Maxim Gorky

Maxim Gorky

male, deceased (1936)
Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (June 18, 1936), better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Soviet/Russian author, a founder of the socialist...
Mikhail Zoshchenko

Mikhail Zoshchenko

male, deceased (1958)
Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko was the foremost Russian satirist of the Soviet period. Zoschenko's father was a mosaicist responsible for the...
Konstantin Paustovsky

Konstantin Paustovsky

male, deceased (1968)
Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky -July 14, 1968) was a Russian Soviet writer nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1965.
Arkady Gaidar

Arkady Gaidar

male, deceased (1941)
Arkady Petrovich Golikov ((October 26 1941), better known as Arkady Gaidar, was a Soviet writer, whose stories were very popular among Soviet...
Vsevolod Ivanov

Vsevolod Ivanov

male, deceased (1963)
Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov was a notable Soviet writer praised for the colourful adventure tales set in the Asiatic part of Russia during the...
Andrei Bitov

Andrei Bitov

male, 72 years old
Andrei Bitov is a prominent Russian writer. Many consider him among the foremost Russian writers of the late 20th century. Among the novels that...
Leonid Leonov

Leonid Leonov

male, deceased (1994)
Leonid Maximovich Leonov was one of the most notable Soviet novelists, styled the 20th-century Dostoyevsky for the deep psychological torment of...
Ilya Ilf

Ilya Ilf

male, deceased (1937)
Ilya Ilf ("Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg"; Russian: Илья Ильф; in Odessa - April 13, 1937) was an extremely popular Soviet author of the 1920s an...
Lazar Lagin

Lazar Lagin

male, deceased (1979)
Lazar Lagin was a Soviet satirical and children's writer. He is best known for his book "Starik Hottabych" ("Старик Хоттабыч", "Old man Hottabych"...
Anatoly Rybakov

Anatoly Rybakov

male, deceased (1998)
Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov was a Russian writer, the author of the anti-Stalinist "Children of the Arbat trilogy", novel "Heavy Sand", and many...