Valentin Pikul, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetValentin Pikul
Russian writer
Date of Birth: 13-Jul-1928
Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
Date of Death: 16-Jul-1990
Profession: writer
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Valentin Pikul
- Valentin Savvich Pikul (Russian: ???????´? ??´???? ??´????) (July 13, 1928 – July 16, 1990) was a popular and prolific Soviet historical novelist of Ukrainian-Russian heritage.
- He lived and worked in Riga. Pikul's novels were grounded in extensive research, blending historical and fictional characters and often focusing on Russian nationalistic themes.
- Pikul's best-selling 1978 novel At the Last Frontier was a dramatized telling of Rasputin's influence over the Russian imperial court.
- Richard Stites says he was "a name hardly known to literary scholars but the most widely read author in the Soviet Union from the seventies to today [i.e., 1991]...
- Pikul's works were wildly popular: more than 20 million copies were sold in his lifetime [1]. Little of Pikul's work has been translated into English.
- In May 2001 a seagoing minesweeper of the Black Sea Fleet was named in his honor.
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