- Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
- Birthplace: Voronezh
- Awards: Nobel Prize 1933
- 1910 – The Village
- 1915 – The Gentleman from San Francisco
- 1925 – Mitya’s Love
- 1930 – The Well of Days
- Feodor Vasilyevich Gladkov (1883-1958)
- Birthplace: Chernavka
- Awards: Stalin Prize 1950
- 1925 – Cement
- 1938 – Energy
- 1949 – Story of Childhood
- Maxim Gorky (1870-1953)
- Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov
- Birthplace: Nizhi Novgorod
- 1898 – Sketches and Stories
- 1902 – The Lower Depths
- 1914 – My Childhood
- 1916 – My Apprenticeship
- 1923 – My Universities
- Sof’ia Dmitrievna Khvoshchinskaia (1828-1865)
- Iv. Vesen’ev
- Birthplace: Riazan
- 1858 – Aunty’s Legacy
- 1861 – A Provincial Lament
- 1862 – Earthly Joys and Joys of Our Back Street
- 1862 – A Little About Our Customs
- 1863 – City and Country Folk
- 1864 – Our Urban Life
- Anatoli Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (1930-1979)
- A. Anatoli
- Birthplace: Kiev, Ukraine
- 1957 – The Continuation of a Legend
- 1966 – Babi Yar
- 1969 – The Fire
- Nadezha Mandelstam (1899-1980)
- Birthplace: ??
- 1970 – Hope Against Hope
- Vladimir Nabakov (1899-1977)
- Birthplace: St. Petersburg
- 1938 – Laughter in the Dark
- 1945 – The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
- 1947 – Speak, Memory
- 1947 – Bend Sinister
- 1955 – Lolita
- 1957 – Pnin
- 1962 – Pale Fire
- 1969 – Ada
- 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
- 1968 – The Complete Prose Tales of Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin
N. Shchedrin (1826-1889)
- Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov
- Birthplace: Spas-Ugol
- 1880 – The Golovlev Family
- 1885 – Fables
- Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-????)
- Birthplace: Kislovodsk
- Awards: Nobel Prize 1970; Templeton Prize for Progress 1983; Russian State Literature Prize 1990
- 1962 – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- 1968 – Cancer Ward
- 1968 – The First Circle
- 1972 – August 1914
- 1975 – Lenin in Zurich
- 1978 – The Gulag Archipeligo
- 1980 – The Oak and the Calf
- 1999 – Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life
- Ivan Sergeievich Turgenev (1818-1883)
- Birthplace: Orel
- 1849 – A Month in the Country
- 1852 – A Sportsman’s Sketches
- 1856 – Rudin
- 1859 – A Nest of Gentlefolk
- 1860 – On the Eve
- 1862 – Fathers and Sons
- 1867 – Smoke
- 1876 – Virgin Soil
- Birthplace: Voronezh