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Russian Writers Ranked

"Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky don't need an introduction, but there are many other Russian writers no less great than this super duo" (Russia Beyond).
These are authors from the web article "112 Russian writers ranging from great, to absolutely freaking great". I have reversed the ordering and only shown the top 40 writers. The book icons show representative works, most of which are discussed in the article. Russophiles may like to explore the source article further.
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Eugene Onegin (Alexander Pushkin)
Eugene Onegin
1
Alexander Pushkin
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
2
Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
3
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
4
Nikolai Gogol
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
Fathers and Sons
5
Ivan Turgenev
A Hero of Our Time (Mikhail Lermontov)
A Hero of Our Time
6
Mikhail Lermontov
The Cherry Orchard (Anton Chekhov)
The Cherry Orchard
7
Anton Chekhov
The Mother (Maxim Gorky)
The Mother
8
Maxim Gorky
And Quiet Flows the Don (Mikhail Sholokhov)
And Quiet Flows the Don
9
Mikhail Sholokhov
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Doctor Zhivago
10
Boris Pasternak
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
11
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Requiem (Anna Akhmatova)
Requiem
12
Anna Akhmatova
Selected Poems (Alexander Blok)
Selected Poems
13
Alexander Blok
The Foundation Pit (Andrey Platonov)
The Foundation Pit
14
Andrey Platonov
Invitation to a Beheading (Vladimir Nabokov)
Invitation to a Beheading
15
Vladimir Nabokov
Less Than One: Selected Essays (Joseph Brodsky)
Less Than One: Selected Essays
16
Joseph Brodsky
The Bedbug and Selected Poetry (Vladimir Mayakovsky)
The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
17
Vladimir Mayakovsky
The Collected Poems (Sergei Yesenin)
The Collected Poems
18
Sergei Yesenin
The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam (Osip Mandelstam)
The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam
19
Osip Mandelstam
Selected Poems (Marina Tsvetaeva)
Selected Poems
20
Marina Tsvetaeva
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
21
Mikhail Bulgakov
Dark Avenues (Ivan Bunin)
Dark Avenues
22
Ivan Bunin
The Fables of Ivan Krylov (Ivan Krylov)
The Fables of Ivan Krylov
23
Ivan Krylov
The Storm (Aleksandr Ostrovsky)
The Storm
24
Aleksandr Ostrovsky
Laurus (Eugene Vodolazkin)
Laurus
25
Eugene Vodolazkin
Selected Poems (Vasily Zhukovsky)
Selected Poems
26
Vasily Zhukovsky
Oblomov (Ivan Goncharov)
Oblomov
27
Ivan Goncharov
Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk & Other Stories (Nikolai Leskov)
Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk & Other Stories
28
Nikolai Leskov
Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? (Nikolai Nekrasov)
Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?
29
Nikolai Nekrasov
Moscow Stations (Venedikt Yerofeyev)
Moscow Stations
30
Venedikt Yerofeyev
The History of a Town (Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin)
The History of a Town
31
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
The Compromise (Sergei Dovlatov)
The Compromise
32
Sergei Dovlatov
Woe From Wit (Alexander Griboyedov)
Woe From Wit
33
Alexander Griboyedov
Poor Liza (Nikolai Karamzin)
Poor Liza
34
Nikolai Karamzin
The Kukotsky Enigma (Ludmila Ulitskaya)
The Kukotsky Enigma
35
Ludmila Ulitskaya
The Iron Kingdom (Alexey Ivanov)
The Iron Kingdom
36
Alexey Ivanov
We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
We
37
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Poems & Political Letters of F. I. Tyutchev (Fyodor Tyutchev)
Poems & Political Letters of F. I. Tyutchev
38
Fyodor Tyutchev
I Have Come to You to Greet You (Afanasy Fet)
I Have Come to You to Greet You
39
Afanasy Fet
Antiworlds (Andrei Voznesensky)
Antiworlds
40
Andrei Voznesensky
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