Valentin Savvich Pikul (Russian: Валенти́н Са́ввич Пи́куль) (July 13, 1928 – July 16, 1990) was a popular and prolific Soviet historical novelist of Ukrainian-Russian heritage. He lived and worked in Riga.
Pikul's novels were grounded in extensive research, blending historical and fictional characters and often focusing on Russian nationalistic themes.[1] Pikul's best-selling 1978 novel At the Last Frontier was a dramatized telling of Rasputin's influence over the Russian imperial court. Richard Stites says he was "a name hardly known to literary scholars but the most widely read author in the Soviet Union from the seventies to today [i.e., 1991]...[2] Pikul's works were wildly popular: more than 20 million copies were sold in his lifetime .
Little of Pikul's work has been translated into English. In May 2001 a seagoing minesweeper of the Black Sea Fleet was named in his honor.
Works
Sea minesweeper of the Black Sea Fleet "Valentin Pikul"
Ocean patrol, (Океанский патруль), 1954
Bajazet, (Баязет), 1961
Tares, (Плевелы), 1962
Paris for three hours, (Париж на три часа), 1962
On the outskirts of a great empire, (На задворках великой империи), 1964–66
Out of the deadlock, (Из тупика), 1968
The Requiem for Convoy PQ-17, (Реквием каравану PQ-17), 1970
Moonzund, (Моонзунд), 1970 (screen version - Moonzund, 1987)
By plume and sword, (Пером и шпагой), 1972
Stars over the marsh, (Звёзды над болотом), 1972
Boys with bows, (Мальчики с бантиками), 1974
The Word and the Action, (Слово и дело), 1974–75
The Battle of Iron Chancellors,(Битва железных канцлеров), 1977
Riches, (Богатство), 1977
The Demonic Forces, (Нечистая сила), 1979
The Three Ages of Okini-San, (Три возраста Окини-сан), 1981
To each his own, (Каждому своё), 1983
The Favorite, (Фаворит), 1984
Cruisers, (Крейсера), 1985
I have the honour, (Честь имею), 1986
Hard Labor, (Каторга), 1986
Go and sin no more, (Ступай и не греши), 1990
Operation Barbarossa, (Барбаросса. Площадь павших борцов), 1990
Arakcheevshina, (Аракчеевщина)
Domini canes, (Псы господни)
Janissary, (Янычары)
Fat, dirty and corrupt, (Жирная, грязная и продажная)
Footnotes
Natalya Ivanova, "A New Mosaic out of Old Fragments: Soviet History Re-Codified in Modern Russian Prose" (Conference Papers, Stanford University, October 1998), pp. 25-26.
Richard Stites, Russian Popular Culture (Cambridge UP, 1992, repr. 1995), p. 151.
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