Vasily Shukshin

Vasily Shukshin
Born(1929-07-25)25 July 1929
Srostki, Biysky District, Siberian Krai, RSFSR, USSR
Died2 October 1974(1974-10-02) (aged 45)
On board the ship Dunai, on the Volga river near Kletskaya, Volgograd Oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Notable workThe Red Snowball Tree (1974)

Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (Russian: Василий Макарович Шукшин; 25 July 1929 – 2 October 1974) was a Soviet Russian writer, actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altai region who specialized in rural themes. 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.

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