WRITER

Anatoly Rybakov

1911 - 1998

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Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov (Russian: Анато́лий Нау́мович Рыбако́в; 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1911 – 23 December 1998) was a Soviet and Russian writer, the author of the anti-Stalinist Children of the Arbat trilogy, the novel Heavy Sand, and many popular children books including Adventures of Krosh, Dirk and Bronze Bird. One of the last of his works was his memoir The Novel of Memoirs (Роман-Воспоминание) telling about all the different people (from Stalin and Yeltsin, to Okudzhava and Tendryakov) he met during his long life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anatoly Rybakov has received more than 97,639 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Anatoly Rybakov is the 2,922nd most popular writer (down from 2,705th in 2019), the 430th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 375th in 2019) and the 55th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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  • 53.19

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.50

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  • 3.94

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Notable Works

Children of the Arbat
Fiction, History
1988
Deti Arbata
Fiction, History, Terror
1987
Fear
History, Fiction
1993
Ti︠a︡zhelyĭ pesok
Fiction, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jews
1979
Roman-vospominanie
Authors, Russian, Biography, Russian Authors
1997
Dust and ashes
World War, 1939-1945, Fiction, Soviet union, fiction
1996
Ti︠a︡zhelyĭ pesok
Fiction, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jews
1979
Dust and ashes
World War, 1939-1945, Fiction, Soviet union, fiction
1996
Fear
History, Fiction
1993
Roman-vospominanie
Authors, Russian, Biography, Russian Authors
1997
Deti Arbata
Fiction, History, Terror
1987
Children of the Arbat
Fiction, History
1988
Ti︠a︡zhelyĭ pesok
Fiction, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jews
1979
Fear
History, Fiction
1993
Roman-vospominanie
Authors, Russian, Biography, Russian Authors
1997
Dust and ashes
World War, 1939-1945, Fiction, Soviet union, fiction
In his long-awaited novel Dust and Ashes, Anatoli Rybakov boldly brings to life the seminal event of the modern era - World War II - from the Russian perspective. As Stalin and Hitler clash, Red Army tanks advance, and the struggle that changed the course of the twentieth century plays out on the battlefields, Rybakov brings his epic story of the Soviet experience to its spectacular conclusion. Heralded by critics as a twentieth-century Tolstoy, Anatoli Rybakov won international acclaim in 1988 as the first Soviet novelist to describe - with shocking candor and poignancy - life under Stalin's brutal dictatorship. Suppressed by the Soviet Union for over twenty years, his Children of the Arbat presented a masterful psychological portrait of Stalin and his impact on a circle of young friends living in Moscow's intellectual and artistic center, the Arbat. Rybakov continued his story of "the children of the revolution" in Fear, which recounted a once-hopeful generation's descent into terror during the era of Stalin's purges. Dust and Ashes, the trilogy's final volume, is the epic's most dramatic. Spanning the years 1937 to 1943, Rybakov picks up the narrative as Stalin's egomania undermines the Red Army - just when the Russian people face the Nazi onslaught. Rybakov returns to the Arbat circle and follows his central figure; Sasha Pankratov, who emerges from despairing exile to join the army's tank corps. Thrust into the most savage and crucial fighting, Sasha is both participant and witness to cruelty and bravery amid senseless slaughter. And - at the height of the battle - he reunites with his lost love, Varya.
1996
Deti Arbata
Fiction, History, Terror
1987
Children of the Arbat
Fiction, History
1988

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anatoly Rybakov ranks 2,922 out of 7,302. Before him are Jean-François Revel, Tony Robbins, Jack Higgins, Tomaž Šalamun, Albert of Aix, and Acusilaus. After him are Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Glen Cook, David Gemmell, Juan Pablo Bonet, Rose Ausländer, and Pascal Bruckner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Anatoly Rybakov ranks 142. Before him are Hans Münch, Jiří Sobotka, Clara Rockmore, Gabriel Almond, Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, and Son Sann. After him are Marta Hillers, Hervé Bazin, E. F. Schumacher, Rafael Arnaiz Barón, Ljubiša Broćić, and Hans von Ohain. Among people deceased in 1998, Anatoly Rybakov ranks 113. Before him are Benjamin Spock, Mary Cartwright, Joan Hickson, Birger Ruud, Hide, and Clara Rockmore. After him are Genrich Altshuller, Mancur Olson, Jean Leray, Bahi Ladgham, Hans von Ohain, and Theodor Oberländer.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Anatoly Rybakov ranks 430 out of 1,365. Before him are Klim Churyumov (1937), Joseph Schmidt (1904), Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880), Ingeborg of Kiev (1100), Grigory Yavlinsky (1952), and Oleksandr Moroz (1944). After him are Rose Ausländer (1901), Malusha (null), Ber Borochov (1881), Ivan Puluj (1845), Leonid Kanevsky (1939), and Isaac Boleslavsky (1919).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Anatoly Rybakov ranks 55. Before him are Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1864), Valentin Kataev (1897), Maximilian Voloshin (1877), Israel Zolli (1881), Lev Kopelev (1912), and Panteleimon Kulish (1819). After him are Rose Ausländer (1901), Yury Olesha (1899), Yury Vlasov (1935), Nikolay Nosov (1908), Abraham Goldfaden (1840), and Demyan Bedny (1883).

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