Russian male poets

Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)

Russian and Soviet poet (1893–1930)

Russian-American poet (1940-1996)

Soviet and Russian poet (1933–2017)

Russian poet and essayist (1891-1938)

Soviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist and historian (1891–1967)

Russian philosopher (1853-1900)

Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian (1873–1924)

Russian poet, writer and critic (1880–1934)

Russian writer (1885–1922)

Soviet and Russian writer (1913–2009)

Soviet writer, poet, playwright and wartime correspondent (1915-1979)

Soviet writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor

Avar poet (1923-2003)

Soviet and Russian writer and singer (1924-1997)

Soviet poet (1933-2010)

Russian writer (1937–2018)

Soviet and Russian film director (1927–2015)

Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, translator, literary critic, screenwriter, author of popular children's books (1887–1964)

Soviet writer, playwright, screenwriter, poet (1897–1986)

Russian poet (1877-1932)

Russian Symbolist poet, playwright, theatre theorist, translator (1866–1949)

Soviet poet (1910–1971)

Ukrainian & American artist (1882-1967)

Soviet-Russian musician, poet, and painter (1964–2008)

Chuvash poet, writer, and translator (1934-2006)

Ukrainian theologian, writer, poet, mathematician, and philosopher, archbishop in the Tsardom of Russia (1681-1736)

Russian-Soviet writer and poet (1892-1977)

Russian poet (1900-1973)

Russian poet and lyricist (1898-1949)

Russian painter and poet (1883-1941)

Russian poet, children's writer and translator (1903-1958)

Russian writer and journalist

Russian poet (1887–1941)

Russian poet (1889–1963)

Russian/Soviet poet (1895–1934)

Russian poet, literary critic (1886–1939)

Russian politician (1930-2019)

Russian poet (1932–1994)

Soviet writer and poet (1925-1988)

Bashkir Soviet poet, writer and playwright (1919–2005)

Soviet and Russian actor (1935–2020)

Russian writer (1886-1968)

Russian poet

Soviet and Russian actor (1930—2018)

Russian-born Yiddish poet and Holocaust survivor (1913-2010)

Russian actor

Russian poet (1903–1964)

Soviet and Russian actor, director, poet, publicist (1946–2003)

Ukrainian, Russian & Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor (1889-1957)

Azerbaijani-Russian philosopher, politician, and writer (1947-2016)

Russian writer and philologist (1947–2024)

Russian poet and essayist

writer (1932-2012)

Russian writer (1897–1962)

Russian artist and writer (1940–2007)

Russian-American mathematician (1924-2016)

Soviet bard (1934-1984)

Russian poet with formidable influence on "unofficial" and avant-garde art during and after the times of the Soviet Union

Russian anarchist theorist, activist and poet executed by the Bolsheviks (1890–1921)