Russian philology
Historical fiction in the early Soviet era included a large share of memoirs, fictionalized or
not. Valentin Katayev and Lev Kassil wrote semi-autobiographic books about children's life in
Tsarist Russia. Vladimir Gilyarovsky wrote Moscow and Muscovites, about life in pre-
revolutionary Moscow. The late Soviet historical fiction was dominated by World War II
novels and short stories by authors such as Boris Vasilyev, Viktor Astafyev, Boris Polevoy,
Vasil Byka, among many others, based on the authors' own war experience. Vasily Yan and
Konstantin Badygin are best known for their novels on Medieval Rus, and Yury Tynyanov for
writing on Russian Empire. Valentin Pikul wrote about many different epochs and countries in
an Alexander Dumas-inspired style. In the 1970s there appeared a relatively independent
Village Prose, whose most prominent representatives were Viktor Astafyev and Valentin
Rasputin.
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