List of Russian-language novelists

{{Short description|List of novel creators who have created works in the Russian language}}

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This is a list of authors who have written works of fiction in the Russian language. The list encompasses novelists and writers of short fiction.

Alphabetical list

{{see also|:Category:Russian novelists}}

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|Narine Abgaryan
(b.1971)

|Three Apples Fell From the Sky
Manyunya

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|Fyodor Abramov
(1920–1983)

|The New Life
Wooden Horses
Two Winters and Three Summers

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|M. Ageyev
(1898–1973)

|Novel with Cocaine

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|Chinghiz Aitmatov
(1928–2008)

|Jamilya
The White Ship
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years

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|David Aizman
(1869–1922)

|The Countrymen

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|Sergey Aksakov
(1791–1859)

|The Scarlet Flower
The Family Chronicle
Years of Childhood
A Russian Schoolboy

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|Vasily Aksyonov
(1932–2009)

|The Burn
Colleagues
Generations of Winter
The Winter's Hero

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|Boris Akunin
(born 1956)

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Nicholas Fandorin series
Sister Pelagia series

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|Mikhail Albov
(1851–1911)

|On the New Road

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|Yuz Aleshkovsky
(born 1929)

|The Hand
Kangaroo

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|Alexander Amfiteatrov
(1862–1938)

|Napoleonder
The Fire Flower

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|Daniil Andreyev
(1906–1959)

|Roza Mira

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|Leonid Andreyev
(1871–1919)

|Darkness
The Abyss
The Red Laugh
The Seven Who Were Hanged

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|Yury Annenkov
(1889–1974)

|A Tale of Trivia

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|Aleksey Apukhtin
(1840–1893)

|From Death to Life
The Archive of Countess D

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|Maria Arbatova
(born 1957)

|My name is Woman

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|Mikhail Artsybashev
(1878–1927)

|Sanin
Ivan Lande
Breaking Point
Tales of the Revolution

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|Viktor Astafyev
(1924–2001)

|Queen Fish
Sad Detective
To Live Your Life
The Cursed and the Slain

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|Arkady Averchenko
(1881–1925)

|Ninochka

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|Isaak Babel
(1894–1940)

|Red Cavalry
The Odessa Tales

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|Grigory Baklanov
(1923–2009)

|The Foothold
Forever Nineteen
South of the Main Offensive

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|Natalya Baranskaya
(1908–2004)

|A Week Like Any Other

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|Pavel Bazhov
(1879–1950)

|The Malachite Box

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|Dmitry Begichev
(1786–1855)

|The Kholmsky Family

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|Alexander Bek
(1903–1972)

|And Not to Die
The Story of an Inventor
The New Appointment

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|Andrei Bely
(1880–1934)

|Petersburg
Kotik Letaev
The Silver Dove
Moscow

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|Alexander Belyaev
(1884–1942)

|Professor Dowell's Head
Ariel
Amphibian Man

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|Nina Berberova
(1901–1993)

|The Accompanist
The Tattered Cloak
The Italics are Mine
The Book of Happiness

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|Alexander Bestuzhev
(1797–1837)

|The Test
On Bivouac

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|Vitaly Bianki
(1894–1959)

|Whose Nose is Better?

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|Aleksei Bibik
(1878–1976)

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|Andrei Bitov
(1937–2018)

|Pushkin House
The Monkey Link
Life in Windy Weather
A Captive of the Caucasus

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|Nikolai Blagoveshchensky
(1837–1889)

|Before the Dawn

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|Pyotr Boborykin
(1836–1921)

|China Town

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|Alexander Bogdanov
(1873–1928)

|Red Star

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|Vladimir Bogomolov
(1926–2003)

|Ivan
The Moment of Truth

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|Yuri Bondarev
(1924–2020)

|Silence
The Shore
The Hot Snow

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|Leonid Borodin
(1938–2011)

|Partings
The Third Truth
The Story of a Strange Time
The Year of Miracle and Grief

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|Valery Bryusov
(1873–1924)

|The Fiery Angel
The Republic of the Southern Cross

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|Yury Buida
(born 1954)

|The Zero Train
The Prussian Bride
Sinbad the Sailor

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|Mikhail Bulgakov
(1891–1940)

|The White Guard
The Master and Margarita
Heart of a Dog
The Fatal Eggs

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|Kir Bulychev
(1934–2003)

|Half a Life
Great Gusliar
Earth and Elsewhere
Alisa Selezneva

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|Ivan Bunin
(1870–1953)

|Dry Valley
The Village
Dark Avenues
The Life of Arseniev

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|Aleksey Chapygin
(1870–1937)

|Stepan Razin

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|Sergei Charchoun
(1888–1975)

|Dolgolikov

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|Lidia Charskaya
(1875–1938)

|Princess Dzhavakha

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|Alexander Chekhov
(1855–1913)

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|Anton Chekhov
(1860–1904)

|A Dreary Story
Ward No. 6
The Duel
Peasants

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|Nikolay Chernyshevsky
(1828–1889)

|What Is to Be Done?

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|Evgeny Chirikov
(1864–1932)

|The Magician
Strained Relations
Marka of the Pits

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|Lydia Chukovskaya
(1907–1996)

|Sofia Petrovna

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|Georgy Chulkov
(1879–1939)

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|Yuli Daniel
(1925–1988)

|This is Moscow Speaking

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|Grigory Danilevsky
(1829–1890)

|Moscow in Flames
The Princess Tarakanova

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|Grigoriy Demidovtsev
(born 1960)

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|Valentina Dmitryeva
(1859–1947)

|Hveska, The Doctor's Watchman

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|Leonid Dobychin
(1894–1936)

|The Town of N
Encounters with Lise

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|Yury Dombrovsky
(1909–1978)

|The Faculty of Useless Knowledge
The Keeper of Antiquities

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|Vlas Doroshevich
(1864–1922)

|Legends and Stories of the East

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|Lyubov Dostoyevskaya
(1869–1926)

|The Emigrant

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|Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(1821–1881)

|Notes from Underground
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
Demons
The Brothers Karamazov
The House of the Dead
The Gambler
"White Nights"
"A Gentle Creature"
"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"

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|Mikhail Dostoyevsky
(1820–1864)

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|Sergei Dovlatov
(1941–1990)

|The Zone
Affiliate

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|Alexander Druzhinin
(1824–1864)

|Polinka Saks
The Story of Aleksei Dmitrich

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|Vladimir Dudintsev
(1918–1998)

|White Garments
A New Year's Tale
Not by Bread Alone

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|Ilya Ehrenburg
(1891–1967)

|Julio Jurenito
The Thaw

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|Sergey Elpatyevsky
(1854–1933)

|Pity Me!
The Homeless Ones

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|Asar Eppel
(1935–2012)

|The Grassy Street
Red Caviar Sandwiches

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|Victor Erofeyev
(born 1947)

|Russian Beauty
Life with an Idiot

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|Alexander Ertel
(1855–1908)

|The Specialist
A Greedy Peasant

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|Mikhail Evstafiev
(born 1963)

|Two Steps from Heaven

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|Alexander Fadeyev
(1901–1956)

|The Rout
The Young Guard

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|Konstantin Fedin
(1892–1977)

|Early Joys
The Conflagration
Cities and Years
No Ordinary Summer

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|Olga Forsh
(1873–1961)

|Palace and Prison
Pioneers of Freedom

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|Dmitry Furmanov
(1891–1926)

|Chapayev

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|Arkady Gaidar
(1904–1941)

|Chuk and Gek
The Blue Cup
Timur and his Gang

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|Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky
(1852–1906)

|Practical Training

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|Vsevolod Garshin
(1855–1888)

|Four Days
The Red Flower

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|Gaito Gazdanov
(1903–1971)

|An Evening with Claire
Night Roads
The Spectre of Alexander Wolf

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|Yuri German
(1910–1967)

|Ivan Lapshin
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|Zinaida Gippius
(1869–1945)

|The Devil's Doll
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|Anatoly Gladilin
(1935–2018)

|Moscow Racetrack

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|Fyodor Gladkov
(1883–1958)

|Cement
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|Dmitry Glukhovsky
(born 1979)

|Metro 2033

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|Pyotr Gnedich
(1855–1925)

|The Burden of this World

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|Nikolai Gogol
(1809–1852)

|Dikanka
Taras Bulba
The Overcoat
Dead Souls

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|Ivan Goncharov
(1812–1891)

|A Common Story
Oblomov
The Precipice

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|Maxim Gorky
(1868–1936)

|Mother
Through Russia
Stories of 1922–1924
The Artamonov Business
The Life of Klim Samgin

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|Nina Gorlanova
(born 1947)

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|Daniil Granin
(1919–2017)

|Into the Storm
Those Who Seek

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|Dmitry Grigorovich
(1822–1900)

|The Fishermen

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|Alexander Grin
(1880–1932)

|Scarlet Sails
The Seeker of Adventure

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|Isabella Grinevskaya
(1864–1944)

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|Vasily Grossman
(1905–1964)

|Stalingrad
Life and Fate
Forever Flowing

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|Elena Guro
(1887–1913)

|Autumnal Dream
The Hurdy-Gurdy
The Little Camels of the Sky

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|Andrei Gusev
(born 1952)

|With Chronos' Permit
On the Edge of Magellanic Clouds
The World According to Novikoff

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|Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky
(1867–1963)

|The Land of the Fathers
The Land of the Children

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|Alexander Herzen
(1812–1870)

|Who is to Blame?

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|Ilf and Petrov
Ilf (1897–1937)
Petrov (1903–1942)

|The Twelve Chairs
The Little Golden Calf

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|Fazil Iskander
(1929–2016)

|Chik and His Friends
Sandro of Chegem
The Gospel According to Chegem
The Thirteenth Labour of Hercules

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|Alexei Ivanov
(born 1969)

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|Vsevolod Ivanov
(1895–1963)

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The Secret of Secrets

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|Nikolay Karamzin
(1766–1826)

|Poor Liza

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|Nikolay Karazin
(1842–1908)

|The Two-Legged Wolf
From North to South

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|Nikolay Karonin-Petropavlovsky
(1853–1892)

|First Storm

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|Vladimir Karpov
(1922–2010)

|The Commander

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|In the Name of the Queen

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|Ivan Kataev
(1902–1937)

|The Wife
Immortality

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(1897–1986)

|Time Forward!
The Embezzlers
A White Sail Gleams
The Cottage in the Steppe

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|Veniamin Kaverin
(1902–1989)

|Open Book
The Two Captains
The Unknown Artist

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|Emmanuil Kazakevich
(1913–1962)

|Star: A Story
The Blue Notebook

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(1927–1982)

|Going To Town
Adam and Eve

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|Yuri Khanon
(born 1965)

|Skryabin As a Face
Antedate Memories
Alphonse, who didn't was

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|Daniil Kharms
(1905–1942)

|The Old Woman

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|Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya
(1824–1889)

|The Boarding School Girl

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(1824–1865)

|City Folk and Country Folk

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(born 1961)

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(1912–1973)

|The Zhurbin Family
What Do You Want Then?

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|Ivan Kokorev
(1825–1853)

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(1872–1952)

|Red Love
A Great Love
Love of Worker Bees

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|Vladimir Korolenko
(1853–1921)

|Bad Company
Makar's Dream
The Blind Musician

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|Sofia Kovalevskaya
(1859–1891)

|Nihilist Girl

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|Vadim Kozhevnikov
(1909–1984)

|Shield and Sword

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(born 1949)

|Attorney Alexandra Tikhonovna

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|Eugene Kozlovsky
(born 1946)

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|Vsevolod Krestovsky
(1840–1895)

|Knights of Industry

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|Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
(1887–1950)

|Quadraturin

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|Anatoly Kudryavitsky
(born 1954)

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|Aleksandr Kuprin
(1870–1938)

|The Duel
Yama: The Pit
The Bracelet of Garnets

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|Andrey Kurkov
(born 1961)

|Death and the Penguin
Penguin Lost

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|Ivan Kushchevsky
(1847–1876)

|Nikolai Negorev

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|Mikhail Kuzmin
(1872–1936)

|Wings

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|Anatoly Kuznetsov
(1929–1979)

|Babi Yar

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(1903–1979)

|The Old Genie Hottabych

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|Yulia Latynina
(born 1966)

|The Insider

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(1891–1953)

|The Forty-First
The Heavenly Cap
Such a Simple Thing
The Courageous Heart

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|Ivan Lazhechnikov
(1792–1869)

|The Heretic

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|Leonid Leonov
(1899–1995)

|The Badgers
Soviet River
The Thief
The Pyramid

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|Mikhail Lermontov
(1814–1841)

|A Hero of Our Time

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|Nikolai Leskov
(1831–1895)

|The Cathedral Folk
The Sealed Angel
The Enchanted Wanderer
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

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|Alexander Levitov
(1835–1877)

|Leatherhide the Cobbler

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|Nikolay Leykin
(1841–1906)

|Our Folk Abroad

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|Vladimir Lichutin
(born 1940)

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|Eduard Limonov
(1943–2020)

|It's Me, Eddie
His Butler's Story
Memoir of a Russian Punk

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(born 1964)

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|Sergey Lukyanenko
(born 1968)

|Night Watch
Day Watch
Twilight Watch
Last Watch

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|Lev Lunts
(1901–1924)

|Native Land

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|Grigori Machtet
(1852–1901)

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|Vladimir Makanin
(1937–2017)

|Baize-Covered Table With Decanter

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|Osip Mandelstam
(1891–1938)

|The Egyptian Stamp

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|Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak
(1852–1912)

|Verotchka's Tales
A Gold Nugget
The Privalov Fortune

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|Anatoly Marienhof
(1897–1962)

|Cynics

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|Alexandra Marinina
(born 1957)

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|Boleslav Markevich
(1822–1884)

|The Turning Point

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(1929–1997)

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|Pavel Melnikov
(1818–1883)

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|Dmitry Merezhkovsky
(1865–1941)

|Christ and Antichrist (trilogy)

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|Daniil Mordovtsev
(1830–1905)

|The Tsar and the Hetman

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|Viktor Muyzhel
(1880–1924)

|The Year

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(born 1929)

|The Diary of Vikenty Angarov

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|Vladimir Nabokov
(1899–1977)

|Mary
The Defense
The Gift
Lolita

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|Yuri Nagibin
(1920–1994)

|The Pipe
Arise and Walk

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|Vasily Narezhny
(1780–1825)

|A Russian Gil Blas

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|Nikolay Naumov
(1838–1901)

|Strength Breaks the Straw

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(born 1956)

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(1911–1987)

|Front-line Stalingrad
Kira Georgievna

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|Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko
(1845–1936)

|Peasant Tales of Russia

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|Alexander Neverov
(1886–1923)

|City of Bread

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|Friedrich Neznansky
(1932–2013)

|Red Square
Night Wolves

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(1908–1976)

|Neznaika

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|Alexey Novikov-Priboy
(1877–1944)

|Tsushima
The Captain
The Sea Beckons

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|Vladimir Obruchev
(1863–1956)

|Plutonia
Sannikov Land

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|Vladimir Odoevsky
(1803–1869)

|Two Princesses
The Living Corpse
The Year 4338: Petersburg Letters

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|Bulat Okudzhava
(1924–1997)

|A Taste of Liberty
Good-bye, Schoolboy!
The Art of Needles and Sins

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|Yury Olesha
(1899–1960)

|Envy
Three Fat Men
The Cherry Pit

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|Vladimir Orlov
(1936–2014)

|Danilov, the Violist

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|Nikolai Ostrovsky
(1904–1936)

|Born of the Storm
How the Steel Was Tempered

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|Mikhail Osorgin
(1878–1942)

|Quiet Street
My Sister's Story

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(1904–1968)

|Greetings from the Front

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|Marina Palei
(born 1955)

|Rendezvous

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|Ivan Panaev
(1812–1862)

|Lions in the Provinces

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|Avdotya Panaeva
(1820–1893)

|A Woman's Lot

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(1905–1973)

|Seryozha
Looking Ahead
The Train
Span of the Year

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|Boris Pasternak
(1890–1960)

|Doctor Zhivago
The Childhood of Luvers

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|Konstantin Paustovsky
(1892–1968)

|A Tale of Life (6 novel series)

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(1899–1951)

|Happiness
Steppe Sunlight
The Lost Son

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|Oleg Pavlov
(1970–2018)

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|Karolina Pavlova
(1807–1893)

|A Double Life

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(born 1962)

|Omon Ra

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|Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
(born 1938)

|The Time: Night

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(1928–1990)

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|Boris Pilnyak
(1894–1938)

|The Naked Year
The Death of the Army Commander
The Volga Falls into the Caspian Sea

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|Aleksey Pisemsky
(1821–1881)

|Nina
The Simpleton
One Thousand Souls
An Old Man's Sin

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|Andrei Platonov
(1899–1951)

|Chevengur
Dzhan
The Foundation Pit
Happy Moscow

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(1908–1981)

|He Came Back
We Are Soviet People
The Story of a Real Man

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|Nikolay Pomyalovsky
(1835–1863)

|Seminary Sketches

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(1856–1929)

|A Russian Priest
The General's Daughter

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|Dmitri Prigov
(1940–2007)

|Live in Moskow

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(born 1975)

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(born 1938)

|Empire's Last Soldier

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(1799–1837)

|The Queen of Spades
The Captain's Daughter

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|Alexander Radishchev
(1749–1802)

|Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow

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(1937–2015)

|Money for Maria
Farewell to Matyora

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|Aleksey Remizov
(1877–1957)

|The Clock
Sisters of the Cross
The History of the Tinkling Cymbal and Sounding Brass

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|Fyodor Reshetnikov
(1841–1871)

|The Podlipnayans

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|Panteleimon Romanov
(1884–1938)

|Three Pairs of Silk Stockings
Without Bird-Cherry Blossoms

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(1933–2010)

|First Love
Twenty Minutes or So
The Devil's Wheel in Kobuleti

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|Dina Rubina
(born 1953)

|The Blackthorn

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(1911–1998)

|Children of the Arbat
Fear
Dust and Ashes

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(1947–2018)

|Creature
The Brand
The Burden
The Afghans

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|Vyacheslav Rybakov
(born 1954)

|Artist
The Trial Sphere

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(born 1973)

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(1907–1979)

|Because of the Violets

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(born 1973)

|I am a Chechen!

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(1834–1902)

|Butuzka

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(1879–1925)

|The Pale Horse
What Never Happened

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(1826–1889)

|The Golovlyov Family
The History of a Town
Modern Idyll
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|Genrikh Sapgir
(1928–1999)

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(1868–1922)

|Gluttons
The Servant

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(1931–1993)

|Seventeen Instants of Spring

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(1863–1949)

|Sand
Nikita
The Iron Flood
The Little Miner

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(1875–1958)

|Brusilov's Break-Through

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(1888–1982)

|Mess-Mend

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(1907–1982)

|The Kolyma Tales

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|Olga Shapir
(1850–1916)

|The Settlement

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|Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik
(1874–1952)

|Deborah

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(1838–1900)

|Putrid Moors

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(born 1961)

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(1873–1945)

|Children of Darkness

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(1873–1950)

|The Stone Age

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|Mikhail Sholokhov
(1905–1984)

|And Quiet Flows the Don

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|Ilya Shtemler
(born 1933)

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(1929–1974)

|Stories from a Siberian Village

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(1915–1979)

|Days and Nights
The Living and the Dead

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|Andrei Sinyavsky
(1925–1997)

|Fantastic Stories

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|Stepan Skitalets
(1869–1941)

|The Blacksmith
The Love of a Scene Painter

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|Vasily Sleptsov
(1836–1878)

|The Ward

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|Sofia Soboleva
(1840–1884)

|Pros and Cons

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|Sasha Sokolov
(born 1943)

|A School for Fools

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|Vladimir Sollogub
(1813–1882)

|The Snowstorm

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|Fyodor Sologub
(1863–1927)

|The Petty Demon
The Created Legend

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|Vladimir Soloukhin
(1924–1997)

|Verdict

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|Leonid Solovyov
(1906–1962)

|Tale of Hodja Nasreddin

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|Vsevolod Solovyov
(1849–1903)

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|Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
(1918–2008)

|The First Circle
Cancer Ward
The Red Wheel
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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|Orest Somov
(1793–1833)

|Mommy and Sonny

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|Vladimir Sorokin
(born 1955)

|The Queue

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|Konstantin Staniukovich
(1843–1903)

|Bobtail
Maximka
The Convict
Running to the Shrouds

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|Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Arkady (1925–1991)
Boris (1933–2012)

|Prisoners of Power
The Kid from Hell
Hard to Be a God
Roadside Picnic

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|Mikhail Sushkov
(1775–1792)

|The Russian Werther

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|Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov
(1885–1938)

|Chocolate

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|Nadezhda Teffi
(1872–1952)

|Time
Strangers
Close Friends

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|Nikolay Teleshov
(1867–1957)

|The Duel

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|Vladimir Tendryakov
(1923–1984)

|Son-in-Law
Three, Seven, Ace

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|Sergey Terpigorev
(1841–1895)

|The Ice Broke

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|Nikolay Tikhonov
(1896–1979)

|War

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|Vladislav Titov
(1934–1987)

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|Tatyana Tolstaya
(born 1951)

|The Slynx
White Walls

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|Aleksey K. Tolstoy
(1817–1875)

|Prince Serebrenni

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|Aleksey N. Tolstoy
(1883–1945)

|Buratino
Aelita
Peter the First
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|Leo Tolstoy
(1828–1910)

|The Cossacks
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
The Death of Ivan Ilyich

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|Edward Topol
(born 1938)

|Red Square

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|Yury Trifonov
(1925–1981)

|Another Life
The Old Man
The Disappearance
The Long Good-Bye

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|Gavriil Troyepolsky
(1905–1995)

|White Bim Black Ear

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|Alexei Tsvetkov
(born 1947)

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|Evgenia Tur
(1815–1892)

|Antonina
The Shalonski Family

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|Ivan Turgenev
(1818–1883)

|A Sportsman's Sketches
Home of the Gentry
On the Eve
Fathers and Sons

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|Yury Tynyanov
(1894–1943)

|Lieutenant Kijé

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|Anya Ulinich
(born 1973)

|Petropolis

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|Pavel Ulitin
(1918–1986)

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|Lyudmila Ulitskaya
(born 1943)

|Sonechka
The Funeral Party
Medea and Her Children
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|Gleb Uspensky
(1843–1902)

|The Steam Chicken

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|Nikolay Uspensky
(1837–1889)

|Porridge
The Village Schoolmaster

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|Pyotr Valuyev
(1815–1890)

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|Konstantin Vaginov
(1899–1934)

|Goat Song
Works and Days of Svistonov

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|Tatiana Vedenska
(born 1976)

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|Mikhail Veller
(born 1948)

|The Guru

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|Alexander Veltman
(1800–1870)

|The Wanderer

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|Anastasiya Verbitskaya
(1861–1928)

|The Keys to Happiness

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|Vikenty Veresaev
(1867–1945)

|Sisters
The Deadlock
In the Steppe

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|Lidia Veselitskaya
(1857–1936)

|Mimi's Marriage

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|Igor Vishnevetsky
(born 1964)

|Leningrad
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|Nikolai Virta
(1906–1976)

|Alone

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|Georgi Vladimov
(1931–2003)

|Faithful Ruslan

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|Vladimir Voinovich
(1932–2018)

|Moscow 2042
Private Ivan Chonkin

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|Zinaida Volkonskaya
(1792–1862)

|The Dream: A Letter

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|Alexander Volkov
(1891–1977)

|The Wizard of the Emerald City

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|Marko Vovchok
(1833–1907)

|Ukrainian Folk Tales

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|Julia Voznesenskaya
(1940–2015)

|The Women's Decameron

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|Alexander Vvedensky
(1904–1941)

|Murderers You are Fools

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|Alexander Yakovlev
(1886–1953)

|The Peasant

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|Alexander Yashin
(1913–1968)

|A Feast of Rowan Berries

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|Ivan Yefremov
(1908–1972)

|Andromeda
Razor's Edge
The Bull's Hour
The Land of Foam

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|Dmitri Yemets
(born 1974)

|Tanya Grotter series

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|Venedict Yerofeyev
(1938–1990)

|Moscow-Petushki

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(1933–2017)

|Wild Berries

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|Semyon Yushkevich
(1868–1927)

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|Mikhail Zagoskin
(1789–1852)

|Tales of Three Centuries

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|Sergey Zalygin
(1913–2000)

|The South American Variant

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|Yevgeny Zamyatin
(1884–1937)

|We
A Provincial Tale

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|Boris Zaytsev
(1881–1972)

|Anna

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|Ilia Zdanevich
(1894–1975)

|Rapture

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|Yulia Zhadovskaya
(1824–1883)

|The Backward Girl

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|Vera Zhelikhovsky
(1835–1896)

|The General's Will

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|Boris Zhitkov
(1882–1938)

|Viktor Vavich

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|Maria Zhukova
(1804–1855)

|Evenings on the Karpovka

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|Zinovy Zinik
(born 1945)

|The Mushroom-Picker

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|Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal
(1866–1907)

|The Tragic Menagerie

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|Nikolay Zlatovratsky
(1845–1911)

|Old Shadows

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|Mikhail Zoshchenko
(1895–1958)

|Youth Restored
Blue Book
Before Sunrise

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