20th-century Russian writers

Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)

Soviet singer-songwriter and actor (1938–1980)

Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)

Russian playwright, author and poet (1871–1919)

German-Russian Psychoanalyst and author

Russian composer and army officer

Russian folklorist, philologist and linguist

Russian writer

Soviet writer (1884–1942)

human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov

Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union

Russian-French writer (1896–1970)

Russian artist (1870–1960)

Soviet and Russian writer

Russian physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts (1885–1942)

Russian revolutionary, editor (1849-1919)

Russian academic and politician

Russian writer (1938–1990)

French philosopher (1892–1964)

Bashkir writer (born 1952)

Russian politician (1950-2014)

muse of Vladimir Mayakovsky

Ukrainian soviet and Ukrainian surgeon (1913–2002)

Russian diarist (1930–1944)

Russian political activist (1852-1942)

Russian-American journalist and activist

Russian scientist, writer, philosopher

Russian writer, dissident, political prisoner, emigrant, Professor of Sorbonne University, magazine founder and publisher (1925–1997)

Russian critic (1824–1906)

Russian poet, translator, and civil rights activist (1936–2013)

Russian politician (1930–2021)

Russian philosopher (1870–1965)

Russian writer and dissident (1938-1980)

erzya writer, journalist, editor of «Erzya Land» newspaper (1995-2015)

Russian writer (1862–1929)

Russian writer, editor (1895–1926)

Russian playwright, translator and philosopher (1817–1903)

Soviet politician, propagandist, and scientist (1898-1979)

Russian political journalist, political scientist, social activist and writer

Russian literary critic and writer (1937–2021)

Russian actor

Daughter of Grigori Rasputin; memoirist, circus performer (1898–1977)

Russian writer (born 1937)

Soviet and Russian Kildin Sámi teacher, linguist, and politician (*1939)

Soviet and Russian writer, poet, and playwright (1929—2022)

Russian children's writer (1840–1915)

Russian writer (1924-1991)

Russian writer (1914–1996)

Russian engineer

Soviet and Russian writer, playwright and essayist

Russian journalist

Hebrew Russian writer (1879–1913)

Russian writer and feminist, editor (1844–1917)

Russian author (1899-1938)

Russian author (1863–1914)

Russian academic (1857–1928)

Russian Translator (1881–1969)

children's writer (1902–1961)

Soviet writer and poet (1910-1992)

Russian historian (1855-1920)