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Vasily Belov (Vasily Ivanovich Belov) was born on 23 October, 1932 in Northern Krai, RSFSR, USSR, is a Soviet-Russian writer, poet, and dramatist. Discover Vasily Belov's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

Popular As Vasily Ivanovich Belov
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Age 80 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 23 October, 1932
Birthday 23 October
Birthplace Northern Krai, RSFSR, USSR
Date of death 4 December, 2012
Died Place Vologda, Russia
Nationality Russia

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1932

Vasily Ivanovich Belov (Васи́лий Ива́нович Бело́в; 23 October 1932 – 4 December 2012 ) was a Soviet and Russian writer, poet and dramatist, who published more than sixty books which sold (as of 1998) seven million copies.

1943

His father Ivan Belov was killed in 1943 in the Second World War.

While at school, Vasily had to work at the local kolkhoz, helping his mother to raise the family.

His main memory of childhood, as Belov once recalled, was that of "overbearing hunger, for food and books."

1949

In 1949 he joined a professional college in Sokol, Vologda Oblast to learn the craft of carpenter and joiner.

1956

After the army he worked in one of the Molotov factories, then in 1956 moved back to Vologda where he started contributing to the regional Communard newspaper.

1959

Supported by Aleksander Yashin, an established Vologda writer, Belov in 1959 enrolled into the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow.

1961

In 1961 Vasily Belov's first book of poetry My Small Forest Village was published, along with the Village Berdyaika novella, his debut in prose.

1963

In 1963 he became a member of the Union of Soviet Writers and a year later, having graduated the Gorky Institute, returned to Vologda.

1964

In 1964 his book of short stories Sultry Summer was published, followed by Beyond the Three Voloks (1965).

1966

It was the novella Privychnoye delo (Business as Usual, 1966) published by Sever magazine, that made Belov a well-known author, its main character Ivan Africanovich soon becoming the village prose movement's token figure.

Business as Usual was miles apart from the standards of Socialist realism, and the magazine's editor Dmitry Gusarov even had to place the "To be concluded" tag in the end of it to appease censors who felt the story's finale was "too pessimistic".

1968

It was followed in 1968 by the Carpenter Tales short stories collection (published in Aleksandr Tvardovsky's Novy Mir) and then Vologda Bukhtinas (1969) a set of modern local folklore pieces.

1970

A prominent member of the influential 1970s–1980s derevenschiki movement, Belov's best known novels include Business as Usual (Привычное дело, 1966), Eves (Кануны, 1972–1987), The Best is Yet to Come (Всё впереди, 1986) and The Year of a Major Breakdown (Год великого перелома, 1989–1994).

Vasily Belov was a harsh critic of the Soviet rural policies (particularly collectivization), which he felt were dominated by the cosmopolitan doctrines aiming at repressing the Russian national identity.

Even detractors, though, praised Vasily Belov's tough stance on ecological issues and his activities aimed at restoration of the old Russian historic sites and churches.

A great admirer of Ivan Ilyin and his legacy, Belov financed the publication of the first Complete Ilyin collection and wrote a preface for it.

1974

The leitmotif of the collection Upbringing According to Dr. Spock (1974) was the rural-against-urban lifestyle dilemma, the latter seen by the author as unnatural, amoral and deficient.

1979

In contrast, 1979's Lad (Harmony) compilation of ethnographical essays proved to be Belov's most cheerful book, portraying the traditional Russian rural ways of life as an idyll of man living in harmony with nature.

An outspoken opponent of some of the Soviet official policies, Vasily Belov has not for a moment been considered a dissident, having found his ideological stronghold in the opposite corner of the ideological specter.

1980

In the early 1980s he became one of the leading figures in the Soviet Writers Union and the Russian Federation Writers Union's first secretary.

His plays Over the Light Waters, On the 206th, The Immortal Koshchey were running in theatres all over the country, all highlighting the idea of fighting amorality (the natural consequence of urbanization, as he saw it) and concentrating upon preserving the Russian natural riches.

1981

Vasily Belov, the USSR State Prize (1981) and the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2003) laureate, was also a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1982), the Order of Lenin (1984), the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (2003) and the Order of Honour (2003).

Vasily Ivanovich Belov was born in Timonikha, Kharovsky District, Northern Krai, now Vologda Oblast, into a peasant family, the eldest of five children.

In 1981 he received the USSR State Prize ("For creating works of superb artistic quality"), then the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1982) and Order of Lenin (1984).

1983

Before that, in 1983, one of Belov's best-known works, the Eves (the novel which he started in 1972) came out, followed by The Year of a Major Breakdown (1989–1991) and The Sixth Hour (The 1932 Chronicle).

This epic trilogy, telling the tragic story of three peasant families, became arguably the strongest statement against collectivization in the non-dissident Soviet literature, exploring what the author saw as the conflict between Russian rural traditionalism and the Bolsheviks-imposed 'rootlessness', the latter leading to chaos, mass murder and degradation.

1986

The 1986 The Best is Yet to Come novel, again targeting the urban set of values, caused controversy and brought about heated discussion in the Soviet press.

1987

It was followed by Such Was the War (1987), a collection comprising a novel and some short stories.

1989

In 1989–1991 Belov published a series of children's books: The Old and the Small, The Little Spring fairytale and others.

1991

He started to get involved in the practical politics, first as the People's deputy, then (in 1991–1992) the member of the Supreme Soviet.

1993

In 1993–1995 the Sovremennik Publishers issued the first Complete Vasily Belov collection in five volumes.

1996

The Honeymoon novella came out in 1996, but by this time Belov became better known as an author of highly emotional essays (appearing mostly in pro-nationalist Moskva, Nash Sovremennik magazines and Zavtra newspaper) on issues like the demise of small Russian villages and the degradation of the Russian language.

1997

In 1997 Vasily Belov became the Honorary citizen of Vologda.

2000

In the 2000s he was awarded the Order of Reverend Sergius of Radonezh (2002), the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (2003) and the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2004) for literature and arts.

2005

In March 2005 he was a signatory to the antisemitic Letter of 5000.

Vasily Belov devoted his last years to the restoration of the Nikolskaya church in Timonikha where he had been baptized as a child.

He financed the project and worked on scaffolds himself.

2011

In 2011 the church was robbed and desecrated.

On the next day Belov suffered a stroke from which he never fully recovered.