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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