Category
page 1Writers from Saint Petersburg
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
Emma Goldman
Russian-born American anarchist (1869–1940)

Joseph Brodsky
Russian-American poet (1940-1996)
Alexandra Kollontai
Soviet diplomat (1872-1952)
Nicholas Roerich
Russian painter, writer, archaeologist and philosopher (1874–1947)
Lou Andreas-Salomé
German-Russian Psychoanalyst and author
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
count, Russian poet, novelist and playwright
Korney Chukovsky
Russian children's poet (1882–1969)
Konstantin Simonov
Soviet writer, poet, playwright and wartime correspondent (1915-1979)
Lev Gumilev
Soviet academic (1912-1992)
Sergei Dovlatov
Soviet writer (1941–1990)
Dmitry Merezhkovsky
Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic (1865–1941)

Viktor Shklovsky
Soviet Jewish writer
Edith Södergran
Finland Swedish poet and writer (1892–1923)
George Sanders
British actor (1906–1972)

Mikhail Zoshchenko
Soviet writer (1894–1958)

Juri Lotman
Russian-Estonian semiotician (1922–1993)
Fyodor Sologub
Russian writer (1863–1927)

Vladimir Arsenyev
Russian and Soviet explorer, ethnographer and writer (1872-1930)

Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségur
French writer of Russian birth (1799–1874)
Alexander Bestuzhev
Russian writer, poet and soldier (1797–1837)

Olga Bergholz
Soviet poet

George Ostrogorsky
Russian Byzantinist (1902-1976)

Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia
Russian grand prince (1858-1915)

Alexandra Marinina
Russian writer of detective stories

Dmitry Likhachov
Russian philologist (1906-1999)

Pyotr Krasnov
White movement Cossack (1869-1947)
Tatyana Tolstaya
Russian writer
Vladimir Stasov
Russian critic (1824–1906)
Vasily Bartold
Russian orientalist (1869–1930)
Igor Severyanin
Russian poet (1887–1941)
Andrei Bitov
Soviet-Russian writer and essayist (1937–2018)
Semyon Nadson
Russian poet (1862–1887)
Igor M. Diakonoff
Russian historian and linguist (1915-1999)
Wilhelm Kyukhelbeker
Russian writer (1797-1846)
Vitaly Bianki
Russian writer (1894–1959)
Nadezhda Teffi
Russian writer (1872–1952)
Gaito Gazdanov
Russian writer, Radio Liberty editor (1903–1971)
Nikolai Tikhonov
Soviet writer (1896–1979)
Alexander Serov
Russian composer (1820–1871)
Helena Roerich
Russian spiritual philosopher, occult writer, theosophist (1879—1955)
Otto von Böhtlingk
German Indologist and Sanskrit scholar (1815-1904)
Boris Strugatsky
Soviet and Russian writer (1933–2012)
Viktoriya Tokareva
Soviet and Russian writer and screenwriter
Elena Guro
Russian painter and writer (1877-1913)
Aleksey Apukhtin
Russian poet, writer and critic (1840–1893)
Alexander Esenin-Volpin
Russian-American mathematician (1924-2016)
Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky
Russian writer and engineer (1852–1906)
Vsevolod Vishnevsky
Soviet dramatist and prose writer. (1900–1951)
Gary Shteyngart
American journalist and writer
Nestor Kukolnik
Russian writer (1809–1868)
Yevgeny Vodolazkin
Russian writer
Arvid Järnefelt
Finnish jurist and writer (1861–1932)
Franz Overbeck
German Protestant theologian (1837-1905)
Alexander Odoevsky
Russian poet (1802–1839)
Ignaty Krachkovsky
Russian and Soviet Arabist (1883–1951)
Yuri Samarin
Russian philosopher (1819–1876)
Vladimir Paley
Russian writer (1897-1918)
Valentin Pikul
Russian writer (1928-1990)