[{"n": "Aleksandr I. Kuprin", "u": "/e/russian-and-soviet-writers/aleksandr-i-kuprin/", "s": "Russian writer of novels and short stories on army and society."}, {"n": "Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy", "u": "/e/russian-and-soviet-writers/aleksey-nikolayevich-tolstoy/", "s": "Russian and Soviet writer of science fiction and historical fiction."}, {"n": "Aleksey Pisemsky", "u": "/e/russian-and-soviet-writers/aleksey-pisemsky/", "s": "Russian novelist and dramatist of realistic ordinary life."}, {"n": "Aleksey Remizov", "u": "/e/russian-and-soviet-writers/aleksey-remizov/", "s": "Russian modernist writer of fantastic and bizarre works, expert calligrapher, and exile."}, {"n": "Alexander Grin", "u": "/e/russian-and-soviet-writers/alexander-grin/", "s": "Russian writer of romantic sea adventures and fantasy, creator of Grinlandia."}, {"n": "Alexander Herzen", "u": "/e/russian-and-soviet-writers/alexander-herzen/", "s": "Russian writer and precursor of socialism and agrarian populism."}, {"n": "Alexander Radishchev", "u": "/e/russian-and-soviet-writers/alexander-radishchev/", "s": "Russian author exiled for critiquing serfdom and autocracy."}, {"n": "Andrei Bely", "u": "/e/russian-and-soviet-writers/andrei-bely/", "s": "Russian Symbolist novelist and poet, author of Petersburg."}, {"n": "Andrei Platonov", "u": "/e/russian-and-soviet-writers/andrei-platonov/", "s": "Soviet writer whose major works were banned for decades."}, {"n": "Anton Chekhov", "u": "/e/russian-and-soviet-writers/anton-chekhov/", "s": "Russian playwright and short story writer, physician by profession."}, {"n": "Boris Pasternak", "u": "/e/russian-and-soviet-writers/boris-pasternak/", "s": "Russian poet, novelist, and translator of Doctor Zhivago."}, {"n": "Leo Tolstoy", "u": "/e/russian-and-soviet-writers/leo-tolstoy/", "s": "Russian writer and influential Christian anarchist and pacifist."}, {"n": "Mikhail Bulgakov", "u": "/e/russian-and-soviet-writers/mikhail-bulgakov/", "s": "Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright of lasting influence."}, {"n": "Mikhail Sholokhov", "u": "/e/russian-and-soviet-writers/mikhail-sholokhov/", "s": "Russian novelist and Nobel laureate known for Cossack epics."}, {"n": "Nikolai Gogol", "u": "/e/russian-and-soviet-writers/nikolai-gogol/", "s": "Russian writer of Ukrainian origin, master of the grotesque."}, {"n": "Vladimir Nabokov", "u": "/e/russian-and-soviet-writers/vladimir-nabokov/", "s": "Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, and author of Lolita."}, {"n": "Vladimir Voinovich", "u": "/e/russian-and-soviet-writers/vladimir-voinovich/", "s": "Soviet dissident and satirist of totalitarianism."}, {"n": "Yevgeny Zamyatin", "u": "/e/russian-and-soviet-writers/yevgeny-zamyatin/", "s": "Russian author of the dystopian novel We."}]