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Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
Osip Mandelstam
Russian poet and essayist (1891-1938)
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher
Korney Chukovsky
Russian children's poet (1882–1969)
Andrei Bely
Russian poet, writer and critic (1880–1934)
Viktor Shklovsky
Soviet Jewish writer
Alexander Afanasyev
Russian folklorist, collector of folk tales (1826-1871)
Antiochus Kantemir
Russian academic
Victor Erofeyev
Russian-Soviet writer, critic, and journalist
Boris Eikhenbaum
Russian historian (1886–1959)
Vladimir Toporov
Russian philologist (1928–2005)
Boris Pankin
Soviet diplomat
Osip Brik
Russian lawyer, literary critic and chekist (1888–1945)
Ivan Kireyevsky
Russian philosopher (1806-1856)
Olga Slavnikova
Russian writer and critic
Nikolay Nekrasov
Russian writer and esperantist (1900-38)
Georgy Adamovich
Poet, translator, literary critic (1892-1972)
Boris Tomashevsky
literary scholar (1890-1957)
Lidiya Ginzburg
Soviet literary historian (1902–1990)
Dmitry Svyatopolk-Mirsky
Russian writer (1890–1939)
Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya
Russian novelist, poet, literary critic and translator (1821–1889)
Lev Anninsky
Russian literary critic
Yaroslav Smelyakov
Russian journalist and poet (1913-1972)
Aleksandr Voronsky
Russian writer (1884-1937)
Yeleazar Meletinsky
Russian academic (1918-2005)
Sardana Oyunskaya
Yakut folklorist, literary critic, and philologist
Platon Kerzhentsev
Russian writer (1881-1940)
Natalia Kharlampieva
Yakut poet and journalist
Georgy Chulkov
Russian poet, editor, writer and critic (1879–1939)
Maxim Amelin
Russian poet
Avdotya Smirnova
Russian screenwriter, director and literary critic (1969-)
Konstantin Kedrov
Russian philosopher and literary critic
Svyatoslav Belza
Soviet/Russian literary and musical scholar, critic and essayist, and prominent TV personality (1942-2014)
Nikolai Iosifovich Konrad
Russian philologist, orientalist, scholar in Chinese and Japanese studies (1891-1970)
Serge Wolkonsky
Russian drama teacher (1860-1937)
Mikhail Lifshitz
Soviet academic (1905-1983)
Maria Moravskaya
Russian poet
Alexander Mezhirov
Russian writer (1923-2009)
Kirill Kovaldzhi
Russian poet (1930-2017)
David Zaslavsky
Soviet writer and literary critic (1880-1965)
Sergei Grigoryants
Russian human rights activist (1941–2023)
Arkady Belinkov
Russian writer and literary critic (1921–1970)
Lev Loseff
Russian poet, literary critic, essayist and educator (1937–2009)
Mark Slonim
Russian literary critic and publicist (1894–1976)
Ieronim Yasinsky
Russian novelist, poet, literary critic and essayist (1850–1931)
Irina Prokhorova
Russian historian & critic (born 1956)
Grigory Gukovsky
literary critic (1902–1950)
Larisa Matros
Russian poet and academic
Stanislav Kunyayev
Russian poet and writer
Yuri Terapiano
Poet and writer (1892–1980)
Zinaida Vengerova
Russian writer and literary critic (1867-1941)
Pavel Lebedev-Polianskii
Bolshevik revolutionary and literary critic (1882-1948)
Grigory Blagosvetlov
Journalist (1824–1880)
Vyacheslav Polonsky
Russian author, literary critic and journalist (1886-1932)
Zoya Basharina
Yakut writer
Dmitry Bavilsky
Russian writer
Gleb Struve
poet, literary historian, editor (1898–1985)
Lev Danilkin
Soviet writer, journalist and literary critic
Yuri Kolker
Russian poet
Alla Latynina
Russian literary critic