1994 novel by Vasily Aksyonov
Generations of Winter (in Russian, Московская сага - Moskovskaya Saga) is a novel by the Russian writer Vasily Aksyonov.
Many critics have praised "Generations of Winter" as a new "Doctor Zhivago"-style, large-scale Russian novel, which tells the story of a Russian/Georgian family, the Gradovs, struggling to survive in the Stalinist era.
As the "Wall Street Journal" put it: "Aksyonov has ambitiously set out to challenge Tolstoy on his own ground, creating a gigantic historical novel on the grand pre-revolutionary model."
In late 2004 a television-series based on the novel premiered on Russian television. It has 22 episodes.
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