Писатели и интеллектуалы
Писатели, поэты, философы, журналисты и дизайнеры, сформированные русской цивилизацией.
Русская литература и мысль — Достоевский, Толстой, Набоков — образуют одну из великих интеллектуальных традиций человечества. Эта категория документирует писателей, поэтов, философов и журналистов, сформированных этой традицией, включая многих, кто пронёс её в изгнание и писал на новых языках, никогда не теряя её отпечатка.
Адольфо Биой Касарес
Argentine literary giant and lifelong collaborator of Borges
Александр Генис
Soviet-born essayist who became the defining voice of Russian emigre literary culture in New York
Александр Кожев
The Russian who reinvented Hegel for the West
Аллен Гинзберг
Beat prophet whose howl echoed Russian anguish.
Амос Оз
Israel's conscience, forged in Odessa's shadow.
Энн Эпплбаум
Pulitzer laureate who mapped totalitarianism's ruins
Артур Миллер
Voice of American conscience, rooted in Ukraine.
Айн Рэнд
From Petrograd tenements to American philosophy
Барбара Уолтерс
The daughter of immigrants who rewrote broadcast history.
Борис Акунин
Georgia-born master who reinvented Russian crime fiction
Борис Шнайдерман
Ukrainian-born Brazilian scholar who became the father of Russian studies in Latin America
Чак Паланик
Author of Fight Club, grandson of Ukrainian immigrants from the Russian Empire
Клариси Лиспектор
Ukraine-born Brazilian literary genius called the greatest Jewish writer since Kafka
Клемент Гринберг
Son of Russian-Lithuanian Jewish immigrants who became the most powerful art critic of the 20th century
Безумный Русский Хакер
Donetsk-born YouTuber Taras Kul who became America's favourite science and life-hacks host
Давид Гроссман
Israel's most acclaimed novelist with Russian-Polish roots who writes about loss and the cost of conflict
Дэвид Ремник
Russian-Jewish descended New Yorker editor who won the Pulitzer for his book on the Soviet collapse
Дмитрий Глуховский
Moscow novelist who created the Metro series and became Russia's best-selling sci-fi author in exile
Дмитрий Мережковский
St. Petersburg symbolist novelist who was nominated for the Nobel Prize 10 times and died in Paris exile
Юрий Дудь
Russia's most-watched interviewer — his YouTube documentaries on the Gulag and Soviet history reached tens of millions
Эммануэль Левинас
Born in Kaunas, became the philosopher of the Other and transformed European ethics
Этгар Керет
Israeli short story master with Russian-Polish roots who writes fables for the absurd present
ФПС Россия (Кайл Майерс)
Georgian-born American whose fake Russian persona became one of YouTube's first viral sensations
Гари Штейнгарт
Leningrad-born novelist whose satirical fiction made him the voice of the Russian-American experience
Анри Труайя
Born Lev Tarassov in Moscow, became France's greatest biographer and the Académie française's Russian voice
Ирэн Немировски
Born in Kyiv, became a celebrated French novelist, and died in Auschwitz before her masterpiece was published
Айзек Азимов
The Russian-born prophet of the Space Age
Якобо Заблудовски
Polish-Russian Jewish immigrant's son who became the most powerful journalist in Mexican history
Джим Дауни
The most influential writer in Saturday Night Live history — with Russian heritage
Джонатан Сафран Фоер
Everything Is Illuminated author whose grandparents fled Poland and Russia — he went back to find what they left behind
Йозеф Рот
Born in Brody on the Russian Empire border, wrote the great requiem for the Habsburg world
Лев Шестов
Kyiv philosopher of the absurd who influenced Camus and Sartre — the great outsider of Russian thought
Лекс Фридман
Moscow-born mind mapping the AI frontier
Мейер Гуггенхайм
Born in Lengnau, Switzerland — founded the dynasty that built the Guggenheim Museums
Майкл Шейбон
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose family traces Lithuanian and Russian Jewish roots
Мюррей Букчин
New York anarchist thinker with Russian-Jewish roots whose ideas inspired the Kurdish revolution in Syria
НФКРЗ (Роман Абалин)
Chelyabinsk-born YouTube journalist and cultural commentator with millions of international followers
Натали Саррот
Born in Ivanovo, Russia — invented the French Nouveau Roman and transformed 20th-century literature
Николай Бердяев
Born in Kyiv — Russia's greatest religious philosopher, expelled by Lenin on the Philosophy Steamer
Нина Берберова
Born in St. Petersburg — émigré novelist who was rediscovered at 80 and became a literary sensation
Норман Мейлер
Son of a Lithuanian-Russian Jewish immigrant father — two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and American literature's great pugilist
Питер Шукофф
Epic Rap Battles of History co-creator with Russian ancestry — YouTube's greatest comedy series
Ромен Гари
Born in Vilnius, raised in Nice — won the Prix Goncourt twice under two names, the only writer ever to do so
Саша Соколов
Born in Ottawa to Soviet spy parents — became Russia's most avant-garde novelist and escaped the USSR in a wetsuit
Сергей Довлатов
Born in Ufa, failed to publish a single story in the USSR — then became America's most beloved Russian voice
Шолом-Алейхем
Born in Pereyaslav, Ukraine — the Mark Twain of Yiddish literature whose Tevye the Dairyman became Fiddler on the Roof
Тад Шульц
Warsaw-born New York Times journalist who covered the Bay of Pigs and became one of America's greatest foreign correspondents
Татьяна Толстая
Leningrad-born writer and TV host — great-grandniece of Leo Tolstoy and Russia's sharpest satirical voice
Тэффи (Надежда Лохвицкая)
Born in St. Petersburg — the funniest woman in Russia, beloved by the Tsar and by Lenin
Илья Варламов
Russia's most popular urban blogger who fled to exile after opposing the Ukraine war
Виктор Пелевин
Born in Moscow — Russia's most mysterious and celebrated contemporary novelist
Виталий Здоровецкий
Владимир Набоков
Exiled genius who reinvented the English novel
Владимир Сорокин
Born in Bykovo — Russia's most provocative living novelist, now in Berlin exile
Владимир Войнович
Born in Dushanbe — the satirist who wrote The Life and Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin and mocked the Soviet system to its face
Владимир Каминер
Born in Moscow — the author and DJ who turned being a Russian in Berlin into the funniest book of the 2000s
Жанна Немцова
Daughter of assassinated Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov — journalist and democracy activist in Germany
Зинаида Гиппиус
Born in Tula — the greatest female poet of the Silver Age, who called the Revolution 'the triumph of evil'
Александр Солженицын
The conscience of Russia, forged in the Gulag.
Катя Петровская
Born in Kyiv — Maybe Esther became one of the most celebrated European literary debuts of the century
Ольга Грязнова
Born in Baku, writes in German — one of Germany's most acclaimed young novelists
Анатолий Кузнецов
Born in Kyiv — survived Babi Yar as a boy, wrote the first eyewitness account of the massacre
Аарон Апельфельд
Escaped a Nazi camp at age 9, hid in Ukrainian forests for years — became Israel's greatest Holocaust author