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Alexander Kuprin
Alexander Kuprin (Александр Куприн, 1870–1938) was a Russian writer of the early twentieth century, best known for the novels The Duel and The Pit and the story The Garnet Bracelet.
Alexei Remizov
Alexei Mikhailovich Remizov (Алексей Михайлович Ремизов, 1877–1957) was a Russian Silver Age prose writer known for ornate, folklore-based prose who published 83 books and left Paris after emigrating in 1921.
Andrei Platonov
Andrei Platonov (Андрей Платонов), born Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, was a Russian Soviet writer and playwright whose novels Chevengur and The Foundation Pit made him one of the most distinctive figures of twentieth-century literature.
Boris Pilnyak
Boris Pilnyak (Борис Пильняк), born Boris Andreyevich Vogau, was a leading Russian Soviet prose writer of the 1920s, best known for The Naked Year and executed in 1938.
Boris Zaytsev (writer)
Boris Konstantinovich Zaytsev (Борис Константинович Зайцев) was a Russian writer and dramatist of the Silver Age, recognized before 1917, who emigrated to Paris in 1922.
Fyodor Sologub
Fyodor Sologub (Фёдор Сологуб), pen name of Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov, was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, and playwright, 1863 to 1927, best known for the influential novel The Petty Demon.
Ivan Shmelyov
Ivan Shmelyov (Иван Сергеевич Шмелёв) was a Russian writer who emigrated to Paris after his son's execution, writing The Sun of the Dead and The Summer of the Lord.
Konstantin Paustovsky
Konstantin Paustovsky (Константи́н Паусто́вский) was a Russian Soviet writer and master of lyrical prose, best known for the six-part autobiographical epic The Story of a Life.
Leonid Leonov
Leonid Leonov, also known as Leonid Maksimovich Leonov, was a Soviet novelist and playwright born in Moscow whose novel The Russian Forest won the Lenin Prize in 1957.
Mark Aldanov
Mark Aldanov (Марк Александрович Алданов), born Mark Aleksandrovich Landau, was a Russian émigré novelist and trained chemist, best known for fiction and essays bitterly critical of the Soviet system.
Nikolai Ostrovsky
Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky (Николай Островский, 1904–1936) was a Soviet writer who, bedridden and nearly blind, wrote the largely autobiographical novel How the Steel Was Tempered, a classic of socialist realism.
Nina Berberova
Nina Berberova (Нина Николаевна Берберова, 1901–1993) was a Russian writer of the emigration known for fiction about the Russian diaspora and her autobiography The Italics Are Mine.
Ostap Vyshnia
Ostap Vyshnia, pen name of Pavlo Hubenko, was a Ukrainian satirist and humorist, 1889 to 1956, the most widely read Ukrainian prose writer of the 1920s.
Veniamin Kaverin
Veniamin Kaverin (Вениамин Каверин; born Veniamin Zilber, 1902–1989) was a Soviet Russian prose writer best known for the adventure novel Two Captains, winner of the 1946 Stalin Prize.
Yuri Dombrovsky
Yuri Osipovich Dombrovsky (1909–1978) was a Russian writer, poet, and literary critic whose novels about Stalin-era terror include The Keeper of Antiquities and The Faculty of Useless Things.
Yuri Olesha
Yuri Olesha, born Yury Karlovich Olesha (Юрий Карлович Олеша), was a Soviet writer famous for his metaphor-rich novel Envy (1927) and the fairy tale The Three Fat Men.