List of Russian language poets
Poets who wrote much of their poetry in the Russian language.
- Anna Akhmatova, (1889–1966)
- Bella Akhmadulina (b. 1957)
- Evgeniy Bratynsky, (1800–1844)
- Andrey Bely, (1880–1934)
- Aleksandr Blok, (1880–1921)
- Joseph Brodsky, (1940–1996)
- Valeri Bryusov (1873–1924)
- Denis Davydov (1784–1839)
- Gavriil Derzhavin (1743–1816)
- Afanasiy Fet, (1812–1892)
- Nikolay Gumilyov, (1886–1921)
- Fazil Iskander, (b. 1929)
- Velemir Khlebnikov, (1885–1922)
- Vladislav Khodasevich, (1886–1939)
- Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin, (1872–1936)
- Mikhail Lermontov, (1814–1841)
- Osip Mandelstam, (1891–1938)
- Vladimir Mayakovsky, (1893–1930)
- Bulat Okudjava (1924–1997)
- Boris Pasternak, (1890–1960)
- German Plisetsky (b. 1931)
- Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799–1837)
- Marina Tsvetaeva, (1892–1941)
- Fyodor Tyutchev, (1803–1873)
- Andrei Voznesensky (b. 1933)
- Vladimir Vysotsky (1938–1980)
- Sergei Yesenin (or Esenin), (1895–1925)
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko, (b. 1933)
