Alexei Maximovich Parshchikov () (25 May 1954 – 3 April 2009) was a

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. Born in

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to the family of a famous physician, Maxim Reiderman ( :ru:Рейдерман, Максим Исаакович), and a surgeon, L.S. Parschikova, Parshchikov was raised in the

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and attended the Kyiv Academy of Agriculture. He spent two years as an agricultural scientist before entering

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(graduated in 1981). In 1993, he received an MA from

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. His dissertation was devoted to the works of

Dmitri Prigov Dmitri Aleksandrovich Prigov (, 5 November 1940 in Moscow – 16 July 2007 in Moscow"Meta-realism"What is Metarealism?
/ref>), which Parshchikov founded along with Aleksandr Eremenko, Ivan Zhdanov and Ilya Kutik. In the last two decades, his works have been translated into fifteen languages. His publications in English include ''Blue Vitriol'', translated by Michael Palmer, Michael Molnar, and John High and with an Introduction by

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(Avec Books, 1994). He resided in

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and died there.

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