Anatoli Rybakov

Anatoly Rybakov (1911–1998) was a Soviet and Russian writer best known for Children of the Arbat, an anti-Stalinist trilogy set in Moscow in the 1930s that includes Fear and Dust and Ashes. He also wrote the novel Heavy Sand and a run of children's books, among them Adventures of Krosh, Dirk and Bronze Bird. One of his last works was the memoir The Novel of Memoirs, in which he recalled the people he met over his long life, from Stalin and Yeltsin to Okudzhava and Tendryakov.