Valentin Savvich Pikul (1928-07-13)July 13, 1928 Leningrad, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Died
July 16, 1990(1990-07-16) (aged 62) Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
Language
Russian
Genre
Popular history, fiction
Notable works
Requiem for Convoy PQ-17 The Favorite
Valentin Savvich Pikul (Russian: Валенти́н Са́ввич Пи́куль; July 13, 1928 – July 16, 1990) was a popular and prolific Soviet historical novelist of Ukrainian-Russian heritage. He lived and worked in Riga.
Pikul's novels were grounded in extensive research, blending historical and fictional characters and often focusing on Russian nationalistic themes.[1] Pikul's best-selling 1978 novel At the Last Frontier was a dramatized telling of Rasputin's influence over the Russian imperial court. Richard Stites says he was "a name hardly known to literary scholars but the most widely read author in the Soviet Union from the seventies to today [i.e., 1991]...[2] Pikul's works were wildly popular: more than 20 million copies were sold in his lifetime [1].
Little of Pikul's work has been translated into English. In May 2001 a seagoing minesweeper of the Black Sea Fleet was named in his honor. So too was an oil tanker built in 2023 for state oil producer Rosneft's shipping business.
^Natalya Ivanova, "A New Mosaic out of Old Fragments: Soviet History Re-Codified in Modern Russian Prose" (Conference Papers, Stanford University, October 1998), pp. 25-26.
^Richard Stites, Russian Popular Culture (Cambridge UP, 1992, repr. 1995), p. 151.
Valentin Savvich Pikul (Russian: Валенти́н Са́ввич Пи́куль; July 13, 1928 – July 16, 1990) was a popular and prolific Soviet historical novelist of Ukrainian-Russian...
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by Sword (Russian: Пером и шпагой) is a novel by the Soviet writer ValentinPikul, written in 1963 and first published in 1972. It describes secret diplomacy...
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recounts the story of PQ-17. Requiem for Convoy PQ-17, a novel by ValentinPikul is dedicated to the fate of the convoy. The book is also interesting...
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of Beersheba (1917) D 1987 Soviet Union Moonzund Moonzund (Моонзунд) ValentinPikul Russian Captain and German female spy during the Battle of Moon Sound...
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reign Khodynka, he will finish, standing on the scaffold", and later ValentinPikul will remember it in the historical novel "Now I am tormented by the...
well as the Faculty of Law of Federal University of Bahia in Brazil. ValentinPikul's 1985 novel on the career of the French General Jean Victor Moreau (1763–1813)...
novels on Medieval Rus, and Yury Tynyanov for writing on Russian Empire. ValentinPikul wrote about many different epochs and countries in an Alexander Dumas-inspired...
corps was deployed there. (One of its students was the future author ValentinPikul.) In 1989, a permanent exhibition, "The Solovki special camp", was added...
and piano player Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801–1822), Estonian poet ValentinPikul (1928–1990), Soviet historical novelist Marie Seebach (1829–1897), German...
output of Trebsa field and Titova field. The first such ship was named ValentinPikul, after a soviet historical novelist. Arc7 is a RMRS ice class of polar-capable...
Russian novel Requiem for Convoy PQ-17 (Реквием каравану PQ-17) by writer ValentinPikul depicts the mission of Convoy PQ 17, reflecting the bravery and courage...
Inspired Vagrants (Russian: Вдохновенные бродяги). Soviet novelist ValentinPikul (1928-1990) wrote a book on the adventurer, Вольный казак Ашинов (English:...
screenplay writer Aleksei Bibik – one of the first working-class novelists ValentinPikul – Soviet historical novelist Oleg Kulik – performance artist, sculptor...
at the Wayback Machine The Requiem on Convoy PQ-17, Russian novel by ValentinPikul Memoirs of Chief Steward Horace Carswell DSM, MM, BEM during Convoy...
episodes of the TV series Bonivur's Heart take place in Millionka. 1977 – ValentinPikul in his novel Richness compares Millionka with Khitrovsky market of pre-revolutionary...
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