Notable authors who have written dramatic works in the Russian language include:
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The Moscow Art Theatre.
Alphabetical list
A
Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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![]() | Alexander Ablesimov (1742-1783) | The Miller | ||
Alexander Afinogenov (1904-1941) | Fear Crank A Far Place | |||
![]() | Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919) | Anathema Tsar Hunger The Life of Man He Who Gets Slapped | ||
![]() | Maria Arbatova (born 1957) | On the Road to Ourselves | ||
Aleksei Arbuzov (1908-1986) | Tanya A Long Road | |||
![]() | Mikhail Artsybashev (1878-1927) | War | ||
![]() | Arkady Averchenko (1881-1925) | ![]() Averchenko, c1920. |
B
Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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![]() | Isaac Babel (1894-1940) | Maria Sunset | ||
![]() | Pyotr Boborykin (1836-1921) | The Scale | ![]() Vera Komissarzhevskaya in The Scale. | |
Oleg Bogayev (born 1970) | ||||
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) | Flight Zoya's Apartment Adam and Eve The Days of the Turbins |
C
Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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![]() | Catherine the Great (1729-1796) | Fevey | ||
![]() | Nikolai Chayev (1824—1914) | Svat Faddeyich | ||
![]() | Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) | The Seagull Uncle Vanya Three Sisters The Cherry Orchard | Chekhov's wife Olga Knipper, who played Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard. | |
Evgeny Chirikov (1864-1932) | The Peasant | At his desk, 1904. | Portrait by Repin, 1906. | |
Ada Chumachenko (1887 – 1954) | The Snow Queen A Man from the Moon | |||
Grand Duke Constantine (1858-1915) | King of Judea | The Grand Duke in military dress, 1891. | With his wife Elizaveta, 1894. |
D
Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Grigoriy Demidovtsev (born 1960) | ![]() Certificate of membership in the Union of Russian Writers. | Demidovtsev in 2007. | ||
Victor Denisov (born 1944) | «Six Specters of Lenin on a Piano».(Opening night: 20 May 1993) | After the premiere of «Six Specters of Lenin on a Piano». V.Denisov is second to the left, 1993 | V.Denisov & a San-Francisco director V.Zavarina, 1994 |
E
Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Nikolai Erdman (1900-1970) | The Mandate The Suicide | |||
Nikolai Evreinov (1879-1953) | A Merry Death The Chief Thing The Presentation of Love The Storming of the Winter Palace | Drawing of Evreinov, 1921. | Memorial plaque in Paris. |
F
Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Denis Fonvizin (1744/45-1792) | The Minor | Statue of Fonvizin, part of the Millennium of Russia monument. | The Fonvizin Family Coat of Arms. | |
Olga Forsh (1873–1961) | The Substitute Lecturer |
G
Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Alexander Galich (1918-1977) | ||||
Zinaida Gippius (1869-1945) | The Green Ring | Portrait of Gippius by Ilya Repin, 1894. | Portrait by Léon Bakst, 1906. | |
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) | Marriage The Government Inspector | Fyodor Paramonov as Anton Antonovich in Gogol's The Government Inspector. | Cover of the First Edition of The Government Inspector. 1836 | |
Dmitry Gorchakov (1758-1824) | King for a Day | |||
Grigori Gorin (1940-2000) | ||||
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) | Summerfolk The Lower Depths Children of the Sun The Philistines Yegor Bulychov and Others | A scene from The Lower Depths. | Another scene from The Lower Depths. | |
Aleksandr Griboyedov (1795-1829) | Woe from Wit | Stanislavski as Famusov in Woe from Wit. | Title page of Griboyedov's manuscript of Woe from Wit.1824 | |
Isabella Grinevskaya (1864-1944) | ||||
Elena Guro (1887-1913) | The Hurdy-Gurdy | Guro's self-portrait. | ![]() Elena and Mikhail Matyushin. |
I
Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Vsevolod Ivanov (1895-1963) | Armoured Train 14-69 | 1927 production of Armoured Train 14-69. |
K
Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Vasily Kapnist (1758-1823) | Chicane | Postcard featuring Kapnist. | ||
Valentin Kataev (1897-1986) | Quadrature of the Circle | Kataev's brother, the writer Yevgeni Petrov. | ||
Pavel Katenin (1792-1853) | Andromache | |||
Yevgeny Kharitonov (1941-1981) | Under House Arrest | |||
Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) | Graffiti of Kharms on a wall in Kharkiv. | ![]() Caricature of Kharms by Antonovsky | ||
Mikhail Kheraskov (1733-1807) | ||||
Vladimir Kirshon (1902-1938) | Bread The Miraculous Alloy | Layout of scenery for the play based on the play by V. Kirshon The Court | ||
![]() | Fyodor Kokoshkin (1775-1838) | Little Demon on Vacation | Kokoshkin's grave at the Donskoy Monastery's necropolis in Moscow | |
Nikolay Kolyada (born 1957) | A Tale About the Dead Tsarina Oginski Polonaise Persian Lilac Playing Forfeits Slingshot | in the Sverdlovsk Regional Universal Scientific Library Vissarion Belinsky | Kolyada Theater in Yekaterinburg | |
Yakov Knyazhnin (1740/42-1791) | Olga The Cranks The Braggart Vadim the Bold | |||
Eugene Kozlovsky (born 1946) | ||||
Valentin Krasnogorov (born 1934) | Let's Have Sex! Pelicans of the Wilderness The Delights of Adultery The Dog The Fall of Don Juan | |||
Ivan Krylov (1769-1844) | Philomela The Cat and the Сook The Fox and the Crane The Quartet The Wolf and the Lamb | Monument to Krylov in St Petersburg. | Illustration The Cat and the Сook by Sergei Gribkov | |
Nestor Kukolnik (1809-1868) | A Life for the Tsar | Title page from one of Kukolnik's dramas, 1834. | Plaque for Kukolnik in Taganrog. |
L
Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Ivan Lazhechnikov (1792–1869) | Oprichnik | |||
Leonid Leonov (1899-1994) | ||||
Dmitri Lipskerov (born 1964) | ||||
Lev Lunts (1901-1924) | Native Land |
M
Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Anatoly Marienhof (1897-1962) | With the poet Sergei Yesenin, 1915. | |||
Samuil Marshak (1887-1964) | Smart Things The Twelve Months | Soviet stamp featuring Marshak. | ||
Mikhail Matinsky (1760-c1820) | Regeneration Saint-Petersburg's Trade Stalls | |||
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) | The Bedbug The Bathhouse Mystery-Bouffe | A young Mayakovsky | Soviet stamp featuring Mayakovsky. | |
Sergey Mikhalkov (1913-2009) | Three Plus Two | Mikhailov receiving an award from Vladimir Putin in 2003. | Talking with Vladimir Putin in 2003. |
N
Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Monument to Nabokov at Montreux. | Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) | The Waltz Invention | Nabokov's first published work. | |
Löb Nevakhovich (1776/78-1831) | ||||
Alexander Neverov (1886-1923) | Baba Hunger | Drawing of Neverov. | ||
Nikolai Nikolev (1758-1815) | ||||
Osip Notovich (1849-1914) | Shady Business |
O
Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886) | The Storm The Poor Bride Poverty is No Vice Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man The Snow Maiden | Stanislavski (left), and Vasily Kachalov in Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man. | Monument to Osrovsky at the Maly Theatre in Moscow. | |
Valentin Ovechkin (1904-1968) | A Time to Reap | |||
Vladislav Ozerov (1769-1816) | Dmitry Donskoy |
P
Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Vera Panova (1905-1973) | Ivan Kosogor In Old Moscow | Plaque for Panova in St. Petersburg. | ||
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (born 1938) | Petrushevskaya in 2009. | At a booksigning in New York with Keith Gessen, 2009. | ||
Aleksey Pisemsky (1821-1881) | A Bitter Fate The Hypochondriac Lieutenant Gladkov The Financial Genius | A Bitter Fate. Lizaveta. Picture by Ilya Repin. | Engraving of Pisemsky. | |
Andrei Platonov (1899-1951) | The Hurdy Gurdy Fourteen Little Red Huts | |||
Pyotr Polevoy (1839–1902) | Princess Sophia | |||
Nikolai Pogodin (1900-1962) | Aristocrats | |||
Mikhail Popov (1742-1790) | Anyuta | |||
Alexander Preys (1905-1942) | ||||
Iosif Prut (1900-1996) | ||||
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) | Boris Godunov The Stone Guest Mozart and Salieri The Covetous Knight | The Stone Guest. Don Juan and Doña Ana. Picture by Ilya Repin. |
R
Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Edvard Radzinsky (born 1936) | ||||
Vyacheslav Rybakov (born 1954) |
S
Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Natalya Sats (1903-1993) | ||||
Alexander Shakhovskoy (1777–1846) | Ladies' Joke The New Stern | | ![]() | ![]() | |
Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874-1952) | Summer Picture | |||
Evgeny Shvarts (1896-1958) | The Dragon | |||
Vassily Sigarev (born 1977) | Plasticine Black Milk | |||
Fyodor Sologub (1863-1927) | The Triumph of Death | Portrait by Konstantin Somov. | ||
Ksenya Stepanycheva (born 1978) | Pink Bow | Stepanycheva in 2009. | ||
Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817-1903) | The Case Krechinsky's Wedding The Death of Tarelkin | Sukhovo-Kobylin, c1850s. | Aleksandr's sister, the writer Evgenia Tur. | |
Alexander Sumarokov (1717-1777) | Khorev | Portrait of Sumarokov by Fedor Rokotov. |
T
Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (1891-1968) | By the Pike's Wish | Tarakhovskaya's birth house in Taganrog. | ||
Modest Tchaikovsky (1850-1916) | Tchaikovsky's brother, the composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky. | |||
Nadezhda Teffi (1872-1952) | The Woman Question | |||
Viktoriya Tokareva (born 1937) | ||||
Aleksey K. Tolstoy (1817-1875) | The Death of Ivan the Terrible Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich Tsar Boris Don Juan | Ivan the Terrible. Picture by Viktor Vasnetsov | Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich. | |
Aleksey N. Tolstoy (1883-1945) | Stamp featuring Tolstoy. | |||
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) | The Power of Darkness The Fruits of Enlightenment The Living Corpse | Stanislavski as Zvezdintsev in The Fruits of Enlightenment, 1891. | Stanislavski as Prince Abrezhov in The Living Corpse, 1911. | |
Sergei Tretyakov (1892-1937) | I Want a Baby | |||
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) | A Month in the Country | Stanislavski and Knipper in A Month in the Country, 1909. | A scene from A Month in the Country. |
U
Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Eduard Uspensky (1937-2018) |
V
Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Alexander Vampilov (1937-1972) | Elder Son | |||
Alexander Vvedensky (1904-1941) | Christmas at the Ivanovs | Vvedensky after arrest in 1941. | ||
![]() | Anastasiya Verbitskaya (1861-1928) | Mirages | Verbitskaya in 1898. | |
Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900-1951) | Optimistic Tragedy |
Z
Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Mark Zakharov (1933-2019) | Zakharov with Dmitry Medvedev in 2008. | |||
Boris Zaytsev (1881-1972) | ||||
Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov (1821-1908) | ||||
Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866-1907) | ||||
Rafail Zotov (1795–1871) | Jealous Wife |
See also
- List of Russian-language writers
- List of Russian-language novelists
- List of Russian-language poets
- List of Russian artists
- List of Russian architects
- List of Russian inventors
- List of Russian explorers
- Russian culture
- Russian literature
- Russian language
- Russian culture