Valentin Grigorievich Распутин (1937-2015) is the Russian writer, publicist, publicman.After completion of initial school in the native village Аталанка a future writer forced the Irkutsk area to move in the district center of Усть-уда, to continue studies at high school. This was a heavy period for a little boy: life for stranger people, полуголодное existence, impossibility to get dressed and feed as it should be, quarrels with local ребятней. All, that is described in a story "Lessons French" (1973), it is possible to consider the real events, in fact a just the same way was passed by Valentin Распутин.Heroes to lead the "Last term" (1970) stand at an original vital line at that a man appears sooner or later. What will everybody suit with to this line? Morality and immorality, egoism and disinterestedness, callousness and неравнодушие - here basic themes works of Valentin Распутина.A book was also entered by the stories of "Eyelids give life, love" a century, "I wanted to ask at Лешки", "Mother somewhere went" away et al.