- List of Russian language playwrights
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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
Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration Alexander Ablesimov
(1742-1783)The Miller Alexander Afinogenov
(1904-1941)Fear
Crank
A Far PlaceLeonid Andreyev
(1871-1919)Anathema
Tsar Hunger
The Life of Man
He Who Gets SlappedMaria Arbatova
(born 1957)On the Road to Ourselves Aleksei Arbuzov
(1908-1986)Tanya
A Long RoadMikhail Artsybashev
(1878-1927)War Arkady Averchenko
(1881-1925)Contents: B
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration Isaac Babel
(1894-1940)Maria
SunsetPyotr 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 TurbinsContents: C
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration Catherine the Great
(1729-1796)Fevey Anton Chekhov
(1860-1904)The Seagull
Uncle Vanya
Three Sisters
The Cherry OrchardChekhov's wife Olga Knipper, who played Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard.Evgeny Chirikov
(1864-1932)The Peasant Portrait by Repin, 1906.Grand Duke Constantine
(1858-1915)King of Judea Contents: D
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration Grigoriy Demidovtsev
(born 1960)Contents: 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 PalaceContents: F
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration Denis Fonvizin
(1744/45-1792)The Minor Statue of Fonvizin, part of the Millennium of Russia monument.Olga Forsh
(1873–1961)The Substitute Lecturer Contents: 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 InspectorDmitry Gorchakov
(1758-1824)King for a Day Grigori Gorin
(1940-2000)Maxim Gorky
(1868-1936)Summerfolk
The Lower Depths
Children of the SunAleksandr Griboyedov
(1795-1829)Woe from Wit Stanislavski as Famusov in Woe from Wit.Isabella Grinevskaya
(1864-1944)Elena Guro
(1887-1913)The Hurdy-Gurdy Guro's portrait of her husband Mikhail Matyushin.Contents: I
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration Vsevolod Ivanov
(1895-1963)Armoured Train 14-69 Contents: K
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration Vasily Kapnist
(1758-1823)Chicane Valentin Kataev
(1897-1986)Quadrature of the Circle Pavel Katenin
(1792-1853)Andromache Yevgeny Kharitonov
(1941-1981)Under House Arrest Daniil Kharms
(1905-1942)Graffiti of Kharms on a wall in Kharkiv.Mikhail Kheraskov
(1733-1807)Vladimir Kirshon
(1902-1938)Bread
The Miraculous AlloyYakov Knyazhnin
(1740/42-1791)Olga
The Cranks
The Braggart
Vadim the BoldEugene Kozlovsky
(born 1946)Ivan Krylov
(1769-1844)Philomela Nestor Kukolnik
(1809-1868)A Life for the Tsar Plaque for Kukolnik in Taganrog.Contents: 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 Contents: 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 MonthsMikhail Matinsky
(1760-c1820)Regeneration
Saint-Petersburg's Trade StallsVladimir Mayakovsky
(1893-1930)The Bedbug
The Bathhouse
Mystery-BouffeSergey Mikhalkov
(1913-2009)Three Plus Two Mikhailov receiving an award from Vladimir Putin in 2003.Contents: N
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration Monument to Nabokov at Montreux.Vladimir Nabokov
(1899-1977)The Waltz Invention Löb Nevakhovich
(1776/78-1831)Alexander Neverov
(1886-1923)Baba
HungerNikolai Nikolev
(1758-1815)Osip Notovich
(1849-1914)Shady Business Contents: 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 ManValentin Ovechkin
(1904-1968)A Time to Reap Vladislav Ozerov
(1769-1816)Dmitry Donskoy Contents: P
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration Vera Panova
(1905-1973)Ivan Kosogor
In Old MoscowLyudmila Petrushevskaya
(born 1938)At a booksigning in New York with Keith Gessen, 2009.Aleksey Pisemsky
(1821-1881)A Bitter Fate
The Hypochondriac
Lieutenant Gladkov
The Financial GeniusA Bitter Fate. Lizaveta. Picture by Ilya Repin.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 KnightThe Stone Guest. Don Juan and Doña Ana. Picture by Ilya Repin.Contents: R
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration Edvard Radzinsky
(born 1936)Vyacheslav Rybakov
(born 1954)Contents: S
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration Natalya Sats
(1903-1993)Shchepkina-Kupernik
(1874-1952)Summer Picture Evgeny Shvarts
(1896-1958)The Dragon Fyodor Sologub
(1863-1927)The Triumph of Death Portrait by Konstantin Somov.Ksenya Stepanycheva
(born 1978)Pink Bow Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin
(1817-1903)The Case
Krechinsky's Wedding
The Death of TarelkinAlexander Sumarokov
(1717-1777)Khorev Contents: 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 BorisAleksey N. Tolstoy
(1883-1945)Leo Tolstoy
(1828-1910)The Power of Darkness
The Fruits of Enlightenment
The Living CorpseStanislavski as Zvezdintsev in The Fruits of Enlightenment, 1891.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.Contents: U
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration Eduard Uspensky
(born 1937)Contents: V
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration Alexander Vampilov
(1937-1972)Elder Son Anastasya Verbitskaya
(1861-1928)Mirages Vsevolod Vishnevsky
(1900-1951)Optimistic Tragedy Contents: 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
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