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Boris Lvovich Vasilyev ( Russian: Борис Львович Васильев; 21 May 1924 – 11 March 2013) was a Soviet and Russian writer and screenwriter. He is considered the last representative of the so-called lieutenant prose, a group of former low-ranking Soviet officers who dramatized their traumatic World War II experience.
Mar 14, 2013 · The legendary Russian writer and dramatist Boris Vasilyev, author of “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” (a novel that has been made into a play, a film and a Chinese TV series), “Do Not Shoot at...
Mar 13, 2013 · March 11 2013, the famous Russian writer Boris Lvovich Vasilyev died at the age of 88 years. With this article we open a series of materials about the generation of Soviet, and later Russian, writers who were able to survive the Great Patriotic War, and later tell us about it in the pages of their books.
Boris Lvovich Vasilyev was a Soviet writer. He is regarded to the group of representatives of the so-called "lieutenant prose", a group of former Soviet officers who dramatised their World War II experience. He has been published as a playwright since 1954, as a prose writer - since 1969.
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Boris Lvovich Vasilyev (Russian: Борис Львович Васильев; 21 May 1924 – 11 March 2013) was a Soviet and Russian writer and screenwriter. He is considered the last representative of the so-called lieutenant prose, a group of former low-ranking Soviet officers who dramatized their traumatic World War II experience.
Born into a family of Russian nobility. His father Lev Aleksandrovich Vasilyev (1892—1968) came from a dynasty of military officers; he served in the Imperial Russian Army and took part in the First World War in the rank of Poruchik before joining the Red Army. Vasilyev's mother Yelena Nikolayevna Alekseyeva (1892—1978) belonged to a noble Alekseyev family tree that traces its history back to the 15th century; her father was among the founders of the Circle of Tchaikovsky.
In 1941, Boris Vasilyev volunteered for the front line and joined a destruction battalion. He fought as part of the 3rd Guards Airborne Division up until 1943 when he was wounded in action and demobilized. After his World War II service, Vasilyev enrolled at the Malinovsky Tank Academy.
His short novel The Dawns Here Are Quiet was a Soviet bestseller, selling 1.8 million copies within a year after its publication in 1969. It was adapted for the stage and the screen; there is also an opera by Kirill Molchanov, and a Chinese TV series based on the story.
was the first of Vasilyev's sentimental patriotic tales of female heroism in the Second World War ("Not on the Active List", 1974; "Tomorrow Was the War", 1984) which brought him renown in the Soviet Union, China, and other communist countries. Some of his books give a harsh picture of life in Stalin's Russia.
Vasilyev's short novel Do Not Shoot at White Swans (1973), a milestone of Russian-language environmental fiction, is sharply critical of "the senseless destruction of beautiful creatures and the exploitation of nature for personal gain". It was made into a 1980 Soviet film.
Vasilyev was awarded the USSR State Prize for 1975 and was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1989, he quit the Communist Party but grew disillusioned with the Perestroika rather quickly. In October 1993, he signed the Letter of Forty-Two. Late in life, Vasilyev turned to historical fiction based on incidents from medieval Russian chronicles.
Boris Vasilyev has 73 books on Goodreads with 5560 ratings. Boris Vasilyev’s most popular book is А зори здесь тихие...
Boris Vasilev was born on 21 May 1924 in Smolensk, Smolenskaya guberniya, RSFSR, USSR [now Smolenskaya oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for Ivanov kater (1972), Korolevskaya regata (1966) and An Ordinary Trip (1958).
