Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov (; August 20, 1932 – July 6, 2009) was a Soviet and Russiannovelist. 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.
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