About Mark Azadovsky
Lived 1888 – 1954 (aged 65). Mark Azadovsky was a Russian ethnologist, literary historian, collector of fairy tales, university teacher and literary scholar.
Mark Konstantinovich Azadovsky (; 18 December 1888 in Irkutsk – 24 November 1954 in Leningrad) was a Soviet scholar of folk-tales and Russian literature. As the head of the Folklore department at Leningrad State University during Stalin's anticosmopolitan campaigns of 1948-1953, he was denounced and fired along with Boris Eikhenbaum, Viktor Zhirmunsky, and Grigory Gukovsky. Their scholarly work was expunged from literary journals and their names erased from all indices, footnotes, and bibliographies. After his expulsion from Leningrad State University, Azadovsky began to suffer heart trouble, complications of which led to his death in 1954.
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Who was Mark Azadovsky?
Russian academic (1888-1954)
When was Mark Azadovsky born?
Mark Azadovsky was born on 6 December 1888 in Irkutsk.
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Mark Azadovsky died on 24 November 1954 in Saint Petersburg.
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Mark Azadovsky was an ethnologist, literary historian, collector of fairy tales, university teacher and literary scholar.
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Mark Azadovsky was Russian.
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