Vladimir Viktorovich Zhdanov
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LOCATION: Moscow, Russia
Literary critic. Assistant to the Chief Editor, Kratkaya Literaturnaya Entsiklopediya, Moscow. Author of M. Yu. Lermontov and other works on Russian writers.
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Mikhail Lermontov was the leading Russian Romantic poet and author of the novel Geroy nashego vremeni (1840; A Hero of Our Time), which was to have a profound influence on later Russian writers. Lermontov was the son of Yury Petrovich Lermontov, a retired army captain, and Mariya Mikhaylovna, née…
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