Vassily Aksyonov papers, 1980s-2004.

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Vassily Aksyonov papers, 1980s-2004.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/771916860

This collection contains papers and manuscripts of acclaimed novelist and former George Mason University Robinson Professor Vassily Aksyonov.

8 linear ft.

George Mason University, Fenwick Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8189884

George Mason University, Fenwick Library

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Aksenov, Vasiliì†, 1932-2009.

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Born in 1932, Vassily Pavlovich Aksyonov was a prominent Russian novelist who spent much of his later career writing and teaching in the Washington, DC area. Aksyonov was born in the Russian city of Kazan and grew up under Stalin's rule. Askyonov's parents, although devoted communists, were accused of being Trotskyites and sent to gulags when he was still a child. Aksyonov was subsequently raised in an orphanage for "children of enemies of the state" before moving in with his aunt and uncle, who...