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List of Russian-language playwrights

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The Moscow Art Theatre

Notable authors who have written dramatic works in the Russian language include:

Alphabetical list

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A

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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
Margalo Gillmore (Consuelo) & Richard Bennett (He) in He Who Gets Slapped, 1922.
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

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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

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Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Catherine the Great
(1729–1796)
Fevey
Portrait of Catherine, 1745
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

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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

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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

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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

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Alexander Galich
(1918–1977)
Zinaida Gippius
(1869–1945)
The Green Ring
Portrait of Gippius by Ilya Repin, 1894
Portrait by Léon Bakst, 1906
Nikolai Gogol
(1809–1852)
Marriage
The Government Inspector
The Gamblers
Fyodor Paramonov as Anton Antonovich in The Government Inspector
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
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
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

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Vsevolod Ivanov
(1895–1963)
Armoured Train 14-69
1927 production of Armoured Train 14-69

K

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Vasily Kapnist
(1758–1823)
Chicane
Postcard featuring Kapnist
Valentin Kataev
(1897–1986)
Quadrature of the Circle
Kataev's brother, the writer Yevgeni Petrov
Pavel Katenin
(1792–1853)
Andromache
Yevgeny Kharitonov
(1941–1981)
Under House Arrest
Daniil Kharms
(1905–1942)
Elizaveta Bam
Caricature of Kharms by Antonovsky
Mikhail Kheraskov
(1733–1807)
Vladimir Kirshon
(1902–1938)
Bread
The Miraculous Alloy
Layout of scenery for the play based on the play by V. Kirshon The Court
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

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Ivan Lazhechnikov
(1792–1869)
Oprichnik
Leonid Leonov
(1899–1994)
Untilovsk
Dmitri Lipskerov
(born 1964)
Lev Lunts
(1901–1924)
Native Land

M

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Edvard Radzinsky
(born 1936)
Vyacheslav Rybakov
(born 1954)

S

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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

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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
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

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Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Eduard Uspensky
(1937–2018)

V

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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

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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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