Chronology of Russian writers arranged by era Here are the Russian writers arranged by era: Classic Era (18th-19th centuries) 1. Ivan Krylov (1769-1844) 2. Denis Fonvizin (1745-1792) 3. Alexander Radishchev (1749-1802) 4. Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) 5. Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) 6. Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) 7. Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) 8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) 9. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) 10. Aleksey Khomyakov (1804-1860) Realist Era (mid-19th century) 1. Ivan Goncharov (1812-1891) 2. Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889) Silver Age (late 19th-early 20th centuries) 1. Vladimir Solovyov (1853-1900) 2. Konstantin Balmont (1867-1942) 3. Valery Bryusov (1873-1924) 4. Andrei Bely (1880-1934) 5. Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949) 6. Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) 7. Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919) 8. Sergei Semyonov (1868-1922) Revolutionary and Soviet Era (early 20th century) 1. Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) 2. Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) 3. Isaac Babel (1894-1940) 4. Mikhail Bu...