Vasily Aksyonov, Russian author and academic (born 1932)

Vasily Aksyonov

Soviet and Russian novelist (1932–2009)

Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He became known in the West as the author of The Burn and of Generations of Winter, a family saga following three generations of the Gradov family between 1925 and 1953.