List of works by Anatoly Rybakov.

My acquaintance began with the children's and teenage works of Anatoly Rybakov - "Dirk", "Bronze Bird", "Krosh". I read them only once, but quite often I watched films based on these works. Truly "children's" and...
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For a long time I did not dare to write reviews of authors and publishing houses. Because, in my opinion, it is almost impossible to talk about the author or publishing house based on one or several works or books. But I still decided to write about the author I liked.
My acquaintance began with the children's and teenage works of Anatoly Rybakov - "Dirk", "Bronze Bird", "Krosh". I read them only once, but quite often I watched films based on these works. Truly "children's" and exciting adventure novels .
Anatoly Rybakov wrote simply. As he himself said: - “If the writing is difficult, then the reader begins to solve the puzzle: what does the author want to say? And if the puzzle is solved, then he is satisfied, but the process of interviewing the author with the reader, cooperation, does not work out. And when it is written simply, then the reader is left alone with heroes of the novel - he can complete the drawings himself, his imagination works, he creates together with the author.” One feels that the writer was close to the people. Because he easily managed to “tell” stories in the language of his heroes. Be it the Arbat boys from “Dirk and the Bronze Bird”, or the more adult characters from “The Shot” and “Krosh” ”, or truly deep intellectual
heroic personalities from the novels “Children of the Arbat”, “Heavy Sand”. With each novel they become older, Misha Polyakov and his friends Genka and Slavka “investigate” unusual cases that entail a chain of misunderstandings and easily resolved misunderstandings. The literary fiction of the plots of these novels miraculously intersect with the personal distant and dear experience of the writer’s Arbat childhood.
I especially liked the novel “Children of the Arbat”. I read it when I was 20. Perhaps now I would perceive this work a little differently. But... The main actions of the novel unfold around the main character Sasha Pankratov, who, as a witness in the case of the deputy of the Transport Institute Krivoruchko, whom the party bureau accuses of anti-party affairs and disruption of the construction of a hostel. But Alexander Ponkratov does not support the accusation and himself comes under attack from the “party”. Now he is accused of anti-Soviet sentiments, expelled from the party, imprisoned and sent to Siberia. His story is closely intertwined with the life of the inhabitants of the “biggest house on Arbat”. Very different young people live and study there, both in origin and in their outlook on life.
The work is very tragic, excitingly “terrible” (I mean “those” times when one word could entail a threat to life and freedom) and very vital.
I also really liked another work by Rybakov, “Heavy Sand is a love story of Jewish young people, Rachel and Yakov, who met on the eve of the World War. Their love goes through pain, suffering, persecution, the fascist “new order.” All the events of the novel are very close to our “Soviet people”, those who remember.
All the works of this author leave their mark on the soul and memory of the reader. Moreover, his works, one part of them, can be read to children aged 6-8. And watching films based on his works is also interesting for younger children. My younger son I enjoyed watching "Dirk" and "The Bronze Bird" several times. And here is " Last summer childhood", based on "The Shot", even for an 8-year-old child it turned out to be too early. But I watched it with pleasure :-).
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Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov; Russia Moscow; 01/01/1911 – 23/12/1998

The books of Anatoly Rybakov need no introduction. They have been published in more than 52 countries around the world. The total circulation of Rybakov's books has exceeded 20 million copies, and more than half of his works have been filmed. So on this moment based on the books by Anatoly Rybakov, 13 filmed feature films and television series.

Biography of Anatoly Rybakov

Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov was born in the village of Derzhanovka, Chernigov province. His father A.B. Aronov was a distiller and quite well known in professional circles as the author of many specialized books and publications. Aranov sent his son to study in Moscow. This was already after the revolution in 1919. At first, Anatoly Rybakov studied at the former Khvostovskaya gymnasium, but he graduated from the eighth and ninth grades at the Moscow experimental demonstration school-commune. After graduating from school, he worked as a loader and driver at the Dorogomilovsky Chemical Plant until he entered the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers in 1930. He studied at the institute for three years, and then was arrested and exiled for three years for anti-Soviet propaganda.

After the end of his exile, Anatoly Rybakov did not have the right to live in major cities, and following the advice of one of my friends from Arbat, I did not appear near large industrial facilities. Nevertheless, in 1938 he became the chief engineer of the Ryazan Regional Department of Motor Transport, where he worked until the start of the war. At the beginning of the war, Anatoly Rybakov was drafted into the Red Army, where he served in the automobile troops. Just like he had the opportunity to participate in many companies in different sectors of the front. By the end of the war he received the rank of major engineering troops and most importantly, his recognition as having no criminal record. Anatoly Rybakov was completely rehabilitated in 1960.

Anatoly Rybakov’s first book, “Dagger,” was published in 1947. The story received many rave reviews and was already filmed in 1954, and reshot in 1973. Anatoly Rybakov’s first novel, “The Driver,” was published three years later. And five years later, the novel “Ekaterina Voronina” was published, which was filmed in 1957. But Rybakov does not leave and youth literature continuing his story “Dirk” and starting new series about the adventures of Krosh. By the way, this series of books was also filmed. At the same time, he was working on his work “Children of the Arbat,” which became the most iconic in the writer’s work. This novel will be published only in 1987. Moreover, interest in Anatoly Rybakov’s novel “Children of the Arbat” will be so high that the book will have a sequel. Last book Anatoly Rybakov’s “Novel-Memoirs” was published in 1997. And a year later the writer died.

Books by Anatoly Rybakov on the Top books website

Books by Anatoly Rybakov are quite popular to read. And they show interest not only in the “Children of the Arbat” trilogy, but also in the writer’s youthful works. Thus, books about the adventures of Krosh and, of course, the story “Dagger” are enviably popular. And it is quite possible that they will be included in our rating. Well, the books of the “Children of the Arbat” trilogy took high places in our ratings and ratings. And given the stability of interest in them, they will certainly be presented in our subsequent ratings.

Anatoly Rybakov list of books

Dirk:

Adventures of Krosh: