Notable authors who have written dramatic works in the Russian language include:
Alphabetical list
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | Alexander Ablesimov (1742–1783) | The Miller | ||
| Alexander Afinogenov (1904–1941) | Fear Crank A Far Place | |||
|  | 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. | 
|  | Maria Arbatova (born 1957) | On the Road to Ourselves |  Maria Arbatova in 2009 | |
| Aleksei Arbuzov (1908–1986) | Tanya A Long Road | |||
|  | Mikhail Artsybashev (1878–1927) | War |  Artsybashev with the actress Yavorskaya, 1915 |  Drawing of Artsybashev | 
|  | Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925) |  Drawing of Averchenko |  Averchenko, c. 1920 | |
B
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | Isaac Babel (1894–1940) | Maria Sunset | ||
|  | Andrei Bely (1880–1934) | Petersburg Moscow | ||
|  | Pyotr Boborykin (1836–1921) | The Scale |  Vera Komissarzhevskaya in The Scale | |
| Oleg Bogayev (born 1970) | ||||
|  | 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 | 
C
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| %252C_1742%252C_Russian_Museum_-_detail.jpg.webp) | Catherine the Great (1729–1796) | Fevey | .jpg.webp) Portrait of Catherine, 1745 | .jpg.webp) Portrait, 1794 | 
|  | Nikolai Chayev (1824—1914) | Svat Faddeyich | ||
|  | 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 | 
|  | Evgeny Chirikov (1864–1932) | The Peasant |  At his desk, 1904 |  Portrait by Repin, 1906 | 
|  | Ada Chumachenko (1887 – 1954) | The Snow Queen A Man from the Moon | ||
|  | Grand Duke Constantine (1858–1915) | King of Judea |  The Grand Duke in military dress, 1891 |  With his wife Elizaveta, 1894 | 
D
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | 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 and a San Francisco director V.Zavarina, 1994 | 
E
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | Nikolai Erdman (1900–1970) | The Mandate The Suicide | ||
|  | 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 | 
F
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | 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 | |||
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 | .jpg.webp) Portrait by Léon Bakst, 1906 | 
| _detail.jpg.webp) | 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 | 
|  | Dmitry Gorchakov (1758–1824) | King for a Day | ||
| Grigori Gorin (1940–2000) | ||||
|  | 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 | 
|  | 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 | 
|  | Isabella Grinevskaya (1864–1944) | |||
|  | Elena Guro (1887–1913) | The Hurdy-Gurdy |  Guro's self-portrait |  Elena and Mikhail Matyushin | 
I
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | Vsevolod Ivanov (1895–1963) | Armoured Train 14-69 |  1927 production of Armoured Train 14-69 | |
K
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | Vasily Kapnist (1758–1823) | Chicane |  Postcard featuring Kapnist | |
| Valentin Kataev (1897–1986) | Quadrature of the Circle |  Kataev's brother, the writer Yevgeni Petrov | ||
| .jpg.webp) | Pavel Katenin (1792–1853) | Andromache | ||
| Yevgeny Kharitonov (1941–1981) | Under House Arrest | |||
|  | Daniil Kharms (1905–1942) | Elizaveta Bam |  Graffiti of Kharms on a wall in Kharkiv | .gif) Caricature of Kharms by Antonovsky | 
|  | Mikhail Kheraskov (1733–1807) | |||
| 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 | ||
| .png.webp) | Fyodor Kokoshkin (1775–1838) | Little Demon on Vacation |  Kokoshkin's grave at the Donskoy Monastery's necropolis in Moscow | |
|  | 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 | 
|  | Yakov Knyazhnin (1740/42–1791) | Olga The Cranks The Braggart Vadim the Bold | ||
|  | Eugene Kozlovsky (born 1946) | |||
| Valentin Krasnogorov (born 1934) | Let's Have Sex! Pelicans of the Wilderness The Delights of Adultery The Dog The Fall of Don Juan | |||
|  | 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 | 
|  | Nestor Kukolnik (1809–1868) | A Life for the Tsar |  Title page from one of Kukolnik's dramas, 1834 |  Plaque for Kukolnik in Taganrog | 
L
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | Ivan Lazhechnikov (1792–1869) | Oprichnik | ||
|  | Leonid Leonov (1899–1994) | Untilovsk | ||
| Dmitri Lipskerov (born 1964) | ||||
|  | Lev Lunts (1901–1924) | Native Land | ||
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 Months |  Soviet stamp featuring Marshak | ||
| Mikhail Matinsky (1760–c. 1820) | Regeneration Saint-Petersburg's Trade Stalls | |||
|  | Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) | The Bedbug The Bathhouse Mystery-Bouffe |  A young Mayakovsky |  Soviet stamp featuring Mayakovsky | 
|  | Sergey Mikhalkov (1913–2009) | Three Plus Two |  Mikhailov receiving an award from Vladimir Putin in 2003 |  Talking with Vladimir Putin in 2003 | 
N
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) | The Waltz Invention |  Nabokov's first published work | |
| Löb Nevakhovich (1776/78–1831) | ||||
|  | Alexander Neverov (1886–1923) | Baba Hunger |  Drawing of Neverov | |
|  | Nikolai Nikolev (1758–1815) | |||
| Osip Notovich (1849–1914) | Shady Business | |||
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 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 | |||
|  | Vladislav Ozerov (1769–1816) | Dmitry Donskoy | ||
P
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vera Panova (1905–1973) | Ivan Kosogor In Old Moscow |  Plaque for Panova in St. Petersburg | ||
|  | Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (born 1938) |  Petrushevskaya in 2009 |  At a booksigning in New York with Keith Gessen, 2009 | |
|  | 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 | 
| Andrei Platonov (1899–1951) | The Hurdy Gurdy Fourteen Little Red Huts | |||
|  | Pyotr Polevoy (1839–1902) | Princess Sophia | ||
| 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 Knight |  The Stone Guest. Don Juan and Doña Ana. Picture by Ilya Repin. | |
R
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | Edvard Radzinsky (born 1936) | |||
|  | Vyacheslav Rybakov (born 1954) | |||
S
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | Mikhail Saltykov-Schedrin (1826–1889) | The Death of Pazukhin | ||
| Natalya Sats (1903–1993) | ||||
|  | Alexander Shakhovskoy (1777–1846) | Ladies' Joke The New Stern |  |  | 
|  | Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874–1952) | Summer Picture | ||
| Evgeny Shvarts (1896–1958) | The Dragon | |||
|  | Vassily Sigarev (born 1977) | Plasticine Black Milk | ||
|  | Fyodor Sologub (1863–1927) | The Triumph of Death |  Portrait by Konstantin Somov | |
|  | Ksenya Stepanycheva (born 1978) | Pink Bow |  Stepanycheva in 2009 | |
|  | 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. | 
|  | Alexander Sumarokov (1717–1777) | Khorev |  Portrait of Sumarokov by Fedor Rokotov. | |
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 Boris Don Juan |  Ivan the Terrible. Picture by Viktor Vasnetsov. |  Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich | 
|  | Aleksey N. Tolstoy (1883–1945) |  Stamp featuring Tolstoy | ||
|  | 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 | |||
|  | 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 | 
U
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | Eduard Uspensky (1937–2018) | |||
V
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Vampilov (1937–1972) | Elder Son | |||
| Alexander Vvedensky (1904–1941) | Christmas at the Ivanovs |  Vvedensky after arrest in 1941 | ||
|  | Anastasiya Verbitskaya (1861–1928) | Mirages |  Verbitskaya in 1898 | |
| Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900–1951) | Optimistic Tragedy | |||
Z
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | Mark Zakharov (1933–2019) |  Zakharov with Dmitry Medvedev in 2008 | ||
|  | Boris Zaytsev (1881–1972) | |||
| Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937) | ||||
|  | Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov (1821–1908) | |||
|  | Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866–1907) | |||
|  | Rafail Zotov (1795–1871) | Jealous Wife | 
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