List of Russian-language playwrights
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The Moscow Art Theatre.
This is a list of authors who have written dramatic works in the Russian language.
For the plain text list, see Category:Russian dramatists and playwrights.
See also: List of Russian-language writers, List of Russian-language poets, List of Russian-language novelists, List of Russian artists, List of Russian architects, List of Russian inventors, List of Russian explorers, Russian culture
Alphabetical list[edit]
A[edit]
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Alexander Ablesimov (1742-1783) |
The Miller | |||
| Alexander Afinogenov (1904-1941) |
Fear Crank A Far Place |
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| Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919) |
Anathema Tsar Hunger The Life of Man He Who Gets Slapped |
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| Maria Arbatova (born 1957) |
On the Road to Ourselves | |||
| Aleksei Arbuzov (1908-1986) |
Tanya A Long Road |
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| Mikhail Artsybashev (1878-1927) |
War | |||
| Arkady Averchenko (1881-1925) |
B[edit]
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Isaac Babel (1894-1940) |
Maria Sunset |
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| Pyotr Boborykin (1836-1921) |
The Scale |
Vera Komissarzhevskaya in The Scale.
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| Oleg Bogayev (born 1970) |
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| Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) |
Flight Zoya's Apartment Adam and Eve The Days of the Turbins |
C[edit]
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Catherine the Great (1729-1796) |
Fevey | |||
| Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) |
The Seagull Uncle Vanya Three Sisters The Cherry Orchard |
Stanislavski as Vershinin in Three Sisters.
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Chekhov's wife Olga Knipper, who played Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard.
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| Evgeny Chirikov (1864-1932) |
The Peasant |
Portrait by Repin, 1906.
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| Grand Duke Constantine (1858-1915) |
King of Judea |
D[edit]
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Grigoriy Demidovtsev (born 1960) |
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| Victor Denisov (born 1944) |
«Six Specters of Lenin on a Piano».(Opening night: 20 May 1993) |
E[edit]
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Nikolai Erdman (1900-1970) |
The Suicide | |||
| Nikolai Evreinov (1879-1953) |
A Merry Death The Chief Thing The Presentation of Love The Storming of the Winter Palace |
F[edit]
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Denis Fonvizin (1744/45-1792) |
The Minor |
Statue of Fonvizin, part of the Millennium of Russia monument.
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| Olga Forsh (1873–1961) |
The Substitute Lecturer |
G[edit]
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Alexander Galich (1918-1977) |
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| Zinaida Gippius (1869-1945) |
The Green Ring |
Portrait of Gippius by Ilya Repin, 1894.
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Portrait by Léon Bakst, 1906.
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| Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) |
Marriage The Government Inspector |
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| Dmitry Gorchakov (1758-1824) |
King for a Day | |||
| Grigori Gorin (1940-2000) |
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| Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) |
Summerfolk The Lower Depths Children of the Sun |
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| Aleksandr Griboyedov (1795-1829) |
Woe from Wit |
Stanislavski as Famusov in Woe from Wit.
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| Isabella Grinevskaya (1864-1944) |
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| Elena Guro (1887-1913) |
The Hurdy-Gurdy |
Guro's portrait of her husband Mikhail Matyushin.
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I[edit]
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Vsevolod Ivanov (1895-1963) |
Armoured Train 14-69 |
K[edit]
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Vasily Kapnist (1758-1823) |
Chicane | |||
| Valentin Kataev (1897-1986) |
Quadrature of the Circle |
Kataev's brother, the writer Yevgeni Petrov.
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| Pavel Katenin (1792-1853) |
Andromache | |||
| Yevgeny Kharitonov (1941-1981) |
Under House Arrest | |||
| Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) |
Graffiti of Kharms on a wall in Kharkiv.
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| Mikhail Kheraskov (1733-1807) |
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| Vladimir Kirshon (1902-1938) |
Bread The Miraculous Alloy |
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| Yakov Knyazhnin (1740/42-1791) |
Olga The Cranks The Braggart Vadim the Bold |
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| Eugene Kozlovsky (born 1946) |
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| Ivan Krylov (1769-1844) |
Philomela | |||
| Nestor Kukolnik (1809-1868) |
A Life for the Tsar |
Plaque for Kukolnik in Taganrog.
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L[edit]
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Ivan Lazhechnikov (1792–1869) |
Oprichnik | |||
| Leonid Leonov (1899-1994) |
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| Dmitri Lipskerov (born 1964) |
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| Lev Lunts (1901-1924) |
Native Land |
M[edit]
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Anatoly Marienhof (1897-1962) |
With the poet Sergei Yesenin, 1915.
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| Samuil Marshak (1887-1964) |
Smart Things The Twelve Months |
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| Mikhail Matinsky (1760-c1820) |
Regeneration Saint-Petersburg's Trade Stalls |
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| Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) |
The Bedbug The Bathhouse Mystery-Bouffe |
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| Sergey Mikhalkov (1913-2009) |
Three Plus Two |
Mikhailov receiving an award from Vladimir Putin in 2003.
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N[edit]
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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Monument to Nabokov at Montreux.
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) |
The Waltz Invention | ||
| Löb Nevakhovich (1776/78-1831) |
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| Alexander Neverov (1886-1923) |
Baba Hunger |
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| Nikolai Nikolev (1758-1815) |
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| Osip Notovich (1849-1914) |
Shady Business |
O[edit]
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886) |
The Storm The Poor Bride Poverty is No Vice Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man |
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| Valentin Ovechkin (1904-1968) |
A Time to Reap | |||
| Vladislav Ozerov (1769-1816) |
Dmitry Donskoy |
P[edit]
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Vera Panova (1905-1973) |
Ivan Kosogor In Old Moscow |
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| Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (born 1938) |
At a booksigning in New York with Keith Gessen, 2009.
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| Aleksey Pisemsky (1821-1881) |
A Bitter Fate The Hypochondriac Lieutenant Gladkov The Financial Genius |
A Bitter Fate. Lizaveta. Picture by Ilya Repin.
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| Nikolai Pogodin (1900-1962) |
Aristocrats | |||
| Mikhail Popov (1742-1790) |
Anyuta | |||
| Alexander Preys (1905-1942) |
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| Iosif Prut (1900-1996) |
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| 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.
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R[edit]
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Edvard Radzinsky (born 1936) |
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| Vyacheslav Rybakov (born 1954) |
S[edit]
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Natalya Sats (1903-1993) |
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| Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874-1952) |
Summer Picture | |||
| Evgeny Shvarts (1896-1958) |
The Dragon | |||
| Vassily Sigarev |
Plasticine Black Milk |
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| Fyodor Sologub (1863-1927) |
The Triumph of Death |
Portrait by Konstantin Somov.
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| Ksenya Stepanycheva (born 1978) |
Pink Bow | |||
| Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817-1903) |
The Case Krechinsky's Wedding The Death of Tarelkin |
Aleksandr's sister, the writer Evgenia Tur.
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| Alexander Sumarokov (1717-1777) |
Khorev |
Portrait of Sumarokov by Fedor Rokotov.
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T[edit]
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (1891-1968) |
By the Pike's Wish |
Tarakhovskaya's birth house in Taganrog.
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| Modest Tchaikovsky (1850-1916) |
Tchaikovsky's brother, the composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
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| Nadezhda Teffi (1872-1952) |
The Woman Question | |||
| Viktoriya Tokareva (born 1937) |
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| Aleksey K. Tolstoy (1817-1875) |
The Death of Ivan the Terrible Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich Tsar Boris Don Juan |
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| Aleksey N. Tolstoy (1883-1945) |
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| Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
The Power of Darkness The Fruits of Enlightenment The Living Corpse |
Stanislavski as Zvezdintsev in The Fruits of Enlightenment, 1891.
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| Sergei Tretyakov (1892-1937) |
I Want a Baby | |||
| Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) |
A Month in the Country |
Stanislavski and Knipper in A Month in the Country, 1909.
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U[edit]
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Eduard Uspensky (born 1937) |
V[edit]
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Alexander Vampilov (1937-1972) |
Elder Son | |||
| Anastasiya Verbitskaya (1861-1928) |
Mirages | |||
| Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900-1951) |
Optimistic Tragedy |
Z[edit]
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
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| Mark Zakharov (born 1933) |
Zakharov with Dmitry Medvedev in 2008.
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| Boris Zaytsev (1881-1972) |
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| Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov (1821-1908) |
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| Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866-1907) |
See also[edit]
- List of Russian-language novelists
- List of Russian-language poets
- Russian literature
- Russian language
- Russian culture
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