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)
• Valery 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)
• Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821–1877)
• 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)