List of Russian-language playwrights
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Notable authors who have written dramatic works in the Russian language include:
Alphabetical list
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[edit]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 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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[edit]Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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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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[edit]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 | ![]() | ![]() |
![]() | Evgeny Chirikov (1864–1932) | The Peasant | ![]() | ![]() |
![]() | Ada Chumachenko (1887 – 1954) | The Snow Queen A Man from the Moon | ||
![]() | Grand Duke Constantine (1858–1915) | King of Judea | ![]() | ![]() |
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[edit]Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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![]() | Grigoriy Demidovtsev (born 1960) | ![]() | ![]() | |
Victor Denisov (born 1944) | Six Specters of Lenin on a Piano | ![]() |
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[edit]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 | ![]() |
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[edit]Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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![]() | Denis Fonvizin (1744/45–1792) | The Minor | ![]() | ![]() |
Olga Forsh (1873–1961) | The Substitute Lecturer |
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[edit]Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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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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[edit]Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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![]() | Vsevolod Ivanov (1895–1963) | Armoured Train 14-69 | ![]() |
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[edit]Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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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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[edit]Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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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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[edit]Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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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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[edit]Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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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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[edit]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 | ![]() | ![]() |
Valentin Ovechkin (1904–1968) | A Time to Reap | |||
![]() | Vladislav Ozerov (1769–1816) | Dmitry Donskoy |
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[edit]Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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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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[edit]Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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![]() | Edvard Radzinsky (born 1936) | |||
![]() | Vyacheslav Rybakov (born 1954) |
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[edit]Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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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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[edit]Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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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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[edit]Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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![]() | Eduard Uspensky (1937–2018) |
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[edit]Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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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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[edit]Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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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 |