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Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin (; ; 15 March 193714 March 2015) was a Soviet and Russian writer. He was born and lived much of his life in the
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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.


Biography

Valentin Rasputin was born in the village of
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in East Siberian Oblast. His father, Grigory Rasputin, worked for a village cooperative store, and his mother was a nurse. Soon after his birth the Rasputin family moved to the village of in the same
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, where Rasputin spent his childhood.Валентин Григорьевич Распутин (Valentin Rasputin)
/ref> Both villages, then located on the banks of the
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, do not exist in their original locations any more, as the
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flooded much of the Angara Valley in the 1960s, and the villages were relocated to higher ground. Later, the writer remembered growing up in Siberia as a difficult, but happy time:
"As soon as we kids learned how to walk, we would toddle to the river with our fishing rods; still a tender child, we would run to the
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, which would begin right outside the village, to pick
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and
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s; since young age, we would get into a boat and take the oars..."Valentin Grigoriyevich Rasputin, biography
When Rasputin finished the 4-year elementary school in Atalanka in 1948, his parents sent the precocious boy to a middle school and then to high school in the district center, Ust-Uda, some 50 km away from his home village. He became the first child from his village to continue his education in this way.Ivan Pankeev (Иван ПАНКЕЕВ

Rasputin graduated from
Irkutsk University Irkutsk State University () was founded in October 1918 in Irkutsk, Siberia. Nowadays Irkutsk State University is a scientific and educational institution training students in humanities, natural, technical and applied sciences. ISU facilities ...
in 1959 and started working for local
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newspapers in
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and
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. He published his first short-story in 1961. An important point in Rasputin's early literary career was a young writers' seminar in September 1965 in Chita led by Vladimir Chivilikhin ( Владимир Чивилихин), who encouraged the young writer's literary aspirations and recommended him for membership in the prestigious
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. Since then Rasputin has considered Chivilikhin his "literary godfather". In 1967, after the publication of his ''Money for Maria'', Rasputin was indeed admitted to the Union of Soviet Writers. Over the next three decades he published a number of novels – many became both widely popular among the Russian reading public and critically acclaimed. In 1980, after researching the
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for two years, Rasputin was
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by an
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priest in nearby
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.Interview with Rasputin on his 65th birthday
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Rasputin's literary work is closely connected to his activism on social and environmental issues. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Rasputin, called by some the leading figure of the "Siberian environmental lobby", took an active part in the campaign for protection of
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and against the diversion of Siberian fresh water to
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n republics. In the 1990s he participated in the
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opposition movement. Having spent most of his adult life in Irkutsk, Rasputin remained one of the leading intellectual figures of this Siberian city. He was a guest for many events in the city of Irkutsk, including the unveilings of the monuments to Tsar Alexander III,
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and
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. He organized the readers' conference in Irkutsk Central Scientific Library named after Molchanov-Sibirsky. Rasputin's daughter Maria died in the 2006 crash of
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, and his wife died six years later. He died in
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on 14 March 2015, a day short of his 78th birthday.
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of the Russian Orthodox Church conducted his funeral service, and President
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paid his respects.


Rasputin's writing

Rasputin is closely associated with a movement in post-war Soviet literature known as
Village Prose Village prose (, or Деревенская литература) was a movement in Soviet literature beginning during the Khrushchev Thaw, which included works that focused on the Soviet rural communities. Some point to the critical essays on col ...
(деревенская проза). Beginning in the time of the
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(оттепель), village prose was praised for its stylistic and thematic departures from socialist realism. Village prose works usually focused on the hardships of the Soviet peasantry, espoused an idealized picture of traditional village life, and implicitly or explicitly criticized official modernization projects. Rasputin's 1979 novel ''
Farewell to Matyora ''Farewell to Matyora'' () is a 1976 novel by Valentin Rasputin. The novel treats Rasputin's major theme of the baneful impact of industrialization and urbanization on peasant life.Rina Lapidus, ''Passion, Humiliation, Revenge: Hatred in Man-Woman ...
'', which depicts a fictional Siberian village which is to be evacuated and cleared so that a
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can be constructed further down the
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, was considered the epitome of this genre.Kathleen Parthe (1992) ''Russian Village Prose: The Radiant Past''. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. The opening paragraph below is a good example of Rasputin's writing style (exceptional even for the village prose writers), and the novel's theme of natural cycles disrupted by modernization:
''Once more spring had come, one more in the never-ending cycle, but for Matyora this spring would be the last, the last for both the island and the village that bore the same name. Once more, rumbling passionately, the ice broke, piling up mounds on the banks, and the liberated Angara River opened up, stretching out into a mighty, sparkling flow. Once more the water gushed boisterously at the island’s upper tip, before cascading down both channels of the riverbed; once more greenery flared on the ground and in the greens, the first rains soaked the earth, the swifts and swallows flew back, and at dusk in the bogs the awakened frogs croaked their love of life. It had all happened many times before.'' (From Rasputin's novel ''Farewell to Matyora'', translated by Antonina W. Bouis, 1979)
Rasputin's nonfiction works contain similar themes, often in support of relevant political causes. He directed particularly trenchant criticism at large-scale
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building, like the project that flooded his own hometown, and
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projects, like the diversion of the Siberian rivers to Central Asia. He argued that these projects were destructive not simply in an ecological sense, but in a moral sense as well. In ''
Siberia, Siberia ''Siberia, Siberia'' () is a non-fiction book by the Russian writer Valentin Rasputin. It was originally published in Russian in 1991 by Molodaya Gvardiya (publisher), Molodaya Gvardiya (Young Guard). The second and third editions appeared in 20 ...
'' (first published in 1991), Rasputin compares what he considers modern
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with the traditional beliefs of the people of
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, who believed in
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. According to Rasputin, when burying their dead, the Russkoye Ustye settlers would often bore a hole in the
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, to make it easier for the soul to come back to be reborn; but if the deceased was a bad person, they would drive an
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stake through the grave, to keep his soul from ever coming back into the world of living again. The writer is not ambiguous as to which category the souls of the "modernizers" should belong:
''When reflecting on the actions of today's " river-rerouting" father figures, who are destroying our sacred national treasures up hill and down with the haste of an invading army, you involuntarily turn to this experience: it would not be a bad idea for them to know that not everything is forgiven at the time of death.''
Some critics accused Rasputin of idealizing village life and slipping into anti-modern polemics. The journal ''Voprosy literatury'' published an ongoing debate on the question, "Is the Village Prose of Valentin Rasputin Anti-Modern?"''Voprosy literatury'': “Is Rasputin’s Rural Prose Antimodern?”/Current Digest of the Soviet Press vol. XXIX, no. 24 (pp. 14–15, 24): 1972


Political views

By the end of
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Rasputin became publicly active. He criticized
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's reforms from patriotic and
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positions. His repetition (at the 1st
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) of
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's statement "You need great upheavals. We need a great country" («Вам нужны великие потрясения. Нам нужна великая страна») made it a phrase commonly used by the anti-liberal opposition. He also signed several open letters, most notably the "Letter of Russian Writers" (also known as the " Letter of Seventy Four") addressed to the
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and the
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and published in the '' Literary Newspaper'' and '' Nash Sovremennik'' in 1990. 74 writers expressed concern regarding the rise of
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in mass media and "fabrication of the "Russian fascism" myth while the
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ideology is getting quick rehabilitation and idealization". The letter was criticized by opponents who labeled the signers as "antisemites"; many of them later signed what is considered their answer — the "
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". Rasputin himself argued that his alleged antisemitic statements have been exaggerated and taken out of context. In July 1991, Rasputin along with 11 other public and political figures signed another open letter " A Word to the People". In 1992, Valentin Rasputin joined the National Salvation Front (a coalition of radical opposition forces), nominally belonging to its leadership. He later supported the
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and its leader,
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. In 2014, he signed a public letter supporting the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014.


Awards

*
USSR State Prize The USSR State Prize () was one of the Soviet Union’s highest civilian honours, awarded from its establishment in September 1966 until the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. It recognised outstanding contributions in the fields of science, mathem ...
, 1977. The prize was awarded for his novel ''To Live and Remember'', the protagonist of which was a
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during the
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. *
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, 1984 *
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, 1988. *
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, 2000


Bibliography

* Василий и Василиса, 1966 (''Vasili and Vasilissa''; Published in English translation by
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, 1981) * Деньги для Марии, 1967 (''Money for Maria''; Published in English translation by Raduga Publishers, 1998) * Последний срок, 1970 (''The Last Term'') * Живи и помни, 1974 (''Live and Remember''; Published in English translation by Northwestern University Press, 1992) * Прощание с Матёрой, 1976 (''
Farewell to Matyora ''Farewell to Matyora'' () is a 1976 novel by Valentin Rasputin. The novel treats Rasputin's major theme of the baneful impact of industrialization and urbanization on peasant life.Rina Lapidus, ''Passion, Humiliation, Revenge: Hatred in Man-Woman ...
''; Published in English translation by Northwestern University Press, 1991) * Век живи — век люби: Рассказы, 1982 (''You Live and Love: Stories''; Published in English translation by Vanguard Press, 1986) * Пожар, 1985 (''The Fire'') * Дочь Ивана, Мать Ивана, 2004 ("Ivan's daughter, Ivan's mother") *''Siberia on Fire: Stories and Essays'', 1989 (compiled and translated into English by Gerald Mikkelson and Margaret Winchell for
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) *''What Should I Tell the Crow?'', (short story), from ''The New Soviet Fiction'', Abbeville Press, 1989 *''Ivan’s Daughter: Short Stories and a Novella'', 2016 (compiled and translated into English by Margaret Winchell for Three String Books, an imprint of Slavica Publishers) Non-fiction: * Сибирь, Сибирь..., 1991 (English translation: ''
Siberia, Siberia ''Siberia, Siberia'' () is a non-fiction book by the Russian writer Valentin Rasputin. It was originally published in Russian in 1991 by Molodaya Gvardiya (publisher), Molodaya Gvardiya (Young Guard). The second and third editions appeared in 20 ...
''. Translated by Margaret Winchell, Gerald Mikkelson.
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, 1996.
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Adaptations

*1969 — ''Rudolfio'', dir.
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— story of the same name *1978 — ''French Lessons'', dir.
Yevgeny Tashkov Yevgeny Ivanovich Tashkov (; 18 December 1926 — 15 February 2012) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and actor known for his spy movies as well as a comedy ''Come Tomorrow, Please...'' that made a name for his wife Ekaterina Sa ...
— story of the same name *1979 — ''Money for Maria'', dir. György Lengyel (
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) — story of the same name *1980 — ''The Last Frontier'', dir. Timo Bergholm (
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) — novel ''The Last Term'' *1980 — ''Meeting'', dir. Alexander Itygilov — story of the same name *1980 — ''Selling Bear Fur'', dir. Alexander Itygilov — story of the same name *1981 — '' Farewell'', dir.
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— novel ''
Farewell to Matyora ''Farewell to Matyora'' () is a 1976 novel by Valentin Rasputin. The novel treats Rasputin's major theme of the baneful impact of industrialization and urbanization on peasant life.Rina Lapidus, ''Passion, Humiliation, Revenge: Hatred in Man-Woman ...
'' *1983 — ''We Live and Love'' from the ''Special Case'' anthology, dir. Valery Pendrakovsky — story of the same name *1981 — ''Vasily and Vasilisa'', dir. Irina Poplavskaya — story of the same name *1985 — ''Money for Maria'', dir. Vladimir Andreev, Viktor Khramov — story of the same name *1987 — ''Farewell, Little Island'', dir.
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(Hungary) — novel ''Farewell to Matyora'' *1991 — ''Rudolfio'', dir. Vasily Davidchuk — story of the same name *2008 — ''Live and Remember'', dir.
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— novel of the same name


See also

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Village Prose Village prose (, or Деревенская литература) was a movement in Soviet literature beginning during the Khrushchev Thaw, which included works that focused on the Soviet rural communities. Some point to the critical essays on col ...


References


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