Likhachev, Dmitry Sergeyevich

Likhachev, Dmitry Sergeyevich
▪ 2000

      Russian intellectual, literary historian, and author of more than 1,000 scholarly works who devoted his life to defending his country's Christian and cultural heritage; having survived four years (1928–32) in Soviet forced-labour camps, Likhachev was rehabilitated (1936) and appointed (1938) to the staff of the Institute of Russian Literature in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), where he became known as the doyen of Russian medieval literature (b. Nov. 28, 1906, St. Petersburg, Russia—d. Sept. 30, 1999, St. Petersburg).

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