Writers/philosophers
- Nikolai Berdyaev – Russian Orthodox Christian existentialist
- Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh – A bishop and writer.
- Michael Choniates – Byzantine writer and ecclesiastic
- Fyodor Dostoevsky – Many of his novels, like The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov, have specific Russian Orthodox themes
- Jim Forest – Writer, peace activist and lay theologian
- Alexander Galich – Russian Jewish convert who wrote poems and screenplays. (Also joined the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists)
- Ivan Ilyin – Slavophile, wrote Axioms of Religious Experience
- Ivan Kireevsky – often considered the father of Russian and Slavophile philosophy.
- Konstantin Pobedonostsev
- Seraphim Rose(convert) – Monk
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Russian Orthodox novelist
- Richard Swinburne – Christian philosopher and convert to Orthodoxy late in life
- Timothy Ware – A bishop and writer.
- Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin – Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.
- Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol – considered the father of modern Russian realism, but at the same time, his work is very much in the genre of romanticism.
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