List of Russian-language poets

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

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This is a list of authors who have written poetry in the Russian language.

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Alphabetical list

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|Bella Akhmadulina
(1937–2010)

|The String
The Garden
A Guiding Sound
Once in December

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|Anna Akhmatova
(1889–1966)

|Evening
Requiem
The Rosary
Poem Without a Hero

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|Margarita Aliger
(1915–1992)

|Zoya
Railroad
The Year of Birth
Stones and Grass

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|Daniil Andreev
(1906–1959)

|Russian Gods
The Iron Mystery

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|Domna Anisimova
(fl. 19th century)

|Depiction of the Harvest
Sound of the Night Wind

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|Innokenty Annensky
(1855–1909)

|Quiet Songs
Cypress Box

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|Pavel Antokolsky
(1896–1978)

|All We Who in His Name

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|Aleksey Apukhtin
(1840–1893)

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|Eduard Asadov
(1923–2004)

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|Nikolay Aseyev
(1889–1963)

|Zor
Night Flute

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|Lera Auerbach
(born 1973)

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|Gennadiy Aygi
(1934–2006)

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|Eduard Bagritsky
(1895–1934)

|February

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|Konstantin Balmont
(1867–1942)

|Under the Northern Sky
Let Us Be Like the Sun
Burning Buildings

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|Jurgis Baltrušaitis
(1873–1944)

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|Evgeny Baratynsky
(1800–1844)

|Eda
The Gypsy
The Last Poet
Autumn

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|Ivan Barkov
(1732–1768)

|obscene poems

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|Anna Barkova
(1901–1976)

|Tatar Anguish

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|Agniya Barto
(1906–1981)

|Toys
Mishka the Petty Thief

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|Alexander Bashlachev
(1960–1988)

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|Konstantin Batyushkov
(1787–1855)

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|Demyan Bedny
(1883–1945)

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|Andrey Bely
(1880–1934)

|Urn
Gold in Azure
Christ Has Risen
The First Encounter

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|Olga Bergholz
(1910–1975)

|February Diary
Leningrad Poem

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|Aleksandr Bestuzhev
(1797–1837)

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|Alexander Blok
(1880–1921)

|Skify
The Twelve

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|Valeri Brainin-Passek
(born 1948)

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|Joseph Brodsky
(1940–1996)

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|Valery Bryusov
(1873–1924)

|Tertia Vigilia

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|Ivan Bunin
(1870–1953)

|Falling Leaves

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|Anna Bunina
(1774–1829)

|Though Poverty's No Stain

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|Sasha Chorny
(1880–1932)

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|Korney Chukovsky
(1882–1969)

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|Georgy Chulkov
(1879–1939)

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|Denis Davydov
(1784–1839)

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|Anton Delvig
(1798–1831)

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|Andrey Dementyev
(1928–2018)

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|Regina Derieva
(1949–2013)

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|Gavrila Derzhavin
(1743–1816)

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|Nikolai Devitte
(1811–1844)

|Not for Me

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|Ivan Dmitriev
(1760–1837)

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|Nikolay Dobrolyubov
(1836–1861)

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|Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky
(1915–1994)

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|Spiridon Drozhzhin
(1848–1930)

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|Yulia Drunina
(1924–1991)

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|Xenia Dyakonova
(born 1985)

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|Ilya Ehrenburg
(1891–1967)

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|Afanasy Fet
(1812–1892)

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|Konstantin Fofanov
(1862–1911)

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|Cherubina de Gabriak
(1887–1928)

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|Alexander Galich
(1918–1977)

|Clouds
Kaddish
The Night Watch
When I Return

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|Aleksei Gastev
(1882–1939)

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|Mikhail Gerasimov
(1889–1939)

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|Zinaida Gippius
(1869–1945)

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|Nikolay Glazkov
(1919–1979)

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|Fyodor Glinka
(1786–1880)

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|Nikolay Gnedich
(1784–1833)

|The Fishers

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|Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov
(1848–1913)

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|Dmitry Gorchakov
(1758–1824)

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|Sergey Gorodetsky
(1884–1967)

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|Boris Golovin
(born 1955)

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|Aleksandr Griboedov
(1794–1829)

| Woe from Wit

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|Apollon Grigoryev
(1822–1864)

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|Oleg Grigoryev
(1943–1992)

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|Isabella Grinevskaya
(1864–1944)

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|Igor Guberman
(born 1936)

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|Semyon Gudzenko
(1922–1953)

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|Nikolay Gumilyov
(1886–1921)

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|Elena Guro
(1877–1913)

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|Vera Inber
(1890–1972)

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|Mikhail Isakovsky
(1900–1973)

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|Georgy Ivanov
(1894–1958)

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|Vyacheslav Ivanov
(1866–1949)

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|Ryurik Ivnev
(1891–1981)

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|Alexander Izmaylov
(1779–1831)

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|Gavril Kamenev
(1772–1803)

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|Antiochus Kantemir
(1708–1744)

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|Vasily Kapnist
(1758–1823)

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(1932–2008)

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|Dmitri Kedrin
(1907–1945)

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|Bakhyt Kenjeev
(born 1950)

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|Daniil Kharms
(1905–1942)

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|Ivan Khemnitser
(1745–1784)

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|Velemir Khlebnikov
(1885–1922)

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|Vladislav Khodasevich
(1886–1939)

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|Aleksey Khomyakov
(1804–1860)

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|Apollon Korinfsky
(1868–1937)

|Songs of the Heart
Black Roses

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|Lidiya Khaindrova
(1910–1986)

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|Dmitry Khvostov
(1757–1835)

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|Semyon Kirsanov
(1906–1972)

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|Nikolai Klyuev
(1884–1937)

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|Ekaterina Kniazhnina
(1746–1797)

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|Pavel Kogan
(1918–1942)

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|Aleksey Koltsov
(1809–1842)

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|Nahum Korzhavin
(1925–2018)

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|Ivan Kozlov
(1779–1840)

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|Vasili Krasovsky
(1782–1824)

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|Aleksey Kruchenykh
(1886–1968)

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|Ivan Krylov
(1769–1844)

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|Yuri Kublanovsky
(born 1947)

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|Wilhelm Küchelbecher
(1797–1846)

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|Anatoly Kudryavitsky
(born 1954)

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|Nestor Kukolnik
(1809–1868)

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|Alexander Kushner
(born 1936)

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|Dmitry Kuzmin
(born 1969)

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|Mikhail Kuzmin
(1872–1936)

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|Vasily Lebedev-Kumach
(1898–1949)

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|Mikhail Lermontov
(1814–1841)

|Borodino
The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov
Demon
Valerik
Death of the Poet

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|Mirra Lokhvitskaya
(1869–1905)

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|Yegor Letov
(1964–2008)

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|Mikhail Lomonosov
(1711–1765)

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|Vladimir Lugovskoy
(1901–1957)

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|Osip Mandelstam
(1891–1938)

|Stalin Epigram

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|Anatoly Marienhof
(1897–1962)

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|Maria Markova
(born 1982)

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|Samuil Marshak
(1887–1964)

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|Vladimir Mayakovsky
(1893–1930)

|A Cloud in Trousers
Backbone Flute
Mystery-Bouffe

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|Apollon Maykov
(1821–1897)

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|Dmitriy Merezhkovsky
(1866–1941)

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|Aleksey Merzlyakov
(1778–1830)

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|Arvo Mets
(1937–1997)

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|Lev Mei
(1822–1862)

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|Alexander Mezhirov
(1923–2009)

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|Sergey Mikhalkov
(1913–2009)

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|Fyodor Miller
(1818–1881)

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|Nikolai Minsky
(1855–1937)

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|Yunna Morits
(born 1937)

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|Vladimir Nabokov
(1899–1977)

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|Semyon Nadson
(1862–1887)

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|Vladimir Narbut
(1888–1938)

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|Sergey Narovchatov
(1919–1981)

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|Nikolay Nekrasov
(1821–1877)

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|Ivan Savvich Nikitin
(1824–1861)

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|Alexander Odoevsky
(1802–1839)

|The Ball

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|Nikolay Ogarev
(1813–1877)

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|Irina Odoyevtseva
(1895–1990)

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|Bulat Okudzhava
(1924–1997)

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|Nikolay Oleynikov
(1898–1937)

|The Carp
Cockroach
The Beetle

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|Liodor Palmin
(1841–1891)

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|Valentin Parnakh
(1891–1951)

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|Sophia Parnok
(1885–1933)

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|Boris Pasternak
(1890–1960)

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|Karolina Pavlova
(1807–1893)

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|Vladimir Pecherin
(1807–1885)

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|Mariya Petrovykh
(1908–1979)

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|Aleksey Plescheev
(1825–1893)

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|Pyotr Pletnyov
(1792–1866)

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|Elizaveta Polonskaya
(1890–1969)

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|Yakov Polonsky
(1819–1898)

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|Nikolay Popovsky
(1730–1760)

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|Vasili Popugaev
(1778 or 1779 – c. 1816)

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|Alexander Prokofyev
(1900–1971)

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|Kozma Prutkov
(1817–1875)

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|Alexander Pushkin
(1799–1837)

|Eugene Onegin, The Bronze Horseman, Boris Godunov (play)

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|Vasily Pushkin
(1766–1830)

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|Vladimir Raevsky
(1795–1872)

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|Anna Radlova
(1891–1949)

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|Irina Ratushinskaya
(1954–2017)

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|Yevgeny Rein
(born 1935)

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|Yevdokiya Rostopchina
(1812–1858)

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|Konstantin Romanov (K.R.)
(1858–1915)

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|Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky
(1895–1977)

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(1932–1994)

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|Nikolay Rubtsov
(1936–1971)

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|Kondraty Ryleyev
(1795–1826)

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|Boris Ryzhy(1974–2001)

|Opravdaniye zhizni

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|David Samoylov
(1920–1990)

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|Genrikh Sapgir
(1928–1999)

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|Feodosy Savinov
(1865–1915)

|Rodnoye

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|Mikhail Savoyarov
(1876–1941)

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|Olga Sedakova
(born 1949)

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|Ilya Selvinsky
(1899–1968)

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|Andrei Sen-Senkov
(born 1968)

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|Daria Serenko
(born 1993)

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|Igor Severyanin
(1887–1941)

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|Varlam Shalamov
(1907–1982)

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|Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik
(1874–1952)

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|Stepan Shchipachev
(1889–1980)

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|Vadim Shefner
(1915–2002)

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|Nikolay Sherbina
(1821–1869)

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|Elena Shirman
(1908–1942)

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|Vadim Shershenevich
(1893–1942)

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|Stepan Shevyryov
(1806–1864)

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|Maria Shkapskaya
(1891–1952)

|No Dream

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|Gennady Shpalikov
(1937–1974)

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|Konstantin Simonov
(1915–1979)

|Wait for Me

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|Stepan Skitalets
(1869–1941)

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|Konstantin Sluchevsky
(1837–1904)

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|Boris Slutsky
(1919–1986)

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|Fyodor Sologub
(1863–1927)

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|Vladimir Soloukhin
(1924–1997)

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|Vladimir Solovyov
(1853–1900)

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|Alexander Sumarokov
(1717–1777)

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|Ivan Surikov
(1841–1880)

|Rowan
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|Fyodor Svarovsky
(born 1971)

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|Mikhail Svetlov
(1903–1964)

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|Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya
(1891–1968)

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|Arseny Tarkovsky
(1907–1989)

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|Nikolay Tikhonov
(1896–1979)

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|Aleksey Tolstoy
(1817–1875)

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|Vasily Trediakovsky
(1703–1769)

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|Pyotr Nikolayevich Toburokov
(1917–2001)

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|Marina Tsvetaeva
(1892–1941)

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|Nika Turbina
(1974–2002)

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|Ivan Turgenev
(1818–1883)

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|Veronika Tushnova
(1915–1965)

|Memory of the Heart

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|Aleksandr Tvardovsky
(1910–1971)

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|Fyodor Tyutchev
(1803–1873)

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|Vladimir Uflyand
(1937–2007)

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|Joseph Utkin
(1903–1944)

|The Story About Ginger Motele
Mr. Inspector
Rabbi Isaiah and Commissar Bloch

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|Konstantin Vaginov
(1899–1934)

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|Dmitry Venevitinov
(1805–1827)

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|Igor Vishnevetsky
(born 1964)

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|Dmitry Vodennikov
(born 1968)

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|Anri Volokhonsky
(1936–2017)

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|Maksimilian Voloshin
(1877–1932)

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|Andrey Voznesensky
(1933–2010)

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|Alexander Vvedensky
(1904–1941)

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|Pyotr Vyazemsky
(1792–1878)

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|Vladimir Vysotsky
(1938–1980)

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|Pyotr Yakubovich
(1860–1911)

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|Alexander Yashin
(1913–1968)

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|Nikolay Yazykov
(1803–1847)

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|Pyotr Yershov
(1815–1869)

|The Humpbacked Horse

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|Sergey Yesenin
(1895–1925)

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|Yevgeny Yevtushenko
(1933–2017)

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|Nikolay Zabolotsky
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|Boris Zakhoder
(1918–2000)

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|Vsevolod Zelchenko
(born 1972)

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|Yulia Zhadovskaya
(1824–1883)

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|Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov
(1821–1908)

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|Vasily Zhukovsky
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See also

Sources

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  • {{cite encyclopedia |editor-surname=Greene |editor-given=Roland |editor-link=Roland Greene |display-editors=etal |entry=Poetry of Russia |title=The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics |edition=4th rev. |year=2012 |url={{Google books|id=uKiC6IeFR2UC|plainurl=y|page=|keywords=|text=}} |place=Princeton, NJ |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-15491-6}}
  • {{cite book |surname=Wachtel |given=Michael |title=The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry |series=Cambridge Introductions to Literature |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2004 |isbn=0-521-00493-4 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-introduction-to-russian-poetry/723947054543E2008A58BC019D2F9CC1 |url-access=registration}}

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Poets

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