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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.
Valentin Savvich Pikul | |
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| Born | Valentin Savvich Pikul July 13, 1928 Leningrad, RSFSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | July 16, 1990 (aged 62) Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
| Genre | Popular history, fiction |
| Notable works | Requiem for Convoy PQ-17 The Favorite |
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. So too was an oil tanker built in 2023 for state oil producer Rosneft's shipping business.
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