Russian women writers

This is a list of women writers who were born in Russia or whose writings are closely associated with that country.

A

*Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), poet, short story writer, translator
* Anna Akhmatova (1899–1966), acclaimed poet, author of ''Requiem''
*Elizaveta Akhmatova (1820–1904), "Leila" published a journal for 30 years with translations of English and French writers
* Elena Akselrod (born 1932), Belarus-born Russian poet, translator
*Ogdo Aksyonova (1936–1995), poet, short story writer, founder of Dolgan written literature
* Margarita Aliger (1915–1992), poet, essayist, journalist
* Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926–2011), daughter of Joseph Stalin, memoirist, biographer, author of ''Twenty Letters to a Friend''
* Al Altaev (1852–1959), writer for children
* Tatyana Alyoshina (born 1961), singer-songwriter, poet, short story writer
* Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937), psychoanalyst, memoirist, literary essayist, novelist, often writing in German
*Domna Anisimova (19th century), poet
* Nina Pávlovna Annenkova-Bernár (1859/64–1933) actress, writer, playwright
* Varvara Annenkova (1795–1866), prominent poet
*Alexandra Nikitichna Annenskaya (1840–1915), translator and writer of feminist novels
* Olga Anstei (1912–1985), writer about the Holocaust
*Alexandra Nikitichna Annenskaya
* Elena Ivanovna Apréleva (1846–1923), non-fiction writer, short story writer, memoirist, playwright, children's writer
*Maria Arbatova (born 1957), novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, feminist
* Olga Arefieva (born 1966), singer-songwriter, poet, musician
* Yekaterina Avdeyeva (1788–1865), non-fiction writer

B

* Anna Barkova (1901–1976), poet, journalist, playwright, essayist, memoirist, novelist
* Anna Barykova (1839-1893), poet, satirist and translator
* Agniya Barto (1906–1981), poet, children's writer, screenwriter
* Olga Mihaylovna Bebutova (1879–1952), actress, novelist, magazine editor
* Maria Belakhova (1903–1969), children's writer, magazine editor, educator
*Katerina Belkina (born 1974), photographer, painter
* Nina Berberova (1901–1993), short story writer, novelist, biographer, author of the autobiography ''The Italics are Mine''
* Lydia Yudifovna Berdyaev (1871–1945), poet
*Olga Bergholz (1910–1975), poet, playwright, journalist
* Antonina Bludova (1813–1891), salonist, memoirist
*Natella Boltyanskaya (born 1965), songwriter, poet, radio host
* Marina Boroditskaya (born 1954), poet, children's writer, translator
*Vera Broido (1907–2004), memoirist, non-fiction writer, autobiographer
*Anna Bunina (1774–1829), poet, first Russian women to earn a living from writing

C

*Lidia Charskaya (1875–1938), novelist, works recently revived
* Svetlana Chervonnaya (born 1948), historian, non-fiction writer, essayist
* Elena Chudinova (born 1959), novelist, poet, playwright, columnist
* Lydia Chukovskaya (1907–1996), novelist, author of '' Sofia Petrovna''

D

* Tatyana Danilyants (born 1971), film director, photographer, poet
* Hadiya Davletshina (1905–1954), Baskir poet, prose writer, playwright
* Irina Denezhkina (born 1981), short story writer
* Marina Denikina (1919–2005), Russian-born French historical novelist, journalist
* Regina Derieva (1949–2013), widely translated poet, essayist
* Valentina Dmitryeva (1859–1947), short story writer, children's writer, autobiographer
* Aliona Doletskaya (born 1955), journalist, editor, television host, translator
*Veronika Dolina (born 1956), poet, songwriter
*Darya Dontsova (born 1952), best selling crime-fiction novelist, autobiographer
* Anna Dostoyevskaya (1846–1918), memoirist, biographer
*Lyubov Dostoyevskaya (1869–1926), biographer of Dostoyevsky, memoirist, short story writer, novelist
*Yulia Drunina (1924–1991), poet
* Svetlana Druzhinina (born 1935), actress, screenwriter, film director
*Miroslava Duma (born 1985), fashion writer, magazine editor

E

* Tamara Eidelman, contemporary historian, translator, contributor to '' Russian Life''
*Roza Eldarova (1923–2021), journalist, memoirist, politician

F

* Elena Fanailova (born 1962), journalist, poet, columnist, translator
*Dorothea de Ficquelmont (1804–1863), diarist (in French), letter writer
* Vera Figner (1852–1942), revolutionary memoirist, biographer, columnist
* Olga Forsh (1873–1961), novelist, playwright, memoirist
*Elena Frolova (born 1969), singer-songwriter, poet

G

* Cherubina de Gabriak, pen name of Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva (1887–1928), poet, translator
*Nina Gagen-Torn (1900–1986), poet, short story writer, historian
*Nora Gal (1912–1991), critic, essayist, prominent translator
* Alisa Ganieva (born 1985), pen name Gulla Khirachev, novelist, short story writer, essayist
* Tatiana Garmash-Roffe (born 1959), novelist, short story writer, detective story writer
* Liudmila Gatagova, historian, since c.1993 several historical works
* Vera Gedroitz (1870–1932), medical doctor, poet
*Marina Gershenovich (born 1960), poet, translator
*Masha Gessen (born 1967), journalist, columnist, biographer, writing in Russian and English
* Lidiya Ginzburg (1902–1990), critic, historian, memoirist
* Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904–1977), educator, journalist, historian, memoirist
* Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945), modernist poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, translator, several works translated into English
* Maria Golovnina (c.1980–2015), journalist, Reuters bureau chief for Afghanistan and Pakistan
* Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936–2013), poet, translator
* Nina Gorlanova (born 1947), short story writer, novelist
* Anastasia Gosteva (born 1975), novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist
* Isabella Grinevskaya (1864–1944), novelist, playwright
* Olga Grushin (born 1971), Russian-American novelist, translator
*Elena Guro (1877–1913), playwright, poet, novelist, artist

I

*Vera Inber (1890–1972), poet, essayist, translator
*Aleksandra Ishimova (1805–1881), children's writer, translator
* Nina Iskrenko (1951–1995), poet
* Lidiya Ivanova (1936–2007), journalist, television presenter
*Praskovya Ivanovskaya (1852–1935), revolutionary, memoirist

J

*Nadezhda Joffe (1906–1999), memoirist, biographer

K

* Vera Kamsha (born 1962), Ukrainian-born Russian journalist, fantasy novelist
* Anna Kashina, Russian-American novelist, completed '' The Princess of Dhagabad'' in 2000
* Rimma Kazakova (1932–2008), poet, popular songwriter
* Elena Kazantseva (born 1956), Belarusian-born Russian poet, songwriter
* Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya (1908–1994), Gulag memoirist
* Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya (1824–1889), novelist, poet, critic, translator
* Marusya Klimova (born 1961), prominent non-fiction writer, literary historian, translator
*Ekaterina Kniazhnina (1746–1797), poet, salonist, considered by some to be the first Russian woman writer
* Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952), politician, writer
* Ina Konstantinova 924–1944), wartime diarist
*Sofia Kovalevskaya (1859–1891), mathematician, non-fiction writer
*Nadezhda Kozhevnikova (born 1949), journalist, essayist
*Zoya Krakhmalnikova (1929–2008), dissident journalist, autobiographer
*Olga Kryuchkova (born 1966), historical novelist

L

*Nadezhda Lappo-Danilevsky (1874–1951), poet, novelist
* Anna Larina (1914–1996), memoirist
* Yulia Latynina (born 1966), journalist, novelist, television presenter
*Marina Lesko, since 1992, journalist, columnist
*Sonya Levien (1888–1960), screenwriter
* Olga Lipovskaya (1954–2021), poet, magazine editor, feminist
* Mirra Lokhvitskaya (1869–1905), acclaimed poet
*Nina Lugovskaya (1918–1993), Gulag diarist

M

*Yelena Maglevannaya (born 1981), journalist
* Natalia Malakhovskaia (born 1947), feminist writer
* Tatiana Mamonova (born 1943), poet, journalist, feminist
* Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899–1980), memoirist, biographer
*Anna Margolin (1887–1952), Russian-American Yiddish-language poet
* Alexandra Marinina (born 1957), best selling crime fiction novelist, works widely translated
* Maria Markova (born 1982), poet
*Novella Matveyeva (1934–2016), poet, songwriter, screenwriter, playwright
* Olga Martynova (born 1962), poet, essayist, writing in Russian and German
* Larisa Matros (born 1938), sociologist, novelist, short story writer, critic, poet
*Novella Matveyeva (1934–2016), poet, screenwriter, dramatist, singer-songwriter
* Vera Matveyeva (1945–1976), poet, singer-songwriter
*Ida Mett (1901–1973), historical writer, magazine editor
*Elena Milashina (born 1978), investigative journalist
* Maria Moravskaya (1890–1947), poet, essayist, critic, translator
* Yunna Morits (born 1937), poet, translator, short story writer, children's writer
* Margarita Morozova (1873–1958), publisher, memoirist
*Tatyana Moskvina

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