List of Russian women writers

A

• Bella Akhmadulina, poet, short story writer, translator
• Anna Akhmatova, acclaimed poet, author of Requiem
• Elizaveta Akhmatova, "Leila" published a journal for 30 years with translations of English and French writers
• Elena Akselrod, Belarus-born Russian poet, translator
• Ogdo Aksyonova, poet, short story writer, founder of Dolgan written literature
• Margarita Aliger, poet, essayist, journalist
• Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin, memoirist, biographer, author of Twenty Letters to a Friend
• Al Altaev, writer for children
• Tatyana Alyoshina, singer-songwriter, poet, short story writer
• Lou Andreas-Salomé, psychoanalyst, memoirist, literary essayist, novelist, often writing in German
• Domna Anisimova, poet
• Nina Pávlovna Annenkova-Bernár actress, writer, playwright
• Varvara Annenkova, prominent poet
• Alexandra Nikitichna Annenskaya, translator and writer of feminist novels
• Olga Anstei, writer about the Holocaust
• Alexandra Nikitichna Annenskaya
• Elena Ivanovna Apréleva, non-fiction writer, short story writer, memoirist, playwright, children's writer
• Maria Arbatova, novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, feminist
• Olga Arefieva, singer-songwriter, poet, musician
• Yekaterina Avdeyeva, non-fiction writer

  B

• Anna Barkova, poet, journalist, playwright, essayist, memoirist, novelist
• Agniya Barto, poet, children's writer, screenwriter
• Olga Mihaylovna Bebutova, actress, novelist, magazine editor
• Maria Belakhova, children's writer, magazine editor, educator
• Katerina Belkina, photographer, painter
• Nina Berberova, short story writer, novelist, biographer, author of the autobiography The Italics are Mine
• Lydia Yudifovna Berdyaev, poet
• Olga Bergholz, poet, playwright, journalist
• Antonina Bludova, salonist, memoirist
• Natella Boltyanskaya, songwriter, poet, radio host
• Marina Boroditskaya, poet, children's writer, translator
• Vera Broido, memoirist, non-fiction writer, autobiographer
• Anna Bunina, poet, first Russian women to earn a living from writing

  C

• Lidia Charskaya, novelist, works recently revived
• Svetlana Chervonnaya, historian, non-fiction writer, essayist
• Elena Chudinova, novelist, poet, playwright, columnist
• Lydia Chukovskaya, novelist, author of Sofia Petrovna

  D

• Tatyana Danilyants, film director, photographer, poet
• Hadiya Davletshina, Baskir poet, prose writer, playwright
• Irina Denezhkina, short story writer
• Marina Denikina, Russian-born French historical novelist, journalist
• Regina Derieva, widely translated poet, essayist
• Valentina Dmitryeva, short story writer, children's writer, autobiographer
• Aliona Doletskaya, journalist, editor, television host, translator
• Veronika Dolina, poet, songwriter
• Darya Dontsova, best selling crime-fiction novelist, autobiographer
• Anna Dostoyevskaya, memoirist, biographer
• Lyubov Dostoyevskaya, biographer of Dostoyevsky, memoirist, short story writer, novelist
• Yulia Drunina, poet
• Svetlana Druzhinina, actress, screenwriter, film director
• Miroslava Duma, fashion writer, magazine editor

  E

• Tamara Eidelman, contemporary historian, translator, contributor to Russian Life
• Roza Eldarova, journalist, memoirist, politician

  F

• Elena Fanailova, journalist, poet, columnist, translator
• Dorothea de Ficquelmont, diarist, letter writer
• Vera Figner, revolutionary memoirist, biographer, columnist
• Olga Forsh, novelist, playwright, memoirist
• Elena Frolova, singer-songwriter, poet

  G

• Cherubina de Gabriak, pen name of Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva, poet, translator
• Nina Gagen-Torn, poet, short story writer, historian
• Nora Gal, critic, essayist, prominent translator
• Alisa Ganieva, pen name Gulla Khirachev, novelist, short story writer, essayist
• Tatiana Garmash-Roffe, novelist, short story writer, detective story writer
• Liudmila Gatagova, historian, since c.1993 several historical works
• Vera Gedroitz, medical doctor, poet
• Marina Gershenovich, poet, translator
• Masha Gessen, journalist, columnist, biographer, writing in Russian and English
• Lidiya Ginzburg, critic, historian, memoirist
• Yevgenia Ginzburg, educator, journalist, historian, memoirist
• Zinaida Gippius, modernist poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, translator, several works translated into English
• Maria Golovnina, journalist, Reuters bureau chief for Afghanistan and Pakistan
• Natalya Gorbanevskaya, poet, translator
• Nina Gorlanova, short story writer, novelist
• Anastasia Gosteva, novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist
• Isabella Grinevskaya, novelist, playwright
• Olga Grushin, Russian-American novelist, translator
• Elena Guro, playwright, poet, novelist, artist

  I

• Vera Inber, poet, essayist, translator
• Aleksandra Ishimova, children's writer, translator
• Nina Iskrenko, poet
• Lidiya Ivanova, journalist, television presenter
• Praskovya Ivanovskaya, revolutionary, memoirist

  J

• Nadezhda Joffe, memoirist, biographer

  K

• Vera Kamsha, Ukrainian-born Russian journalist, fantasy novelist
• Anna Kashina, Russian-American novelist, completed The Princess of Dhagabad in 2000
• Rimma Kazakova, poet, popular songwriter
• Elena Kazantseva, Belarusian-born Russian poet, songwriter
• Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya, Gulag memoirist
• Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya, novelist, poet, critic, translator
• Marusya Klimova, prominent non-fiction writer, literary historian, translator
• Ekaterina Kniazhnina, poet, salonist, considered by some to be the first Russian woman writer
• Alexandra Kollontai, politician, writer
• Ina Konstantinova 1924–1944), wartime diarist
• Sofia Kovalevskaya, mathematician, non-fiction writer
• Nadezhda Kozhevnikova, journalist, essayist
• Zoya Krakhmalnikova, dissident journalist, autobiographer
• Olga Kryuchkova, historical novelist

  L

• Nadezhda Lappo-Danilevsky, poet, novelist
• Anna Larina, memoirist
• Yulia Latynina, journalist, novelist, television presenter
• Marina Lesko, since 1992, journalist, columnist
• Sonya Levien, screenwriter
• Olga Lipovskaya, poet, magazine editor, feminist
• Mirra Lokhvitskaya, acclaimed poet
• Nina Lugovskaya, Gulag diarist

  M

• Yelena Maglevannaya, journalist
• Natalia Malakhovskaia, [feminist writer
• Tatiana Mamonova, poet, journalist, feminist
• Nadezhda Mandelstam, memoirist, biographer
• Anna Margolin, Russian-American Yiddish-language poet
• Alexandra Marinina, best selling crime fiction novelist, works widely translated
• Maria Markova, poet
• Novella Matveyeva, poet, songwriter, screenwriter, playwright
• Olga Martynova, poet, essayist, writing in Russian and German
• Larisa Matros, sociologist, novelist, short story writer, critic, poet
• Novella Matveyeva, poet, screenwriter, dramatist, singer-songwriter
• Vera Matveyeva, poet, singer-songwriter
• Ida Mett, historical writer, magazine editor
• Elena Milashina, investigative journalist
• Maria Moravskaya, poet, essayist, critic, translator
• Yunna Morits, poet, translator, short story writer, children's writer
• Margarita Morozova, publisher, memoirist
• Tatyana Moskvina, columnist, novelist, journalist, critic, television host
• Lena Mukhina, wartime diarist in Leningrad

  N

• Maria de Naglowska, occultist writer, journalist, translator, wrote in French
• Vera Nazarian, Armenian-Russian American science fiction novelist
• Tsarevna Natalya Alexeyevna of Russia, playwright
• Zhanna Nemtsova, journalist, social activist
• Aleksandra Nikolaenko, writer and winner of the 2017 Russian Booker Prize
• Maria Nikolaeva, spiritual teacher, religious writer, widely translated

  O

• Olga Obukhova, journalist, novelist, translator
• Irina Odoyevtseva, poet, novelist, memoirist
• Raisa Orlova, literary historian, journalist, latterly in Germany

  P

• Marina Palei, journalist, novelist, short story writer, translator
• Avdotya Panaeva, novelist, short story writer, memoirist, salonist
• Vera Panova, novelist, playwright, journalist, works translated into English
• Sophia Parnok, poet, children's writer, translator
• Karolina Pavlova, poet, novelist
• Vera Pavlova, poet
• Olga Perovskaya, children's writer
• Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne, Russian-American non-fiction writer, autobiographer
• Maria Petrovykh, poet, translator
• Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, novelist, playwright, singer
• Irina Petrushova, journalist, newspaper editor
• Anna Politkovskaya, journalist, human rights activist
• Elizaveta Polonskaya, poet, translator, journalist
• Sofiya Pregel, poet
• Maria Prilezhayeva, children's writer, critic, novelist
• Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova, memoirist, wife of Kim Philby

  R

• Rita Rait-Kovaleva, memoirist, translator
• Ayn Rand, Russian-born American novelist, philosopher
• Maria Rasputin, memoirist
• Irina Ratushinskaya, poet, memoirist
• Helena Roerich, philosopher, artist, non-fiction writer, letter writer, translator
• Yevdokiya Rostopchina, early poet, playwright, translator
• Dina Rubina, Russian-Israeli novelist, short story writer, essayist
• Maria Rybakova, short story writer, novelist
• Elena Rzhevskaya, Second World War memoirist

  S

• Irina Saburova, journalist, short story writer, novelist, translator
• Nina Mikhailovna Sadur, playwright and prose writer
• Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-French novelist, playwright, memoirist
• Tanya Savicheva, Leningrad diarist
• Olga Sedakova, poet, translator
• Ekaterina Sedia, Russian-American fantasy novelist, author of The Alchemy of Stone
• Comtesse de Ségur, Russian-French novelist
• Marietta Shaginyan, novelist, political activist
• Olga Shapir, novelist, feminist
• Margarita Sharapova, novelist, short story writer, now living in Portugal
• Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik, poet, columnist, playwright, translator
• Natalia Sheremeteva, early memoirist
• Maria Shkapskaya, poet, essayist, journalist
• Paullina Simons, Russian-American best selling novelist
• Olga Slavnikova, novelist, critic, author of 2017: A Novel
• Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American children's writer, illustrator, author of Caps for Sale
• Alexandra Smirnova, memoirist
• Sofia Soboleva, short story writer, children's writer, journalist
• Polyxena Solovyova, Russian poet and translator
• Sabina Spielrein, psychoanalyst, scientific writer
• Anna Strunsky, Russian-American journalist, novelist, socialist activist, co-authored The Kempton-Wace Letters
• Polina Suslova, short story writer
• Alexandra Sviridova, screenwriter, television presenter, now living in New York

  T

• Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya, poet, playwright, translator, children's writer
• Nadezhda Teffi, playwright, short story writer
• Fatima Tlisova, journalist, now living in the United States
• Viktoriya Tokareva, screenwriter, short story writer
• Natalia Tolstaya, educator, translator, text book writer, writing in Swedish and Russian
• Sophia Tolstaya, wife of Leo Tolstoy, diarist, memoirist
• Tatyana Tolstaya, novelist, essayist, television presenter
• Elsa Triolet, novelist, wrote in Russian and French
• Marina Tsvetaeva, poet, playwright
• Evgenia Tur, novelist, literary critic, children's writer

  U

• Anya Ulinich, novelist, short story writer
• Lyudmila Ulitskaya, novelist, short story writer

  V

• Galina Varlamova, Evenk philologist, works in Russian, Evenk and Yakut
• Marie Vassiltchikov, wartime Berlin diarist
• Tatiana Vedenska, novelist
• Anastasiya Verbitskaya, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, publisher, feminist
• Seda Vermisheva, Armenian-born Russian poet, economist, activist
• Lidia Veselitskaya, novelist, short story writer, memoirist, translator
• Frida Vigdorova, journalist, novelist
• Mariya Vilinska, novelist, short story writer, translator
• Zinaida Volkonskaya, poet, short story writer, playwright, salonist
• Hava Volovich, memoirist, actress, Gulag survivor
• Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, memoirist
• Anna Vyrubova, memoirist

  Y

• Tatyana Yesenina, novelist, journalist, memoirist
• Anna Yevreinova, feminist writer, editor, letter writer, lawyer

  Z

• Lyubov Zakharchenko, poet, songwriter
• Yulia Zhadovskaya, poet, novelist
• Vera Zhelikhovskaya, children's writer, novelist
• Polina Zherebtsova, poet, diarist, author of Ant in a Glass Jar
• Maria Zhukova, novelist, short story writer, travel writer
• Valentina Zhuravleva, science fiction novelist, sometimes in collaboration with her husband Genrich Altshuller
• Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal, novelist, playwright