List of Russian-language playwrights
Notable authors who have written dramatic works in the Russian language include:
The Moscow Art Theatre.
Alphabetical list
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Alexander Ablesimov (1742-1783) |
The Miller | ||
| Alexander Afinogenov (1904-1941) |
Fear Crank A Far Place |
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Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919) |
Anathema The Life of Man He Who Gets Slapped |
_2.jpg.webp) Margalo Gillmore (Consuelo) & Richard Bennett (He) in He Who Gets Slapped, 1922. |
_1.jpg.webp) Richard Bennett (He, left) & Louis Calvert (Baron Regnart, right) in He Who Gets Slapped, 1922. |
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Maria Arbatova (born 1957) |
On the Road to Ourselves |  Maria Arbatova in 2009. |
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| Aleksei Arbuzov (1908-1986) |
Tanya A Long Road |
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Mikhail Artsybashev (1878-1927) |
War |  Artsybashev with the actress Yavorskaya, 1915. |
 Drawing of Artsybashev. |
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Arkady Averchenko (1881-1925) |
 Drawing of Averchenko. |
 Averchenko, c1920. | |
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Isaac Babel (1894-1940) |
Maria Sunset |
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Andrei Bely (1880-1934) |
Petersburg Moscow |
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Pyotr Boborykin (1836-1921) |
The Scale |  Vera Komissarzhevskaya in The Scale. |
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| Oleg Bogayev (born 1970) |
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Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) |
Flight Zoyka's Apartment Adam and Eve The Days of the Turbins |
 1926 production of The Days of the Turbins |
 2011 production of Zoyka' s Apartment |
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Catherine the Great (1729-1796) |
Fevey | .jpg.webp) Portrait of Catherine, 1745. |
.jpg.webp) Portrait, 1794. |
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Nikolai Chayev (1824—1914) |
Svat Faddeyich | ||
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Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) |
The Seagull Uncle Vanya Three Sisters The Cherry Orchard |
 Konstantin Stanislavski as Vershinin in Three Sisters. |
 Chekhov's wife Olga Knipper, who played Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard. |
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Evgeny Chirikov (1864-1932) |
The Peasant |  At his desk, 1904. |
 Portrait by Repin, 1906. |
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Ada Chumachenko (1887 – 1954) |
The Snow Queen A Man from the Moon |
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Grand Duke Constantine (1858-1915) |
King of Judea |  The Grand Duke in military dress, 1891. |
 With his wife Elizaveta, 1894. |
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Grigoriy Demidovtsev (born 1960) |
 Certificate of membership in the Union of Russian Writers. |
 Demidovtsev in 2007. | |
| Victor Denisov (born 1944) |
Six Specters of Lenin on a Piano |  V.Denisov & a San-Francisco director V.Zavarina, 1994 |
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Nikolai Erdman (1900-1970) |
The Mandate The Suicide |
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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. |
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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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 | |||
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Alexander Galich (1918-1977) |
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Zinaida Gippius (1869-1945) |
The Green Ring |  Portrait of Gippius by Ilya Repin, 1894. |
.jpg.webp) Portrait by Léon Bakst, 1906. |
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Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) |
Marriage The Government Inspector The Gamblers |
 Fyodor Paramonov as Anton Antonovich in The Government Inspector. |
.jpg.webp) Cover of the first edition of The Government Inspector, 1836. |
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Dmitry Gorchakov (1758-1824) |
King for a Day | ||
| Grigori Gorin (1940-2000) |
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Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) |
The Philistines The Lower Depths Summerfolk Children of the Sun |
.jpg.webp) Konstantin Stanislavski as Satin in The Lower Depths. |
 1905 production of Children of the Sun by the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre. |
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Aleksandr Griboyedov (1795-1829) |
Woe from Wit | .jpg.webp) Stanislavski as Famusov in Woe from Wit. |
 Title page of Griboyedov's manuscript of Woe from Wit.1824 |
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Isabella Grinevskaya (1864-1944) |
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Elena Guro (1887-1913) |
The Hurdy-Gurdy |  Guro's self-portrait. |
 Elena and Mikhail Matyushin. |
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Vsevolod Ivanov (1895-1963) |
Armoured Train 14-69 |  1927 production of Armoured Train 14-69. |
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Vasily Kapnist (1758-1823) |
Chicane |  Postcard featuring Kapnist. |
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| Valentin Kataev (1897-1986) |
Quadrature of the Circle |  Kataev's brother, the writer Yevgeni Petrov. |
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Pavel Katenin (1792-1853) |
Andromache | ||
| Yevgeny Kharitonov (1941-1981) |
Under House Arrest | |||
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Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) |
Elizaveta Bam |  Graffiti of Kharms on a wall in Kharkiv. |
.gif) Caricature of Kharms by Antonovsky |
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Mikhail Kheraskov (1733-1807) |
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| Vladimir Kirshon (1902-1938) |
Bread The Miraculous Alloy |
%252C_1930s.jpg.webp) Layout of scenery for the play based on the play by V. Kirshon The Court |
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Fyodor Kokoshkin (1775-1838) |
Little Demon on Vacation |  Kokoshkin's grave at the Donskoy Monastery's necropolis in Moscow |
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Nikolay Kolyada (born 1957) |
A Tale About the Dead Tsarina Oginski Polonaise Persian Lilac Playing Forfeits Slingshot |
 in the Sverdlovsk Regional Universal Scientific Library Vissarion Belinsky |
 Kolyada Theater in Yekaterinburg |
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Yakov Knyazhnin (1740/42-1791) |
Olga The Cranks The Braggart Vadim the Bold |
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Eugene Kozlovsky (born 1946) |
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| Valentin Krasnogorov (born 1934) |
Let's Have Sex! Pelicans of the Wilderness The Delights of Adultery The Dog The Fall of Don Juan |
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Ivan Krylov (1769-1844) |
Philomela The Cat and the Сook The Fox and the Crane The Quartet The Wolf and the Lamb |
 Monument to Krylov in St Petersburg. |
 Illustration The Cat and the Сook by Sergei Gribkov |
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Nestor Kukolnik (1809-1868) |
A Life for the Tsar |  Title page from one of Kukolnik's dramas, 1834. |
 Plaque for Kukolnik in Taganrog. |
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Ivan Lazhechnikov (1792–1869) |
Oprichnik | ||
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Leonid Leonov (1899-1994) |
Untilovsk | ||
| Dmitri Lipskerov (born 1964) |
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Lev Lunts (1901-1924) |
Native Land | ||
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Anatoly Marienhof (1897-1962) |
 With the poet Sergei Yesenin, 1915. |
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| Samuil Marshak (1887-1964) |
Smart Things The Twelve Months |
 Soviet stamp featuring Marshak. |
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| Mikhail Matinsky (1760-c1820) |
Regeneration Saint-Petersburg's Trade Stalls |
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Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) |
The Bedbug The Bathhouse Mystery-Bouffe |
 A young Mayakovsky |
 Soviet stamp featuring Mayakovsky. |
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Sergey Mikhalkov (1913-2009) |
Three Plus Two |  Mikhailov receiving an award from Vladimir Putin in 2003. |
 Talking with Vladimir Putin in 2003. |
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) |
The Waltz Invention |  Nabokov's first published work. |
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| Löb Nevakhovich (1776/78-1831) |
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Alexander Neverov (1886-1923) |
Baba Hunger |
 Drawing of Neverov. |
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Nikolai Nikolev (1758-1815) |
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| Osip Notovich (1849-1914) |
Shady Business | |||
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| 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 |
 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 | |||
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Vladislav Ozerov (1769-1816) |
Dmitry Donskoy | ||
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Vera Panova (1905-1973) |
Ivan Kosogor In Old Moscow |
 Plaque for Panova in St. Petersburg. |
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Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (born 1938) |
 Petrushevskaya in 2009. |
 At a booksigning in New York with Keith Gessen, 2009. | |
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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. |
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Andrei Platonov (1899-1951) |
The Hurdy Gurdy Fourteen Little Red Huts |
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Pyotr Polevoy (1839–1902) |
Princess Sophia | ||
| Nikolai Pogodin (1900-1962) |
Aristocrats | |||
| Mikhail Popov (1742-1790) |
Anyuta | |||
| Alexander Preys (1905-1942) |
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| Iosif Prut (1900-1996) |
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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. |
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Edvard Radzinsky (born 1936) |
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Vyacheslav Rybakov (born 1954) |
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Mikhail Saltykov-Schedrin (1826-1889) |
The Death of Pazukhin | ||
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Natalya Sats (1903-1993) |
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Alexander Shakhovskoy (1777–1846) |
Ladies' Joke The New Stern |
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Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874-1952) |
Summer Picture | ||
| Evgeny Shvarts (1896-1958) |
The Dragon | |||
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Vassily Sigarev (born 1977) |
Plasticine Black Milk |
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Fyodor Sologub (1863-1927) |
The Triumph of Death |  Portrait by Konstantin Somov. |
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Ksenya Stepanycheva (born 1978) |
Pink Bow |  Stepanycheva in 2009. |
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Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817-1903) |
Pictures of the Past |  Prov Sadovsky as Rasplyuyev in Krechinsky's Wedding (first part of Pictures of the Past). |
 Cover of the first edition of Pictures of the Past. |
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Alexander Sumarokov (1717-1777) |
Khorev |  Portrait of Sumarokov by Fedor Rokotov. |
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (1891-1968) |
By the Pike's Wish |  Tarakhovskaya's birth house in Taganrog. |
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Modest Tchaikovsky (1850-1916) |
 Tchaikovsky's brother, the composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky. |
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| Nadezhda Teffi (1872-1952) |
The Woman Question | |||
| Viktoriya Tokareva (born 1937) |
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Aleksey K. Tolstoy (1817-1875) |
The Death of Ivan the Terrible Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich Tsar Boris Don Juan |
 Ivan the Terrible. Picture by Viktor Vasnetsov |
 Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich. |
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Aleksey N. Tolstoy (1883-1945) |
 Stamp featuring Tolstoy. |
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Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
The Power of Darkness The Fruits of Enlightenment The Living Corpse |
.jpg.webp) 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 | |||
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Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) |
A Provincial Lady A Month in the Country |
 Stanislavski and Knipper in A Month in the Country, 1909. |
 A scene from A Month in the Country. |
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Eduard Uspensky (1937-2018) |
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Alexander Vampilov (1937-1972) |
Elder Son | |||
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Alexander Vvedensky (1904-1941) |
Christmas at the Ivanovs |  Vvedensky after arrest in 1941. |
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Anastasiya Verbitskaya (1861-1928) |
Mirages |  Verbitskaya in 1898. |
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| Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900-1951) |
Optimistic Tragedy | |||
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Mark Zakharov (1933-2019) |
 Zakharov with Dmitry Medvedev in 2008. |
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Boris Zaytsev (1881-1972) |
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| Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) |
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Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov (1821-1908) |
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Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866-1907) |
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Rafail Zotov (1795–1871) |
Jealous Wife |
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