Russian philology
Electronic, Vitaly Melentyev, Vladislav Krapivin, Vitaly Gubarev.
Mystery was another popular genre. Detectives by brothers Arkady and Georgy Vayner and
spy novels by Yulian Semyonov were best-selling, and many of them were adapted into film
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
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