Vasiliev was awarded the USSR State Prize for 1975 and was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival . In 1989 , he quit the USSR Communist Party but grew disillusioned with the Perestroika rather quickly . In October 1993 , he signed the Letter of Forty-Two . Late in life , Vasiliev turned to historical fiction based on incidents from medieval Russian chronicles
39th Berlin International Film Festival
39th Berlin International Film Festival
Boris Vasilyev (writer)