Russian Writers Bibliographic Dictionary. 1800-1917 contains systematized information about hundreds of prominent Russian writers of the XIX and early XX centuries. with a modern characteristic of their work. The dictionary includes not only writers as such (prose writers, poets, playwrights and critics), but also significant memoirists, essay authors, publicists, editors of literary and public newspapers and magazines, and major literary critics. The concept of Russian writers also included those bilingual writers whose Russian-language part of their work was essential.