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Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachov
- Unit 1
- Lesson 19
Barinova E.V. School 95 Volgograd
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- He was born on the 28th of November, 1906,
St.Petersburge. - Likhachov graduated in 1928 from the Leningrad
University
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- He was arrested for his speech deploring the
Bolshevik reform of Russian orthography. Deported
to the Solovki Special Purpos Camp, he spent 5
years studying the "criminal folklore" as he
termed it.
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Likhachov returned to Leningrad unbroken, and
started his spectacular scholarly career in the
Pushkin House
- In 1953, Likhachov was admitted into the Soviet
Academy of Sciences as a Corresponding Member
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- He defended Andrei Sakharov, Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn and other dissidents during their
persecution by Soviet authorities.
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- In 1986, he was elected the first President of
the Russian Cultural Fund.
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- In his 80s and 90s, he became more of a public
figure, serving as an informal advisor to St.
Petersburg Mayor Anatoly Sobchak and President
Boris Yeltsin.
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- He died on the 30th of November in 1999 in
St.Petersburg.
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- The Likhachov Philanthropic Fund was set up by
his daughter and George Soros in 2001.
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