Gennady Myasnikov won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for what film adaptation of an 1869 novel of the same name?
War and Peace (film series) War and Peace (Russian: "Война и мир" , trans. Voyna i mir) is a 1966-67 Soviet war drama film written and directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and a film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel "War and Peace". The film, released in four installments throughout 1966 and 1967, starred Bondarchuk in the leading role of Pierre Bezukhov, alongside Vyacheslav Tikhonov and Ludmila Savelyeva, who depicted Prince Andrei Bolkonsky and Natasha Rostova.
Viktor Klyushnikov Viktor Petrovich Klyushnikov (Russian: Виктор Петрович Клюшников , born 22 March 1841, village Leksianovka, Gzhatsk region, Smolensk Governorate, Imperial Russia, - 19 November 1892, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia) was a Russian writer, editor and journalist, whose debut novel, "Marevo" (Марево, Haze, "Russky Vestnik", 1864), was considered by contemporary Russian critics to be one of the four 'great anti-nihilist' novels of the time, alongside "Troubled Seas" by Alexey Pisemsky, "No Way Out" by Nikolai Leskov and "Demons" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Both Ivan Turgenev and Alexey K. Tolstoy reacted positively, hailing the arrival of the original, even if erratic literary talent, "who [was playing] with his gift in acrobatic fashion," according to Tolstoy.