Yuri Ilyich Druzhnikov

Yuri Ilyich Druzhnikov (in Russian: Юрий Ильич Дружников) was born Yuri Izrailevich Alperovich on the 17 April 1933 in Moscow, USSR. He died on the 14 May 2008 in Davis, California.^[1]

In his lifetime, he worked as an actor, a photographer, an editor, a journalist and travel correspondent, as an author and as a professor of Russian. He was also the vice-president of the American branch of the International PEN club.^[2]

Bibliography

• Informer 001: The Myth of Pavlik Morozov [Доносчик 001, или Вознесение Павлика Морозова] (1996)
• Contemporary Russian Myths: A Skeptical View of the Literary Past (1999)
• Prisoner of Russia [Узник России. По следам неизвестного Пушкина] (1998)
• Angels on the Head of a Pin [Ангелы на кончике иглы] (2002)
• Passport to Yesterday (2004)

References

1. Obituary on the University of California Website
2. Biography of Yuri Druzhnikov on his website