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List of Russian-language poets
This is a list of authors who have written poetry in the Russian language.
Alphabetical list
A
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010) | The String The Garden A Guiding Sound Once in December | ||
| Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) | Evening Requiem The Rosary Poem Without a Hero | ||
| Margarita Aliger (1915–1992) | Zoya Railroad The Year of Birth Stones and Grass | ||
| Daniil Andreev (1906–1959) | Russian Gods The Iron Mystery | ||
| Domna Anisimova (fl. 19th century) | Depiction of the Harvest Sound of the Night Wind | ||
| Innokenty Annensky (1855–1909) | Quiet Songs Cypress Box | ||
| Pavel Antokolsky (1896–1978) | All We Who in His Name | ||
| Aleksey Apukhtin (1840–1893) | |||
| Eduard Asadov (1923–2004) | |||
| Nikolay Aseyev (1889–1963) | Zor Night Flute | ||
| Lera Auerbach (born 1973) | |||
| Gennadiy Aygi (1934–2006) |
B
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| Eduard Bagritsky (1895–1934) | February | |
| Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942) | Under the Northern Sky Let Us Be Like the Sun Burning Buildings | |
| Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873–1944) | ||
| Evgeny Baratynsky (1800–1844) | Eda The Gypsy The Last Poet Autumn | |
| Ivan Barkov (1732–1768) | obscene poems | |
| Anna Barkova (1901–1976) | Tatar Anguish | |
| Agniya Barto (1906–1981) | Toys Mishka the Petty Thief | |
| Alexander Bashlachev (1960–1988) | ||
| Konstantin Batyushkov (1787–1855) | ||
| Demyan Bedny (1883–1945) | ||
| Andrey Bely (1880–1934) | Urn Gold in Azure Christ Has Risen The First Encounter | |
| Olga Bergholz (1910–1975) | February Diary Leningrad Poem | |
| Aleksandr Bestuzhev (1797–1837) | ||
| Alexander Blok (1880–1921) | Skify The Twelve | |
| Valeri Brainin-Passek (born 1948) | ||
| Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) | ||
| Valery Bryusov (1873–1924) | Tertia Vigilia | |
| Ivan Bunin (1870–1953) | Falling Leaves | |
| Anna Bunina (1774–1829) | Though Poverty's No Stain |
C
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| Sasha Chorny (1880–1932) | ||
| Korney Chukovsky (1882–1969) | Aybolit Wash'em'clean The Crocodile The Giant Roach | |
| Georgy Chulkov (1879–1939) |
D
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| Denis Davydov (1784–1839) | ||
| Anton Delvig (1798–1831) | ||
| Andrey Dementyev (1928–2018) | ||
| Regina Derieva (1949–2013) | ||
| Gavrila Derzhavin (1743–1816) | ||
| Nikolai Devitte (1811–1844) | Not for Me | |
| Ivan Dmitriev (1760–1837) | ||
| Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836–1861) | ||
| Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky (1915–1994) | ||
| Spiridon Drozhzhin (1848–1930) | ||
| Yulia Drunina (1924–1991) |
E
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967) |
F
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| Afanasy Fet (1812–1892) | ||
| Konstantin Fofanov (1862–1911) |
G
| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherubina de Gabriak (1887–1928) | |||
| Alexander Galich (1918–1977) | Clouds Kaddish The Night Watch When I Return | ||
| Aleksei Gastev (1882–1939) | |||
| Mikhail Gerasimov (1889–1939) | |||
| Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945) | |||
| Nikolay Glazkov (1919–1979) | |||
| Fyodor Glinka (1786–1880) | |||
| Nikolay Gnedich (1784–1833) | The Fishers | ||
| Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov (1848–1913) | |||
| Dmitry Gorchakov (1758–1824) | |||
| Sergey Gorodetsky (1884–1967) | |||
| Boris Golovin (born 1955) | |||
| Aleksandr Griboedov (1794–1829) | Woe from Wit | ||
| Apollon Grigoryev (1822–1864) | |||
| Oleg Grigoryev (1943–1992) | |||
| Isabella Grinevskaya (1864–1944) | |||
| Igor Guberman (born 1936) | |||
| Semyon Gudzenko (1922–1953) | |||
| Nikolay Gumilyov (1886–1921) | |||
| Elena Guro (1877–1913) |
I
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| Vera Inber (1890–1972) | ||
| Mikhail Isakovsky (1900–1973) | ||
| Georgy Ivanov (1894–1958) | ||
| Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866–1949) | ||
| Ryurik Ivnev (1891–1981) | ||
| Alexander Izmaylov (1779–1831) |
K
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| Gavril Kamenev (1772–1803) | ||
| Antiochus Kantemir (1708–1744) | ||
| Vasily Kapnist (1758–1823) | ||
| align=center | Rimma Kazakova (1932–2008) | |
| Dmitri Kedrin (1907–1945) | ||
| Bakhyt Kenjeev (born 1950) | ||
| Daniil Kharms (1905–1942) | ||
| Ivan Khemnitser (1745–1784) | ||
| Velemir Khlebnikov (1885–1922) | ||
| Vladislav Khodasevich (1886–1939) | ||
| Aleksey Khomyakov (1804–1860) | ||
| Apollon Korinfsky (1868–1937) | Songs of the Heart Black Roses | |
| Lidiya Khaindrova (1910–1986) | ||
| Dmitry Khvostov (1757–1835) | ||
| Semyon Kirsanov (1906–1972) | ||
| Nikolai Klyuev (1884–1937) | ||
| Ekaterina Kniazhnina (1746–1797) | ||
| Pavel Kogan (1918–1942) | ||
| Aleksey Koltsov (1809–1842) | ||
| Nahum Korzhavin (1925–2018) | ||
| Ivan Kozlov (1779–1840) | ||
| Vasili Krasovsky (1782–1824) | ||
| Aleksey Kruchenykh (1886–1968) | ||
| Ivan Krylov (1769–1844) | ||
| Yuri Kublanovsky (born 1947) | ||
| Wilhelm Küchelbecher (1797–1846) | ||
| Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954) | ||
| Nestor Kukolnik (1809–1868) | ||
| Alexander Kushner (born 1936) | ||
| Dmitry Kuzmin (born 1969) | ||
| Mikhail Kuzmin (1872–1936) |
L
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| Vasily Lebedev-Kumach (1898–1949) | ||
| Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) | Borodino The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov Demon Valerik Death of the Poet | |
| Mirra Lokhvitskaya (1869–1905) | ||
| Yegor Letov (1964–2008) | ||
| Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765) | ||
| Vladimir Lugovskoy (1901–1957) |
M
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938) | Stalin Epigram | |
| Anatoly Marienhof (1897–1962) | ||
| Maria Markova (born 1982) | ||
| Samuil Marshak (1887–1964) | ||
| Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) | A Cloud in Trousers Backbone Flute Mystery-Bouffe | |
| Apollon Maykov (1821–1897) | ||
| Dmitriy Merezhkovsky (1866–1941) | ||
| Aleksey Merzlyakov (1778–1830) | ||
| Arvo Mets (1937–1997) | ||
| Lev Mei (1822–1862) | ||
| Alexander Mezhirov (1923–2009) | ||
| Sergey Mikhalkov (1913–2009) | ||
| Fyodor Miller (1818–1881) | ||
| Nikolai Minsky (1855–1937) | ||
| Yunna Morits (born 1937) |
N
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) | ||
| Semyon Nadson (1862–1887) | ||
| Vladimir Narbut (1888–1938) | ||
| Sergey Narovchatov (1919–1981) | ||
| Nikolay Nekrasov (1821–1877) | ||
| Ivan Savvich Nikitin (1824–1861) |
O
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| Alexander Odoevsky (1802–1839) | The Ball | |
| Nikolay Ogarev (1813–1877) | ||
| Irina Odoyevtseva (1895–1990) | ||
| Bulat Okudzhava (1924–1997) | ||
| Nikolay Oleynikov (1898–1937) | The Carp Cockroach The Beetle |
P
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| Liodor Palmin (1841–1891) | ||
| Valentin Parnakh (1891–1951) | ||
| Sophia Parnok (1885–1933) | ||
| Boris Pasternak (1890–1960) | ||
| Karolina Pavlova (1807–1893) | ||
| Vladimir Pecherin (1807–1885) | ||
| Mariya Petrovykh (1908–1979) | ||
| Aleksey Plescheev (1825–1893) | ||
| Pyotr Pletnyov (1792–1866) | ||
| Elizaveta Polonskaya (1890–1969) | ||
| Yakov Polonsky (1819–1898) | ||
| Nikolay Popovsky (1730–1760) | ||
| Vasili Popugaev (1778 or 1779 – c. 1816) | ||
| Alexander Prokofyev (1900–1971) | ||
| Kozma Prutkov (1817–1875) | ||
| Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) | Eugene Onegin, The Bronze Horseman, Boris Godunov (play)' | |
| Vasily Pushkin (1766–1830) |
R
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| Vladimir Raevsky (1795–1872) | ||
| Anna Radlova (1891–1949) | ||
| Irina Ratushinskaya (1954–2017) | ||
| Yevgeny Rein (born 1935) | ||
| Yevdokiya Rostopchina (1812–1858) | ||
| Konstantin Romanov (K.R.) (1858–1915) | ||
| Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky (1895–1977) | ||
| align=center | Robert Rozhdestvensky (1932–1994) | |
| Nikolay Rubtsov (1936–1971) | ||
| Kondraty Ryleyev (1795–1826) | ||
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S
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| David Samoylov (1920–1990) | ||
| Genrikh Sapgir (1928–1999) | ||
| Feodosy Savinov (1865–1915) | Rodnoye | |
| Mikhail Savoyarov (1876–1941) | ||
| Olga Sedakova (born 1949) | ||
| Ilya Selvinsky (1899–1968) | ||
| Andrei Sen-Senkov (born 1968) | ||
| Daria Serenko (born 1993) | ||
| Igor Severyanin (1887–1941) | ||
| Varlam Shalamov (1907–1982) | ||
| Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874–1952) | ||
| Stepan Shchipachev (1889–1980) | ||
| Vadim Shefner (1915–2002) | ||
| Nikolay Sherbina (1821–1869) | ||
| Elena Shirman (1908–1942) | ||
| Vadim Shershenevich (1893–1942) | ||
| Stepan Shevyryov (1806–1864) | ||
| Maria Shkapskaya (1891–1952) | No Dream | |
| Gennady Shpalikov (1937–1974) | ||
| Konstantin Simonov (1915–1979) | Wait for Me | |
| Stepan Skitalets (1869–1941) | ||
| Konstantin Sluchevsky (1837–1904) | ||
| Boris Slutsky (1919–1986) | ||
| Fyodor Sologub (1863–1927) | ||
| Vladimir Soloukhin (1924–1997) | ||
| Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900) | ||
| Alexander Sumarokov (1717–1777) | ||
| Ivan Surikov (1841–1880) | Rowan Steppe | |
| Fyodor Svarovsky (born 1971) | ||
| Mikhail Svetlov (1903–1964) |
T
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (1891–1968) | ||
| Arseny Tarkovsky (1907–1989) | ||
| Nikolay Tikhonov (1896–1979) | ||
| Aleksey Tolstoy (1817–1875) | ||
| Vasily Trediakovsky (1703–1769) | ||
| Pyotr Nikolayevich Toburokov (1917–2001) | ||
| Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941) | ||
| Nika Turbina (1974–2002) | ||
| Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) | ||
| Veronika Tushnova (1915–1965) | Memory of the Heart | |
| Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910–1971) | ||
| Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873) |
U
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| Vladimir Uflyand (1937–2007) | ||
| Joseph Utkin (1903–1944) | The Story About Ginger Motele Mr. Inspector Rabbi Isaiah and Commissar Bloch |
V
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| Konstantin Vaginov (1899–1934) | ||
| Dmitry Venevitinov (1805–1827) | ||
| Igor Vishnevetsky (born 1964) | ||
| Dmitry Vodennikov (born 1968) | ||
| Anri Volokhonsky (1936–2017) | ||
| Maksimilian Voloshin (1877–1932) | ||
| Andrey Voznesensky (1933–2010) | ||
| Alexander Vvedensky (1904–1941) | ||
| Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792–1878) | ||
| Vladimir Vysotsky (1938–1980) |
Y
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| Pyotr Yakubovich (1860–1911) | ||
| Alexander Yashin (1913–1968) | ||
| Nikolay Yazykov (1803–1847) | ||
| Pyotr Yershov (1815–1869) | The Humpbacked Horse | |
| Sergey Yesenin (1895–1925) | ||
| Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933–2017) |
Z
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| Nikolay Zabolotsky (1903–1958) | ||
| Boris Zakhoder (1918–2000) | ||
| Vsevolod Zelchenko (born 1972) | ||
| Yulia Zhadovskaya (1824–1883) | ||
| Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov (1821–1908) | ||
| Vasily Zhukovsky (1783–1852) |