List of Russian language playwrights

The Moscow Art Theatre.

This is a list of authors who have written dramatic works in the Russian language.

For the plain text list, see Category:Russian dramatists and playwrights.

See also: List of Russian language writers, List of Russian language poets, List of Russian language novelists, List of Russian artists, List of Russian architects, List of Russian inventors, List of Russian explorers, Russian culture

Alphabetical list

A

Portrait	Person	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Alexander Ablesimov (1742-1783)	The Miller
	Alexander Afinogenov (1904-1941)	Fear Crank A Far Place
	Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919)	Anathema Tsar Hunger The Life of Man He Who Gets Slapped	Margalo Gillmore (Consuelo) & Richard Bennett (He) in He Who Gets Slapped, 1922.	Richard Bennett (He, left) & Louis Calvert (Baron Regnart, right) in He Who Gets Slapped, 1922.
	Maria Arbatova (born 1957)	On the Road to Ourselves	Maria Arbatova in 2009.
	Aleksei Arbuzov (1908-1986)	Tanya A Long Road
	Mikhail Artsybashev (1878-1927)	War	Artsybashev with the actress Yavorskaya, 1915.	Drawing of Artsybashev.
	Arkady Averchenko (1881-1925)		Drawing of Averchenko.	Averchenko, c1920.

B

Portrait	Person	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Isaac Babel (1894-1940)	Maria Sunset	Babel in 1930.	Babel, c1930s.
	Pyotr Boborykin (1836-1921)	The Scale	Vera Komissarzhevskaya in The Scale.
	Oleg Bogayev (born 1970)
	Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940)	Flight Zoya's Apartment Adam and Eve The Days of the Turbins	The Days of the Turbins, 1926.	Portrait of Bulgakov.

C

Portrait	Person	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Catherine the Great (1729-1796)	Fevey	Portrait of Catherine, 1745.	Portrait, 1794.
	Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)	The Seagull Uncle Vanya Three Sisters The Cherry Orchard	Stanislavski as Vershinin in Three Sisters.	Chekhov's wife Olga Knipper, who played Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard.
	Evgeny Chirikov (1864-1932)	The Peasant	At his desk, 1904.	Portrait by Repin, 1906.
	Grand Duke Constantine (1858-1915)	King of Judea	The Grand Duke in military dress, 1891.	With his wife Elizaveta, 1894.

D

Portrait	Person	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Grigoriy Demidovtsev (born 1960)		Certificate of membership in the Union of Russian Writers.	Demidovtsev in 2007.

E

Portrait	Person	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Nikolai Erdman (1900-1970)	The Suicide
	Nikolai Evreinov (1879-1953)	A Merry Death The Chief Thing The Presentation of Love The Storming of the Winter Palace	Drawing of Evreinov, 1921.	Memorial plaque in Paris.

F

Portrait	Person	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Denis Fonvizin (1744/45-1792)	The Minor	Statue of Fonvizin, part of the Millennium of Russia monument.	The Fonvizin Family Coat of Arms.
	Olga Forsh (1873–1961)	The Substitute Lecturer

G

Portrait	Person	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Alexander Galich (1918-1977)
	Zinaida Gippius (1869-1945)	The Green Ring	Portrait of Gippius by Ilya Repin, 1894.	Portrait by Leon Bakst, 1906.
	Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)	Marriage The Government Inspector	Fyodor Paramonov as Anton Antonovich in Gogol's The Government Inspector.	Cover of the First Edition of The Government Inspector. 1836
	Dmitry Gorchakov (1758-1824)	King for a Day
	Grigori Gorin (1940-2000)
	Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)	Summerfolk The Lower Depths Children of the Sun	A scene from The Lower Depths.	Another scene from The Lower Depths.
	Aleksandr Griboyedov (1795-1829)	Woe from Wit	Stanislavski as Famusov in Woe from Wit.	Title page of Griboyedov's manuscript of Woe from Wit.1824
	Isabella Grinevskaya (1864-1944)
	Elena Guro (1887-1913)	The Hurdy-Gurdy	Guro's portrait of her husband Mikhail Matyushin.	Elena and Mikhail.

I

Portrait	Person	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Vsevolod Ivanov (1895-1963)	Armoured Train 14-69	1927 production of Armoured Train 14-69.

K

Portrait	Person	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Vasily Kapnist (1758-1823)	Chicane	Postcard featuring Kapnist.
	Valentin Kataev (1897-1986)	Quadrature of the Circle	Kataev's brother, the writer Yevgeni Petrov.
	Pavel Katenin (1792-1853)	Andromache
	Yevgeny Kharitonov (1941-1981)	Under House Arrest
	Daniil Kharms (1905-1942)		Graffiti of Kharms on a wall in Kharkiv.	Caricature of Kharms by Antonovsky
	Mikhail Kheraskov (1733-1807)
	Vladimir Kirshon (1902-1938)	Bread The Miraculous Alloy
	Yakov Knyazhnin (1740/42-1791)	Olga The Cranks The Braggart Vadim the Bold
	Eugene Kozlovsky (born 1946)
	Ivan Krylov (1769-1844)	Philomela	Monument to Krylov in St Petersburg.	Monument to Krylov and Pushkin in Pushkino.
	Nestor Kukolnik (1809-1868)	A Life for the Tsar	Title page from one of Kukolnik's dramas, 1834.	Plaque for Kukolnik in Taganrog.

L

Portrait	Person	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Ivan Lazhechnikov (1792–1869)	Oprichnik
	Leonid Leonov (1899-1994)
	Dmitri Lipskerov (born 1964)
	Lev Lunts (1901-1924)	Native Land

M

Portrait	Person	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Anatoly Marienhof (1897-1962)		With the poet Sergei Yesenin, 1915.
	Samuil Marshak (1887-1964)	Smart Things The Twelve Months	Soviet stamp featuring Marshak.
	Mikhail Matinsky (1760-c1820)	Regeneration Saint-Petersburg's Trade Stalls
	Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930)	The Bedbug The Bathhouse Mystery-Bouffe	A young Mayakovsky	Soviet stamp featuring Mayakovsky.
	Sergey Mikhalkov (1913-2009)	Three Plus Two	Mikhailov receiving an award from Vladimir Putin in 2003.	Talking with Vladimir Putin in 2003.

N

Portrait	Person	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
Monument to Nabokov at Montreux.	Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)	The Waltz Invention	Nabokov's first published work.	Playing chess with his wife Vera.
	Löb Nevakhovich (1776/78-1831)
	Alexander Neverov (1886-1923)	Baba Hunger	Drawing of Neverov.
	Nikolai Nikolev (1758-1815)
	Osip Notovich (1849-1914)	Shady Business

O

Portrait	Person	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886)	The Storm The Poor Bride Poverty is No Vice Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man	Stanislavski (left), and Vasily Kachalov in Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man.	Monument to Osrovsky at the Maly Theatre in Moscow.
	Valentin Ovechkin (1904-1968)	A Time to Reap
	Vladislav Ozerov (1769-1816)	Dmitry Donskoy

P

Portrait	Person	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Vera Panova (1905-1973)	Ivan Kosogor In Old Moscow	Plaque for Panova in St. Petersburg.
	Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (born 1938)		Petrushevskaya in 2009.	At a booksigning in New York with Keith Gessen, 2009.
	Aleksey Pisemsky (1821-1881)	A Bitter Fate The Hypochondriac Lieutenant Gladkov The Financial Genius	A Bitter Fate. Lizaveta. Picture by Ilya Repin.	Engraving of Pisemsky.
	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	The Stone Guest. Don Juan and Doña Ana. Picture by Ilya Repin.	Monument to Pushkin in Moscow.

R

Portrait	Person	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Edvard Radzinsky (born 1936)
	Vyacheslav Rybakov (born 1954)

S

Portrait	Person	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Natalya Sats (1903-1993)
	Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874-1952)	Summer Picture
	Evgeny Shvarts (1896-1958)	The Dragon	Dedicatory plaque for Shvarts in St Petersburg.
	Fyodor Sologub (1863-1927)	The Triumph of Death	Portrait by Konstantin Somov.
	Ksenya Stepanycheva (born 1978)	Pink Bow	Stepanycheva in 2009.
	Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817-1903)	The Case Krechinsky's Wedding The Death of Tarelkin	Sukhovo-Kobylin, c1850s.	Aleksandr's sister, the writer Evgenia Tur.
	Alexander Sumarokov (1717-1777)	Khorev	Portrait of Sumarokov by Fedor Rokotov.

T

Portrait	Person	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (1891-1968)	By the Pike's Wish	Tarakhovskaya's birth house in Taganrog.
	Modest Tchaikovsky (1850-1916)		Tchaikovsky's brother, the composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
	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	Ivan the Terrible. Picture by Viktor Vasnetsov	Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich.
	Aleksey N. Tolstoy (1883-1945)		Stamp featuring Tolstoy.	Monument to Tolstoy in Moscow.
	Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)	The Power of Darkness The Fruits of Enlightenment The Living Corpse	Stanislavski as Zvezdintsev in The Fruits of Enlightenment, 1891.	Stanislavski as Prince Abrezhov in The Living Corpse, 1911.
	Sergei Tretyakov (1892-1937)	I Want a Baby
	Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)	A Month in the Country	Stanislavski and Knipper in A Month in the Country, 1909.	A scene from A Month in the Country.

U

Portrait	Person	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Eduard Uspensky (born 1937)

V

Portrait	Person	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Alexander Vampilov (1937-1972)	Elder Son
	Anastasya Verbitskaya (1861-1928)	Mirages	Verbitskaya in 1898.
	Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900-1951)	Optimistic Tragedy

Z

Portrait	Person	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Mark Zakharov (born 1933)		Zakharov with Dmitry Medvedev in 2008.
	Boris Zaytsev (1881-1972)
	Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov (1821-1908)
	Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866-1907)

See also

• List of Russian language novelists
• List of Russian language poets
• Russian literature
• Russian language
• Russian culture

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