Category
page 1Essayists from the Russian Empire
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
Maxim Gorky
Russian and Soviet writer (1868–1936)
Ilya Repin
Russian-empire painter of Ukrainian birth (1844-1930)
Bolesław Prus
Polish novelist (1847–1912)
Dmitry Merezhkovsky
Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic (1865–1941)

Apollon Maykov
Russian poet and translator (1821–1897)

Gleb Uspensky
Russian writer (1843-1902)
Konstantin Batyushkov
Russian poet, essayist and translator

Antiochus Kantemir
Russian academic
Raffi
Armenian playwright (1835–1888)
Mark Aldanov
Russian writer and critic (1886-1957)
Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky
Russian writer and engineer (1852–1906)
Dmitry Filosofov
Russian journalist (1872–1940)
Fyodor Reshetnikov
Russian writer (1841–1871)
Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko
Russian writer, essayist, journalist, memoirist (1845-1936)
Vasily Botkin
Russian critic and publicist (1811–1869)
Mikhail Osorgin
Russian writer (1878–1942)
Paul Muratov
Russian writer (1881-1950)
Mikhail Alexandrovich Fonvizin
Russian writer (1787-1854)
Maksim Antonovich
Russian literary critic, essayist, memoirist, translator and philosopher (1835-1918)
Akim Volynsky
Russian writer and literary critic (1863-1926)

Nikolai Berg
Russian author (1823–1884)
Razumnik Ivanov-Razumnik
Razumnik Vasilyevich Ivanov-Razumnik (real surname - Ivanov; Разумник Васильевич Иванов-Разумник; 24 December 1878 – 9 July 1946) was a Soviet Russian writer, philosopher and literary critic, best known for his book History of Russian Social Thought (1907, in two volumes) and the series of essays on post-Revolution literary life in the Soviet Russia.
Evgeny Anichkov
Russian literary critic and historian
Evgeny Feoktistov
Russian journalist (1828–1898)
Grigory Gradovsky
Nikolai Karonin-Petropavlovsky
Russian writer
Nikolai Naumov
Russian writer (1838–1901)
Mordecai Aaron Günzburg
Hebrew writer (1795–1846)
Pyotr Yefremov
Russian literary historian (1830–1907)
Chava Shapiro
Volhynian Jewish writer (1876–1943)

Sergey Terpigorev
Russian writer (1841-1895)
Boleslav Markevich
Russian novelis and essayist (1822–1884)
Pyotr Gnedich
Russian author (1855–1925)

Simeon G. Murafa
Bessarabian activist, journalist, composer (1887-1917)
Nikolai Melgunov
Russian writer (1804-1867)
Nikolai Pavlov
Russian poet (1803-1864)
Nikolai Demert
Russian journalist (1835–1876)
Vladimir Stoyunin
Saint-Petersburg-born Russian pedagogue, educational theorist, essayist and publicist