Notable authors who have written dramatic works in the Russian language include:
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Alphabetical list
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editPortrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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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 |
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Maria Arbatova (born 1957) |
On the Road to Ourselves | |||
Aleksei Arbuzov (1908–1986) |
Tanya A Long Road |
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Mikhail Artsybashev (1878–1927) |
War | |||
Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925) |
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editPortrait | 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 | |||
Oleg Bogayev (born 1970) |
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Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) |
Flight Zoyka's Apartment Adam and Eve The Days of the Turbins |
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editPortrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Catherine the Great (1729–1796) |
Fevey | |||
Nikolai Chayev (1824—1914) |
Svat Faddeyich | |||
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) |
The Seagull Uncle Vanya Three Sisters The Cherry Orchard |
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Evgeny Chirikov (1864–1932) |
The Peasant | |||
Ada Chumachenko (1887 – 1954) |
The Snow Queen A Man from the Moon |
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Grand Duke Constantine (1858–1915) |
King of Judea |
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editPortrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Grigoriy Demidovtsev (born 1960) |
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Victor Denisov (born 1944) |
Six Specters of Lenin on a Piano |
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editPortrait | 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 |
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editPortrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Denis Fonvizin (1744/45–1792) |
The Minor | |||
Olga Forsh (1873–1961) |
The Substitute Lecturer |
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editPortrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Alexander Galich (1918–1977) |
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Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945) |
The Green Ring | |||
Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) |
Marriage The Government Inspector The Gamblers |
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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 |
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Aleksandr Griboyedov (1795–1829) |
Woe from Wit | |||
Isabella Grinevskaya (1864–1944) |
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Elena Guro (1887–1913) |
The Hurdy-Gurdy |
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editPortrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Vsevolod Ivanov (1895–1963) |
Armoured Train 14-69 |
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editPortrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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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) |
Elizaveta Bam | |||
Mikhail Kheraskov (1733–1807) |
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Vladimir Kirshon (1902–1938) |
Bread The Miraculous Alloy |
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Fyodor Kokoshkin (1775–1838) |
Little Demon on Vacation | |||
Nikolay Kolyada (born 1957) |
A Tale About the Dead Tsarina Oginski Polonaise Persian Lilac Playing Forfeits Slingshot |
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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 |
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Nestor Kukolnik (1809–1868) |
A Life for the Tsar |
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editPortrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Ivan Lazhechnikov (1792–1869) |
Oprichnik | |||
Leonid Leonov (1899–1994) |
Untilovsk | |||
Dmitri Lipskerov (born 1964) |
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Lev Lunts (1901–1924) |
Native Land |
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editPortrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Anatoly Marienhof (1897–1962) |
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Samuil Marshak (1887–1964) |
Smart Things The Twelve Months |
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Mikhail Matinsky (1760–c. 1820) |
Regeneration Saint-Petersburg's Trade Stalls |
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Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) |
The Bedbug The Bathhouse Mystery-Bouffe |
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Sergey Mikhalkov (1913–2009) |
Three Plus Two |
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editPortrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) |
The Waltz Invention | |||
Löb Nevakhovich (1776/78–1831) |
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Alexander Neverov (1886–1923) |
Baba Hunger |
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Nikolai Nikolev (1758–1815) |
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Osip Notovich (1849–1914) |
Shady Business |
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editPortrait | 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 |
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Valentin Ovechkin (1904–1968) |
A Time to Reap | |||
Vladislav Ozerov (1769–1816) |
Dmitry Donskoy |
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editPortrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Vera Panova (1905–1973) |
Ivan Kosogor In Old Moscow |
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Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (born 1938) |
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Aleksey Pisemsky (1821–1881) |
A Bitter Fate The Hypochondriac Lieutenant Gladkov The Financial Genius |
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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 |
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editPortrait | 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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editPortrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Mikhail Saltykov-Schedrin (1826–1889) |
The Death of Pazukhin | |||
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 | |||
Vassily Sigarev (born 1977) |
Plasticine Black Milk |
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Fyodor Sologub (1863–1927) |
The Triumph of Death | |||
Ksenya Stepanycheva (born 1978) |
Pink Bow | |||
Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817–1903) |
Pictures of the Past | |||
Alexander Sumarokov (1717–1777) |
Khorev |
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editPortrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (1891–1968) |
By the Pike's Wish | |||
Modest Tchaikovsky (1850–1916) |
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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 |
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Aleksey N. Tolstoy (1883–1945) |
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Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) |
The Power of Darkness The Fruits of Enlightenment The Living Corpse |
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Sergei Tretyakov (1892–1937) |
I Want a Baby | |||
Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) |
A Provincial Lady A Month in the Country |
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editPortrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Eduard Uspensky (1937–2018) |
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editPortrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Alexander Vampilov (1937–1972) |
Elder Son | |||
Alexander Vvedensky (1904–1941) |
Christmas at the Ivanovs | |||
Anastasiya Verbitskaya (1861–1928) |
Mirages | |||
Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900–1951) |
Optimistic Tragedy |
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editPortrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Mark Zakharov (1933–2019) |
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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 |