Mark Konstantinovich Azadovsky (; 18 December 1888 in
Irkutsk
Irkutsk ( ; rus, Иркутск, p=ɪrˈkutsk; Buryat language, Buryat and , ''Erhüü'', ) is the largest city and administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. With a population of 587,891 Irkutsk is the List of cities and towns in Russ ...
– 24 November 1954 in
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...
) 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
Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky (; 2 August 1891 – 31 January 1971; also ''Wiktor Maximowitsch Schirmunski, Zirmunskij, Schirmunski, Zhirmunskii;'' ) was a Soviet and Russian literary historian and linguist.
Life
Born in Saint Petersburg in 1891 t ...
, and
Grigory Gukovsky
Grigory Alexandrovich Gukovsky ( rus, Григо́рий Алекса́ндрович Гуко́вский, p=ɡʊˈkofskʲɪj; 1 May 1902, in Saint Petersburg – 2 April 1950, in Moscow) was a Russian Formalist literary historian and scholar who ...
. 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
Saint Petersburg State University (SPBGU; ) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the Great, the university from the be ...
, Azadovsky began to suffer heart trouble, complications of which led to his death in 1954.
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1888 births
1954 deaths
Writers from Irkutsk
People from Irkutsk Governorate
Academic staff of Tomsk State University
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Ethnographers from the Russian Empire
Soviet ethnographers
Soviet folklorists
Soviet literary historians
Soviet male writers