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		Vasily Aksyonov grew up in the town of Magadan in Russia's north where his mother was exiled.
		Vasily Aksyonov's first stories published by the Russian YUNOST journal in 1958 are keynoted with love of freedom of thinking; their appearance was possible owing to the so-called period of "ideological thaw" on which writers of younger generations pinned much hope.
		Vasily Aksyonov has just finished a new book entitled "The Negative of the Positive Character" which includes stories of recent years; these are part of both Russian and American culture.
	www.vor.ru /culture/cultarch229_eng.html (2369 words)

	Vasily Aksyonov, Василий Аксенов (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Vasily Aksyonov first published his works in the early 1960s.
		Aksyonov's style in writing was praised as a novel and off-beat phenomenon in literature.
		In the ten years that followed, Aksyonov came to be broadly regarded as a true living classic of contemporary literature, exploring paths of the genre and language never trodden before.
	www.penrussia.org /a-m/va_aks.htm (247 words)

	Vasily Aksyonov Summary
		Vassily Aksyonov occupies a distinctive place in the history of Russian literature after the rule of Joseph Stalin.
		Critics traditionally categorize Aksyonov among the shestidesiatniki--people in 1960s Russia who were in the avant-garde of the new libera...
		Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov(Russian: Василий Павлович Аксёнов, born August 20 1932 in Kazan) is a Russian novelist who began his career in the Soviet era.
	www.bookrags.com /Vasily_Aksyonov (198 words)

	America's Impact on Russia video transcript
		Vasily Aksyonov is a well-known Russian novelist who currently lives and teaches in Northern Virginia.
		NARRATOR: Vasily Aksyonov notes that good feelings towards the United States peaked during the aborted coup attempt in August 1991, when Russians, led by Boris Yeltsin, rallied to the defense of the Russian White House.
		AKSYONOV: Those three nights in August of '91 was probably the most glorious nights in the history of Russian civilization.
	www.cdi.org /adm/1141/transcript.html (3454 words)

	Salon
		Vasily Aksyonov received Russia's top literary prize Thursday at a lavish ceremony at Moscow's Golden Ring Hotel.
		The Open Russia Booker Prize, which is awarded for the best Russian novel of the year, went to Aksyonov for his "Voltairiens and Voltairiennes" (Volteryantsy i Volteryanki), a historical narrative about 18th-century Russia laced with hints and prophecies about political life today.
		The decision did not come as a surprise to most critics and readers, for whom Aksyonov is already a part of literary history.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2004/12/03/109.html (180 words)

	washingtonpost.com: A Small Window Onto a Shadowed Past
		When Alexander Lavruk was born in December 1941, his father was dead, one of tens of thousands of foot soldiers killed in the fall of that year as invading German troops swept across the country.
		Based on "Moscow Saga," the acclaimed novel by Vasily Aksyonov, the miniseries is the story of one family, the Gradovs, whose lives are interwoven with Stalin's rise and rule from the 1920s until his death in 1953.
		The 24-part series, No. 1 in the television ratings, is stirring memories and kindling debate in a country that was long silent and remains somewhat ambivalent about the man who ordered millions murdered while also overseeing the Soviet Union's victory in war and its emergence as a superpower.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A48224-2004Nov13?language=printer (973 words)

	Welcome to the Russian Club at University of Maryland!
		Aksyonov will talk about his latest works and then open up the floor for questions.
		Although perhaps the most popular Soviet writer of prose in the 60s and 70s, he was forced into exile in 1980.
		Aksyonov taught at The Johns Hopkins University and Goucher University before coming to George Mason University.
	www.studentorg.umd.edu /rc/Events.htm (498 words)

	Amazon.com: "Vasily Pavlovich": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In another house one could visit old Vasily Pavlovich, son of the headman Baibalchan who was taken away by the Soviet secret police in 1928 and never seen again.
		Vasily Pavlovich Akesenov - Russian writer and novelist Joseph Brodsky - Russian poet Yuli Daniel (pseudonym: Nicolay Arzhak) - Russian author/translator P...
		Vasily Pavlovich Vorontsov (1847-1918) was a Russian liberal Populist who argued that capitalism could not be implanted in Russia.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Vasily-Pavlovich (487 words)

	Vasily Aksyonov Criticism
		In the review below, he asserts that the model for Aksyonov's Generations of Winter is Tolstoy's War and Peace and praises Aksyonov's realistic descriptions, calling the novel "absorbing" and claiming that "everything rings true."
		In the following review, Lingeman comments on Aksyonov's In Search of Melancholy Baby, noting that the book, an account of Aksyonov's life in America after his expulsion from the Soviet Union, provides many witty and satirical insights into life in both countries.
		In the following brief review, Aksyonov's use of satire in The Island of Crimea is compared to the satirical elements found in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
	www.bookrags.com /criticisms/Vasily_Aksyonov (565 words)

	Actors - Vasily Livanov
		Vasily Borisovich Livanov (born 19 July, 1935) is one of the most easily recognizable Russian film actors and the only one to receive an Order of the British Empire (of the second degree, for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes).
		Vasily was brought up in the artistic milieu, as many of the greatest Russian actors (such as Olga Knipper
		His breakthrough role came in the 1963 adaptation of Vasily Aksyonov's Colleagues, in which he co-starred with Vasily Lanovoy
	listing-index.ebay.com /actors/Vasily_Livanov.html (354 words)

	Russian literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The "Westernization" of Russia (commonly associated with the names of Tsar Peter the Great and Tsarina Catherine the Great) coincided with a reform of the Russian alphabet and increased tolerance of the idea of employing the popular language for general literary purposes.
		Authors like Dmitri Kantemir, Vasily Trediakovsky, and Mikhail Lomonosov in the earlier 18th century paved the way for poets like Derzhavin, playwrights like Sumarokov and Fonvizin, and prose writers like Karamzin and Radishchev.
		Generations of winter (in Russian: ”Moskovskaya saga”), a novel by the Russian writer Vasily Aksyonov, has appeared in the USA.
	russian-literature.kiwiki.homeip.net (1076 words)

	Moscow Saga -- Flambers Drugstore
		There is no national monument to the victims of the repressions, nor has there been anything remotely resembling an official apology to the victims or their families.
		Dmitry Barshevsky, the director of Moscow Saga, which is based on Vasily Aksyonov's novel Generations of Winter said: "My wife's aunt and Aksyonov's mother were prisoners together and shared quarters at the camp in Magadan in Stalin's time.
		> >Dmitry Barshevsky, the director of Moscow Saga, which >is based on Vasily Aksyonov's novel Generations of >Winter said: "My wife's aunt and Aksyonov's mother >were prisoners together and shared quarters at the >camp in Magadan in Stalin's time.
	www.voy.com /122776/1681.html (1891 words)

	Russian Tycoon Starts Opposition Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Among those Berezovsky announced as founding fathers of the new party are such well-known public figures as former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's right-hand man Alexander Yakovlev, who was active in pushing through the policies of restructuring that led to the eventual collapse of Communist power.
		The group also includes writer Vasily Aksyonov, formerly a dissident against Soviet rule who settled in the United States, film director Stanislav Govorukhin and theater director Yuri Lyubimov, who was also a dissident and immigrated to Israel.
		The other four are actors Oleg Menshikov and Sergei Bodrov Jr.; political analyst Otto Latsis, who writes for Berezovsky's Noviye Izvestia daily; and Igor Shabdurasulov, former deputy head of the Kremlin administration, who quit after disagreeing with many of Putin's policies.
	www.newsmax.com /articles/?a=2000/8/9/175643 (512 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents
		MOSCOW -- President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, apologizing for two decades of political repression, has restored the citizenship of exiled writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn and 22 other literary, scientific and cultural figures, officials said yesterday.
		In addition to Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel laureate charged with treason in 1974, Gorbachev's presidential decree returns citizenship to chess champion Victor Korchnoi; writers Vasily Aksyonov, Vladimir Voinovich, Lev Kopelev, Georgi Vladimov and Valeri Tarsis, who died in exile in 1983; scientists Yuri Orlov and Valeri Chalidze; and artist Oskar Rabin, Soviet media reported.
		The names of the other 12 were not announced.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/nobel/1990/1990r.html (371 words)

	Russian culture navigator
		The well-known Russian writer Vasily Aksyonov won the Booker-Open Russia-2004 prize for his novel "Voltairiens and Voltairiennes".
		"Aksyonov is doubtless an outstanding writer and one of major contemporary authors, at least in the Russian literature," said the head of the Booker-Open Russia jury, writer Vladimir Voynovich.
		We didn't take into account the age or generation factors, we simply chose the best novel, and decided that it should be Aksyonov's.
	www.vor.ru /culture/cultarch316_eng.html (1189 words)

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		In the sixties and seventies, a second wave of modernism emerged in Soviet literature: futurist, surrealist, abstractionist and expressionist trends were revived in literature, painting, and music.
		It is all the more significant that later, in the seventies and eighties, a second wave of postmodernism arose in opposition to the "neo-modernist" generation of the sixties.
		Editor: Poet Andrei Voznesensky (1933-) and prose writer Vasily Aksyonov (1932-) were leaders of the 60s generation and were associated with the youth theme in post-Stalinist literature.
	www.emory.edu /INTELNET/af.rus.postmodernism.html (9838 words)

	Hoover Institution - Hoover Digest - Soviet Dissent and the Cold War
		Sinyavsky and Daniel served out their labor camp terms, but the Soviet Union never again imprisoned a writer for his writing.
		Alexander Solzhenitsyn was forcibly exiled, and Vladimir Voinovich, Vasily Aksyonov, and Georgy Vladimov emigrated under pressure.
		But in the meantime they and other writers were able to create the noncommunist Russian literature that helped to sustain the cultural and moral values of more than one generation of Soviet citizens.
	www.hoover.org /publications/digest/3058591.html (1515 words)

	Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Bigotry Monitor: Volume 4, Number 41
		As another example of the same strategy, he pointed to the apparent paradox of President Vladimir Putin allowing the restoration of the name Stalingrad (now Volgograd) on a World War II memorial in September and then in October sending a wreath to a service for victims of Stalin's terror.
		"Moscow Saga" is based on a novel by the celebrated writer Vasily Aksyonov, a former dissident who spent many years in the United States and returned to Russia after 1989.
		The 24-part series, now No. 1 in the television ratings, will be followed on state television by the 16-part dramatization of another major novel about the period, Anatoly Rybakov's "Children of the Arbat," suppressed in the Brezhnev era and finally published in 1987 under the aegis of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost.
	www.fsumonitor.com /stories/111904Bigotry.shtml (3170 words)

	Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 99013313
		The Library of Congress makes no claims as to the accuracy of the information provided, and will not maintain or otherwise edit/update the information supplied by the publisher.
		A leading Soviet writer, Vassily Aksyonov was forced to emigrate from the Soviet Union in 1980 after frequent clashes with government authorities made it increasingly difficult for him to publish there.
		Aksyonov currently lives with his wife in Fairfax, Virginia, and is a professor at George Mason University.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/bios/random059/99013313.html (144 words)

	BatesNow \| May 17, 2000 \| Bates commencement slated for May 29; Tutu to speak
		In his many years as chairman, president and chief executive officer of Random House, one of the major publishing houses in the United States, Bernstein seized every opportunity to give a voice to persecuted minorities and to defend authors from attempts to silence them or restrict their freedom of expression.
		Under his leadership, Random House published authors banned in the former Soviet Union and elsewhere, including Andrei Sakharov, Elena Bonner, Vaclav Havel, Jacobo Timerman, Lev Kopelev and Vasily Aksyonov.
		Bernstein also founded the Fund for Free Expression (FFE), an independent human rights group that included many well-known U.S. writers, including E.L. Doctorow, Anthony Lewis and Toni Morrison, concerned with freedom of expression.
	www.bates.edu /x937.xml (1268 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The twenties became the nostalgic model for this neo-modernism of the sixties as presented in Andrei Voznesensky and Vasily Aksyonov.
		For such postmodernists as Ilya Kabakov, Boris Grois, or Dmitri Prigov there are no figures more adversarial, than Malevich, Khlebnikov, and other modernists of the early 20th century, not speaking about the latter's successors in the sixties such as Andrei Voznesensky or Vassily Aksyonov.
		Consequently, this postmodern generation feels a sort of nostalgia precisely for the typical Soviet lifestyle and the art of social realism which provides them with congenial ideological material for their conceptual works.
	www3.iath.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.193/sympos-2.193 (6792 words)

	John Glad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Co-translator (together with Christopher Morris): Generation of Winter, by Vasily Aksyonov, Random House - Times Books, 1994.
		Co-translator (together with Christopher Morris): Prison and Peace, by Vasily Aksyonov, Random House (manuscript completed and accepted).
		Co-translator (together with Christopher Morris): The Winter's Hero, by Vasily Aksyonov, Random House - Times Books, 1996.
	litcatalog.al.ru /personalii/glad/glag.html (2664 words)

	Casey Harison \| Teaching the French Revolution: Lessons and Imagery from Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Textbooks \| ...
		Revisionist interpretations beginning with the work of François Furet in the 1970s and 1980s, which cast the Terror as integral to any understanding of the French Revolution, have partly contributed to the practice of disengaging it from the American Revolution.
		Describing the "literary impact" of the two revolutions, she writes that the perceived "polarity" between the two "became an important topos in the discourse of the repudiation of Communism in Europe (in the late 1980s).
		To repudiate the Bolshevik Revolution was also to repudiate the French Revolution, of which it was seen as a successor and fulfillment, and to acclaim the American Revolution as a positive model;" Sontag and Aksyonov, "The Literary Impact of the American and French Revolutions," 627.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ht/35.2/harrison.html (9970 words)

	Aksenov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Interview with Aksyonov about his book The Winter's Hero, which examines Cold War-era Russia in the 1950s.
		Picture of Aksenov with a little bit about the author.
		Writer Vasily Aksenov with artists Gennady and Elena Zolotnitsky.
	it.stlawu.edu /~rkreuzer/ltrn101/aksenov.htm (130 words)

	Johnson's Russia List Issue
		Itar-Tass: Murder of Yatsina "Monstrous Brutality": Vasily Aksyonov.
		Aksyonov does not think that there exists in the West "any vicious desire to
		Aksyonov recalled Anatoly Sobchak's words: if the Chechen militants are
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/4153.html (6251 words)

	Faculty and Staff \|\| Bucknell University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One of the main goals of Professor Yastremski's research is to bring Russian literature and culture to a broad array of US audiences.
		He has published several successful translations of works by prominent Soviet writers and poets: a collection of Vasily Aksyonov's stories Surplussed Barrelware, a collection of Marina Tsvetaeva's poetry, After Russia, and, most recently, Andrei Sinyanski's controversial book Strolls with Pushkin.
		Professor Yastremski received Columbia University's Translation Center Award and AATSEEL's Best Translation of the Year award for his most recent effort.
	www.bucknell.edu /x980.xml (967 words)

	»»literature Reviews««
		Nabokov once made an interesting comment in an interview, he said(this is not a quote, just a paraphrase) that he could write a perfect description of a sunset or a crawling insect, however the problems arose if he were to ask directions to the nearest convenience store.
		While few fictional books stand the weather of time (in this case, the Cold War, its thawing before then warming into something entirely new), Vasily Aksyonov's "The Burn" has manaaged to, and I expect will always, endure.
		The author, whose mother was the famous and very courageous Elena Ginsburg who wrote of her prison experiences ("Journey into the Whirlwind"), was trained as a medical doctor and had merged into literary circles, encountering virtually everyone from Steinbeck to the Metropol before being personally exiled by Brehznev.
	www.financial-book-review.com /literature/literature_389.html (2691 words)

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