List of Novelists By Nationality - Russia

Russia

See also: Russian literature
  • Andrey Bely (1880–1934)
  • Andrey Bitov, (born 1937)
  • Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940), author of The Master and Margarita
  • Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828–1889), author of What Is To Be Done?
  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), author of The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment
  • Gaito Gazdanov (1903–1971)
  • Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), author of Dead Souls
  • Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891), Oblomov, a tale of a "superfluous" man
  • Maxim Gorky (1868–1936)
  • Anna Kashina, author of The Princess of Dhagabad
  • Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841)
  • Leonid Leonov, 1899–1994
  • Nikolai Leskov (1831–1895)
  • Vladimir Makanin, (born 1937)
  • Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) early novels in Russian, later, including Lolita, in English.
  • Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), refused the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doctor Zhivago
  • Aleksandr Pushkin (1799–1837)
  • Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889)
  • Ilia Shtemler, (born 1933)
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  • Aleksey K. Tolstoy (1817–1875)
  • Aleksey N. Tolstoy (1883–1945)
  • Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), author of War and Peace, Anna Karenina
  • Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883)

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