- Anna Akhmatova (1899-1966)
- Anna Andreevna Gorenko
- Birthplace: Odessa, Ukraine
- 1912 – Evening
- 1914 – Beads
- 1922 – Anno Domini
- 1940 – The Willow Tree
- 1962 – Poem Without a Hero
- 1963 – Requiem
- Eduard Georgiyevich Bagritsky (1895-1934)
- Eduard Dzyubin
- Birthplace: Odessa, Ukraine
- 1926 – Lay About Opanas
- 1932 – The Last Night
- 1932 – The Victors
- Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (1880-1920)
- Birthplace: St. Petersburg
- 1904 – Songs About the Lady Fair
- 1918 – The Scythians
- 1918 – The Twelve
- Joseph Brodsky (1940-????)
- Birthplace: St. Petersburg
- Awards: Nobel Prize 1987
- 1970 – A Halt in the Wilderness
- 1980 – A Part of Speech
- 1884 – To Urania
- 1992 – Watermark
- Valery Bryusov (1873-1924)
- Birthplace: Moscow
- Areas: Critic, Poet, Translator
- 1902 – Now That I Have Awakened
- 1905 – The Earth
- 1905 – The Republic of the Southern Cross
- 1906 – In an Underground Prison
- 1907 – Axis of the Earth
- 1907 – The Last Martyrs
- 1908 – The Fiery Angel
- 1912 – The Altar of Victory
- 1912 – Mirror of Shadows
- 1913 – Nights and Days
- 1914 – In the Mirror
- 1920 – Latest Dreams
- 1934 – Jupiter Overthrown
- Lidiia Alekséevna Chárskaia (1875-1937)
- Birthplace: ??
- Areas: Actress, Children’s Writer, Poet, Prose Writer
- 1903 – Princess Dzhavakha
- 1905 – A Daring Life
- 1909 – For What?
- 1910 – The Little Siberian
- 1924 – Little Princess Nina
- 1926 – Fledglings
- 1926 – The Tartar Princess
Kornei Ivanovitch Chukovsky (1882-1969)
- Nikolay Vasilyevich Korneychukov
- Birthplace: ??
- Areas: Critic, Poet
- 1963 – Alive as Life
- 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
Sergey Esenin (1895-1925)
- Sergey Yesenin
- Birthplace: Konstantinovo
- 1916 – Mourning for the Dead
- 1973 – Confessions of a Hooligan
Nikolay Mikhaylovich Karamzin (1766-1826)
- Birthplace: Mikhaylovka
- Areas: Historian, Journalist, Poet
- 1792 – Poor Lisa
- 1829 – History of the Russian State
- Nadezhda Dmitievna Khvoshchinskaia (1824-1889)
- Birthplace: Riazan
- Areas: Critic, Fiction writer, Poet
- 1853 – A Few Summer Days
- 1858 – Brother Dear
- 1860 – In Hope of Better Days
- 1871 – Ursa Major
- 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
- Osip Emilevich Mandelstam (1891-1938)
- Birthplace: Warsaw, Poland
- 1913 – Stone
- 1922 – Sad Things
- 1928 – Poems
- Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930)
- Birthplace: Bagdadi, Georgia
- 1918 – Mystery Bouffe
- 1929 – The Bed Bug
- 1930 – The Bath-House
- 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
- Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821-1877)
- Birthplace: Nemirov, Ukraine
- Areas: Poet, Publisher
- 1863 – Red-Nosed Frost
- 1876 – Who Can Live Happy in Russia
- 1929 – Poems
- 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
- Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837)
- Birthplace: Moscow
- Areas: Poet, Writer
- 1820 – Ode to Liberty
- 1820 – Ruslin and Lyudmila
- 1825 – Boris Godunov
- 1827 – The Gypsies
- 1829 – The Journey to Aryrum
- 1831 – Eugene Onegin
- 1833 – The Bronze Horsemen
- 1834 – The Queen of Spades
- 1836 – The Captain’s Daughter
Alexander Radishchev (1749-1802)
- Birthplace: Moscow
- Areas: Poet, Prose writer
- 1790 – Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow
Irina Borisovna Ratushinskaya (1954-????)
- Birthplace: Odessa, Ukraine
- Areas: Poet
- 1988 – Grey Is the Colour of Hope
Fyodor Sologub (1863-1927)
- Fyodor Kuz’mich Teternikov
- Birthplace: St. Petersburg
- Areas: Dramatist, Novelist, Poet
- 1907 – The Little Demon
- 1912 – The Created Legend
Vladimir Sergeyevich Soloviev (1853-1900)
- Birthplace: Moscow
- Areas: Philosopher, Poet, Theologian
- 1874 – The Crisis of Western Philosophy: Against the Positivists
- 1894 – The Meaning of Love
Aleksandr Petrovich Sumarokov (1717-1777)
- Birthplace: St. Petersburg
- Areas: Dramatist, Poet
- 1772 – The Imaginary Cuckold
- 1806 – Demetrius, the Imposter
- 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
Marina Tsvetayeva (1892-1941)
- Birthplace: Moscow
- 1957 – The Desmesne of the Swans
- 1971 – Selected Poems
- Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1933-????)
- Birthplace: Zima
- 1955 – The Third Snow
- 1961 – Zima Junction
- 1962 – Babi Yar
- 1972 – Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty
- Iuliia Valerianovna Zhádovskaia (1824-1883)
- Birthplace: ??
- Areas: Fiction writer, Poet
- 1857 – Apart from the Great World
- 1861 – Woman’s Story
- 1861 – Behind the Times
- Anna Andreevna Gorenko
