Notable authors who have written dramatic works in the Russian language include:
Alphabetical list
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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Alexander Ablesimov (1742–1783)  | 
The Miller | ||
| Alexander Afinogenov (1904–1941)  | 
Fear Crank A Far Place  | 
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Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919)  | 
Anathema The Life of Man He Who Gets Slapped  | 
![]() Margalo Gillmore (Consuelo) & Richard Bennett (He) in He Who Gets Slapped, 1922.  | 
![]() Richard Bennett (He, left) & Louis Calvert (Baron Regnart, right) in He Who Gets Slapped, 1922.  | 
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Maria Arbatova (born 1957)  | 
On the Road to Ourselves | ![]() Maria Arbatova in 2009  | 
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| Aleksei Arbuzov (1908–1986)  | 
Tanya A Long Road  | 
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Mikhail Artsybashev (1878–1927)  | 
War | ![]() Artsybashev with the actress Yavorskaya, 1915  | 
![]() Drawing of Artsybashev  | 
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Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925)  | 
![]() Drawing of Averchenko  | 
![]() Averchenko, c. 1920  | |
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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Isaac Babel (1894–1940)  | 
Maria Sunset  | 
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Andrei Bely (1880–1934)  | 
Petersburg  Moscow  | 
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Pyotr Boborykin (1836–1921)  | 
The Scale | ![]() Vera Komissarzhevskaya in The Scale  | 
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| Oleg Bogayev (born 1970)  | 
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Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940)  | 
Flight Zoyka's Apartment Adam and Eve The Days of the Turbins  | 
![]() 1926 production of The Days of the Turbins  | 
![]() 2011 production of Zoyka's Apartment  | 
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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Catherine the Great (1729–1796)  | 
Fevey | ![]() Portrait of Catherine, 1745  | 
![]() Portrait, 1794  | 
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Nikolai Chayev (1824—1914)  | 
Svat Faddeyich | ||
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Anton Chekhov (1860–1904)  | 
The Seagull Uncle Vanya Three Sisters The Cherry Orchard  | 
![]() Konstantin Stanislavski as Vershinin in Three Sisters  | 
![]() Chekhov's wife Olga Knipper, who played Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard  | 
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Evgeny Chirikov (1864–1932)  | 
The Peasant | ![]() At his desk, 1904  | 
![]() Portrait by Repin, 1906  | 
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Ada Chumachenko (1887 – 1954)  | 
The Snow Queen A Man from the Moon  | 
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Grand Duke Constantine (1858–1915)  | 
King of Judea | ![]() The Grand Duke in military dress, 1891  | 
![]() With his wife Elizaveta, 1894  | 
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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Grigoriy Demidovtsev (born 1960)  | 
Certificate of membership in the Union of Russian Writers  | 
![]() Demidovtsev in 2007  | |
| Victor Denisov (born 1944)  | 
Six Specters of Lenin on a Piano | ![]() V. Denisov and a San Francisco director V.Zavarina, 1994  | 
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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Nikolai Erdman (1900–1970)  | 
The Mandate The Suicide  | 
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Nikolai Evreinov (1879–1953)  | 
A Merry Death The Chief Thing The Presentation of Love The Storming of the Winter Palace  | 
![]() Drawing of Evreinov, 1921  | 
![]() Memorial plaque in Paris  | 
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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Denis Fonvizin (1744/45–1792)  | 
The Minor | ![]() Statue of Fonvizin, part of the Millennium of Russia monument  | 
![]() The Fonvizin Family Coat of Arms  | 
| Olga Forsh (1873–1961)  | 
The Substitute Lecturer | |||
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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| Alexander Galich (1918–1977)  | 
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Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945)  | 
The Green Ring | ![]() Portrait of Gippius by Ilya Repin, 1894  | 
![]() Portrait by Léon Bakst, 1906  | 
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Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852)  | 
Marriage The Government Inspector The Gamblers  | 
![]() Fyodor Paramonov as Anton Antonovich in The Government Inspector  | 
![]() Cover of the first edition of The Government Inspector, 1836  | 
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Dmitry Gorchakov (1758–1824)  | 
King for a Day | ||
| Grigori Gorin (1940–2000)  | 
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Maxim Gorky (1868–1936)  | 
The Philistines The Lower Depths Summerfolk Children of the Sun  | 
![]() Konstantin Stanislavski as Satin in The Lower Depths  | 
![]() 1905 production of Children of the Sun by the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre  | 
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Aleksandr Griboyedov (1795–1829)  | 
Woe from Wit | ![]() Stanislavski as Famusov in Woe from Wit  | 
![]() Title page of Griboyedov's manuscript of Woe from Wit, 1824  | 
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Isabella Grinevskaya (1864–1944)  | 
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Elena Guro (1887–1913)  | 
The Hurdy-Gurdy | ![]() Guro's self-portrait  | 
![]() Elena and Mikhail Matyushin  | 
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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Vsevolod Ivanov (1895–1963)  | 
Armoured Train 14-69 | ![]() 1927 production of Armoured Train 14-69  | 
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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Vasily Kapnist (1758–1823)  | 
Chicane | ![]() Postcard featuring Kapnist  | 
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| Valentin Kataev (1897–1986)  | 
Quadrature of the Circle | ![]() Kataev's brother, the writer Yevgeni Petrov  | 
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Pavel Katenin (1792–1853)  | 
Andromache | ||
| Yevgeny Kharitonov (1941–1981)  | 
Under House Arrest | |||
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Daniil Kharms (1905–1942)  | 
Elizaveta Bam | ![]() Graffiti of Kharms on a wall in Kharkiv  | 
![]() Caricature of Kharms by Antonovsky  | 
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Mikhail Kheraskov (1733–1807)  | 
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| Vladimir Kirshon (1902–1938)  | 
Bread The Miraculous Alloy  | 
![]() Layout of scenery for the play based on the play by V. Kirshon The Court  | 
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Fyodor Kokoshkin (1775–1838)  | 
Little Demon on Vacation | ![]() Kokoshkin's grave at the Donskoy Monastery's necropolis in Moscow  | 
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Nikolay Kolyada (born 1957)  | 
A Tale About the Dead Tsarina Oginski Polonaise Persian Lilac Playing Forfeits Slingshot  | 
![]() in the Sverdlovsk Regional Universal Scientific Library Vissarion Belinsky  | 
![]() Kolyada Theater in Yekaterinburg  | 
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Yakov Knyazhnin (1740/42–1791)  | 
Olga The Cranks The Braggart Vadim the Bold  | 
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Eugene Kozlovsky (born 1946)  | 
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| Valentin Krasnogorov (born 1934)  | 
Let's Have Sex! Pelicans of the Wilderness The Delights of Adultery The Dog The Fall of Don Juan  | 
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Ivan Krylov (1769–1844)  | 
Philomela The Cat and the Сook The Fox and the Crane The Quartet The Wolf and the Lamb  | 
![]() Monument to Krylov in St Petersburg  | 
![]() Illustration The Cat and the Сook by Sergei Gribkov  | 
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Nestor Kukolnik (1809–1868)  | 
A Life for the Tsar | ![]() Title page from one of Kukolnik's dramas, 1834  | 
![]() Plaque for Kukolnik in Taganrog  | 
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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Ivan Lazhechnikov (1792–1869)  | 
Oprichnik | ||
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Leonid Leonov (1899–1994)  | 
Untilovsk | ||
| Dmitri Lipskerov (born 1964)  | 
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Lev Lunts (1901–1924)  | 
Native Land | ||
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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Anatoly Marienhof (1897–1962)  | 
![]() With the poet Sergei Yesenin, 1915  | 
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| Samuil Marshak (1887–1964)  | 
Smart Things The Twelve Months  | 
![]() Soviet stamp featuring Marshak  | 
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| Mikhail Matinsky (1760–c. 1820)  | 
Regeneration Saint-Petersburg's Trade Stalls  | 
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Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)  | 
The Bedbug The Bathhouse Mystery-Bouffe  | 
![]() A young Mayakovsky  | 
![]() Soviet stamp featuring Mayakovsky  | 
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Sergey Mikhalkov (1913–2009)  | 
Three Plus Two | ![]() Mikhailov receiving an award from Vladimir Putin in 2003  | 
![]() Talking with Vladimir Putin in 2003  | 
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)  | 
The Waltz Invention | ![]() Nabokov's first published work  | 
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| Löb Nevakhovich (1776/78–1831)  | 
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Alexander Neverov (1886–1923)  | 
Baba Hunger  | 
![]() Drawing of Neverov  | 
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Nikolai Nikolev (1758–1815)  | 
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| Osip Notovich (1849–1914)  | 
Shady Business | |||
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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Alexander Ostrovsky (1823–1886)  | 
The Storm The Poor Bride Poverty is No Vice Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man The Snow Maiden  | 
![]() Stanislavski (left) and Vasily Kachalov in Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man  | 
![]() Monument to Osrovsky at the Maly Theatre in Moscow  | 
| Valentin Ovechkin (1904–1968)  | 
A Time to Reap | |||
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Vladislav Ozerov (1769–1816)  | 
Dmitry Donskoy | ||
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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| Vera Panova (1905–1973)  | 
Ivan Kosogor In Old Moscow  | 
![]() Plaque for Panova in St. Petersburg  | 
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Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (born 1938)  | 
![]() Petrushevskaya in 2009  | 
![]() At a booksigning in New York with Keith Gessen, 2009  | |
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Aleksey Pisemsky (1821–1881)  | 
A Bitter Fate The Hypochondriac Lieutenant Gladkov The Financial Genius  | 
![]() A Bitter Fate. Lizaveta. Picture by Ilya Repin.  | 
![]() Engraving of Pisemsky  | 
| Andrei Platonov (1899–1951)  | 
The Hurdy Gurdy Fourteen Little Red Huts  | 
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Pyotr Polevoy (1839–1902)  | 
Princess Sophia | ||
| Nikolai Pogodin (1900–1962)  | 
Aristocrats | |||
| Mikhail Popov (1742–1790)  | 
Anyuta | |||
| Alexander Preys (1905–1942)  | 
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| Iosif Prut (1900–1996)  | 
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Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837)  | 
Boris Godunov The Stone Guest Mozart and Salieri The Covetous Knight  | 
![]() The Stone Guest. Don Juan and Doña Ana. Picture by Ilya Repin.  | 
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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Edvard Radzinsky (born 1936)  | 
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Vyacheslav Rybakov (born 1954)  | 
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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Mikhail Saltykov-Schedrin (1826–1889)  | 
The Death of Pazukhin | ||
| Natalya Sats (1903–1993)  | 
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Alexander Shakhovskoy (1777–1846)  | 
Ladies' Joke The New Stern  | 
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Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874–1952)  | 
Summer Picture | ||
| Evgeny Shvarts (1896–1958)  | 
The Dragon | |||
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Vassily Sigarev (born 1977)  | 
Plasticine Black Milk  | 
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Fyodor Sologub (1863–1927)  | 
The Triumph of Death | ![]() Portrait by Konstantin Somov  | 
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Ksenya Stepanycheva (born 1978)  | 
Pink Bow | ![]() Stepanycheva in 2009  | 
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Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817–1903)  | 
Pictures of the Past | ![]() Prov Sadovsky as Rasplyuyev in Krechinsky's Wedding (first part of Pictures of the Past).  | 
![]() Cover of the first edition of Pictures of the Past.  | 
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Alexander Sumarokov (1717–1777)  | 
Khorev | ![]() Portrait of Sumarokov by Fedor Rokotov.  | 
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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| Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (1891–1968)  | 
By the Pike's Wish | ![]() Tarakhovskaya's birth house in Taganrog  | 
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Modest Tchaikovsky (1850–1916)  | 
![]() Tchaikovsky's brother, the composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky  | 
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| Nadezhda Teffi (1872–1952)  | 
The Woman Question | |||
| Viktoriya Tokareva (born 1937)  | 
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Aleksey K. Tolstoy (1817–1875)  | 
The Death of Ivan the Terrible Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich Tsar Boris Don Juan  | 
![]() Ivan the Terrible. Picture by Viktor Vasnetsov.  | 
![]() Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich  | 
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Aleksey N. Tolstoy (1883–1945)  | 
![]() Stamp featuring Tolstoy  | 
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Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)  | 
The Power of Darkness The Fruits of Enlightenment The Living Corpse  | 
![]() Stanislavski as Zvezdintsev in The Fruits of Enlightenment, 1891  | 
![]() Stanislavski as Prince Abrezhov in The Living Corpse, 1911  | 
| Sergei Tretyakov (1892–1937)  | 
I Want a Baby | |||
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Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883)  | 
A Provincial Lady A Month in the Country  | 
![]() Stanislavski and Knipper in A Month in the Country, 1909  | 
![]() A scene from A Month in the Country  | 
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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Eduard Uspensky (1937–2018)  | 
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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| Alexander Vampilov (1937–1972)  | 
Elder Son | |||
| Alexander Vvedensky (1904–1941)  | 
Christmas at the Ivanovs | ![]() Vvedensky after arrest in 1941  | 
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Anastasiya Verbitskaya (1861–1928)  | 
Mirages | ![]() Verbitskaya in 1898  | 
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| Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900–1951)  | 
Optimistic Tragedy | |||
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| Portrait | Person | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration | 
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Mark Zakharov (1933–2019)  | 
![]() Zakharov with Dmitry Medvedev in 2008  | 
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Boris Zaytsev (1881–1972)  | 
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| Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937)  | 
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Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov (1821–1908)  | 
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Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866–1907)  | 
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Rafail Zotov (1795–1871)  | 
Jealous Wife | 
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