Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Poetic Obituaries: [Rashit] Yangirov wrote more than 200 articles

on Russian cinema, fiction and folklore. His subjects included the cinematic cult of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin, emigre female authors, the persecution of dissident Soviet poets and references to silent films in works by writers such as Vladimir Nabokov and Mikhail Bulgakov.

from Associated Press: Soviet film historian Rashit Yangirov dies at 54

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