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Vasily Shukshin was born on 25 July, 1929 in Srostki, Biysky District, Siberian Krai, RSFSR, USSR, is a Russian writer. Discover Vasily Shukshin'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 45 years old?

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Age 45 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 25 July, 1929
Birthday 25 July
Birthplace Srostki, Biysky District, Siberian Krai, RSFSR, USSR
Date of death 2 October, 1974
Died Place On board the ship Dunai, on the Volga river near Kletskaya, Volgograd Oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Nationality Russia

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1929

Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (Василий Макарович Шукшин; 25 July 1929 – 2 October 1974) was a Soviet Russian writer, actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altai region who specialized in rural themes.

A prominent member of the Village Prose movement, he began writing short stories in his early teenage years and later transition to acting by his late 20s.

Vasiliy Makarovich Shukshin was born on 25 July 1929 to a peasant family of assimilated Moksha Mordvin origin in the village of Srostki near Biysk in Siberian Krai, Soviet Union (now in Altai Krai, Russia).

1933

In 1933, his father, Makar Leontievich Shukshin, was arrested and executed on the charges of participating in an "anti-kolkhoz plot" during the Soviet collectivization.

1943

By 1943 Shukshin had finished seven years of village school and entered an automobile technical school in Biysk.

1945

In 1945, after two and a half years at the school, but before finishing, he quit to work in a kolkhoz.

1946

In 1946 Shukshin left his native village and worked as a metal craftsman at several enterprises in the trust Soyuzprommekhanizatsiya: at the turbine plant in Kaluga, at the tractor plant in Vladimir, etc. In 1949, Shukshin was drafted into the Navy.

He first served as a sailor in the Baltic Fleet, then a radio operator on the Black Sea.

1953

In 1953 he was demobilized due to a stomach ulcer and returned to his native village.

Having passed an external exam for high school graduation, he became a teacher of Russian, and later a school principal in Srostki.

1954

In 1954 Shukshin entered the directors' department of the VGIK, studied under Mikhail Romm and Sergei Gerasimov, and graduated in 1960.

1956

He was only rehabilitated 23 years later, in 1956.

His mother, Maria Sergeyevna (née Popova), had to look after the survival of the entire family.

1958

While studying at VGIK in 1958, Shukshin had his first leading role in Marlen Khutsiyev's film Two Fedors and appeared in the graduation film by Andrei Tarkovsky.

In 1958 Shukhin published his first short story "Two on the cart" in the magazine Smena.

1963

His first collection of stories Сельские жители (Village Dwellers) was published in 1963.

That same year, he became staff director at the Gorky Film Studio in Moscow.

He wrote and directed Живёт такой парень (There Is This Lad).

1964

Since 1964, he was married to actress Lidiya Fedoseyeva, who also appeared in several of his films.

1965

The film premiered in 1965, winning top honours at the All-Union Film Festival in Leningrad and the Golden Lion at the XVI International Film Festival in Venice.

1967

Shukshin was decorated with the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1967), and was designated Distinguished Artist of the RSFSR (1969).

Shukshin's main interest lay in the situation of ordinary, simple people in the present-day Soviet Union.

He laced his films both with humor and with a melancholy tone.

They have a daughter, Mariya (born 1967), who is a TV presenter.

1974

Shukshin died suddenly on 2 October 1974, on the motor ship Dunai, on the Volga river, while filming They Fought for Their Country.

He is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

Latvian theatre director Alvis Hermanis adapted eight of Shuksin's short stories for stage, in a collaboration with the Theatre of Nations in Moscow, entitled Shuksin's Stories or Shuksin's Tales.

2009

it is still touring the world, having first being staged in around 2009, and has won several awards.

2019

Starring Evgeny Mironov, the play was staged at The Barbican in London in October 2019.