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Vasily Aksyonov
Soviet writer.
Born August 20th, 1932 in Kazan. [ref]
Died July 6th, 2009 at 76 years old in Moscow (cardiovascular disease). [ref]
Occupations
novelist, physician, poet, screenwriter, teacher, writer
Wikipedia
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for. Martin Luther King Jr.