Faithful Ruslan by Georgi Vladimov

His novel The General and His Army, on General Chibisov (Kobrissov) and General Vlasov, was awarded the Russian Booker Prize in 1995 and the Sakharov Prize in 2000. It circulated in the Soviet Union as a samizdat publication, before being published in West Germany in 1975. Vladimov's most famous novel is Faithful Ruslan, the tale of a guard dog in a Soviet Gulag, told from the dog's perspective. FAITHFUL RUSLAN by Georgi Vladimov Written in the 1960s, this novella circulated in samizdat for more than a decade, often attributed to Solzhenitsyn, before its publication in the West led to Vladimov’s harassment and exile. In 1977 he became the leader of the Moscow section of Amnesty International, forbidden in the USSR. Georgi Nikolayevich Vladimov ( Russian: Гео́ргий Никола́евич Влади́мов real family name Volosevich, Russian: Волосевич 19 February 1931, Kharkiv – 19 October 2003, Frankfurt) was a Russian dissident writer. Vladimov’s best-known work, Faithful Ruslan, is a chilling, cynical parable of false hopes in the post-Stalin era. Russian Booker Prize, Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic Courage Known as a writer of strong conscienceMr.