Lev Navrozov

Lev Navrozov

Lev Navrozov (Russian: Лев Наврозов; 26 November 1928 – 22 January 2017)[1] was a Russian writer, historian and polemicist. He was a leading translator of Russian texts into English under the Soviet regime. He moved to the United States in 1972. He later published a best-selling memoir, The Education of Lev Navrozov. He became a Soviet dissident.

Navrozov born in Moscow. He was the father of poet Andrei Navrozov

Navrozov had Parkinson's disease. He died on 22 January 2017 in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 88.[2]

References

  1. Kirk, Irina (1975). Profiles in Russian Resistance. New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co. pp. 3. ISBN 0-8129-0484-2.
  2. Sandomir, Richard (9 February 2017). "Lev Navrozov, Literary Translator and Soviet Dissident, Dies at 88". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 February 2017.