List of Russian-language playwrights

This is a list of authors who have written dramatic works in the Russian language.

The Moscow Art Theatre.

For the plain text list, see Category:Russian dramatists and playwrights.

See also: List of Russian-language writers, List of Russian-language poets, List of Russian-language novelists, List of Russian artists, List of Russian architects, List of Russian inventors, List of Russian explorers, Russian culture

Alphabetical list

A
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Alexander Ablesimov
(1742-1783)		 The Miller
Alexander Afinogenov
(1904-1941)		 Fear
Crank
A Far Place
Leonid Andreyev
(1871-1919)		 Anathema
Tsar Hunger
The Life of Man
He Who Gets Slapped
Margalo Gillmore (Consuelo) & Richard Bennett (He) in He Who Gets Slapped, 1922.
Richard Bennett (He, left) & Louis Calvert (Baron Regnart, right) in He Who Gets Slapped, 1922.
Maria Arbatova
(born 1957)		 On the Road to Ourselves
Maria Arbatova in 2009.
Aleksei Arbuzov
(1908-1986)		 Tanya
A Long Road
Mikhail Artsybashev
(1878-1927)		 War
Artsybashev with the actress Yavorskaya, 1915.
Drawing of Artsybashev.
Arkady Averchenko
(1881-1925)
Drawing of Averchenko.
Averchenko, c1920.

B
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Isaac Babel
(1894-1940)		 Maria
Sunset
Babel, c1930s.
Pyotr Boborykin
(1836-1921)		 The Scale
Vera Komissarzhevskaya in The Scale.
Oleg Bogayev
(born 1970)
Mikhail Bulgakov
(1891-1940)		 Flight
Zoya's Apartment
Adam and Eve
The Days of the Turbins
The Days of the Turbins, 1926.
Portrait of Bulgakov.

C
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Catherine the Great
(1729-1796)		 Fevey
Portrait of Catherine, 1745.
Portrait, 1794.
Nikolai Chayev
(1824—1914)		 Svat Faddeyich
Anton Chekhov
(1860-1904)		 The Seagull
Uncle Vanya
Three Sisters
The Cherry Orchard
Konstantin Stanislavski as Vershinin in Three Sisters.
Chekhov's wife Olga Knipper, who played Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard.
Evgeny Chirikov
(1864-1932)		 The Peasant
At his desk, 1904.
Portrait by Repin, 1906.
Ada Chumachenko
(1887 – 1954)		 The Snow Queen
A Man from the Moon
Grand Duke Constantine
(1858-1915)		 King of Judea
The Grand Duke in military dress, 1891.
With his wife Elizaveta, 1894.

D
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Grigoriy Demidovtsev
(born 1960)
Certificate of membership in the Union of Russian Writers.
Demidovtsev in 2007.
Victor Denisov
(born 1944)		 «Six Specters of Lenin on a Piano».(Opening night: 20 May 1993)
After the premiere of «Six Specters of Lenin on a Piano». V.Denisov is second to the left, 1993
V.Denisov & a San-Francisco director V.Zavarina, 1994

E
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Nikolai Erdman
(1900-1970)		 The Suicide
Nikolai Evreinov
(1879-1953)		 A Merry Death
The Chief Thing
The Presentation of Love
The Storming of the Winter Palace
Drawing of Evreinov, 1921.
Memorial plaque in Paris.

F
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Denis Fonvizin
(1744/45-1792)		 The Minor
Statue of Fonvizin, part of the Millennium of Russia monument.
The Fonvizin Family Coat of Arms.
Olga Forsh
(1873–1961)		 The Substitute Lecturer

G
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Alexander Galich
(1918-1977)
Zinaida Gippius
(1869-1945)		 The Green Ring
Portrait of Gippius by Ilya Repin, 1894.
Portrait by Léon Bakst, 1906.
Nikolai Gogol
(1809-1852)		 Marriage
The Government Inspector
Fyodor Paramonov as Anton Antonovich in Gogol's The Government Inspector.
Cover of the First Edition of The Government Inspector. 1836
Dmitry Gorchakov
(1758-1824)		 King for a Day
Grigori Gorin
(1940-2000)
Maxim Gorky
(1868-1936)		 Summerfolk
The Lower Depths
Children of the Sun
The Philistines
A scene from The Lower Depths.
Another scene from The Lower Depths.
Aleksandr Griboyedov
(1795-1829)		 Woe from Wit
Stanislavski as Famusov in Woe from Wit.
Title page of Griboyedov's manuscript of Woe from Wit.1824
Isabella Grinevskaya
(1864-1944)
Elena Guro
(1887-1913)		 The Hurdy-Gurdy
Guro's self-portrait.
Elena and Mikhail Matyushin.

I
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Vsevolod Ivanov
(1895-1963)		 Armoured Train 14-69
1927 production of Armoured Train 14-69.

K
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Vasily Kapnist
(1758-1823)		 Chicane
Postcard featuring Kapnist.
Valentin Kataev
(1897-1986)		 Quadrature of the Circle
Kataev's brother, the writer Yevgeni Petrov.
Pavel Katenin
(1792-1853)		 Andromache
Yevgeny Kharitonov
(1941-1981)		 Under House Arrest
Daniil Kharms
(1905-1942)
Graffiti of Kharms on a wall in Kharkiv.
Caricature of Kharms by Antonovsky
Mikhail Kheraskov
(1733-1807)
Vladimir Kirshon
(1902-1938)		 Bread
The Miraculous Alloy
Layout of scenery for the play based on the play by V. Kirshon The Court
Fyodor Kokoshkin
(1775-1838)		 Little Demon on Vacation
Kokoshkin's grave at the Donskoy Monastery's necropolis in Moscow
Nikolay Kolyada
(born 1957)		 A Tale About the Dead Tsarina
Oginski Polonaise
Persian Lilac
Playing Forfeits
Slingshot
in the Sverdlovsk Regional Universal Scientific Library Vissarion Belinsky
Kolyada Theater in Yekaterinburg
Yakov Knyazhnin
(1740/42-1791)		 Olga
The Cranks
The Braggart
Vadim the Bold
Eugene Kozlovsky
(born 1946)
Ivan Krylov
(1769-1844)		 Philomela
The Cat and the Сook
The Fox and the Crane
The Quartet
The Wolf and the Lamb
Monument to Krylov in St Petersburg.
Illustration The Cat and the Сook by Sergei Gribkov
Nestor Kukolnik
(1809-1868)		 A Life for the Tsar
Title page from one of Kukolnik's dramas, 1834.
Plaque for Kukolnik in Taganrog.

L
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Ivan Lazhechnikov
(1792–1869)		 Oprichnik
Leonid Leonov
(1899-1994)
Dmitri Lipskerov
(born 1964)
Lev Lunts
(1901-1924)		 Native Land

M
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Anatoly Marienhof
(1897-1962)
With the poet Sergei Yesenin, 1915.
Samuil Marshak
(1887-1964)		 Smart Things
The Twelve Months
Soviet stamp featuring Marshak.
Mikhail Matinsky
(1760-c1820)		 Regeneration
Saint-Petersburg's Trade Stalls
Vladimir Mayakovsky
(1893-1930)		 The Bedbug
The Bathhouse
Mystery-Bouffe
A young Mayakovsky
Soviet stamp featuring Mayakovsky.
Sergey Mikhalkov
(1913-2009)		 Three Plus Two
Mikhailov receiving an award from Vladimir Putin in 2003.
Talking with Vladimir Putin in 2003.

N
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Monument to Nabokov at Montreux.
 Vladimir Nabokov
(1899-1977)		 The Waltz Invention
Nabokov's first published work.
Löb Nevakhovich
(1776/78-1831)
Alexander Neverov
(1886-1923)		 Baba
Hunger
Drawing of Neverov.
Nikolai Nikolev
(1758-1815)
Osip Notovich
(1849-1914)		 Shady Business

O
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Alexander Ostrovsky
(1823-1886)		 The Storm
The Poor Bride
Poverty is No Vice
Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man
The Snow Maiden
Stanislavski (left), and Vasily Kachalov in Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man.
Monument to Osrovsky at the Maly Theatre in Moscow.
Valentin Ovechkin
(1904-1968)		 A Time to Reap
Vladislav Ozerov
(1769-1816)		 Dmitry Donskoy

P
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Vera Panova
(1905-1973)		 Ivan Kosogor
In Old Moscow
Plaque for Panova in St. Petersburg.
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
(born 1938)
Petrushevskaya in 2009.
At a booksigning in New York with Keith Gessen, 2009.
Aleksey Pisemsky
(1821-1881)		 A Bitter Fate
The Hypochondriac
Lieutenant Gladkov
The Financial Genius
A Bitter Fate. Lizaveta. Picture by Ilya Repin.
Engraving of Pisemsky.
Pyotr Polevoy
(1839–1902)		 Princess Sophia
Nikolai Pogodin
(1900-1962)		 Aristocrats
Mikhail Popov
(1742-1790)		 Anyuta
Alexander Preys
(1905-1942)
Iosif Prut
(1900-1996)
Alexander Pushkin
(1799-1837)		 Boris Godunov
The Stone Guest
Mozart and Salieri
The Covetous Knight
The Stone Guest. Don Juan and Doña Ana. Picture by Ilya Repin.

R
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Edvard Radzinsky
(born 1936)
Vyacheslav Rybakov
(born 1954)

S
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Natalya Sats
(1903-1993)
Alexander Shakhovskoy
(1777–1846)		 Ladies' Joke
The New Stern		 |
Shchepkina-Kupernik
(1874-1952)		 Summer Picture
Evgeny Shvarts
(1896-1958)		 The Dragon
Vassily Sigarev
 Plasticine
Black Milk
Fyodor Sologub
(1863-1927)		 The Triumph of Death
Portrait by Konstantin Somov.
Ksenya Stepanycheva
(born 1978)		 Pink Bow
Stepanycheva in 2009.
Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin
(1817-1903)		 The Case
Krechinsky's Wedding
The Death of Tarelkin
Sukhovo-Kobylin, c1850s.
Aleksandr's sister, the writer Evgenia Tur.
Alexander Sumarokov
(1717-1777)		 Khorev
Portrait of Sumarokov by Fedor Rokotov.

T
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya
(1891-1968)		 By the Pike's Wish
Tarakhovskaya's birth house in Taganrog.
Modest Tchaikovsky
(1850-1916)
Tchaikovsky's brother, the composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
Nadezhda Teffi
(1872-1952)		 The Woman Question
Viktoriya Tokareva
(born 1937)
Aleksey K. Tolstoy
(1817-1875)		 The Death of Ivan the Terrible
Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich
Tsar Boris
Don Juan
Ivan the Terrible. Picture by Viktor Vasnetsov
Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich.
Aleksey N. Tolstoy
(1883-1945)
Stamp featuring Tolstoy.
Leo Tolstoy
(1828-1910)		 The Power of Darkness
The Fruits of Enlightenment
The Living Corpse
Stanislavski as Zvezdintsev in The Fruits of Enlightenment, 1891.
Stanislavski as Prince Abrezhov in The Living Corpse, 1911.
Sergei Tretyakov
(1892-1937)		 I Want a Baby
Ivan Turgenev
(1818-1883)		 A Month in the Country
Stanislavski and Knipper in A Month in the Country, 1909.
A scene from A Month in the Country.

U
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Eduard Uspensky
(born 1937)

V
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Alexander Vampilov
(1937-1972)		 Elder Son
Anastasiya Verbitskaya
(1861-1928)		 Mirages
Verbitskaya in 1898.
Vsevolod Vishnevsky
(1900-1951)		 Optimistic Tragedy

Z
Portrait Person Notable works Illustration Illustration
Mark Zakharov
(born 1933)
Zakharov with Dmitry Medvedev in 2008.
Boris Zaytsev
(1881-1972)
Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov
(1821-1908)
Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal
(1866-1907)
Rafail Zotov
(1795–1871)		 Jealous Wife
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gollark: Wow! At that price, I must immediately buy all of such a useless commodity!

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