List of Russian-language poets facts for kids

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This article is a list of important writers who created poetry in the Russian language. These poets come from different times in history and have written many famous works.

Pushkin Reciting His Poem Before Old Derzhavin, a painting by Ilya Repin, 1911

Meet the Poets: An Alphabetical List

Here you'll find a list of Russian poets, arranged from A to Z. Each entry includes their name, when they lived, and some of their most well-known poems or collections of poetry.

Poets Starting with A

Portrait	Poet	Famous Works
Bella Akhmadulina	Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010)	* The String The Garden A Guiding Sound Once in December
Anna Akhmatova	Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966)	* Evening Requiem The Rosary Poem Without a Hero
	Margarita Aliger (1915–1992)	* Zoya Railroad The Year of Birth Stones and Grass
Daniil Andreev	Daniil Andreev (1906–1959)	* Russian Gods The Iron Mystery
	Domna Anisimova (fl. 19th century)	* Depiction of the Harvest Sound of the Night Wind
Innokenty Annensky	Innokenty Annensky (1855–1909)	* Quiet Songs Cypress Box
	Pavel Antokolsky (1896–1978)	* All We Who in His Name
Aleksey Apukhtin	Aleksey Apukhtin (1840–1893)
	Eduard Asadov (1923–2004)
Nikolay Aseyev	Nikolay Aseyev (1889–1963)	* Zor Night Flute
	Lera Auerbach (born 1973)
	Gennadiy Aygi (1934–2006)

Poets Starting with B

Portrait	Poet	Famous Works
	Eduard Bagritsky (1895–1934)	* February
Konstantin Balmont	Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942)	* Under the Northern Sky Let Us Be Like the Sun Burning Buildings
	Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873–1944)
Evgeny Baratynsky	Evgeny Baratynsky (1800–1844)	* Eda The Gypsy The Last Poet Autumn
Ivan Barkov	Ivan Barkov (1732–1768)	* Obscene poems (known for his bold and sometimes shocking verses)
	Anna Barkova (1901–1976)	* Tatar Anguish
	Agniya Barto (1906–1981)	* Toys Mishka the Petty Thief
Alexander Bashlachev	Alexander Bashlachev (1960–1988)
Konstantin Batyushkov	Konstantin Batyushkov (1787–1855)
Demyan Bedny	Demyan Bedny (1883–1945)
Andrey Bely	Andrey Bely (1880–1934)	* Urn Gold in Azure Christ Has Risen The First Encounter
Olga Bergholz	Olga Bergholz (1910–1975)	* February Diary Leningrad Poem
Aleksandr Bestuzhev	Aleksandr Bestuzhev (1797–1837)
Alexander Blok	Alexander Blok (1880–1921)	* Skify The Twelve
	Valeri Brainin-Passek (born 1948)
Joseph Brodsky	Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996)
Valery Bryusov	Valery Bryusov (1873–1924)	* Tertia Vigilia
Ivan Bunin	Ivan Bunin (1870–1953)	* Falling Leaves
Anna Bunina	Anna Bunina (1774–1829)	* Though Poverty's No Stain

Poets Starting with C

Portrait	Poet	Famous Works
Sasha Chorny	Sasha Chorny (1880–1932)
Korney Chukovsky	Korney Chukovsky (1882–1969)	* Many children's poems and fairy tales
Georgy Chulkov	Georgy Chulkov (1879–1939)

Poets Starting with D

Portrait	Poet	Famous Works
Denis Davydov	Denis Davydov (1784–1839)
Anton Delvig	Anton Delvig (1798–1831)
Andrey Dementyev	Andrey Dementyev (1928–2018)
Regina Derieva	Regina Derieva (1949–2013)
Gavrila Derzhavin	Gavrila Derzhavin (1743–1816)
Nikolai Devitte	Nikolai Devitte (1811–1844)	* Not for Me
Ivan Dmitriev	Ivan Dmitriev (1760–1837)
Nikolay Dobrolyubov	Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836–1861)
	Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky (1915–1994)
Spiridon Drozhzhin	Spiridon Drozhzhin (1848–1930)
	Yulia Drunina (1924–1991)

Poets Starting with E

Portrait	Poet	Famous Works
Ilya Ehrenburg	Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967)

Poets Starting with F

Portrait	Poet	Famous Works
Afanasy Fet	Afanasy Fet (1812–1892)
Konstantin Fofanov	Konstantin Fofanov (1862–1911)

Poets Starting with G

Portrait	Poet	Famous Works
Cherubina de Gabriak	Cherubina de Gabriak (1887–1928)
	Alexander Galich (1918–1977)	* Clouds Kaddish The Night Watch When I Return
Aleksei Gastev	Aleksei Gastev (1882–1939)
	Mikhail Gerasimov (1889–1939)
Zinaida Gippius	Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945)
	Nikolay Glazkov (1919–1979)
Fyodor Glinka	Fyodor Glinka (1786–1880)
Nikolay Gnedich	Nikolay Gnedich (1784–1833)	* The Fishers
Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov	Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov (1848–1913)
Dmitry Gorchakov	Dmitry Gorchakov (1758–1824)
Sergey Gorodetsky	Sergey Gorodetsky (1884–1967)
	Boris Golovin (born 1955)
Aleksandr Griboedov	Aleksandr Griboedov (1794–1829)	* Woe from Wit (a famous play with poetic elements)
Apollon Grigoryev	Apollon Grigoryev (1822–1864)
	Oleg Grigoryev (1943–1992)
Isabella Grinevskaya	Isabella Grinevskaya (1864–1944)
	Igor Guberman (born 1936)
	Semyon Gudzenko (1922–1953)
Nikolay Gumilyov	Nikolay Gumilyov (1886–1921)
Elena Guro	Elena Guro (1877–1913)

Poets Starting with I

Portrait	Poet	Famous Works
Vera Inber	Vera Inber (1890–1972)
	Mikhail Isakovsky (1900–1973)
Georgy Ivanov	Georgy Ivanov (1894–1958)
Vyacheslav Ivanov	Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866–1949)
Ryurik Ivnev	Ryurik Ivnev (1891–1981)
Alexander Izmaylov	Alexander Izmaylov (1779–1831)

Poets Starting with K

Portrait	Poet	Famous Works
Gavril Kamenev	Gavril Kamenev (1772–1803)
Antiochus Kantemir	Antiochus Kantemir (1708–1744)
Vasily Kapnist	Vasily Kapnist (1758–1823)
	Rimma Kazakova (1932–2008)
	Dmitri Kedrin (1907–1945)
Bakhyt Kenjeev	Bakhyt Kenjeev (born 1950)
	Daniil Kharms (1905–1942)
Ivan Khemnitser	Ivan Khemnitser (1745–1784)
Velemir Khlebnikov	Velemir Khlebnikov (1885–1922)
Vladislav Khodasevich	Vladislav Khodasevich (1886–1939)
Aleksey Khomyakov	Aleksey Khomyakov (1804–1860)
Apollon Korinfsky	Apollon Korinfsky (1868–1937)	* Songs of the Heart Black Roses
Lidiya Khaindrova	Lidiya Khaindrova (1910–1986)
Dmitry Khvostov	Dmitry Khvostov (1757–1835)
	Semyon Kirsanov (1906–1972)
Nikolai Klyuev	Nikolai Klyuev (1884–1937)
	Ekaterina Kniazhnina (1746–1797)
	Pavel Kogan (1918–1942)
Aleksey Koltsov	Aleksey Koltsov (1809–1842)
	Nahum Korzhavin (1925–2018)
Ivan Kozlov	Ivan Kozlov (1779–1840)
	Vasili Krasovsky (1782–1824)
	Aleksey Kruchenykh (1886–1968)
Ivan Krylov	Ivan Krylov (1769–1844)
	Yuri Kublanovsky (born 1947)
Wilhelm Küchelbecher	Wilhelm Küchelbecher (1797–1846)
Anatoly Kudryavitsky	Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954)
Nestor Kukolnik	Nestor Kukolnik (1809–1868)
Alexander Kushner	Alexander Kushner (born 1936)
Dmitry Kuzmin	Dmitry Kuzmin (born 1969)
Mikhail Kuzmin	Mikhail Kuzmin (1872–1936)

Poets Starting with L

Portrait	Poet	Famous Works
	Vasily Lebedev-Kumach (1898–1949)
Mikhail Lermontov	Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841)	* Borodino The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov Demon Valerik Death of the Poet
Mirra Lokhvitskaya	Mirra Lokhvitskaya (1869–1905)
Yegor Letov	Yegor Letov (1964–2008)
Mikhail Lomonosov	Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765)
	Vladimir Lugovskoy (1901–1957)

Poets Starting with M

Portrait	Poet	Famous Works
Osip Mandelstam	Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938)	* Stalin Epigram
Anatoly Marienhof	Anatoly Marienhof (1897–1962)
Maria Markova	Maria Markova (born 1982)
Samuil Marshak	Samuil Marshak (1887–1964)
Vladimir Mayakovsky	Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)	* A Cloud in Trousers Backbone Flute Mystery-Bouffe
Apollon Maykov	Apollon Maykov (1821–1897)
Dmitriy Merezhkovsky	Dmitriy Merezhkovsky (1866–1941)
Aleksey Merzlyakov	Aleksey Merzlyakov (1778–1830)
	Arvo Mets (1937–1997)
Lev Mei	Lev Mei (1822–1862)
	Alexander Mezhirov (1923–2009)
Sergey Mikhalkov	Sergey Mikhalkov (1913–2009)
Fyodor Miller	Fyodor Miller (1818–1881)
Nikolai Minsky	Nikolai Minsky (1855–1937)
Yunna Morits	Yunna Morits (born 1937)

Poets Starting with N

Portrait	Poet	Famous Works
Vladimir Nabokov	Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
Semyon Nadson	Semyon Nadson (1862–1887)
Vladimir Narbut	Vladimir Narbut (1888–1938)
	Sergey Narovchatov (1919–1981)
Nikolay Nekrasov	Nikolay Nekrasov (1821–1877)
Ivan Savvich Nikitin	Ivan Savvich Nikitin (1824–1861)

Poets Starting with O

Portrait	Poet	Famous Works
Alexander Odoevsky	Alexander Odoevsky (1802–1839)	* The Ball
Nikolay Ogarev	Nikolay Ogarev (1813–1877)
Irina Odoyevtseva	Irina Odoyevtseva (1895–1990)
Bulat Okudzhava	Bulat Okudzhava (1924–1997)
Nikolay Oleynikov	Nikolay Oleynikov (1898–1937)	* The Carp Cockroach The Beetle

Poets Starting with P

Portrait	Poet	Famous Works
Liodor Palmin	Liodor Palmin (1841–1891)
	Valentin Parnakh (1891–1951)
Sophia Parnok	Sophia Parnok (1885–1933)
	Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)
Karolina Pavlova	Karolina Pavlova (1807–1893)
Vladimir Pecherin	Vladimir Pecherin (1807–1885)
	Mariya Petrovykh (1908–1979)
Aleksey Plescheev	Aleksey Plescheev (1825–1893)
Pyotr Pletnyov	Pyotr Pletnyov (1792–1866)
	Elizaveta Polonskaya (1890–1969)
Yakov Polonsky	Yakov Polonsky (1819–1898)
Nikolay Popovsky	Nikolay Popovsky (1730–1760)
	Vasili Popugaev (1778 or 1779 – c. 1816)
	Alexander Prokofyev (1900–1971)
Kozma Prutkov	Kozma Prutkov (1817–1875)
Alexander Pushkin	Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837)	* Eugene Onegin The Bronze Horseman Boris Godunov (play)
Vasily Pushkin	Vasily Pushkin (1766–1830)

Poets Starting with R

Portrait	Poet	Famous Works
Vladimir Raevsky	Vladimir Raevsky (1795–1872)
Anna Radlova	Anna Radlova (1891–1949)
Irina Ratushinskaya	Irina Ratushinskaya (1954–2017)
Yevgeny Rein	Yevgeny Rein (born 1935)
Yevdokiya Rostopchina	Yevdokiya Rostopchina (1812–1858)
Konstantin Romanov	Konstantin Romanov (K.R.) (1858–1915)
	Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky (1895–1977)
	Robert Rozhdestvensky (1932–1994)
	Nikolay Rubtsov (1936–1971)
Kondraty Ryleyev	Kondraty Ryleyev (1795–1826)
	Boris Ryzhy(1974–2001)	* Opravdaniye zhizni

Poets Starting with S

Portrait	Poet	Famous Works
	David Samoylov (1920–1990)
Genrikh Sapgir	Genrikh Sapgir (1928–1999)
Feodosy Savinov	Feodosy Savinov (1865–1915)	* Rodnoye
Mikhail Savoyarov	Mikhail Savoyarov (1876–1941)
	Olga Sedakova (born 1949)
	Ilya Selvinsky (1899–1968)
	Andrei Sen-Senkov (born 1968)
	Daria Serenko (born 1993)
Igor Severyanin	Igor Severyanin (1887–1941)
	Varlam Shalamov (1907–1982)
Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik	Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874–1952)
	Stepan Shchipachev (1889–1980)
	Vadim Shefner (1915–2002)
Nikolay Sherbina	Nikolay Sherbina (1821–1869)
Elena Shirman	Elena Shirman (1908–1942)
Vadim Shershenevich	Vadim Shershenevich (1893–1942)
Stepan Shevyryov	Stepan Shevyryov (1806–1864)
Maria Shkapskaya	Maria Shkapskaya (1891–1952)	* No Dream
	Gennady Shpalikov (1937–1974)
	Konstantin Simonov (1915–1979)	* Wait for Me
Stepan Skitalets	Stepan Skitalets (1869–1941)
Konstantin Sluchevsky	Konstantin Sluchevsky (1837–1904)
	Boris Slutsky (1919–1986)
Fyodor Sologub	Fyodor Sologub (1863–1927)
	Vladimir Soloukhin (1924–1997)
Vladimir Solovyov	Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900)
Alexander Sumarokov	Alexander Sumarokov (1717–1777)
Ivan Surikov	Ivan Surikov (1841–1880)	* Rowan Steppe
	Fyodor Svarovsky (born 1971)
	Mikhail Svetlov (1903–1964)

Poets Starting with T

Portrait	Poet	Famous Works
	Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (1891–1968)
Arseny Tarkovsky	Arseny Tarkovsky (1907–1989)
Nikolay Tikhonov	Nikolay Tikhonov (1896–1979)
Aleksey Tolstoy	Aleksey Tolstoy (1817–1875)
Vasily Trediakovsky	Vasily Trediakovsky (1703–1769)
	Pyotr Nikolayevich Toburokov (1917–2001)
Marina Tsvetaeva	Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941)
	Nika Turbina (1974–2002)
Ivan Turgenev	Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883)
	Veronika Tushnova (1915–1965)	* Memory of the Heart
Aleksandr Tvardovsky	Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910–1971)
Fyodor Tyutchev	Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873)

Poets Starting with U

Portrait	Poet	Famous Works
	Vladimir Uflyand (1937–2007)
	Joseph Utkin (1903–1944)	* The Story About Ginger Motele Mr. Inspector Rabbi Isaiah and Commissar Bloch

Poets Starting with V

Portrait	Poet	Famous Works
Konstantin Vaginov	Konstantin Vaginov (1899–1934)
Dmitry Venevitinov	Dmitry Venevitinov (1805–1827)
Igor Vishnevetsky	Igor Vishnevetsky (born 1964)
	Dmitry Vodennikov (born 1968)
	Anri Volokhonsky (1936–2017)
Maksimilian Voloshin	Maksimilian Voloshin (1877–1932)
	Andrey Voznesensky (1933–2010)
Alexander Vvedensky	Alexander Vvedensky (1904–1941)
Pyotr Vyazemsky	Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792–1878)
Vladimir Vysotsky	Vladimir Vysotsky (1938–1980)

Poets Starting with Y

Portrait	Poet	Famous Works
Pyotr Yakubovich	Pyotr Yakubovich (1860–1911)
	Alexander Yashin (1913–1968)
Nikolay Yazykov	Nikolay Yazykov (1803–1847)
Pyotr Yershov	Pyotr Yershov (1815–1869)	* The Humpbacked Horse
Sergey Yesenin	Sergey Yesenin (1895–1925)
	Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933–2017)

Poets Starting with Z

Portrait	Poet	Famous Works
	Nikolay Zabolotsky (1903–1958)
	Boris Zakhoder (1918–2000)
	Vsevolod Zelchenko (born 1972)
Yulia Zhadovskaya	Yulia Zhadovskaya (1824–1883)
Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov	Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov (1821–1908)
Vasily Zhukovsky	Vasily Zhukovsky (1783–1852)