March 15, 1937, Ust-Uda village, East Siberian region, RSFSR, USSR - March 14, 2015, Moscow, Russian Federation.

Russian prose writer, representative of the so-called. " village prose».
Hero Socialist Labor (14.03.1987).

After graduating from primary school, he was forced to move alone fifty kilometers from home, where the secondary school was located (the famous story “French Lessons” - 1973) would later be created about this period. After school I entered the history department Faculty of Philology Irkutsk state university. IN student years he became a freelance correspondent for a youth newspaper. One of his essays caught the editor's attention. Later, this essay under the title “I forgot to ask Lyoshka” was published in the anthology “Angara” (1961).
After graduating from the university in 1959, Rasputin worked for several years in newspapers in Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk, and often visited the construction of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station and the Abakan-Taishet highway. Essays and stories about what he saw were later included in his collections “Bonfires of New Cities” and “The Land Near the Sky.”
In 1965, he showed several new stories to V. Chivilikhin, who came to Chita for a meeting of young writers of Siberia, who became the “godfather” of the aspiring prose writer. Among Russian classics, V. Rasputin considers Dostoevsky and Bunin to be his teachers.

Since 1966 - professional writer. Since 1967 - member of the Union of Writers of the USSR.

Valentin Rasputin's first book, “The Edge Near the Sky,” was published in Irkutsk in 1966. In 1967, the book “A Man from This World” was published in Krasnoyarsk. In the same year, the story “Money for Maria” was published in the Irkutsk almanac “Angara” (No. 4), and in 1968 it was published as a separate book in Moscow by the publishing house “Young Guard”.
The writer’s talent was revealed in full force in the story “ Deadline"(1970), declaring the author's maturity and originality.
This was followed by the story “French Lessons” (1973), the story “Live and Remember” (1974) and “Farewell to Matera” (1976).
In 1979 he joined the editorial board of the book series “ Literary monuments Siberia" East Siberian Book Publishing House (Irkutsk). In the 1980s, he was a member of the editorial board of the Roman-Gazeta magazine.
In 1981, new stories were published: “Natasha”, “What to convey to the crow”, “Live a century - love a century”.
The appearance of the story “Fire” in 1985, characterized by the severity and modernity of the problem, aroused great interest among the reader.
IN last years the writer devotes a lot of time and effort to social and journalistic activities without interrupting creativity. In 1995, his story “To the Same Land” was published; essays "Down the Lena River". Throughout the 1990s, he published a number of stories from the “Cycle of Stories about Senya Pozdnyakov”: Senya Rides (1994), Memorial Day (1996), In the Evening (1997), Unexpectedly (1997), Like a Neighbor (1998).
In 2004 he published the book “Ivan’s Daughter, Ivan’s Mother.”
In 2006, the third edition of the album of essays by the writer “Siberia, Siberia” was published (previous editions 1991, 2000).
In Irkutsk, works are included in the regional school curriculum in extracurricular reading.

prizes and awards

Order of Alexander Nevsky (September 1, 2011).
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (March 8, 2007).
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (October 28, 2002).
Two Orders of Lenin (1984, 03/14/1987).
Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1981).
Order of the Badge of Honor (1971).

Laureate State Prize Russian Federation for outstanding achievements in the field humanitarian activities 2012 (2013).
Laureate of the Presidential Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art (2003).
Laureate of the Russian Government Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of culture (2010).
Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1977) - for the story “Live and Remember” (1974).
Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1987) - for the story “Fire” (1985).
Laureate of the Irkutsk Komsomol Prize named after. Joseph Utkin (1968).
Winner of the award named after. L. N. Tolstoy (1992).
Laureate of the Prize of the Foundation for the Development of Culture and Art under the Committee of Culture of the Irkutsk Region (1994).
Winner of the award named after. St. Innocent of Irkutsk (1995).
Laureate of the Siberia magazine award named after. A. V. Zvereva.
Winner of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Prize (2000).
Laureate of the Literary Prize named after. F. M. Dostoevsky (2001).
Winner of the award named after. Alexander Nevsky “Russia's Faithful Sons” (2004).
Winner of the Best foreign novel of the year. XXI century" (China, 2005).
Laureate of the All-Russian literary prize named after Sergei Aksakov (2005).
Laureate of the International Foundation for the Unity of Orthodox Peoples Award (2011).
Winner of the " Yasnaya Polyana"(2012).
Honorary citizen of Irkutsk (1986).
Honorary citizen of the Irkutsk region (1998).

Soviet literature

Grigory Efimovich Rasputin

Biography

RASPUTIN Valentin Grigorievich (b. 03/15/1937), Russian writer and public figure.

Born on March 15 in the village of Ust-Uda, Irkutsk region, into a peasant family. After school he entered the Faculty of History and Philology Irkutsk University. During his student years, he became a freelance correspondent for a youth newspaper. One of his essays caught the editor's attention. Later, this essay under the title “I forgot to ask Leshka” was published in the anthology “Angara” (1961).

After graduating from university in 1959, Rasputin worked for several years in newspapers in Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk, and often visited construction sites. Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station and the Abakan - Taishet highway. Essays and stories about what he saw were later included in his collections “Bonfires of New Cities” and “The Land Near the Sky.”

In 1965, Rasputin showed several new stories to V. Chivilikhin, who came to Chita for a meeting of young writers of Siberia, who became “ godfather"Aspiring prose writer.

Rasputin's first book of stories, “A Man from This World,” was published in 1967 in Krasnoyarsk. In the same year, the story “Money for Maria” was published.

The writer’s talent was revealed in full force in the story “The Deadline” (1970), declaring the maturity and originality of the author.

This was followed by the stories “Live and Remember” (1974) and “Farewell to Matera” (1976), which placed their author among the best modern Russian writers.

In 1981, new stories were published: “Natasha”, “What to convey to the crow”, “Live a century - love a century”.

The appearance of Rasputin’s story “Fire” in 1985, distinguished by its acuteness and modernity of the problem, aroused great interest among the reader.

In recent years, the writer has devoted a lot of time and effort to social and journalistic activities, without interrupting his creativity. In 1995, his story “To the Same Land” was published; essays “Down the Lenerek”; in 1996 - the stories “Memorial Day”; in 1997 - “Unexpectedly”; “Father's Limits” (“Vision” and “In the Evening”). Lives and works in Irkutsk.

A native Siberian from the village. Ust-Uda on the Angara, now flooded by the reservoir of the Bratsk hydroelectric power station. He graduated from Irkutsk University in 1959. He began publishing in the local press with essays and stories marked by undoubted talent, but at the level of Siberian-taiga romance. Rasputin's major success, which brought him literary fame, was the story “Money for Maria” (1967), which expressed the main idea of ​​the writer - the triumph of goodness and justice over the world of self-interest and self-will. Rasputin was then ranked by the capital's evaluators among the writers of “village prose,” although he was never limited to descriptions even in terms of plot rural life. Developed literary success Rasputin's subsequent novels and short stories ("Deadline", 1970, "Live and Remember", 1974, "Farewell to Matera", 1976, etc.). The images of his heroes express the enormous spiritual wealth of the Russian person - kindness, conscientiousness, love for the Motherland, responsiveness, compassion, mutual assistance, cordiality, generosity, non-covetousness.

A person can live fully only with love for the Motherland, preserving in his soul the centuries-old traditions of his people. In the story “Farewell to Matera,” Rasputin shows how Russian people feel about the destruction of their national peace"in the name of progress." By order from above, one of the many Russian villages must disappear from the face of the earth and be flooded. The peasants are forcibly resettled to another place - to a “promising” village, built by mediocre “specialists” alien to the Russian people, without love for the people who live here." A simple Russian woman, Daria, has been resisting for five years, defending her an old house and the entire village from the pogrom. For her, Matera and her home are the embodiment of the Motherland. Daria defends not the old hut, but the Motherland, where her grandfathers and great-grandfathers lived, and every log not only of hers, but also of her ancestors. Her Russian heart hurts - “like on fire it, Christ’s, burns and burns, aches and aches.” As the critic Yu. Seleznev accurately noted: “The name of the island and the village - Matera - is not accidental for Rasputin. Matera is, of course, ideologically figuratively connected with such generic concepts, like a mother (mother is the Earth, mother is the Motherland), the continent is the land surrounded on all sides by the ocean (the island of Matera is like a “small continent”). The cosmopolitan onslaught of so-called world progress, the transformation of man into a soulless cog in the consumer world, destroys spiritual civilization and undermines the foundations of the Orthodox worldview, which Daria so staunchly defends. Betraying your small homeland, a person loses the origins of the most important thing in life, degrades as a person, his life becomes gray and aimless. An event in the ideological life of society was Rasputin’s story “Fire” (1985). This is a stern artistic warning about the impending national misfortune: spiritual decline, followed by social decline. With the beginning of “perestroika,” Rasputin, who had previously avoided the bustle of the meeting, became involved in a broad socio-political struggle. He was one of the most active opponents of the sabotage "turn" northern rivers"(Berger's project was canceled in July 1987). In 1989−91 - deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, gave passionate patriotic speeches, for the first time quoted the words of P. A. Stolypin about “great Russia” (“You need great upheavals, we need great Russia"). Member of the leadership of the Russian National Council and the Front national salvation. Then he publicly declared that “politics is a dirty business.”

Grigory Efimovich Rasputin (01/21/1869 - 12/30/1916), real name New ones. Rasputin G.E. born in the Tyumen province in the village of Pokrovskoye. Grigory Efimovich was recognized as a healer, although he had no education. Grigory received the nickname “Rasputin,” which later became his surname, for his dissolute lifestyle in the village.

In 1890, he married fellow villager Praskovya Fedorovna, whose marriage led to the birth of three children.

In 1892, Rasputin made his first pilgrimage to the Perm monastery on Verkhotur. After Rasputin reaches Athos - a Greek monastery, and then reaches Jerusalem. When Gregory returned to Pokrovskoye, he declared himself chosen by God, possessing a healing and miraculous gift.

In 1900, Rasputin went to Kyiv, where he met with Archimandrite Chrysanthus. The Archimandrite sends him to St. Petersburg to the Theological Academy to Father Theophan, where he arrives in 1903.

In 1905, rumors about the healer reached the imperial court. And in 1907, when Tsarevich Alexei, who suffered from hemophilia, had another attack, the Empress found Rasputin. Grigory Rasputin becomes close to the emperor's family, treats Alexei and gradually begins to influence the country's politics.

In 1915 - 1916, when four officials of the Prime Minister were changed in a short period of time, the entire court began to discuss Rasputin's favoritism. Then a conspiracy began to mature against Rasputin.

12/30/1916 - Yusupov, Dmitry Romanov and Purishkevich plan an assassination attempt on Rasputin. Having invited him, they try to poison Gregory by adding potassium cyanide. But the poison had no effect on him, and then Yusupov wounded the healer with a shot. Dmitry and Vladimir kill Rasputin, after which they throw the body into the hole.

After picking up the body, it is revealed that Rasputin was still alive when he was dropped, but ended up choking to death. Grigory Rasputin was buried in Tsarskoye Selo near the chapel imperial palace, but in 1917 his body was exhumed and burned.

Valentin Grigorievich Rasputin (1937-2015) - Russian writer, laureate of numerous USSR state awards, publicist and public figure. He was born on March 15, 1937 in the village of Ust-Uda, East Siberian (Irkutsk) region of the Russian Federation. He has the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. The writer was often called the “singer of the village”; in his works he glorified Rus'.

Difficult childhood

Valentin's parents were ordinary peasants. Shortly after the birth of their son, the family moved to the village of Atalanka. Subsequently, this area was flooded after the construction of the Bratsk hydroelectric power station. The father of the future prose writer participated in the Great Patriotic War, after demobilization, he got a job as a postmaster. Once, during a business trip, a bag containing public money was taken from him.

After this situation, Gregory was arrested, and over the next seven years he worked in the mines of Magadan. Rasputin was released only after Stalin's death, so his wife, a simple employee of the savings bank, had to raise three children alone. Future writer Since childhood, he admired the beauty of Siberian nature; he repeatedly described it in his stories. The boy loved to read; neighbors generously shared books and magazines with him.

Education of a prose writer

Rasputin studied at primary school Atalanka village. To graduate from high school, he had to move 50 kilometers from home. Later, the young man described this period of his life in his story “French Lessons.” After graduating from school, he decided to enter the philological faculty of Irkutsk University. Thanks to his excellent certificate, the young man easily managed to become a student.

Since childhood, Valentin has been aware of how difficult it is for his mother. He tried to help her in everything, worked part-time and sent money. During his student life, Rasputin began to write short notes for a youth newspaper. His work was influenced by his passion for the works of Remarque, Proust and Hemingway. From 1957 to 1958 the guy becomes a freelance correspondent for the publication “Soviet Youth”. In 1959, Rasputin was admitted to the staff, and in the same year he defended his diploma.

Life after university

For some time after graduation, the prose writer worked at a television studio and in a newspaper in Irkutsk. The newspaper editor paid special attention to the story entitled “I forgot to ask Lyoshka.” Later, in 1961, this essay was published in the Angara almanac.

In 1962, the young man moved to Krasnoyarsk and received the position of literary employee in the newspaper “Krasnoyarsk Worker”. He often visited the construction sites of the local hydroelectric power station and the Abakan-Tayshet highway. The writer drew inspiration even from such seemingly unsightly landscapes. Stories about the construction were later included in the collections “The Land Near the Sky” and “Bonfires of New Cities.”

From 1963 to 1966 Valentin works as a special correspondent for the Krasnoyarsky Komsomolets newspaper. In 1965, he participated in the Chita seminar together with other aspiring writers. There the young man is noticed by the writer Vladimir Chivilikhin; later it was he who helped publish Valentin’s works in the publication “ TVNZ».

The prose writer's first serious publication was the story “The Wind is Looking for You.” After some time, the essay “Stofato’s Departure” was published and published in the magazine “Ogonyok”. Rasputin gained his first fans, and soon more than a million Soviet residents read him. In 1966, the writer’s first collection, entitled “The Land Near the Sky,” was published in Irkutsk. It includes old and new works written in different periods life.

A year later, a second book of stories was published in Krasnoyarsk, it was called “A Man from This World.” At the same time, the Angara almanac published Valentin Grigorievich’s story “Money for Maria.” A little later, this work is published as a separate book. After publication, the prose writer becomes a member of the Writers' Union and finally stops practicing journalism. He decided to dedicate his later life exclusively creativity.

In 1967, the weekly " Literary Russia” publishes the next essay by Rasputin entitled “Vasily and Vasilisa.” In this story one can already trace the writer’s original style. He managed to reveal the characters' characters with very laconic phrases, and story line always supplemented by descriptions of landscapes. All the characters in the prose writer’s works were strong in spirit.

Peak of creativity

In 1970, the story “The Deadline” was published. This particular work is considered one of the key works in the author’s work; people all over the world read the book with pleasure. It was translated into 10 languages, critics called this work “a fire around which you can warm your soul.” The prose writer focused on simple human values that everyone should remember. He raised questions in his books that his colleagues did not dare to talk about.

Valentin Grigorievich did not stop there; in 1974 his story “Live and Remember” was published, and in 1976 - “Farewell to Matera”. After these two works, Rasputin was recognized as one of the best modern writers. In 1977 he received the USSR State Prize. In 1979, Valentin became a member of the editorial board of the “Literary Monuments of Siberia” series.

In 1981, the stories “Live a Century, Love a Century,” “Natasha,” and “What to Tell a Crow” were published. In 1985, the writer published the story “Fire,” which touched readers to the core thanks to its poignant and modern issues. Over the next years, the essays “Unexpectedly”, “Down the Lena River” and “Father’s Limits” were published. In 1986, the prose writer was elected secretary of the board of the Writers' Union, and later he managed to become a co-chairman.

last years of life

Most Rasputin spent his life in Irkutsk. In 2004, the prose writer presented his book “Ivan’s Daughter, Ivan’s Mother.” Two years later, the third edition of the collection “Siberia, Siberia” appeared on sale.

Valentin Grigorievich was the winner of many prestigious awards. He was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. The prose writer was a holder of the Order of Lenin and the Red Banner of Labor. In 2008 he received a prize for his contribution to Russian literature. In 2010, the writer was nominated for Nobel Prize on literature. At the same time, his stories were included in the school curriculum for extracurricular reading.

IN mature age Rasputin began to actively participate in journalistic and social activities. The prose writer had a negative attitude towards the period of perestroika; he did not accept liberal values, remaining with his conservative views. The writer fully supported Stalin’s position, considered it the only correct one, and did not recognize other worldview options.

From 1989 to 1990 he was a member of the Presidential Council during the reign of Mikhail Gorbachev, but his colleagues did not listen to Valentin’s opinion. Later, the writer stated that he considered politics too dirty an activity; he reluctantly recalled this period of his life. In the summer of 2010, Rasputin was elected a member of the Patriarchal Council for Culture, he represents Orthodox Church.

July 30, 2012, the writer joins the ranks of the persecutors of a feminist group Pussy Riot. He calls for capital punishment for the girls, and also criticizes everyone who supported them. Rasputin published his statement under the title “Conscience does not allow silence.”

In 2013, a joint book by Rasputin and Viktor Kozhemyako entitled “These Twenty Murderous Years” appeared on store shelves. In this work, the authors criticize any changes, deny progress, arguing that in recent years the people have degraded. In the spring of 2014, the prose writer became one of the Russian residents who supported the annexation of Crimea.

Personal life and family

Valentin was married to Svetlana Ivanovna Rasputina. The woman was the daughter of the writer Ivan Molchanov-Sibirsky, she always supported her husband. The prose writer repeatedly called his wife his muse and like-minded person; they had an excellent relationship.

The couple had two children: a son, Sergei, was born in 1961, and a daughter was born ten years later. On July 9, 2006, she died in a plane crash. At that time, Maria was only 35 years old, she successfully studied music and played the organ. The tragedy ruined the health of the writer and his wife. Svetlana Ivanovna died on May 1, 2012 at the age of 72. The death of the prose writer occurred three years later. On March 14, 2015, he died in Moscow, a few hours before his birthday.

Rasputin Valentin Grigorievich, whose biography will be described in this article, is certainly one of the pillars of Russian literature. His works are known and popular among Russian and foreign readers. Let's get acquainted with the life path of our great compatriot.

The writer was born in the village of Atalanka on the Angara in 1937. Valentin Grigorievich Rasputin, whose biography is very interesting and full of events, often recalls the war years and times of famine, although he was still a child then. Despite this, he calls his childhood happy: it was spent in the village, he often fished with the guys and went to the taiga to pick mushrooms and berries.

In 1959, Valentin completed his studies at Irkutsk University, after which he began working as a journalist in the publications “Soviet Youth” and “Krasnoyarsk Komsomolets”.

Already in 1961, his first work was published - “I forgot to ask Leshka...” The plot of the story is as follows: at a logging site, a fallen pine tree hits young Leshka, who is accompanied on foot to the hospital by two friends, in whose arms he dies. Already in the writer’s first story there are character traits his work - nature as a character in the work, which sensitively reacts to what happened, and the hero’s thoughts about justice and fate. Several more followed early stories: “Rudolfio”, “Bearskin for sale” and “Vasily and Vasilisa”.

As the writer recalls, he was a capable student and loved to read. After completing four classes of school in the village, he was recommended to continue his education. Rasputin Valentin Grigorievich, whose biography was partially reflected in one of his most popular stories - “French Lessons”, largely described himself in the boy, the main character. The plot of the story: an eleven-year-old boy is sent from a village to a city where there is an eight-year school. He is gifted and the whole village hopes that he will become educated person. However, the time is post-war, hungry. The boy barely has enough money to buy a rare can of milk. He starts gambling for money, his teacher finds out about it French. Deciding to help her pupil, she plays with him for money at home, since the boy did not want to borrow it. A feature film was made based on this story.

In collections of works young writer“What should I tell the crow?” and “Live a Century - Love a Century” included stories telling about the life of people on Lake Baikal and nature.

At the end of the 1960s, young Rasputin Valentin Grigorievich was accepted into the ranks of the Union of Writers of the USSR, whose biography is replenished with new works: “Money for Maria”, the story “The Deadline” and many others. Distinctive features these and all subsequent creations of the author became the theme of the Siberian village, love description life common people, traditions and moral conflicts.

Rasputin writes about his grandparents in the story “Vasily and Vasilisa.” As the writer admitted, the image of his grandmother lives in both the old woman Anna in the work “The Last Term” and in the old Daria from “Farewell to Matera.” Rasputin Valentin Grigorievich, whose biography began in the Russian village and was closely connected with it all his life, admits that the life stories of his fellow villagers and his native village are in almost all books.

In 1974, the story “Live and Remember” was published, in which the writer reflects on how an ordinary villager Andrei Guskov could resort to desertion and betrayal. Thanks to this work and the story “Fire,” Rasputin twice became a laureate of the USSR State Prize.

In 2007, the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd degree, for many years of creativity and Active participation in development Russian literature Rasputin Valentin Grigorievich was awarded.

His short biography was presented here. Still active today civil position, advocating the protection of nature and Lake Baikal, he writes articles in newspapers and magazines.

In 1966. At the Chita seminar of young writers of Eastern Siberia and Far East(1965) Rasputin's talent was noted and he was recommended to the USSR Writers' Union. Rasputin's first story, “Money for Maria,” received great success among readers. Critics noted it as Rasputin’s transition from “taiga romance and poeticization strong characters in their mysterious unity with nature” to deep psychologism, which will then accompany all the writer’s further work. Rasputin will test his heroes, subjecting them in each story to the test of conscience, money, love for their mother, loyalty to home and country, attitude to the world and nature. The story “The Deadline” (1970) brought Rasputin worldwide fame. Since the beginning of the 1970s, Rasputin’s novels and short stories have been published in numerous publishing houses in the country, translated into the languages ​​of all republics (now “near abroad”), and published in many European countries, in Japan, USA. In 1977, Rasputin was awarded the USSR State Prize for the story “Live and Remember,” and in 1987 the State Prize was awarded for the story “Fire.” Rasputin is a member of the Board of the Union of Writers of the USSR and the RSFSR (since 1985), was repeatedly elected secretary of both unions, and since 1994 - co-chairman of the Board of the Union of Writers of Russia. In the 1980-1990s, he worked a lot in the genre of journalism, writing essays and reflections on the fate of the treasured corners of Siberia. His book “Siberia, Siberia...” (1991), illustrated with photographs of Irkutsk resident B.V. Dmitriev, immediately became a bibliographic rarity upon publication. He was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the last convocation, and was an adviser to the Presidential Council under M. S. Gorbachev. Member of the editorial boards of many newspapers and magazines, served on governing bodies social movements, whose activities are dedicated to the revival of Russia. Initiator and inspirer of the event in Irkutsk annual Days Russian spirituality and culture "" since 1994.

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Lived and worked in Irkutsk and Moscow. On March 12, 2015, he was hospitalized and was in a coma. Died March 14, 2015.

Social and political activities

With the beginning of “perestroika,” Rasputin became involved in a broad socio-political struggle. The writer takes a consistent anti-liberal position, signed, in particular, an anti-perestroika letter condemning the magazine “Ogonyok” (“Pravda”, 01/18/1989), “Letter from Writers of Russia” (1990|1990), “Word to the People” (July 1991) , the 43's "Stop Death Reform" appeal (2001). The catchphrase of counter-perestroika was the phrase of P. A. Stolypin, quoted by Rasputin in a speech at the First Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR: “You need great upheavals. We need a great country."

On March 2, 1990, the newspaper Literary Russia published a “Letter from the Writers of Russia,” addressed to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the Supreme Council of the RSFSR and the Central Committee of the CPSU, which, in particular, said:

“In recent years, under the banners of the declared “democratization”, the construction of a “rule of law”, under the slogans of the fight against “fascism and racism”, forces in our country have become unbridled social destabilization, the successors of overt racism moved to the forefront of ideological restructuring. Their refuge is multimillion-dollar periodicals, television and radio channels broadcast throughout the country. There is a massive persecution, defamation and persecution of representatives of the indigenous population of the country, unprecedented in the entire history of mankind, who are essentially declared “outside the law” from the point of view of that mythical “rule of law state”, in which, it seems, there will be no place for either Russians or other indigenous peoples of Russia "

Rasputin was among the 74 writers who signed this appeal.

In 1989-1990 - People's Deputy of the USSR.

In the summer of 1989, at the first Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, he first made a proposal for Russia to secede from the USSR.

In 1990-1991 - member of the USSR Presidential Council under M. S. Gorbachev. Commenting on this episode of his life in a later conversation with V. Bondarenko, V. Rasputin noted:

“My rise to power did not end in anything. It was completely in vain. […] I remember with shame why I went there. My premonition deceived me. It seemed to me that there were still years of struggle ahead, but it turned out that there were only months left before the breakup. I was like free application, who was not even allowed to speak.”

In Irkutsk, Rasputin promotes the publication of the newspaper Literary Irkutsk.

In 2007, Rasputin came out in support of Zyuganov.

Family

Father - Grigory Nikitich Rasputin (1913–1974), mother - Nina Ivanovna Rasputina (1911–1995).

Wife - Svetlana Ivanovna (1939–2012), daughter of the writer Ivan Molchanov-Sibirsky, Native sister Evgenia Ivanovna Molchanova, wife of the poet Vladimir Skif. She died on May 1, 2012 at the age of 72.

Daughter - Maria Rasputina (May 8, 1971 - July 9, 2006), musicologist, organist, teacher at the Moscow Conservatory. Died on July 9, 2006 as a result of a plane crash that occurred at the airport, at the age of 35.

Son - Sergei Rasputin (1961), English teacher.

Essays

Stories

1. Money for Maria (1967)
2. Deadline (1970)
3. Live and Remember (1974)
4. Farewell to Matera (1976)
5. Fire (1985)
6. Ivan's daughter, Ivan's mother (2003)

Stories and essays

1. I forgot to ask Alyosha... (1965)
2. The edge near the sky (1966)
3. Bonfires of New Cities (1966)
4. Up and Downstream (1972)
5. French Lessons (1973)
6. Live a century - love a century (1982)
7. Siberia, Siberia (1991)
8. These Twenty Killing Years (co-authored with Viktor Kozhemyako) (2013)

Film adaptations

1969 - “Rudolfio”, dir. Dinara Asanova

1969 - “Rudolfio”, dir. Valentin Kuklev (student work at VGIK) video

1978 - “French Lessons”, dir. Evgeniy Tashkov

1980 - “Farewell”, dir. Larisa Shepitko b Elem Klimov.

1980 - “Bearskin for Sale”, dir. Alexander Itygilov.

1981 - “Vasily and Vasilisa”, dir. Irina Poplavskaya

2008 - “Live and Remember”, dir. Alexander Proshkin

Awards

Hero of Socialist Labor (1987), two Orders of Lenin (1984, 1987), Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1981), Order of the Badge of Honor (1971), Order of Merit for the Fatherland III degree (March 8, 2007), Order of Merit for the Fatherland IV degrees (October 28, 2002). Laureate (1977, 1987) international award named after Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn Prize " for the piercing expression of poetry and tragedy of national life, in fusion with Russian nature and speech; sincerity and chastity in resurrection good beginnings ", literary prize named after Sergei Aksakov (2005). Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation (2010), State Prize of Russia (2012). Honorary citizen of Irkutsk (1986).

Memory

The name of Valentin Rasputin was assigned to the ISU Scientific Library.

In 2015, the name of Valentin Rasputin was assigned to Baikalsky international festival popular science and documentaries"Human and nature".

In 2015, school No. 12 in the city (Irkutsk region) was named after Valentin Rasputin; in March 2016, a memorial plaque was installed on the facade of the school building in honor of the writer.

March 19, 2015 the name of Valentin Rasputin was given high school No. 5 in Uryupinsk (Volgograd region).

Application. Valentin Rasputin. Biographical sketch

“I was born three hundred kilometers from,” says the writer, “in, that on. So I am a native Siberian, or, as we say, local. My father was a peasant, worked in the timber industry, served and fought... In a word, he was like everyone else. My mother worked, was a housewife, barely managed her affairs and family - as far as I remember, she always had enough worries” (Questions of Literature. 1976. No. 9).

Rasputin spent his childhood in the lower reaches, in the small village of Atalanka, which was later moved to the shore. From 1944 to 1948 he studied at the Atalan elementary school, from 1948 to 1954 at the Ust-Uda secondary school.

In 1954 he entered the Faculty of History and Philology of Irkutsk University.

“In Moscow they openly say that they do not know what to do with Eastern Siberia. This was discussed at a recent forum in Irkutsk. It looks like they are going to hand us over to some states: they are selling a map of our mineral resources so that they know where and what to mine from us. These are not fairy tales, that's for sure. Thousands of Chinese come here, settle, work, and settle down. In Blagoveshchensk they no longer know where to go from them. The prospects are very bleak... Games of justice, conversations about human rights... What human rights are there for people with native land, they’re driving us away from our family graves!”

Literature

1. Russian Ustye // Rasputin V. Siberia... Siberia...: essays. - M., 1991. - P.221-264
2. Rasputin V. On Indigirka, next to the ocean // Pink seagull. - 1991. - No. 1. - P.195-201.
3. Rasputin V. Writer and time: Sat. document. prose. - M., 1989. - P.4-50.
4. Rasputin V. Russian Ustye: From the book “Siberia, Siberia...” // Our contemporary. - 1989. - No. 5. - P.3-40.
5. Valentin Rasputin. Ivan's daughter, Ivan's mother. Tale // article from the magazine “Our Contemporary”. - 2003. - № 11.
6. Chuprinin S. Russian literature today. New guide. - M., 2009.

1. We have the Kulikovo Field, they have a “field of miracles”: Valentin Rasputin in a conversation with Viktor Kozhemyako //

The magazine “Siberia” No. 357/2 (2015) is entirely dedicated to Valentin Rasputin.