Autograph on the very first book. Bondarev Yu. The youth of the commanders. 95-year-old participant of the war in ...

Autograph on the very first book. Bondarev Yu. The youth of the commanders. 95-year-old participant of the war in the ranks !!!
M. Soviet writer. 1956, 396 p. Hardcover, 13.5 x 20.5 cm. Scuffed binding.

Yuri Bondarev (born. March 15, 1924) — Russian Soviet writer, member of the Union of Soviet writers, public figure, he held various positions in the Board of the USSR Union and SP of the RSFSR, 1971 — first Deputy Chairman of the Board of the RSFSR writers ' Union, was part of the editorial boards of many literary magazines, has led various community organizations. From 1990 to 1994-Chairman of the Union of Writers of Russia. Participant of the Great Patriotic War. The captain, the commander of the battery[4]. Hero of Socialist Labor (1984), winner of the Lenin Prize (1972), two State Prizes of the USSR (1977, 1983) and the State Prize of the Russian Federation named after Marshal of the Soviet Union G. K. Zhukov in the field of literature and art (2014). In 1994, he publicly refused to accept the Order of Friendship of Peoples on the occasion of his 70th birthday from Boris Yeltsin. Honorary citizen of the Hero city of Volgograd (2004).

Yu. Bondarev rather harshly assesses the modern Russian reality. According to him, we live in hard times, a time without a lot of ideas of morality and natural goodness, without the safeguard of modesty and humility. "Our freedom is the freedom to spit into our past, present and future, into the sacred, inviolable, pure." But at the same time, the writer does not lose faith in the future of Russia, he is convinced that even in a very terrible tragedy there is a place for hope.