List of Russian People - Art - Literature - Poets

Poets

• Anna Akhmatova, modernist poet, author of Requiem
• Bella Akhmadulina, Soviet and Russian poet who has been cited by Joseph Brodsky as the best living poet in the Russian language
• Innokenty Annensky, poet, critic, and translator, representative of the first wave of Russian Symbolism
• Konstantin Balmont, symbolist poet, one of the major figures of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry
• Evgeny Baratynsky, lauded by Alexander Pushkin as the finest Russian elegiac poet, rediscovered by Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky as a supreme poet of thought.
• Konstantin Batyushkov, an important precursor of Alexander Pushkin
• Andrey Bely, symbolist poet, namesake of the important Andrei Bely Prize.
• Aleksandr Blok, leader of the Russian Symbolist movement, author of The Twelve
• Joseph Brodsky, winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Korney Chukovsky, one of the most popular children's poets in the Russian language
• Denis Davydov, guerilla fighter and soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars, invented a genre of hussar poetry noted for its hedonism and bravado
• Gavrila Derzhavin, one of the greatest Russian poets before Alexander Pushkin
• Afanasy Fet, had a profound influence on the Russian Symbolists, especially Annensky and Blok
• Nikolay Gumilyov, founded the acmeism movement
• Vyacheslav Ivanov, poet and playwright associated with the Russian Symbolism movement
• Velimir Khlebnikov, influential member of the Russian Futurist movement, regarded by his contemporariesas as "a poet's poet"
• Ivan Krylov, Russia's best known fabulist
• Mikhail Lermontov, the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death, his influence on later Russian literature is still felt in modern times
• Osip Mandelstam, Acmeist poet, author of Tristia
• Vladimir Mayakovsky, among the most important representatives of early-20th century Russian Futurism
• Apollon Maykov, his lyrical poems often showcase images of Russian villages, nature, and Russian history
• Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, one of Russia's most popular poets, author of the long poem Who is Happy in Russia?
• Boris Pasternak, author of the influential poem My Sister Life, Nobel Prize winner (was forced to decline the prize)
• Nikolai Ogarev, known to every Russian, not only as a poet, but as the fellow-exile and collaborator of Alexander Herzen on Kolokol, a newspaper printed in England and smuggled into Russia
• Yakov Polonsky, a leading Pushkinist poet
• Symeon of Polotsk, an academically trained Baroque Belarusian-Russian poet
• Alexander Pushkin, the greatest Russian poet, author of Eugene Onegin
• Ilya Selvinsky, leader of the Constructivist movement
• Boris Slutsky, one of the most important representatives of the War generation of Russian poets
• Fyodor Sologub, influential symbolist poet and writer
• Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, popular poet and dramatist, known for his humorous and satirical verse
• Vasily Trediakovsky, helped lay the foundations of classical Russian literature
• Marina Tsvetaeva, known primarily for her lyric poetry, widely admired by her fellow poets
• Aleksandr Tvardovsky, chief editor of Novy Mir for many years, author of Vasili Tyorkin
• Fyodor Tyutchev, romantic poet, author of The Last Love
• Maximilian Voloshin, Symbolist poet, famous freemason
• Pyotr Yershov, author of the famous fairy-tale poem The Humpbacked Horse
• Sergei Yesenin, one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century, author of Land of Scoundrels
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Soviet/Russian poet, director of several films
• Nikolay Zabolotsky, one of the founders of the Russian avant-garde absurdist group OBERIU
• Vasily Zhukovsky, credited with introducing the Romantic Movement to Russian literature