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.
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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) | |||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| Alexander Herzen (1812–1870) | Who is to Blame? | ||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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 (born 1946) | |||||||||
| Vsevolod Krestovsky (1840–1895) | Knights of Industry | ||||||||
| Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887–1950) | Quadraturin | ||||||||
| Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954) | |||||||||
| Aleksandr Kuprin (1870–1938) | The Duel 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 | ||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| Vladimir Obruchev (1863–1956) | Plutonia Sannikov Land | ||||||||
| Vladimir Odoevsky (1803–1869) | Two Princesses The Living Corpse | ||||||||
| 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 | < | -- Please do not place non-free book covers here --> | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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) | |||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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) | |||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
| < | -- Do NOT place a non-free image here, per WP:NFLISTS --> | 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 (born 1933) | |||||||||
| < | -- violation: --> | 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 | ||||||||
| Konstantin Staniukovich (1843–1903) | Bobtail Maximka The Convict Running to the Shrouds | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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 (born 1947) | |||||||||
| 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] | |||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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) | |||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||