Curated category
20th-century Russian male writers
- Alexander BlokAlexander Blok was born in Saint Petersburg on the 7th of August 1880. He grew up within an intellectual family that included a law professor and a famous…
- Bulat OkudzhavaBulat Okudzhava was born in Moscow on the 9th of May 1924. His parents were Georgian and Armenian communists who had moved to the capital from Tbilisi.
- Andrei TarkovskyAndrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was born on the 4th of April 1932 in the village of Zavrazhye. His father, Arseny Aleksandrovich Tarkovsky, worked as a poet and…
- Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born on the 11th of December 1918 in Kislovodsk. His father Isaakiy Semyonovich Solzhenitsyn died in a hunting accident…
- Andrei BelyBoris Nikolaevich Bugaev entered the world in Moscow on the 26th of August 1880. His father Nikolai Bugaev stood as a founder of the Moscow school of…
- Eldar RyazanovEldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov entered the world on the 18th of November 1927 in Samara. His father, Aleksandr Semyonovich Ryazanov, worked as a diplomat…
- Mikhail BulgakovMikhail Bulgakov was born on the 15th of May 1891 in Kiev, then part of the Russian Empire. He grew up at 28 Vozdvishenskaya Street as the oldest of seven…
- Peter KropotkinPeter Kropotkin was born in Moscow on the 9th of December 1842. He entered the Page Corps, an elite school for imperial attendants, at age eight after Tsar…
- Vladimir MayakovskyVladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was born in 1893 in Baghdati, Kutais Governorate, Georgia. His father worked as a local forester while his mother managed…
- Sergei YeseninSergei Yesenin was born in the village of Konstantinovo, Ryazan County, Russian Empire, on the 3rd of October 1895. His parents spent most of their time…
- Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak was born on the 30th of May 1890 in Moscow into a wealthy Jewish family. His father Leonid Pasternak worked as a post-Impressionist painter…
- Maxim GorkyAlexei Maximovich Peshkov adopted the pseudonym Maxim Gorky in 1892. The name meant bitter, reflecting his simmering anger about life in Russia and a…
- Leonid AndreyevLeonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was born in Oryol, Russia, to a middle-class family. His mother came from an old Polish aristocratic family that had fallen on…
- Victor PelevinVictor Olegovich Pelevin was born on the 22nd of November 1962 in Moscow. He grew up on Tverskoy Boulevard before moving to Chertanovo.
- Sergey MikhalkovSergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov entered the world on the 27th of August 1913 within a noble family in Moscow. His father was Vladimir Aleksandrovich Mikhalkov…
- Ivan BuninIvan Alekseyevich Bunin was born on his parental estate in Voronezh province, the third and youngest son of Aleksey Nikolayevich Bunin and Lyudmila…
- Vladimir SorokinVladimir Georgiyevich Sorokin was born on the 7th of August 1955 in Bykovo, a small town within the Ramensky District of Moscow Oblast.