List of Russian-language playwrights
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 |