Anatoly Rybakov

1911–1998 · Soviet and Russian novelist, author of the Children of the Arbat trilogy

Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov wrote the anti-Stalinist Children of the Arbat trilogy, the novel Heavy Sand, and popular children’s books such as Dirk and Bronze Bird. The NKVD arrested him in 1934 and exiled him to Siberia for three years. Children of the Arbat was suppressed for years and finally came out in 1987, during perestroika. It became a publishing sensation, largely because of its portrait of Stalin as a scheming, paranoid figure.

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“Death solves all problems. No man, no problem”

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