| LERMONTOV | Mikhail ___ (1814-41), Russian poet and novelist (9) |
| BOTVINNIK | Mikhail ___, winner of the World Chess Championship from 1948-57 (9) |
| GORBACHEV | Soviet president awarded the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize, Mikhail ___ (9) |
| ALEXANDER | Russian poet, playwright and novelist of the Romantic era, _ Pushkin (9) |
| SIRWALTER | And 3. The Last Minstrel and Marmion are works by this poet and novelist (3.6.5) |
| AKHMATOVA | Eggs on a king and Her Majesty visiting Russian poet |
| BORISPASTERNAK | Russian poet and author noted for his novel Doctor Zhivago published in 1957 (5,9) |
| PUSHKIN | Russian poet and dramatist (7) |
| YEVTUSHENKO | Yevgeny ___, Russian poet and author whose works include 1993 novel Don't Die Before You're Dead (11 |
| GLINKA | Mikhail ___, Russian composer of the operas A Life for the Tsar and Ruslan and Lyudmila (6) |
| BAKUNIN | Mikhail ___, Russian anarchist and writer expelled from the First International after conflicts with Karl Marx |
| KALASHNIKOV | Mikhail ___, Russian designer of the AK-47 assault rifle (11) |
| READE | Novelist Charles ___:1814-84 |
| NATION | Janet Jackson album "Rhythm ___ 1814" |
| LEFANU | Sheridan ___, 1814-1873, Irish author of supernatural stories (2,4) |
| BROWN | Artist who painted The Last of England and Work ; or, a poet and novelist whose books including Greenvoe and Magnus reflect his homeland Orkney (5) |
| PLATH | Poet and novelist of whom Elizabeth Hardwick wrote, "Her fate and her themes are hardly separate and both are singularly terrible" |
| TAL | 11 Mikhail ___, 1960-61 world chess champion (3) |
| SASSOON | War poet and novelist who wrote Counter-Attack and the Sherston trilogy (7) |
| BARYSHNIKOV | Mikhail ___, ballet great (11) |
