Author: Vasiliĭ Pavlovich Aksenov
Alternate names: Vasilii Pavlovich Aksenov; Vassily Aksyonov; Vasilii Aksenov; Vasiliĭ Aksenov; Vasiliĭ Aksenov; Vassily. Aksyonov; Vasilii Aksyonov; Vasiliǐ Aksenov; Vasiliy Aksyenov; Vasilij Pavlovič Aksenov
Born: 20 August 1932
Died: 6 July 2009
Bio: Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov (Russian: Васи́лий Па́влович Аксёнов) was a Soviet and Russian novelist. 
He became known in the West as the author of The Burn (Ожог, Ozhog, from 1975) and of Generations of Winter (Московская сага, Moskovskaya Saga, from 1992), a family saga following three generations of the Gradov family between 1925 and 1953.