Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He became known in the West as the author of The Burn and of Generations of Winter, a family saga following three generations of the Gradov family between 1925 and 1953.
Vasily Aksyonov
Aksyonov in 1980
Grave of Vasily Aksyonov in Moscow
Yevgenia Solomonovna Ginzburg was a Soviet writer who served an 18-year sentence in the Kolyma Gulag. Her given name is often Latinized to Eugenia.
Yevgenia Ginzburg
ID photo of young Yevgenia Ginzburg