In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Grigoriyevich and the family name is Rasputin.
Valentin Rasputin
Rasputin in 2011
Born
Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin (1937-03-15)15 March 1937 Ust-Uda, East Siberian Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died
14 March 2015(2015-03-14) (aged 77) Moscow, Russia
Alma mater
Irkutsk State University
Genre
Fiction
Years active
1966–2015
Notable works
Farewell to Matyora
Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin (/ræˈspjuːtɪn/;[1] Russian: Валентин Григорьевич Распутин; 15 March 1937 – 14 March 2015) was a Soviet and Russian writer. He was born and lived much of his life in the Irkutsk Oblast in Eastern Siberia. Rasputin's works depict rootless urban characters and the fight for survival of centuries-old traditional rural ways of life, addressing complex questions of ethics and spiritual revival.
^"Rasputin". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin (/ræˈspjuːtɪn/; Russian: Валентин Григорьевич Распутин; 15 March 1937 – 14 March 2015) was a Soviet and Russian writer....
Matyora (Russian: Прощание с Матёрой) is a 1976 novel by ValentinRasputin. The novel treats Rasputin's major theme of the baneful impact of industrialization...
Village Prose include Aleksander Yashin, Vasily Belov, Fyodor Abramov, ValentinRasputin, Boris Mozhayev, Vasily Shukshin. Some critics also count Aleksandr...
locations for her planned adaptation of the novel Farewell to Matyora by ValentinRasputin. Andrei Tarkovsky, a fellow filmmaker and friend of Shepitko, wrote...
number of Soviet intellectuals, in particular by the Irkutsk writer ValentinRasputin - both in his novel Farewell to Matyora (1976) and in his non-fiction...
Prose, whose most prominent representatives were Viktor Astafyev and ValentinRasputin. Any sort of fiction that dealt with the occult, either horror, adult-oriented...
accident while directing an ecological fable based on a famous novel by ValentinRasputin called Farewell to Matyora. His wife's death had a profound impact...
ceremonies. Notable commanders of the unit include Yaroslav Isak, ValentinRasputin and Artem Chernichenko. General Staff Band – The band's musicians...
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support staff. It was abolished on 26 December 1990. Only the writer ValentinRasputin was a non-party member. The members were as follows: "Закон СССР от...
host 1936 – Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (d. 1986) 1937 – ValentinRasputin, Russian environmentalist and author (d. 2015) 1939 – Ted Kaufman...
leading up to his excursion into Siberia are obscure. Russian writer ValentinRasputin laments the lack of information that we have about Yermak considering...
Society (PhD thesis). University of Sydney. p. 85. hdl:2123/2694. ValentinRasputin (Summer 1996). "The Gorno-Altay region: a view". Literary Review....
family who is best known for participating in the assassination of Grigori Rasputin and for marrying Princess Irina Alexandrovna, a niece of Tsar Nicholas...
Hoffmann Price – Strange Gateways J. B. Priestley – It's an Old Country ValentinRasputin – Money for Maria (Деньги для Марии) Ruth Rendell – A New Lease of...
scientists as well as prominent writers and journalists in Russia, such as ValentinRasputin and Sergey Zalygin, sometimes known collectively as the "Siberian...
Azerbaijan.: 10 Among the passengers were Maria Rasputin, the daughter of Russian writer ValentinRasputin and Sergei Koryakov, the head of Federal Security...
and this name was officially restored in 1988. A Siberian writer, ValentinRasputin, dedicated a chapter of his non-fiction book, "Siberia, Siberia" (originally...
included writers Yuri Bondarev, ValentinRasputin and Alexander Prokhanov, singer Lyudmila Zykina, war generals Valentin Varennikov and Boris Gromov, sculptor...
March 14 – Benny Paret, Cuban welterweight boxer (d. 1962) March 15 – ValentinRasputin, Russian writer (d. 2015) March 18 Aleksei Zasukhin, Soviet boxer...
rebellion brewing in Siberia. Irkutsk was home to Russian writer ValentinRasputin; many of his novels and stories take place in the Angara Valley. An...
by Gennady Zyuganov, Vasily Starodubtsev, Igor Shafarevich, ValentinRasputin, Valentin Varennikov, and Eduard Volodin among others. The document calling...
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