Russian philology
or TV in the 1970s and 1980s.
Village prose is a genre that conveys nostalgic descriptions of rural life. Valentin Rasputin's
1976 novel, Proshchaniye s Matyoroy (Farewell to Matyora) depicted a village faced with
destruction to make room for a hydroelectric plant.
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
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