Generations of Winter (in Russian, Московская сага - Moskovskaya Saga) is a novel by the Russian writer Vasily Aksyonov.

Many critics have praised Generations of Winter as a new Doctor Zhivago-style, large-scale Russian novel, which tells the story of a Russian/Georgian family, the Gradovs, struggling to survive in the Stalinist era.

As the Wall Street Journal put it: "Aksyonov has ambitiously set out to challenge Tolstoy on his own ground, creating a gigantic historical novel on the grand pre-revolutionary model."

In late 2004 a television-series based on the novel premiered on Russian television. It has 22 episodes.

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• Аксёнов В. Московская сага к. 1 Поколение зимы. Изографус. ISBN 5-94661-100-3.
• Аксёнов В. Московская сага к. 2 Война и тюрьма. Изографус. ISBN 5-94661-101-1.
• Аксёнов В. Московская сага к. 3 Тюрьма и мир. Изографус. ISBN 5-94661-100-3.
• Aksyonov, Vassily (1994). Generations of Winter ((English) ed.). Random House. ISBN 0-394-56961-X.
• The series on DVD, in Russian.