Anatoly Rybakov

Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov (real surname Aronov) was a Russian writer.

His first wife (1939–1946) was Anastasia Alekseyevna Tysyachnikova (1918–2009), an accountant. Son: Alexander Rybakov (1940–1994). Granddaughter: writer Maria Rybakova (born 1973).

His second wife was writer Natalya Davydova (real name Maya Maksimovna Davydova, 1925–2005), author of the novels The Love of Engineer Izotov, All of Life Plus Two More Hours, No One Ever, and Treasures on Earth. Son: poet, prose writer, and literary scholar Alexey Makushinsky (born 1960; took his maternal grandmother’s surname).

His third wife (from 1978) was Tatyana Markovna Vinokurova-Rybakova (née Belenkaya, 1928–2008), daughter of the deputy commissar of supply and the food industry, psychiatrist Mark Belenky (1890–1938, executed), niece of one of the organizers of Soviet foreign intelligence, Yakov Serebryansky (1891–1956), and of writer Andrey Navrozov (1899–1941), who died in the militia, author of the memoir book Lucky You, Tanya (2005). Her nephew was artist Mikhail Odnoralov (1944–2016). She had previously been married to poet Yevgeny Vinokurov (1925–1993); their daughter is literary scholar Irina Vinokurova (born 1953).

Cousins: Lev Ilyich Aronov (1909–1972), artist; Yefim Ilyich Aronov (1921–1993), lieutenant colonel in the medical service, military feldsher, later physician, recipient of three Orders of the Red Star.

A. N. Rybakov (Aronov) was born on 1 (14) January 1911 in Chernihiv to a Jewish family: engineer Naum Borisovich Aron