Valentin Rasputin
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Born | 15 March 1937 Atalanka, Irkutsk Oblast, Russian SFSR |
Died | 14 March 2015 Moscow, Russia | (aged 77)
Alma mater | Irkutsk State University |
Genre | Fiction |
Notable works | Farewell to Matyora |
Valentin Grigoriyevich Rasputin (Russian: Валентин Григорьевич Распутин; 15 March 1937 – 14 March 2015) was a Russian writer. He was born and lived much of his life in the Irkutsk Oblast in Eastern Siberia.
Rasputin's works show rootless urban characters and the fight for survival of centuries-old traditional rural ways of life. Rasputin's work are about the hard questions of ethics and spiritual revival.
Rasputin died a day short of his 78th birthday on 14 March 2015 in Moscow.[1]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Умер писатель Валентин Распутин". Lenta. 15 March 2015.
Other websites
[change | change source] Media related to Valentin Rasputin at Wikimedia Commons