Notable authors who have written dramatic works in the Russian language include:
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| Alexander Ablesimov (1742–1783) | The Miller | ||||||||
| Alexander Afinogenov (1904–1941) | Fear Crank A Far Place | ||||||||
| Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919) | Anathema 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) | |||||||||
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| Isaac Babel (1894–1940) | Maria Sunset | ||||||||
| Andrei Bely (1880–1934) | Petersburg Moscow | ||||||||
| Pyotr Boborykin (1836–1921) | The Scale | ||||||||
| Oleg Bogayev (born 1970) | |||||||||
| Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) | Flight Zoyka's Apartment Adam and Eve The Days of the Turbins | ||||||||
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| Grigoriy Demidovtsev (born 1960) | |||||||||
| Victor Denisov (born 1944) | Six Specters of Lenin on a Piano |
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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 | ||||||||
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| Denis Fonvizin (1744/45–1792) | The Minor | ||||||||
| Olga Forsh (1873–1961) | The Substitute Lecturer | ||||||||
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| < | -- violation: --> | Alexander Galich (1918–1977) | |||||||
| Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945) | The Green Ring | ||||||||
| Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) | Marriage The Government Inspector The Gamblers | ||||||||
| Dmitry Gorchakov (1758–1824) | King for a Day | ||||||||
| Grigori Gorin (1940–2000) | |||||||||
| Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) | The Philistines The Lower Depths Summerfolk Children of the Sun | ||||||||
| Aleksandr Griboyedov (1795–1829) | Woe from Wit | ||||||||
| Isabella Grinevskaya (1864–1944) | |||||||||
| Elena Guro (1887–1913) | The Hurdy-Gurdy | ||||||||
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| Vsevolod Ivanov (1895–1963) | Armoured Train 14-69 | ||||||||
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| Vasily Kapnist (1758–1823) | Chicane | ||||||||
| Valentin Kataev (1897–1986) | Quadrature of the Circle | ||||||||
| Pavel Katenin (1792–1853) | Andromache | ||||||||
| Yevgeny Kharitonov (1941–1981) | Under House Arrest | ||||||||
| Daniil Kharms (1905–1942) | Elizaveta Bam | ||||||||
| Mikhail Kheraskov (1733–1807) | |||||||||
| Vladimir Kirshon (1902–1938) | Bread The Miraculous Alloy | ||||||||
| Fyodor Kokoshkin (1775–1838) | Little Demon on Vacation | ||||||||
| Nikolay Kolyada (born 1957) | A Tale About the Dead Tsarina Oginski Polonaise Persian Lilac Playing Forfeits Slingshot | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
| Nestor Kukolnik (1809–1868) | A Life for the Tsar | ||||||||
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| Ivan Lazhechnikov (1792–1869) | Oprichnik | ||||||||
| Leonid Leonov (1899–1994) | Untilovsk | ||||||||
| Dmitri Lipskerov (born 1964) | |||||||||
| Lev Lunts (1901–1924) | Native Land | ||||||||
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| Anatoly Marienhof (1897–1962) | |||||||||
| Samuil Marshak (1887–1964) | Smart Things The Twelve Months | ||||||||
| Mikhail Matinsky (1760–c. 1820) | Regeneration Saint-Petersburg's Trade Stalls | ||||||||
| Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) | The Bedbug The Bathhouse Mystery-Bouffe | ||||||||
| Sergey Mikhalkov (1913–2009) | Three Plus Two | ||||||||
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| Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) | The Waltz Invention | ||||||||
| Löb Nevakhovich (1776/78–1831) | |||||||||
| Alexander Neverov (1886–1923) | Baba Hunger | ||||||||
| Nikolai Nikolev (1758–1815) | |||||||||
| Osip Notovich (1849–1914) | Shady Business | ||||||||
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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 | ||||||||
| Valentin Ovechkin (1904–1968) | A Time to Reap | ||||||||
| Vladislav Ozerov (1769–1816) | Dmitry Donskoy | ||||||||
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| Vera Panova (1905–1973) | Ivan Kosogor In Old Moscow | ||||||||
| Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (born 1938) | |||||||||
| Aleksey Pisemsky (1821–1881) | A Bitter Fate The Hypochondriac Lieutenant Gladkov The Financial Genius | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
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| Edvard Radzinsky (born 1936) | |||||||||
| Vyacheslav Rybakov (born 1954) | |||||||||
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| Mikhail Saltykov-Schedrin (1826–1889) | The Death of Pazukhin | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
| Ksenya Stepanycheva (born 1978) | Pink Bow | ||||||||
| Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817–1903) | Pictures of the Past | ||||||||
| Alexander Sumarokov (1717–1777) | Khorev | ||||||||
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| Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (1891–1968) | By the Pike's Wish | ||||||||
| Modest Tchaikovsky (1850–1916) | |||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
| Aleksey N. Tolstoy (1883–1945) | |||||||||
| Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) | The Power of Darkness The Fruits of Enlightenment The Living Corpse | ||||||||
| Sergei Tretyakov (1892–1937) | I Want a Baby | ||||||||
| Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) | A Provincial Lady A Month in the Country | ||||||||
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| Eduard Uspensky (1937–2018) | |||||||||
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| Alexander Vampilov (1937–1972) | Elder Son | ||||||||
| Alexander Vvedensky (1904–1941) | Christmas at the Ivanovs | ||||||||
| Anastasiya Verbitskaya (1861–1928) | Mirages | ||||||||
| Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900–1951) | Optimistic Tragedy | ||||||||
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| Mark Zakharov (1933–2019) | |||||||||
| Boris Zaytsev (1881–1972) | |||||||||
| Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937) | |||||||||
| Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov (1821–1908) | |||||||||
| Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866–1907) | |||||||||
| Rafail Zotov (1795–1871) | Jealous Wife |