Song of Prince Igor (Slovo o polku Igoreve, 1185–87)
The Domostroi: Rules for Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible (16 c.)
Avvakum Petrovich (c. 1620-1682), The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum
Catherine the Great (1729-1796), Memoirs of Catherine the Great, edited by Katherine Anthony (1927)
Gavrila Derzhavin (1743-1816), Poetic Works
Denis Fonvizin (1744?-1792), The Brigadier General (1786) and The Minor (1784)
*Aleksandr Radishchev (1749-1802), Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow (1790)
Richard Pipes, [Nikolai Karamzin's, 1766-1826] Memoir on Ancient and Modern Russia (1811)
Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837),The Captive of the Caucasus (Kavkazskii Plennik, 1822), Boris Godunov (1831), *Evgenii Onegin (1825-1832), The Captain's Daughter (Kapitanskaia dochka, 1836)
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), The Inspector General (1836), *Dead Souls (1842)
Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861), Poetical Works
*Ivan Goncharov (1812-91), Oblomov (1858)
*Aleksandr Herzen (1812-1870), My Past and Thoughts (1852-66)
*Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841), A Hero for Our Time (1840)
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883), Virgin Soil (1877) also Rudin (1856)
Fedor Dostoevskii (1821-81), *Notes from the Underground (1864), *Crime and Punishment (1866), *Idiot (1868), *The Devils (1872), *Brothers Karamazov (1878-80)
*Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-89), History of a Town (1869-70)
*Nikolai Chernyshevskii (1828-1889), What Is To Be Done? (1863-65)
Lev Tolstoi (1828-1910), *War and Peace (1863-69), *Anna Karenina (1873-78), *Death of Ivan Ilich (1882), Resurrection (1889-1899), What is Art? (1896-98)
*Aleksei Brusilov (1853-1926), A Soldier's Notebook, 1914-1918 (1930)
Vladimir Solovev (1853-1900), Three Dialogs on War, Progress, and the End of History (1899) and Three Meetings (1899)
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), *Uncle Vanya (1899) or *The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Wassily Kandinsky (Vasilii Kandinskii, 1866-1944), Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1912)
Konstantin Balmont (1867-1942)
Maksim Gorkii (1868-1936), *Mother (1906); Autobiography of Maxim Gorky combines his previously published My Childhood (1915), In the World (1917) and My University Days (1923)
Nadezhda Krupskaia (1869-1939), Memories of Lenin (Vospominaniia o Lenine, 1930)
Leonid Andreev (1871-1919), The Seven That Were Hanged (1908)
Anton Denikin (1872-1947), The White Army (1930)
Nikolai Berdiaev (1874-1948), The Origins of Russian Communism (1937), The Fate of Man in the Modern World (1935), The Beginning and the End (1952), The Meaning of the Creative Act (1954), The Russian Idea (1946)
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940), various collections available such as Meyerhold on Theatre (1991)
*Mikhail Artsybashev (1878-1927), Sanin (1907)
*Trotskii (Lev Bronshtein, 1879-1940), My Life (1930)
N. Valentinov (Vol'skii, 1879-1964), Encounters with Lenin (1968)
Andrei Bely (Boris Bugaev, 1880-1934), Petersburg (1912)
Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921), *Verses on a Beautiful Lady (1904); The Twelve (1918)
Aleksandr Kerenskii (1881-1970), The Catastrophe: Kerensky's Own Story of the Russian Revolution (1927)
*Sukhanov (Nikolai Gimmer, 1882-1939), The Russian Revolution, 1917: A Personal Record (1955)
*Aleksei Tolstoi (1882-1945), Peter the First (1929-45)
Fedor Gladkov (1883-1958), Cement (1925)
Nikolai Gumilev (1886-1921), Notes of a Cavalryman (1916)
Boris Nikolaevskii (1887-1966), Letter of an Old Bolshevik (1937)
Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), The Complete Poems (1990)
Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), most notable for his novel, Doctor Zhivago, but also an acclaimed poet.
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), *Heart of a Dog (1925) and Master and Margarita (1967)
Ilia Ehrenburg (1891-1967), *The Thaw (1955); with Vasilii Grossman (1905-1964), Black Book of Russian Jewry (1994)
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941)
Vladimir Maiakovskii (1893-1930), A Cloud in Trousers (Oblako v Shanakh, 1915)
Isaac Babel (1894-1940), The Odesa Tales (1921-24) and Red Cavalry (1923-26)
*Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), Khrushchev Remembers (1970); Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament (1974) and Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes (1990)
*Evgenii Zamiatin (1894-1937), We (1924)
Nadezhda Mandel'shtam (1899-1980), Hope against Hope (1970)
Evgeniia Ginzburg (1904-1977), Journey Into the Whirlwind (1967)
Vasilii Grossman (1905-1964), Life and Fate (Zhizn' i sud'ba, 1980); with Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967), Black Book of Russian Jewry (1994)
Mikhail Sholokhov (1905-84), Tikhii Don (Quiet Flows the Don, 1929) and Virgin Soil Upturned (1932)
Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982), The Kolyma Tales (1978)
*Anatolii Rybakov (A. N. Aronov, 1911-1998), Children of the Arbat (1987)
Vladimir Dudintsev (1918-1998), Not by Bread Alone (1956)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-), Cancer Ward (1968), August 1914 (1971), *Letter to Soviet Leaders (1974), The Oak and the Calf (1975), The Gulag Archipelago (1973-76)
Anatoly Chernyaev (1921-), My Six Years with Gorbachev (2000)
Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), *My Country and the World (1975) and Memoirs (1992)
*Roi Medvedev (1925-), Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism (1971)
Zhores Medvedev (1925-), The Legacy of Chernobyl (1992)
Abram Tertz (Andrei Siniavskii, 1925-1997), The Trial Begins & On Socialist Realism (1960); On Trial (1966)
A. Anatolii (Anatolii Kuznetsov, 1929-1979), Babi Yar (1967)
*Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-), Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World (1987)
*Boris Yeltsin (1931-), The Struggle for Russia (1994)
Vasilii Aksenov (1932-), Generations of Winter (1994) and The Burn (Ozhog, 1975)
Vladimir Voinovich (1932-), *Ivankiad (1976); The Life and Amazing Adventures of the Soldier Ivan Chonkin (Zhizn’ i neobychainye prikliucheniia soldata Ivana Chonkina, 1969-75)
Andrei Voznesenskii (1933-), Selected Poems (1966)
Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), Poems
Pavel Litvinov (1940-), The Demonstration in Pushkin Square (1969)
*Vesselin Nedkov (1974-), 57 Hours, A Survivor's Account of the Moscow Hostage Drama (1992)