Vyacheslav Rybakov
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Science fiction
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author and an orientalist
Oriental studies
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, interested in the medieval bureaucracy
Bureaucracy
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of China
China
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. He received a 1987 Governmental Award of the RSFSR for writing the screenplay
Screenplay
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for the film Dead Man's Letters
Dead Man's Letters
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Science fiction
Among Rybakov's works were first published and include the prize-winning novels: Fireplace on a Tower :)(Ochag na bashne, 1990), and Gravilyot Tsesarevitch (1993) which depicts an alternative worldParallel universe (fiction)
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featuring a Russian Empire in which communism is merely a religion, and our world is just an insane scientific experiment.
His Death of Ivan Ilyich (1997) reveals the inner world of a contemporary person in a moment before his death.:)
The novel Na budushchiy god v Moskve (In the adjacent year in Moscow, 2003) explores a Russia torn apart into small, poor countries, ruled by those idealists of the late Soviet Union
Soviet Union
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who sincerely hated totalitarianism
Totalitarianism
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but didn't notice any good features of the nation, ruined the whole system of government and survived with help of the West. In the story space is ruled by Darths and Vaders
Darth Vader
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, and a Russian rocket scientist Ivan Obiwankin
Obi-Wan Kenobi
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attempts to resurrect his people's feelings of nationalism
Nationalism
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by launching his own space ship. :)
Rybakov preaches equality of cultures and states that cultures are often based on restrictions, and that simply removing the restrictions as anti-democratic may ruin the culture. Rybakov's novel also examines the Russian mentality, criticizing its tendency to understand and agree with the positions of others as an inappropriate way to deal with the encroaching Western civilization. He argues that all living civilizations are unique, and that in the future it may become essential to save some other civilization from stagnation, because a world ruled by only one civilization has no future.:)
He shows through an example of the ruined family of the main character Alexey that; :)
"the surest way for you to cease being esteemed and appreciated... even just loved... is to implicitly cede something essential and principal."
Vyacheslav Rybakov and Igor Alimov were also the authors of There are no bad people. The works was originally attributed to Holm van Zaichik but was later proved to be a hoax.http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/07/29/105.html The series tells the story of the world of the Orduss, a fictional country with a humane and rich culture, that unifies lands of China
China
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, Russia
Russia
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and the Near East
Near East
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.:)
English Translations
- Artist (Story)
- The Trial Sphere (Story)