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President Vladimir Putin laid flowers at the grave of Viktor Astafyev, a famous Russian author, and visited his house-museum in the village of Ovsyanka, where the writer and his wife lived in summer

February 27, 2004, Krasnoyarsk Territory

In the house-museum, Vladimir Putin had a conversation with the writer’s widow, Maria Koryakina-Astafyeva, about the future of Viktor Astafiev’s archives.

The President said that she was the only person to decide it. However, specialists studying the writer’s life and work should, probably, be familiarised with the archives, too.

At the end of the meeting, Maria Koryakina-Astafyeva asked who would finance the maintenance of the writer’s apartment-museum in the Academic Township of Krasnoyarsk. Vladimir Putin allayed her anxieties by saying that both federal and local authorities would take care of it.

February 27, 2004, Krasnoyarsk Territory