List of Russian Women Writers (214 items)report

• Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), poet, short story writer, translator (A)

• Anna Akhmatova (1899–1966), acclaimed poet, author of Requiem (A)

• Elizaveta Akhmatova (1820–1904), "Leila" published a journal for 30 years with translations of English and French writers (A)

• Elena Akselrod (born 1932), Belarus-born Russian poet, translator (A)

• Ogdo Aksyonova (1936–1995), poet, short story writer, founder of Dolgan written literature (A)

• Margarita Aliger (1915–1992), poet, essayist, journalist (A)

• Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926–2011), daughter of Joseph Stalin, memoirist, biographer, author of Twenty Letters to a Friend (A)

• Al Altaev (1852-1959), writer for children (A)

• Tatyana Alyoshina (born 1961), singer-songwriter, poet, short story writer (A)

• Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937), psychoanalyst, memoirist, literary essayist, novelist, often writing in German (A)

• Domna Anisimova (19th century), poet (A)

• Nina Pávlovna Annenkova-Bernár (1859/64–1933) actress, writer, playwright (A)

• Varvara Annenkova (1795–1866), prominent poet (A)

• Alexandra Nikitichna Annenskaya (1840–1915), translator and writer of feminist novels (A)

• Olga Anstei (1912–1985), writer about the Holocaust (A)

• Alexandra Nikitichna Annenskaya (A)

• Elena Ivanovna Apréleva (1846–1923), non-fiction writer, short story writer, memoirist, playwright, children's writer (A)

• Maria Arbatova (born 1957), novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, feminist (A)

• Olga Arefieva (born 1966), singer-songwriter, poet, musician (A)

• Yekaterina Avdeyeva (1788–1865), non-fiction writer (A)

• Anna Barkova (1901–1976), poet, journalist, playwright, essayist, memoirist, novelist (B)

• Agniya Barto (1906–1981), poet, children's writer, screenwriter (B)

• Olga Mihaylovna Bebutova (1879–1952), actress, novelist, magazine editor (B)

• Maria Belakhova (1903–1969), children's writer, magazine editor, educator (B)

• Katerina Belkina (born 1974), photographer, painter (B)

• Nina Berberova (1901–1993), short story writer, novelist, biographer, author of the autobiography The Italics are Mine (B)

• Lydia Yudifovna Berdyaev (1871–1945), poet (B)

• Olga Bergholz (1910–1975), poet, playwright, journalist (B)

• Antonina Bludova (1813–1891), salonist, memoirist (B)

• Natella Boltyanskaya (born 1965), songwriter, poet, radio host (B)

• Marina Boroditskaya (born 1954), poet, children's writer, translator (B)

• Vera Broido (1907–2004), memoirist, non-fiction writer, autobiographer (B)

• Anna Bunina (1774–1829), poet, first Russian women to earn a living from writing (B)

• Lidia Charskaya (1875–1938), novelist, works recently revived (C)

• Svetlana Chervonnaya (born 1948), historian, non-fiction writer, essayist (C)

• Elena Chudinova (born 1959), novelist, poet, playwright, columnist (C)

• Lydia Chukovskaya (1907–1996), novelist, author of Sofia Petrovna (C)

• Tatyana Danilyants (born 1971), film director, photographer, poet (D)

• Hadiya Davletshina (1905–1954), Baskir poet, prose writer, playwright (D)

• Irina Denezhkina (born 1981), short story writer (D)

• Marina Denikina (1919–2005), Russian-born French historical novelist, journalist (D)

• Regina Derieva (1949–2013), widely translated poet, essayist (D)

• Valentina Dmitryeva (1859–1947), short story writer, children's writer, autobiographer (D)

• Aliona Doletskaya (born 1955), journalist, editor, television host, translator (D)

• Veronika Dolina (born 1956), poet, songwriter (D)

• Darya Dontsova (born 1952), best selling crime-fiction novelist, autobiographer (D)

• Anna Dostoyevskaya (1846–1918), memoirist, biographer (D)

• Lyubov Dostoyevskaya (1869–1926), biographer of Dostoyevsky, memoirist, short story writer, novelist (D)

• Yulia Drunina (1924–1991), poet (D)

• Svetlana Druzhinina (born 1935), actress, screenwriter, film director (D)

• Miroslava Duma (born 1985), fashion writer, magazine editor (D)

• Tamara Eidelman, contemporary historian, translator, contributor to Russian Life (E)

• Roza Eldarova (born 1923), journalist, memoirist, politician (E)

• Elena Fanailova (born 1962), journalist, poet, columnist, translator (F)

• Dorothea de Ficquelmont (1804–1863), diarist (in French), letter writer (F)

• Vera Figner (1852–1942), revolutionary memoirist, biographer, columnist (F)

• Olga Forsh (1873–1961), novelist, playwright, memoirist (F)

• Elena Frolova (born 1969), singer-songwriter, poet (F)

• Cherubina de Gabriak, pen name of Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva (1887–1928), poet, translator (G)

• Nina Gagen-Torn (1900–1986), poet, short story writer, historian (G)

• Nora Gal (1912–1991), critic, essayist, prominent translator (G)

• Alisa Ganieva (born 1985), pen name Gulla Khirachev, novelist, short story writer, essayist (G)

• Tatiana Garmash-Roffe (born 1959), novelist, short story writer, detective story writer (G)

• Liudmila Gatagova, historian, since c.1993 several historical works (G)

• Vera Gedroitz (1870–1932), medical doctor, poet (G)

• Marina Gershenovich (born 1960), poet, translator (G)

• Masha Gessen (born 1967), journalist, columnist, biographer, writing in Russian and English (G)

• Lidiya Ginzburg (1902–1990), critic, historian, memoirist (G)

• Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904–1977), educator, journalist, historian, memoirist (G)

• Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945), modernist poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, translator, several works translated into English (G)

• Maria Golovnina (c.1980–2015), journalist, Reuters bureau chief for Afghanistan and Pakistan (G)

• Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936–2013), poet, translator (G)

• Nina Gorlanova (born 1947), short story writer, novelist (G)

• Anastasia Gosteva (born 1975), novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist (G)

• Isabella Grinevskaya (1864–1944), novelist, playwright (G)

• Olga Grushin (born 1971), Russian-American novelist, translator (G)

• Elena Guro (1877–1913), playwright, poet, novelist, artist (G)

• Vera Inber (1890–1972), poet, essayist, translator (I)

• Aleksandra Ishimova (1805–1881), children's writer, translator (I)

• Nina Iskrenko (1951–1995), poet (I)

• Lidiya Ivanova (1936–2007), journalist, television presenter (I)

• Praskovya Ivanovskaya (1852–1935), revolutionary, memoirist (I)

• Nadezhda Joffe (1906–1999), memoirist, biographer (J)

• Vera Kamsha (born 1962), Ukrainian-born Russian journalist, fantasy novelist (K)

• Anna Kashina, Russian-American novelist, completed The Princess of Dhagabad in 2000 (K)

• Rimma Kazakova (1932–2008), poet, popular songwriter (K)

• Elena Kazantseva (born 1956), Belarusian-born Russian poet, songwriter (K)

• Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya (1908–1994), Gulag memoirist (K)

• Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya (1824–1889), novelist, poet, critic, translator (K)

• Marusya Klimova (born 1961), prominent non-fiction writer, literary historian, translator (K)

• Ekaterina Kniazhnina (1746–1797), poet, salonist, considered by some to be the first Russian woman writer (K)

• Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952), politician, writer (K)

• Ina Konstantinova [1924–1944), wartime diarist (K)

• Sofia Kovalevskaya (1859–1891), mathematician, non-fiction writer (K)

• Nadezhda Kozhevnikova (born 1949), journalist, essayist (K)

• Zoya Krakhmalnikova (1929–2008), dissident journalist, autobiographer (K)

• Olga Kryuchkova (born 1966), historical novelist (K)

• Nadezhda Lappo-Danilevsky (1874–1951), poet, novelist (L)

• Anna Larina (1914–1996), memoirist (L)

• Yulia Latynina (born 1966), journalist, novelist, television presenter (L)

• Marina Lesko, since 1992, journalist, columnist (L)

• Sonya Levien (1888–1960), screenwriter (L)

• Olga Lipovskaya (born 1954), poet, magazine editor, feminist (L)

• Mirra Lokhvitskaya (1869–1905), acclaimed poet (L)

• Nina Lugovskaya (1918–1993), Gulag diarist (L)

• Yelena Maglevannaya (born 1981), journalist (M)

• Natalia Malakhovskaia (born 1947), feminist writer (M)

• Tatiana Mamonova (born 1943), poet, journalist, feminist (M)

• Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899–1980), memoirist, biographer (M)

• Anna Margolin (1887–1952), Russian-American Yiddish-language poet (M)

• Alexandra Marinina (born 1957), best selling crime fiction novelist, works widely translated (M)

• Maria Markova (born 1982), poet (M)

• Novella Matveyeva (born 1934), poet, songwriter, screenwriter, playwright (M)

• Olga Martynova (born 1962), poet, essayist, writing in Russian and German (M)

• Larisa Matros (born 1938), sociologist, novelist, short story writer, critic, poet (M)

• Novella Matveyeva (1934–2016), poet, screenwriter, dramatist, singer-songwriter (M)

• Vera Matveyeva (1945–1976), poet, singer-songwriter (M)

• Ida Mett (1901–1973), historical writer, magazine editor (M)

• Elena Milashina (born 1978), investigative journalist (M)

• Maria Moravskaya (1890–1947), poet, essayist, critic, translator (M)

• Yunna Morits (born 1937), poet, translator, short story writer, children's writer (M)

• Margarita Morozova (1873–1958), publisher, memoirist (M)

• Tatyana Moskvina (born 1958), columnist, novelist, journalist, critic, television host (M)

• Lena Mukhina (1924–1991), wartime diarist in Leningrad (M)

• Maria de Naglowska (1883–1936), occultist writer, journalist, translator, wrote in French (N)

• Vera Nazarian (born 1966), Armenian-Russian American science fiction novelist (N)

• Tsarevna Natalya Alexeyevna of Russia (1673–1716), playwright (N)

• Zhanna Nemtsova (born 1984), journalist, social activist (N)

• Aleksandra Nikolaenko, writer and winner of the 2017 Russian Booker Prize (N)

• Maria Nikolaeva (born 1971), spiritual teacher, religious writer, widely translated (N)

• Olga Obukhova (born 1941), journalist, novelist, translator (O)

• Irina Odoyevtseva (1895–1990), poet, novelist, memoirist (O)

• Raisa Orlova (1918–1989), literary historian, journalist, latterly in Germany (O)

• Marina Palei (born 1955), journalist, novelist, short story writer, translator (P)

• Avdotya Panaeva (1820–1893), novelist, short story writer, memoirist, salonist (P)

• Vera Panova (1905–1973), novelist, playwright, journalist, works translated into English (P)

• Sophia Parnok (1885–1933), poet, children's writer, translator (P)

• Karolina Pavlova (1807–1893), poet, novelist (P)

• Vera Pavlova (born 1963), poet (P)

• Olga Perovskaya (1902–1961), children's writer (P)

• Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne (1918–2018), Russian-American non-fiction writer, autobiographer (P)

• Maria Petrovykh (1908–1979), poet, translator (P)

• Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (born 1938), novelist, playwright, singer (P)

• Irina Petrushova (born 1965), journalist, newspaper editor (P)

• Anna Politkovskaya (1958–2006), journalist, human rights activist (P)

• Elizaveta Polonskaya (1890–1969), poet, translator, journalist (P)

• Sofiya Pregel (1894–1972), poet (P)

• Maria Prilezhayeva (1903–1989), children's writer, critic, novelist (P)

• Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova (born 1932), memoirist, wife of Kim Philby (P)

• Rita Rait-Kovaleva (1898–1989), memoirist, translator (R)

• Ayn Rand (1905–1982), Russian-born American novelist, philosopher (R)

• Maria Rasputin (1898–1977), memoirist (R)

• Irina Ratushinskaya (1954–2017), poet, memoirist (R)

• Helena Roerich (1879–1955), philosopher, artist, non-fiction writer, letter writer, translator (R)

• Yevdokiya Rostopchina (1811–1858), early poet, playwright, translator (R)

• Dina Rubina (born 1953), Russian-Israeli novelist, short story writer, essayist (R)

• Maria Rybakova (born 1973), short story writer, novelist (R)

• Elena Rzhevskaya (1919–2017), Second World War memoirist (R)

• Irina Saburova (1907–1979), journalist, short story writer, novelist, translator (S)

• Nina Mikhailovna Sadur (born 1950), playwright and prose writer (S)

• Nathalie Sarraute (1900–1999), Russian-French novelist, playwright, memoirist (S)

• Tanya Savicheva (1930–1944), Leningrad diarist (S)

• Olga Sedakova (born 1949), poet, translator (S)

• Ekaterina Sedia (born 1970), Russian-American fantasy novelist, author of The Alchemy of Stone (S)

• Comtesse de Ségur (1799–1874), Russian-French novelist (S)

• Marietta Shaginyan (1888–1982), novelist, political activist (S)

• Olga Shapir (1850–1916), novelist, feminist (S)

• Margarita Sharapova (born 1962), novelist, short story writer, now living in Portugal (S)

• Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874–1952), poet, columnist, playwright, translator (S)

• Natalia Sheremeteva (1714–1771), early memoirist (S)

• Maria Shkapskaya (1891–1952), poet, essayist, journalist (S)

• Paullina Simons (born 1963), Russian-American best selling novelist (S)

• Olga Slavnikova (born 1957), novelist, critic, author of 2017: A Novel (S)

• Esphyr Slobodkina (1908–2002), Russian-American children's writer, illustrator, author of Caps for Sale (S)

• Alexandra Smirnova (1809–1882), memoirist (S)

• Sofia Soboleva (1840–1884), short story writer, children's writer, journalist (S)

• Polyxena Solovyova (1867-1924), Russian poet and translator (S)

• Sabina Spielrein (1885–1942), psychoanalyst, scientific writer (S)

• Anna Strunsky (1877–1964), Russian-American journalist, novelist, socialist activist, co-authored The Kempton-Wace Letters (S)

• Polina Suslova (1839–1918), short story writer (S)

• Alexandra Sviridova (born 1951), screenwriter, television presenter, now living in New York (S)

• Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (1891–1968), poet, playwright, translator, children's writer (T)

• Nadezhda Teffi (1872–1952), playwright, short story writer (T)

• Fatima Tlisova (born 1966), journalist, now living in the United States (T)

• Viktoriya Tokareva (born 1937), screenwriter, short story writer (T)

• Natalia Tolstaya (1943–2010), educator, translator, text book writer, writing in Swedish and Russian (T)

• Sophia Tolstaya (1844–1919), wife of Leo Tolstoy, diarist, memoirist (T)

• Tatyana Tolstaya (born 1951), novelist, essayist, television presenter (T)

• Elsa Triolet (1896–1970), novelist, wrote in Russian and (mainly) French (T)

• Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941), poet, playwright (T)

• Evgenia Tur (1815–1892), novelist, literary critic, children's writer (T)

• Anya Ulinich (born 1973), novelist, short story writer (U)

• Lyudmila Ulitskaya (born 1943), novelist, short story writer (U)

• Galina Varlamova (born 1951), Evenk philologist, works in Russian, Evenk and Yakut (V)

• Marie Vassiltchikov (1917–1978), wartime Berlin diarist (V)

• Tatiana Vedenska (born 1976), novelist (V)

• Anastasiya Verbitskaya (1861–1928), novelist, playwright, screenwriter, publisher, feminist (V)

• Seda Vermisheva (born 1932), Armenian-born Russian poet, economist, activist (V)

• Lidia Veselitskaya (1857–1936), novelist, short story writer, memoirist, translator (V)

• Frida Vigdorova (1915–1965), journalist, novelist (V)

• Mariya Vilinska (1833–1907), novelist, short story writer, translator (V)

• Zinaida Volkonskaya (1792–1862), poet, short story writer, playwright, salonist (V)

• Hava Volovich (1916–2000), memoirist, actress, Gulag survivor (V)

• Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova (1743–1810), memoirist (V)

• Anna Vyrubova (1884–1964), memoirist (V)

• Tatyana Yesenina (1918–1992), novelist, journalist, memoirist (Y)

• Anna Yevreinova (1844–1919), feminist writer, editor, letter writer, lawyer (Y)

• Lyubov Zakharchenko (1961–2008), poet, songwriter (Z)

• Yulia Zhadovskaya (1824–1883), poet, novelist (Z)

• Vera Zhelikhovskaya (1835–1896), children's writer, novelist (Z)

• Polina Zherebtsova (born 1985), poet, diarist, author of Ant in a Glass Jar (Z)

• Maria Zhukova (1805–1855), novelist, short story writer, travel writer (Z)

• Valentina Zhuravleva (1933–2004), science fiction novelist, sometimes in collaboration with her husband Genrich Altshuller (Z)

• Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866–1907), novelist, playwright (Z)

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