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By birth A–Z List Cards

Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky Виссарион Григорьевич Белинский Literary critic called the father of the Russian radical intelligentsia Literature and arts 1811–1848
Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov Михаил Никифорович Катков The 'thunderer of Russia' who swayed opinion and court through the Russian Messenger and Moscow News Literature and arts 1818–1887
Nikolai Alexeyevich Nekrasov Николай Алексеевич Некрасов Poet-publisher who sang the peasants' suffering and turned Pushkin's Sovremennik into the center of revolutionary literature Literature and arts 1821–1878
Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin Михаил Евграфович Салтыков-Щедрин 19th-century Russia's greatest satirist, who mercilessly ridiculed autocracy and serfdom Literature and arts 1826–1889
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy Лев Николаевич Толстой The Count who wrote War and Peace, then declared war on the state and the Church Literature and arts 1828–1910
Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev Дмитрий Иванович Писарев The standard-bearer of Russian nihilism who declared that what can be smashed must be smashed Literature and arts 1840–1868
Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko Владимир Галактионович Короленко The conscience of Russian letters who rejected both tsar and Bolshevik Literature and arts 1853–1921
Alexander Alexandrovich Blok Александр Александрович Блок Russia's foremost Symbolist poet who embraced the October Revolution Literature and arts 1880–1921
Vladimir Mikhailovich Zenzinov Владимир Михайлович Зензинов A Socialist Revolutionary who defended democratic socialism through exile and testimony Literature and arts · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1880–1953
Alexei N. Nikolaevich Tolstoy Алексей Николаевич Толстой The Red Count: from émigré to pillar of Stalinist letters Literature and arts 1883–1945
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilyov Николай Степанович Гумилёв Silver Age poet who founded Acmeism and fell to the Cheka's guns Literature and arts 1886–1921
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko Евгений Александрович Евтушенко A poet in Russia is more than a poet: the stadium-filling voice of the Thaw and its contradictions Literature and arts 1933–2017
Aleksei Polyansky Алексей Полянский The KGB-veteran writer who published Yezhov's case file wrapped in novelistic reconstruction Literature and arts 1947–1998