Vasily Shukshin

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Makarovich and the family name is Shukshin.
Vasily Shukshin
USSR
Notable workThe Red Snowball Tree (1974)

Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (

Altai region who specialized in rural themes.[2][3][4] A prominent member of the Village Prose
movement, he began writing short stories in his early teenage years and later transition to acting by his late 20s.

Biography

Vasiliy Makarovich Shukshin was born on 25 July 1929 to a peasant family of

better source needed] His mother, Maria Sergeyevna (née Popova), had to look after the survival of the entire family. By 1943 Shukshin had finished seven years of village school and entered an automobile technical school in Biysk. In 1945, after two and a half years at the school, but before finishing, he quit to work in a kolkhoz.[citation needed
]

In 1946 Shukshin left his native village and worked as a metal craftsman at several enterprises in the trust Soyuzprommekhanizatsiya: at the turbine plant in

stomach ulcer and returned to his native village. Having passed an external exam for high school graduation, he became a teacher of Russian, and later a school principal in Srostki.[citation needed
]

In 1954 Shukshin entered the directors' department of the

Marlen Khutsiyev's film Two Fedors and appeared in the graduation film by Andrei Tarkovsky.[7]

In 1958 Shukhin published his first short story "Two on the cart" in the magazine Smena. His first collection of stories Сельские жители (Village Dwellers) was published in 1963. That same year, he became staff director at the

There Is This Lad). The film premiered in 1965, winning top honours at the All-Union Film Festival in Leningrad and the Golden Lion at the XVI International Film Festival in Venice. Shukshin was decorated with the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1967), and was designated Distinguished Artist of the RSFSR (1969).[7]

Shukshin's main interest lay in the situation of ordinary, simple people in the present-day Soviet Union. He laced his films both with humor and with a melancholy tone.[citation needed]

Since 1964, he was married to actress

Mariya (born 1967), who is a TV presenter.[citation needed
]

Shukshin died suddenly on 2 October 1974, on the motor ship Dunai, on the Volga river, while filming They Fought for Their Country. He is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.[8]

English translations

  • I Want to Live, Progress Publishers, 1978.
  • Snowball Berry Red and Other Stories, Ardis Publishers, 1979.
  • Short Stories, Raduga Publishers, 1990.
  • Roubles in Words, Kopeks in Figures, Marion Boyars, 1994.
  • Stories from a Siberian Village, Northern Illinois University Press, 1996.

Theatre adaptation

Evgeny Mironov, the play was staged at The Barbican in London in October 2019.[10][11]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ Э. Кузьмина. Прочная основа // «Новый мир», 1964, № 4, с.244-246.
  2. ISBN 978-1442268425
    .
  3. ISBN 9781134260706
    , 734 p.
  4. ISBN 9780816074754
    , 318 p.
  5. ^ «Мы процентов на 90 - мордва...» [We are 90% Mordvin] - Vecherniy Saransk, 29 April 2016. Quote from Shukshin's daughter: «Почему Саранск? Мы мордва. Предки Василия Макаровича из Мордовии, мы знаем, что сначала они переселились в Самарскую область, а затем в Алтайский край.» ["Why Saransk? Because we are Mordvin. The ancestors of Vasily Shukshin came from Mordovia; we know they first settled in Samara Oblast and then in Altai Krai"]
  6. ^ "Шукшин Макар Леонтьевич". ru.openlist.wiki (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  7. ^ a b c биография на rusactors.ru
  8. ^ "Шукшин, Василий Макарович". ТАСС. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
  9. ^ Arutyunyan, Ani (7 July 2021). "BWW Review: Gorbachev at The State Theatre Of Nations". Retrieved 13 December 2021. The production runs from October, 2020. Next dates: 8 sept 2021
  10. ^ "Shukshin's Stories - Theatre of Nations". Russian Art + Culture. 16 October 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  11. ^ Billington, Michael (8 October 2019). "Shukshin's Stories review – moving tales of Siberian village folk". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 December 2021.

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