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Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky Константин Сергеевич Станиславский Founder of the Moscow Art Theatre and creator of the Stanislavsky system Literature and arts 1863–1938
Alexander Serafimovich Александр Серафимович The Don Cossack's son who gave the revolution its epic Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1863–1949
Alexei Maximovich Gorky Алексей Максимович Горький The stormy petrel, caged Literature and arts · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1868–1936
Maria Fyodorovna Andreyeva Мария Фёдоровна Андреева Actress turned Bolshevik financial agent whom Lenin called 'Comrade Phenomenon' Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1868–1953
Nariman Najaf oglu Narimanov Нариман Наджаф оглы Нариманов From Azerbaijani Enlightener to a Head of the Soviet State Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1870–1925
Vladimir Alexandrovich Bazarov Владимир Александрович Базаров The Machist philosopher-economist of Gosplan who proposed a genetic-teleological planning synthesis Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1874–1939
Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold Всеволод Эмильевич Мейерхольд Creator of biomechanics, the architect of theatre who staged revolution on stage Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1874–1940
Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky Анатолий Васильевич Луначарский Russian revolutionary, first People's Commissar of Enlightenment, and literary critic Education · Soviet Union 1875–1933
Alexander Konstantinovich Voronsky Александр Константинович Воронский Editor of Krasnaya Nov, Marxist critic who discovered Babel and Pasternak and led Pereval against RAPP Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin Евгений Иванович Замятин The architect of a forbidden future Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin Владимир Евграфович Татлин Creator of the most enduring symbol of revolutionary utopia: a tower that was never built Literature and arts 1885–1953
Zmicier Zhylunovich Зміцер Жылуновіч Worker-poet known as Tsishka Hartny who headed the first Soviet government of Byelorussia Government and administration · Soviet Union 1887–1937
Alexander Vasilievich Chayanov Александр Васильевич Чаянов The agrarian economist who uncovered the moral logic of peasant economy Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1888–1937
Alexander Yakovlevich Arosev Александр Яковлевич Аросев The revolutionary who ordered the Kremlin shelled, and the proletarian writer who published thirty books Literature and arts · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1890–1938
El Markovich Lissitzky Эль Маркович Лисицкий Co-creator of Constructivism who turned Suprematism into architecture, the international link of the revolutionary avant-garde Literature and arts 1890–1941
Victor Lvovich Serge Виктор Львович Серж The Comintern writer-revolutionary who bore literary witness to revolution and the rise of Stalinism Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1890–1947
Dmitry Andreyevich Furmanov Дмитрий Андреевич Фурманов The commissar-writer who turned Chapaev into a Soviet myth Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1926
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам The poet preserved by memory Literature and arts 1891–1938
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков The unpublished writer of the devil Literature and arts 1891–1940
Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko Александр Михайлович Родченко Founder of Constructivism, pioneer of Soviet design, advertising, and photography Literature and arts 1891–1956
Asja Ernestovna Lācis Asja Lācis Proletarian children's theatre pioneer who led Walter Benjamin to Marxism and Brecht Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1979
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva Марина Ивановна Цветаева A Silver Age poet writing between exile and return Literature and arts 1892–1941
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky Владимир Владимирович Маяковский The revolution’s megaphone and satirist Literature and arts · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1893–1930
Mykola Hryhorovych Khvylovy Микола Григорович Хвильовий Founder of modern Ukrainian Soviet prose Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1893–1933
Boris Andreyevich Pilnyak Борис Андреевич Пильняк The writer of revolutionary chaos Literature and arts 1894–1938
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel Исаак Эммануилович Бабель The short-story master who saw too much and wrote too little Literature and arts 1894–1940
Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko Александр Петрович Довженко Poet of Earth: the Soviet master who sang the Ukrainian land and people through lyrical montage Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1894–1956
Sergei Yesenin Сергей Есенин A poet of peasant memory and revolutionary dissonance Literature and arts 1895–1925
Larisa Mikhailovna Reisner Лариса Михайловна Рейснер The revolution's Valkyrie. Poet, scout, and the first woman commissar of the Naval General Staff Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1895–1926
Dziga Arkadyevich Vertov Дзига Аркадьевич Вертов Founder of Kino-Eye: the documentary revolutionary who believed the camera captures truth more completely than the human eye Literature and arts 1896–1954
Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf Илья Арнольдович Ильф Co-author of The Twelve Chairs, satirist who captured the contradictions of NEP-era Soviet society Literature and arts 1897–1937
Mikhail Efimovich Koltsov Михаил Ефимович Кольцов A leading voice of Soviet journalism whom Hemingway immortalized as Karkov Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1898–1940
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн Master of montage: the revolutionary filmmaker who created a new cinematic language and reshaped world cinema Literature and arts 1898–1948
Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov Лев Владимирович Кулешов Creator of the Kuleshov Effect, the father of Soviet montage theory who proved editing, not the shot, creates meaning Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1899–1970
Yevgeny Petrovich Petrov Евгений Петрович Петров Co-author with Ilf of The Twelve Chairs, satirist who captured NEP-era Soviet life and later edited Ogonyok magazine Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1902–1942
Nikolai Alekseyevich Zabolotsky Николай Алексеевич Заболоцкий Avant-garde co-founder of OBERIU who emerged from the Gulag as a master of classical lyricism Literature and arts 1903–1958
Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky Николай Алексеевич Островский Author of How the Steel Was Tempered, paragon of socialist realism Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1904–1936