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Boris Lvovich Vasilyev ((ロシア語:Борис Львович Васильев); 21 May 1924 – 11 March 2013) was a Soviet writer. He is considered the last representative of the so-called "lieutenant prose", a group of former low-ranking Soviet officers who dramatised their traumatic World War II experience.〔http://www.russkiymir.ru/russkiymir/en/publications/articles/article0340.html〕 After his World War II service, Vasiliev enrolled at the Malinovsky Tank Academy. His short novel ''The Dawns Here Are Quiet'' was a Soviet bestseller, selling 1.8 million copies within a year after its publication in 1969. It was adapted for the stage and the screen; there is also an opera and a Chinese TV series based on the story. ''The Dawns Here Are Quiet'' was the first of Vasiliev's sentimental patriotic tales of female heroism in the Second World War〔Martin Banham. ''The Cambridge Guide to Theatre''. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 1995. P. 656.〕 ("Not on the Active List", 1974; "Tomorrow There Came War", 1984) which brought him renown in the Soviet Union, China, and other communist countries.〔http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2143757〕 Some of his books give a harsh picture of life in Stalin's Russia. Vasiliev's short novel ''Don't Shoot the White Swans'' (1973), a milestone of Russian-language environmental fiction, is sharply critical of "the senseless destruction of beautiful creatures and the exploitation of nature for personal gain".〔Rosalind J. Marsh. ''Soviet Fiction Since Stalin: Science, Politics, and Literature''. Taylor & Francis, 1986. Page 182.〕 It was made into a 1980 Soviet film. Vasiliev was awarded the USSR State Prize for 1975 and was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Berlinale: 1989 Juries )〕 In 1989, he quit the USSR Communist Party but grew disillusioned with the Perestroika rather quickly.〔http://krugosvet.ru/enc/kultura_i_obrazovanie/literatura/VASILEV_BORIS_LVOVICH.html〕 In October 1993, he signed the Letter of Forty-Two. Late in life, Vasiliev turned to historical fiction based on incidents from medieval Russian chronicles. ==Selected filmography== * ''The Officers'' (1971), a very popular saga about a Soviet family with a tradition of military service. * ''The Dawns Here Are Quiet'' (1972) * ''Do Not Shoot at White Swans'' (1980) * ''Tomorrow Was War'' (1987) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boris Vasilyev (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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