Anatoliĭ Naumovich Rybakov

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Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov (Russian: Анато́лий Нау́мович Рыбако́в) was a Russian/Soviet writer, the author of the anti-Stalinist Children of the Arbat trilogy, the novel Heavy Sand, and many popular children books including Adventures of Krosh, Dirk and Bronze Bird. One of the last of his works was his memoir The Novel of Memoirs (Роман-Воспоминание) telling about all the different people (from Stalin and Yeltsin, to Okudzhava and Tendryakov) he met during his long life. Writer Maria Rybakova is his granddaughter.