- Sergei Timofeyevich Aksakov (1791-1859)
- Birthplace: Ufa
- 1834 – The Blizzard
- 1856 – A Family Chronicle
- 1856 – Reminisces
- 1858 – Years of Childhood
- Mark Aleksandrovich Aldonov (1886-1957)
- M. A. Landau
- Birthplace: Kiev, Ukraine
- 1924 – Sainte Helena
- 1926 – The Ninth Thermidor
- 1928 – The Devil’s Bridge
- 1936 – The Fifth Seal
- 1947 – Before the Deluge
- Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891-1940)
- Birthplace: Kiev, Ukraine
- Areas: Novelist, Playwright, Short-story writer
- 1920 – Zoyka’s Apartment
- 1923 – Deviltry
- 1924 – The Fatal Eggs
- 1925 – The White Guards
- 1926 – The Days of the Turbins
- 1927 – The Crimson Island
- 1938 – The Master and Marguerita
- Fyodor Mihailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
- Birthplace: Moscow
- 1846 – Poor Folk
- 1859 – Uncle’s Dream
- 1861 – The House of the Dead
- 1862 – The Insulted and the Injured
- 1862 – Village of Stepanchikovo
- 1864 – Letters from the Underworld
- 1866 – Crime and Punishment
- 1867 – The Gambler
- 1869 – The Idiot
- 1870 – The Eternal Husband
- 1872 – The Possessed
- 1875 – A Raw Youth
- 1880 – The Brothers Karamazov
Vladimir Dmitriyevich Dudintsev (1918-????)
- Birthplace: ??
- 1956 – Not by Bread Alone
- Il’ya Grigor’yevich Erenburg (1891-1967)
- Birthplace: Kiev, Ukraine
- Areas: Journalist, Novelist, Poet
- 1919 – Julio Jurentio
- 1929 – The Love of Jeanette Ney
- 1934 – Out of Chaos
- 1945 – The Fall of Paris
- 1947 – Burya
- 1951 – The Ninth Ware
- 1954 – The Thaw
- Konstantin Aleksandrovich Fedin (1892-1970)
- Birthplace: Saratov
- 1924 – Cities and Years
- 1945 – Early Joys
- 1948 – No Ordinary Summer
- Nicolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809-1852)
- Birthplace: Poltava
- Areas: Dramatist, Humourist, Novelist
- 1832 – Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka
- 1835 – Arabesques
- 1835 – Mirgorod
- 1836 – The Inspector General
- 1842 – Dead Souls
- 1885 – Taras Bulba
- 1842 – The Overcoat
- ???? – The Nose
Ivan Alexandrovitch Goncharov (1812-1891)
- Birthplace: Simbirsk
- Areas: Novelist, Travel writer
- 1847 – A Common Story
- 1858 – Oblomov
- Dmitry Vasil’yevich Grigorovich (1822-1899)
- Birthplace: Simbirsk
- 1846 – The Village
- 1853 – The Fishermen
- 1856 – The Migrants
- Valentin Petrovich Katayev (1897-????)
- Birthplace: Odessa, Ukraine
- Areas: Dramatist, Novelist
- 1926 – The Embezzlers
- 1928 – Squaring the Circle
- 1932 – Forward, Oh Time
- 1936 – Lone White Sail
- Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938)
- Birthplace: Narovchat
- Areas: Novelist, Short-story writer
- 1909 – Olessia
- 1916 – The Duel
- 1916 – The River of Life, and Other Stories
- 1916 – A Slav Soul, and Other Stories
- 1917 – A Bracelet of Garnets, and Other Stories
- 1920 – Sasha
- 1922 – Yama: The Pit
- 1923 – Sulamith
- 1925 – Gambrinus, and Other Stories
- Leonid Leonov (1899-1994)
- Birthplace: Moscow
- Areas: Novelist, Playwright
- 1925 – The Badgers
- 1927 – The Thief
- 1938 – The Orchards of Polovchansk
- 2001 – Art of Compromise: The Life and Work of Leonid Leonov
- Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov (1814-1841)
- Birthplace: Moscow
- Areas: Novelist, Poet
- 1837 – The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov
- 1839 – The Demon
- 1840 – A Hero of Our Time
- 1840 – October
- 1842 – Masquerade
- Dmitriy Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (1865-1941)
- Birthplace: St. Petersburg
- Areas: Critic, Novelist, Poet
- 1905 – Christ and the Antichrist
- 1929 – Napoleon
- 1937 – Jesus the Unknown
- 1939 – Dante
Fyodor Ivanovich Panfyorov (1896-1960)
- Birthplace: Pavlovka
- 1936 And Then the Harvest
- Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960)
- Birthplace: Moscow
- Areas: Novelist, Poet
- Awards: Nobel Prize 1958
- 1914 – A Twin Cloud
- 1924 – The Childhood of Lyuvers
- 1931 – Safe Conduct
- 1943 – On Early Trains
- 1957 – Dr. Zhivago
- 1959 – Essay in Autobiography
- 2004 – Boris Pasternak
Aleksey Pisemsky (1820-1881)
- Birthplace: Kostroma
- Areas: Dramatist, Novelist
- 1858 – A Thousand Souls
- 1859 – A Bitter Fate
- Andrei Platonov (1899-1951)
- Birthplace: ??
- Areas: Novelist, Short-story writer
- 1926 Chevengur
- 1929 Makar the Doubtful
- 1930 The Foundation Pit
- 1937 The River Potudan
- 1992 Andrei Platonov : Uncertainties of Spirit
- Alexander Serafimovich (1863-1949)
- Aleksandr Serafimovich Popov
- Birthplace: Nizhne-Kumoyarsky
- Awards: Stalin Prize 1943
- 1908 – Sand, and Other Stories
- 1912 – A Town in the Steppe
- 1924 – The Iron Flood
- Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984)
- Birthplace: Veshanskaya
- Awards: Nobel Prize 1965
- 1933 – Virgin Soil Upturned
- 1940 – And Quiet Flows the Don
- 1940 – The Don Flows Home to the Sea
- 1959 – They Fought for Their Country
- 1969 – Sholokhov
- Andry Donatovich Sinyavsky (1925-????)
- Abram Tertz
- Birthplace: Moscow
- Areas: Critic, Novelist
- 1960 – The Trial Begins
- 1961 – The Icicle, and Other Stories
- 1964 – The Makepeace Experiment
Fyodor Sologub (1863-1927)
- Fyodor Kuz’mich Teternikov
- Birthplace: St. Petersburg
- Areas: Dramatist, Novelist, Poet
- 1907 – The Little Demon
- 1912 – The Created Legend
- Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1882-1945)
- Birthplace: Nikolayevsk
- Areas: Dramatist, Novelist, Poet
- 1922 – Nikita’s Childhood
- 1925 – Azure Cities
- 1926 – The Death-Box
- 1937 – Bread
- 1945 – Peter the Great
- 1945 – The Road to Calvary
- 2002 – Historical and Ideological Aspects in the Prose and Dramatic Works of the Soviet Writer A.N. Tolstoi, 1882-1945
- Leo Nikolaievich Tolstoy (1828-1910)
- Birthplace: Yasnaya Polyana
- 1851 – An Account of Yesterday
- 1852 – Childhood
- 1854 – Boyhood
- 1857 – Youth
- 1865 – The Sevastopol Stories
- 1868 – War and Peace
- 1876 – Anna Karenina
- 1879 – A Confession
- 1883 – What I Believe
- 1886 – What Then Must I Do?
- 1886 – The Death of Ilyich
- 1889 – The Kreutzer Sonata
- 1900 – Resurrection
- Birthplace: Ufa