Vladimir Rybakov
Novelist, Author
1947 –
Who is Vladimir Rybakov?
Vladimir Mechislavovich Rybakov is a Russian writer.
Vladimir was born to émigré parents in Paris in 1947, lived in the Soviet Union 1956–1972, including a hitch in the Soviet Army, and returned to the West in 1972, since which time he has been a journalist and a novelist with a historical bent. He spent much of the 1980s in Afghanistan, where, among other things, he interviewed Soviet soldiers captured by the Afghans. He spent 1989–1995 in Moscow and presently lives in Bulgaria, where he recently completed a huge historical novel about Genghis Khan. Currently he is preparing a book on how Eastern and Western civilizations developed. Two of his books, The Afghans, a novella about Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan, and Creature, a geopolitical thriller, have been published recently in English, and The Mystery of Genghis Khan is being prepared for publication. Excerpts from and more information about The Afghans and Creature may be found here.
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