Alphonse, who didn't was
	Daniil Kharms (1905–1942)	The Old Woman
	Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya (1824–1889)	The Boarding School Girl
	Sofia Khvoshchinskaya (1824–1865)	City Folk and Country Folk
	Marusya Klimova (born 1961)
	Vsevolod Kochetov (1912–1973)	The Zhurbin Family What Do You Want Then?
	Ivan Kokorev (1825–1853)
	Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952)	Red Love A Great Love Love of Worker Bees
	Vladimir Korolenko (1853–1921)	Bad Company Makar's Dream The Blind Musician
	Sofia Kovalevskaya (1859–1891)	Nihilist Girl
	Vadim Kozhevnikov (1909–1984)	Shield and Sword
	Nadezhda Kozhevnikova (born 1949)	Attorney Alexandra Tikhonovna
	Eugene Kozlovsky (1946–2023)
	Vsevolod Krestovsky (1840–1895)	Knights of Industry
	Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887–1950)	Quadraturin
	Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954)
	Aleksandr Kuprin (1870–1938)	The Duel Yama: The Pit The Bracelet of Garnets
	Andrey Kurkov (born 1961)	Death and the Penguin Penguin Lost
	Ivan Kushchevsky (1847–1876)	Nikolai Negorev
	Mikhail Kuzmin (1872–1936)	Wings
	Anatoly Kuznetsov (1929–1979)	Babi Yar

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Lazar Lagin (1903–1979)	The Old Genie Hottabych
	Yulia Latynina (born 1966)	The Insider
	Boris Lavrenyov (1891–1953)	The Forty-First The Heavenly Cap Such a Simple Thing The Courageous Heart
	Ivan Lazhechnikov (1792–1869)	The Heretic
	Leonid Leonov (1899–1995)	The Badgers Soviet River The Thief The Pyramid
	Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841)	A Hero of Our Time
	Nikolai Leskov (1831–1895)	The Cathedral Folk The Sealed Angel The Enchanted Wanderer Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
	Alexander Levitov (1835–1877)	Leatherhide the Cobbler
	Nikolay Leykin (1841–1906)	Our Folk Abroad
	Vladimir Lichutin (born 1940)
	Eduard Limonov (1943–2020)	It's Me, Eddie His Butler's Story Memoir of a Russian Punk
	Dmitri Lipskerov (born 1964)
	Sergey Lukyanenko (born 1968)	Night Watch Day Watch Twilight Watch Last Watch
	Lev Lunts (1901–1924)	Native Land

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Grigori Machtet (1852–1901)
	Vladimir Makanin (1937–2017)	Baize-Covered Table With Decanter
	Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938)	The Egyptian Stamp
	Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak (1852–1912)	Verotchka's Tales A Gold Nugget The Privalov Fortune
	Anatoly Marienhof (1897–1962)	Cynics
	Alexandra Marinina (born 1957)
	Boleslav Markevich (1822–1884)	The Turning Point
	Vladilen Mashkovtsev (1929–1997)
	Pavel Melnikov (1818–1883)
	Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1865–1941)	Christ and Antichrist (trilogy)
	Daniil Mordovtsev (1830–1905)	The Tsar and the Hetman
	Viktor Muyzhel (1880–1924)	The Year
	Viktor Muravin (born 1929)	The Diary of Vikenty Angarov

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)	Mary The Defense The Gift Lolita
	Yuri Nagibin (1920–1994)	The Pipe Arise and Walk
	Vasily Narezhny (1780–1825)	A Russian Gil Blas
	Nikolay Naumov (1838–1901)	Strength Breaks the Straw
	Andrei Navrozov (born 1956)
	Viktor Nekrasov (1911–1987)	Front-line Stalingrad Kira Georgievna
	Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko (1845–1936)	Peasant Tales of Russia
	Alexander Neverov (1886–1923)	City of Bread
	Friedrich Neznansky (1932–2013)	Red Square Night Wolves
	Nikolay Nosov (1908–1976)	Neznaika
	Alexey Novikov-Priboy (1877–1944)	Tsushima The Captain The Sea Beckons

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Vladimir Obruchev (1863–1956)	Plutonia Sannikov Land
	Vladimir Odoevsky (1803–1869)	Two Princesses The Living Corpse The Year 4338: Petersburg Letters
	Bulat Okudzhava (1924–1997)	A Taste of Liberty Good-bye, Schoolboy! The Art of Needles and Sins
	Yury Olesha (1899–1960)	Envy Three Fat Men The Cherry Pit
	Vladimir Orlov (1936–2014)	Danilov, the Violist
	Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936)	Born of the Storm How the Steel Was Tempered
	Mikhail Osorgin (1878–1942)	Quiet Street My Sister's Story
	Valentin Ovechkin (1904–1968)	Greetings from the Front

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Marina Palei (born 1955)	Rendezvous
	Ivan Panaev (1812–1862)	Lions in the Provinces
	Avdotya Panaeva (1820–1893)	A Woman's Lot
	Vera Panova (1905–1973)	Seryozha Looking Ahead The Train Span of the Year
	Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)	Doctor Zhivago The Childhood of Luvers
	Konstantin Paustovsky (1892–1968)	A Tale of Life (6 novel series)
	Pyotr Pavlenko (1899–1951)	Happiness Steppe Sunlight The Lost Son
	Oleg Pavlov (1970–2018)
	Karolina Pavlova (1807–1893)	A Double Life
	Victor Pelevin (born 1962)	Omon Ra
	Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (born 1938)	The Time: Night
	Valentin Pikul (1928–1990)
	Boris Pilnyak (1894–1938)	The Naked Year The Death of the Army Commander The Volga Falls into the Caspian Sea
	Aleksey Pisemsky (1821–1881)	Nina The Simpleton One Thousand Souls An Old Man's Sin
	Andrei Platonov (1899–1951)	Chevengur Dzhan The Foundation Pit Happy Moscow
	Boris Polevoy (1908–1981)	He Came Back We Are Soviet People The Story of a Real Man
	Nikolay Pomyalovsky (1835–1863)	Seminary Sketches
	Ignaty Potapenko (1856–1929)	A Russian Priest The General's Daughter
	Dmitri Prigov (1940–2007)	Live in Moskow
	Zakhar Prilepin (born 1975)
	Alexander Prokhanov (born 1938)	Empire's Last Soldier
	Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837)	The Queen of Spades The Captain's Daughter

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Alexander Radishchev (1749–1802)	Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow
	Valentin Rasputin (1937–2015)	Money for Maria Farewell to Matyora
	Aleksey Remizov (1877–1957)	The Clock Sisters of the Cross The History of the Tinkling Cymbal and Sounding Brass
	Fyodor Reshetnikov (1841–1871)	The Podlipnayans
	Panteleimon Romanov (1884–1938)	Three Pairs of Silk Stockings Without Bird-Cherry Blossoms
	Mikhail Roshchin (1933–2010)	First Love Twenty Minutes or So The Devil's Wheel in Kobuleti
	Dina Rubina (born 1953)	The Blackthorn
	Anatoly Rybakov (1911–1998)	Children of the Arbat Fear Dust and Ashes
	Vladimir Rybakov (1947–2018)	Creature The Brand The Burden The Afghans
	Vyacheslav Rybakov (born 1954)	Artist The Trial Sphere
	Maria Rybakova (born 1973)

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Irina Saburova (1907–1979)	Because of the Violets
	German Sadulaev (born 1973)	I am a Chechen!
	Ilya Salov (1834–1902)	Butuzka
	Boris Savinkov (1879–1925)	The Pale Horse What Never Happened
	Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889)	The Golovlyov Family The History of a Town Modern Idyll Old Years in Poshekhonye
	Genrikh Sapgir (1928–1999)
	Sergey Semyonov (1868–1922)	Gluttons The Servant
	Yulian Semyonov (1931–1993)	Seventeen Instants of Spring
	Alexander Serafimovich (1863–1949)	Sand Nikita The Iron Flood The Little Miner
	Sergey Sergeyev-Tsensky (1875–1958)	Brusilov's Break-Through
	Marietta Shaginyan (1888–1982)	Mess-Mend
	Varlam Shalamov (1907–1982)	The Kolyma Tales
	Olga Shapir (1850–1916)	The Settlement
	Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874–1952)	Deborah
	Alexander Sheller (1838–1900)	Putrid Moors
	Mikhail Shishkin (born 1961)
	Vyacheslav Shishkov (1873–1945)	Children of Darkness
	Ivan Shmelyov (1873–1950)	The Stone Age
	Mikhail Sholokhov (1905–1984)	And Quiet Flows the Don
	Ilya Shtemler (1933–2022)
	Vasily Shukshin (1929–1974)	Stories from a Siberian Village
	Konstantin Simonov (1915–1979)	Days and Nights The Living and the Dead
	Andrei Sinyavsky (1925–1997)	Fantastic Stories
	Stepan Skitalets (1869–1941)	The Blacksmith The Love of a Scene Painter
	Vasily Sleptsov (1836–1878)	The Ward
	Sofia Soboleva (1840–1884)	Pros and Cons
	Sasha Sokolov (born 1943)	A School for Fools
	Vladimir Sollogub (1813–1882)	The Snowstorm
	Fyodor Sologub (1863–1927)	The Petty Demon The Created Legend
	Vladimir Soloukhin (1924–1997)	Verdict
	Leonid Solovyov (1906–1962)	Tale of Hodja Nasreddin
	Vsevolod Solovyov (1849–1903)
	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008)	The First Circle Cancer Ward The Red Wheel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
	Orest Somov (1793–1833)	Mommy and Sonny
	Vladimir Sorokin (born 1955)	The Queue Day of the Oprichnik Blue Lard
	Konstantin Staniukovich (1843–1903)	Bobtail Maximka The Convict Running to the Shrouds
	Anna Starobinets (born 1978)
	Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Arkady (1925–1991) Boris (1933–2012)	Prisoners of Power The Kid from Hell Hard to Be a God Roadside Picnic
	Mikhail Sushkov (1775–1792)	The Russian Werther

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov (1885–1938)	Chocolate
	Nadezhda Teffi (1872–1952)	Time Strangers Close Friends
	Nikolay Teleshov (1867–1957)	The Duel
	Vladimir Tendryakov (1923–1984)	Son-in-Law Three, Seven, Ace
	Sergey Terpigorev (1841–1895)	The Ice Broke
	Nikolay Tikhonov (1896–1979)	War
	Vladislav Titov (1934–1987)
	Tatyana Tolstaya (born 1951)	The Slynx White Walls
	Aleksey K. Tolstoy (1817–1875)	Prince Serebrenni
	Aleksey N. Tolstoy (1883–1945)	Buratino Aelita Peter the First The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin
	Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)	The Cossacks War and Peace Anna Karenina The Death of Ivan Ilyich
	Edward Topol (born 1938)	Red Square
	Yury Trifonov (1925–1981)	Another Life The Old Man The Disappearance The Long Good-Bye
	Gavriil Troyepolsky (1905–1995)	White Bim Black Ear
	Alexei Tsvetkov (1947–2022)
	Evgenia Tur (1815–1892)	Antonina The Shalonski Family
	Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883)	A Sportsman's Sketches Home of the Gentry On the Eve Fathers and Sons
	Yury Tynyanov (1894–1943)	Lieutenant Kijé		[1]

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Anya Ulinich (born 1973)	Petropolis
	Pavel Ulitin (1918–1986)
	Lyudmila Ulitskaya (born 1943)	Sonechka The Funeral Party Medea and Her Children Daniel Stein
	Gleb Uspensky (1843–1902)	The Steam Chicken
	Nikolay Uspensky (1837–1889)	Porridge The Village Schoolmaster

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Pyotr Valuyev (1815–1890)
	Konstantin Vaginov (1899–1934)	Goat Song Works and Days of Svistonov
	Tatiana Vedenska (born 1976)
	Mikhail Veller (born 1948)	The Guru
	Alexander Veltman (1800–1870)	The Wanderer
	Anastasiya Verbitskaya (1861–1928)	The Keys to Happiness
	Vikenty Veresaev (1867–1945)	Sisters The Deadlock In the Steppe
	Lidia Veselitskaya (1857–1936)	Mimi's Marriage
	Igor Vishnevetsky (born 1964)	Leningrad Non-Elective Affinities
	Nikolai Virta (1906–1976)	Alone
	Georgi Vladimov (1931–2003)	Faithful Ruslan
	Vladimir Voinovich (1932–2018)	Moscow 2042 Private Ivan Chonkin
	Zinaida Volkonskaya (1792–1862)	The Dream: A Letter
	Alexander Volkov (1891–1977)	The Wizard of the Emerald City
	Marko Vovchok (1833–1907)	Ukrainian Folk Tales
	Julia Voznesenskaya (1940–2015)	The Women's Decameron
	Alexander Vvedensky (1904–1941)	Murderers You are Fools

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Alexander Yakovlev (1886–1953)	The Peasant
	Alexander Yashin (1913–1968)	A Feast of Rowan Berries
	Ivan Yefremov (1908–1972)	Andromeda Razor's Edge The Bull's Hour The Land of Foam
	Dmitri Yemets (born 1974)	Tanya Grotter series
	Venedict Yerofeyev (1938–1990)	Moscow-Petushki
	Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933–2017)	Wild Berries
	Semyon Yushkevich (1868–1927)

Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Mikhail Zagoskin (1789–1852)	Tales of Three Centuries
	Sergey Zalygin (1913–2000)	The South American Variant
	Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937)	We A Provincial Tale
	Boris Zaytsev (1881–1972)	Anna
	Ilia Zdanevich (1894–1975)	Rapture
	Yulia Zhadovskaya (1824–1883)	The Backward Girl
	Vera Zhelikhovsky (1835–1896)	The General's Will
	Boris Zhitkov (1882–1938)	Viktor Vavich
	Maria Zhukova (1804–1855)	Evenings on the Karpovka
	Zinovy Zinik (born 1945)	The Mushroom-Picker
	Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866–1907)	The Tragic Menagerie
	Nikolay Zlatovratsky (1845–1911)	Old Shadows
	Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895–1958)	Youth Restored Blue Book Before Sunrise

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