was tried on 21 April 1938, pleaded guilty, and was shot the same day. A small yellow slip of paper attached to his file read: "Sentence carried out." He was executed with a bullet to the back of the head at the Kommunarka shooting ground. Pilnyak began to be rehabilitated and appreciated again in the USSR in the late 1960s and 1970s. Bibliography With the Last Steamboat (1918) [С последним пароходом] The Naked Year (1922) [Голый Год] Petersburg Story (1922) [Повесть Петербургская] Panicle (1923) [Метелинка] Sankt-Peter-Burgh (1922) [Санкт-Питер-бурх] Deadly Beckoning (1922) [Смертельное манит] Nikola-on-Posadiyah (1923) [Никола-на-Посадьях] Simple Tales (1923) [Простые рассказы] Tales of Brown Bread (1923) [Повести о чёрном хлебе] The Third Chair (1923) [Третья столица] English stories (1924) [Английские рассказы] Tales (1924) [Повести] Stories (1924) [Рассказы] Machines and Wolves (1925) [Машины и волки] The Tale of the Unextinguished Moon (1926) [Повесть непогашенной луны] Blizzard (1926) [Метель] The Heirs and other stories (1926) [Настроени и др. рассказы] Stories of Shreds and Clay (1926) [Рассказы о клочах и глине] Russia in Flight (1926) [Россия в полете] Ivan Moscow (1927) [Иван Москва] Regular stories (1927) [Очередные повести] Kataysky Diary (1927) [Катайскйи дневник] Combed Time (1927) [Расплёснутое время] The Roots of the Japanese Sun (1927) [Корни японского солнца] A Big Heart (1927) [Большое сердце] Stories (1927) [Рассказы] Stories from the East (1927) [Рассказы с востока] Katay story (1928) [Катайская повесть] Mahagony (1929) [Красное дерево] Stories (1929) [Рассказы] The Volga Flows into the Caspian Sea (1930) [Волга владает в Каспийское море] Stories (1932) [Рассказы] Okey! An American novel (1933) [О'кэй] Stories (1933) [Рассказы] Stones and Roots (1934) [Камни и корни] Chosen stories (1935) [Изабранные рассказы] Birth of Man (1935) [Рождение человека] Fruit ripening (1936) [Созревание плодов] Meat (1936) [Мясо] Influence Pilnyak is generally considered the greatest Russian novelist of 1920s and was the second most read writer of that time, only behind Maxim Gorky. His modernist style of writing influenced a whole generation, not only Russian but also many Yugoslav writers, the most famous of them being Danilo Kiš, Dubravka Ugrešić and Miodrag Bulatovic among others. Kiš often cited Pilnyak as one of his main influences and one of his favourite Russian authors along with Yury Olesha and Isaac Babel. References Further reading External links Encyclopedia of Soviet Writers "On Pilnyak" by Leon Trotsky 1894 births 1938 deaths 20th-century novelists Soviet novelists Soviet male writers 20th-century male writers Soviet short story writers 20th-century short