This is a list of authors who have written poetry in the Russian language.
This is a list of authors who have written poetry in the Russian language.
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
 | 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) |
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
 | Sasha Chorny (1880–1932) | |
 | Korney Chukovsky (1882–1969) | Category:Works by Korney Chukovsky |
 | Georgy Chulkov (1879–1939) |
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
 | 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 |
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
 | Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967) |
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
 | Afanasy Fet (1812–1892) | |
 | Konstantin Fofanov (1862–1911) |
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
 | 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
 | 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) |
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
 | 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 |
| 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) |
| 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) | |
| Boris Ryzhy (1974–2001) | Opravdaniye zhizni |
| 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) |
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| Vladimir Uflyand (1937–2007) | ||
| Joseph Utkin (1903–1944) | The Story About Ginger Motele Mr. Inspector Rabbi Isaiah and Commissar Bloch |
| Portrait | Person | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
 | 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
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