Anatoly Pristavkin

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Anatoly Pristavkin


Born
in Lyubertsy, Russian Federation
October 17, 1931

Died
July 11, 2008


Anatoly Ignatovich Pristavkin (Russian: Анатолий Игнатьевич Приставкин)was a prominent Russian writer and public figure.

His mother died when he was nine and his father died in World War II, leaving Anatoly orphan. After spending several years in Soviet orphanages, Anatoly Pristavkin had to start working from the age of 14 onwards, and had various jobs. He started a career as a writer in 1961 and later became a lecturer at a university. Pristavkin became famous in the USSR for his novel «Ночевала тучка золотая…» translated into English as "The Inseparable Twins", which describes the miserable conditions of orphans' life in an orphanage near Moscow during the years of World War II and the re-settlement to Chechnya in 1944, as Chechens had bee
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Ночевала тучка золотая

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أفراخ الوقواق

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Солдат и мальчик

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مذكرات معاصر

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Долина смертной тени. Тихая...

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Долина смертной тени

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Синдром пьяного сердца

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“Боже мой, как жизнь коротка, и как тяжко думать и загадывать наперёд, особенно когда мы уже всё, всё знаем...

А дети, как и я до той поры, живут, не ведая ни о чём преходящем, и потому бессмертны они.”
Anatoly Pristavkin, Ночевала тучка золотая

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