| TOLSTOY | Leo, Russian author of the novel War and Peace (7) |
| PUSHKIN | Alexander, Russian author of the novel Eugene Onegin (7) |
| CHEKHOV | Russian author of 'The Cherry Orchard' (7) |
| ISLANDERS | The -; novel by Nikolai Leskov, Russian author of The Sealed Angel, The Enchanted Wanderer and Lefty (9) |
| PEACE | Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy's monumental novel War and _ (5) |
| TURGENEV | Ivan ___, Russian author of the novels Rudin and Fathers and Sons (8) |
| LERMONTOV | Mikhail ___, 19th-century Russian author of the novel A Hero of Our Time (9) |
| GOGOL | Russian author of the novel Dead Souls (5) |
| GONCHAROV | Russian author of the 1859 novel Oblomov (9) |
| IVANTURGENEV | Russian writer of the novel Fathers and Sons: 2 wds. |
| GORKI | Russian author of The Lower Depths, Maxim ..... (alt. spelling) (5) |
| MAXIM | ___ Gorky, Russian author of The Lower Depths (5) |
| ALEXANDER | Russian author of the Romantic era who wrote Eugene Onegin, _ Pushkin (9) |
| OSTROVSKY | Alexander. Russian author of the play Too Clever By Half (9) |
| GORKY | Russian writer of the play The Lower Depths (5) |
| BORISPASTERNAK | Russian writer of the novel Doctor Zhivago: 2 wds. |
| ANTONCHEKHOV | Russian writer of the play Uncle Vanya: 2 wds. |
| LEOTOLSTOY | Russian author of War And Peace and Anna Karenina (3,7) |
| DOSTOEVSKY | Surname of the Russian author of 'Crime and Punishment' and 'The Idiot' (10) |
| MORPURGO | Michael ?, author of 1982 children's novel War Horse (8) |
