Writer Valentin Rasputin is seen here in St George's Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace at the ceremony of awarding the State Prize of the Russian Federation, 12 June 2013.

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Soviet writer Valentin Rasputin.

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Novelist Valentin Rasputin attending the Russian State Library presentation of the new edition of Mikhail Sholokhov's novel "Down Flows the Don", revised with a view to the author's manuscripts

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Writer Valentin Rasputin (left) attends the liturgy in the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin.

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Writer Valentin Rasputin seen during a meeting between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and top Russian writers at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.

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Writer Valentin Rasputin seen during a meeting between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and top Russian writers at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.

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Famous writer Valentin Rasputin at a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on the shore of Lake Baikal.

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Russian writer Valentin Rasputin, a modern classic

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Valentin Rasputin, Soviet prose writer and laureate of the Soviet State Prize.

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Soviet writer Valentin Rasputin.

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Writer Valentin Rasputin.

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Valentine Rasputin, popular Soviet writer.

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