List of Russian-language poets

Pushkin Reciting His Poem Before Old Derzhavin, a painting by Ilya Repin, 1911

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

Alphabetical list

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A

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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

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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

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Sasha Chorny
(1880–1932)
Korney Chukovsky
(1882–1969)
Category:Works by Korney Chukovsky
Georgy Chulkov
(1879–1939)

D

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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)
Xenia Dyakonova
(born 1985)
Моя жизнь без меня
Каникулы

E

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Portrait Person Notable works
Ilya Ehrenburg
(1891–1967)

F

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Afanasy Fet
(1812–1892)
Konstantin Fofanov
(1862–1911)

G

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)
[1] Boris Ryzhy(1974–2001) Opravdaniye zhizni

S

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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

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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

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Vladimir Uflyand
(1937–2007)
Joseph Utkin
(1903–1944)
The Story About Ginger Motele
Mr. Inspector
Rabbi Isaiah and Commissar Bloch

V

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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

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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

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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)

See also

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Sources

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  • Greene, Roland; et al., eds. (2012). "Poetry of Russia". The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4th rev. ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-15491-6.
  • Wachtel, Michael (2004). The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry. Cambridge Introductions to Literature. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-00493-4.