Background
Soloukhin, Vladimir was born on June 14, 1924 in Alepino, Vladimir Oblast’. Son of a peasant.
Soloukhin, Vladimir was born on June 14, 1924 in Alepino, Vladimir Oblast’. Son of a peasant.
Graduated from the Gorkii Literary Institute in Moscow, 1951.
Started to appear in print, 1946. First book of poems, Dozhd v Stepi, 1953. Became widely known with his book Vladimirskie Proselki, 1957, describing his wanderings about the devastated and impoverished Russian countryside.
One of the first writers after World War II to draw attention to the social and ecological disaster of modern rural life in Rus: x, became one of the most influential writers of the village style ‘derevenshchiki’. In the 1960s, wrote about the necessity to preserve the national heritage (Rodnaia Krasota), which became the concern of a popular movement later. Author of
Pisma iz Russkogo Muzeia, 1966, and Chernye Doski, 1969.
Wrote memoirs of village life before the kolkhozes, Smekh za Levym Plechom, published in Frankfurt, 1988.
First pubis. 1945)
verse. Rain in the Steppes 1953, Saxifrage, Streamlets on the Asphalt 1959, Tale of the Steppes 1960, How to Drink the Sun 1961, Postcards from Viet-Nam 1962. Novels: Birth of Zemograd 1955, The Goldmine 1956, Beyond the Blue Seas 1957, Country Roads of Vladimir Oyrical diary) 1958, The Drop of Dew 1963, A Lyrical Story 1964, MotherStepmother 1971.Short stories: The Loaf of Bread 1965, A Slavonic Notebook 1965, 1972, The Third Hunt 1968, Kukushkin’s Son 1969, White Grass 1971, The Rule of the Tocsin 1972, The Ponds of Olepin 1973, The Straw Cordon 1974, Selected Works 1974. Poetry: Don’t Seek Shelter from the Rain 1967, The Steppe 1968, A Winter’s Day 1969, Selected Lyrics 1970, Argument—(Verse) 1972, The Straw Cordon (stories) 1974, Laughter Over the Left Shoulder 1988.
Member, Communist Party, since 1952.
Member, Communist Party, since 1952.