Valentin Rasputin
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Valentin Grigoriyevich Rasputin (Russian: Валентин Григорьевич Распутин) (born March 15, 1937) is a Russian writer. He was born in the Siberian town of Irkutsk. Rasputin's works depict rootless urban characters and the fight for survival of centuries-old traditional rural ways of life. Rasputin covers complex questions of ethics and spiritual revival. In 1977, he was awarded the USSR State Award for his novel To Live and Remember, the protagonist of which was a deserter during the war.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Rasputin took an active part in the campaign for protection of Lake Baikal; in the 1990s he participated in the nationalist opposition movement. He was an honoured guest for many events in the city of Irkutsk, including the unveilings of the monuments to Czar Alexander III and Admiral Kolchak. He organized the readers' conference in Irkutsk Central Scientific Library named after Molchanov-Sibirsky. His daughter Maria died in the 2006 crash of S7 Airlines Flight 778.
Quotation: And once again, spring had come, to its place in the endless row, but for Matyora, the island and village of the same name, it was to be the last. (Farewell to Matyora)
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- Деньги для Марии, 1967 (Money for Mariya)
- Последний срок, 1970 (The Last Term)
- Живи и помни, 1974 (To Live and Remember)
- Прощание с Матёрой, 1976 (Farewell to Matyora)
- Пожар, 1985 (The Fire)
- Дочь Ивана, Мать Ивана, 2004 ("Ivan's daughter, Ivan's mother")
