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19th-century dramatists and playwrights from the Russian Empire

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Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
Alexander Pushkin
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)
Anton Chekhov
Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
Maxim Gorky
Russian and Soviet writer (1868–1936)
Nikolai Gogol
Russian writer of Ukrainian origin (1809–1852)
Ivan Turgenev
Russian writer (1818–1883)
Ivan Krylov
Russian writer (1769–1844)
Nikolay Nekrasov
Russian poet, writer, critic, editor and publisher (1821–1878)
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Russian writer, journalist, plawright and satirist
Alexander Griboyedov
Russian diplomat, playwriter, poet, and composer (1795–1829)
Nikolai Leskov
Russian writer (1831–1895)
Innokenty Annensky
Russian poet, critic and translator (1855–1909)
Olena Pchilka
Ukrainian academic (1849–1930)
Aleksey Pisemsky
Russian novelist and dramatist (1821–1881)
Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko
Ukrainian writer (1778–1843)
Konstantin Aksakov
Critic and writer (1817-1860)
S. An-sky
Russian Jewish author (1863-1920)
Marko Kropyvnytskyi
writer and actor (1840–1910)
Yakov Polonsky
Russian writer (1819–1898)
Sakina Akhundzadeh
Azerbaijani playwright
Modest Tchaikovsky
Russian dramatist, opera librettist and translator (1850–1916)
Nestor Kukolnik
Russian writer (1809–1868)
Ivan Nechui-Levytskyi
Ukrainian writer (1838–1918)
Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin
Russian playwright, translator and philosopher (1817–1903)
Vladimir Sollogub
Russian poet, opera librettist, translator and diplomat (1813-1882)
Pavel Katenin
Russian poet (1792-1853)
Ivan Lazhechnikov
Russian writer (1792–1869)
Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin
Yiddish playwright (1853–1909)
Vsevolod Krestovsky
Russian writer (1840-1895)
Vasily Kapnist
Ukrainian and Russian noble and poet
Alexander Chekhov
Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and memoirist (1855-1913)
Nikolai Polevoy
Russian historian and writer (1796–1846)
Anastasiya Verbitskaya
Russian novelist, playwright, screenplay writer, publisher and feminist (1861–1928)
Elena Apreleva
Russian writer (1846-1923), editor
Avrom Ber Gotlober
Ukrainian Jewish writer and historian (1811–1899)
Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal
Russian writer and dramatist (1865–1907)
Nahum Meir Schaikewitz
Yiddish writer (1849–1905)
Kaarlo Bergbom
Finnish theatre director (1843-1906)
Pavel Viskovatov
Russian literary historian (1842-1905)
Johann Heinrich Baumann
Baltic German artist (1753-1832)
Anna Mar
Russian screenwriter, journalist (1887–1917)
Pavel Svinyin
Russian artist
Aleksei Bibik
Russian writer (1878–1976)
Nikolai Storozhenko
literary scholar (1836-1906)
Alexei Potechin
Russian writer (1829–1908)
Nikolai Leykin
Russian writer, journalist, playwright and publisher (1841–1906)
Dmitry Lensky
Comic theatre actor (1805–1860)
Ippolit Shpazhinsky
Playwright and poet (1844–1917)
Olga Shapir
Russian writer
Mordecai Aaron Günzburg
Hebrew writer (1795–1846)
Pyotr Karatygin
Russian actor (1805-1879)
Durnovo
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Rachel Mironovna Khin
Russian writer (1863-1928)
Agnieszka Baranowska
Polish playwright and poet (1819-1890)
Varvara Komarova-Stasova
Russian biographer (1862-1942)