Boris Frezinsky died

Today, December 3, in St. Petersburg at the age of 79, the literature historian Boris Frezinsky died.

This was announced by historian Boris Kaganovich.

Boris Yakovlevich Frezinsky was born in 1941 in Leningrad, in 1964 he graduated from the Faculty of Leningrad State University, in 1980 he defended his dissertation on the theory of optical communication. From 1967 to 1994 he taught the highest mathematics at the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute of Communications.

At the same time, he was engaged in the history of Soviet literature, collecting rare publications of the 1910s- 1920s, recorded the memories of witnesses and eyewitnesses to the Soviet past. Since 1994, he completely switched to literary work.

Boris Frezinsky’s historical and political interests included the life and work of Ilya Ehrenburg, the fate and work of the writers of the group “Serapion brothers”, political views, literary interests, the life and fate of Nikolai Bukharin, political, literary activity and the fate of Leo Trotsky, the history of the left opposition in the CPSU (b).

Since 1981, Boris Frezinsky has been widely published in the magazines “Questions of Literature”, “New World”, “Foreign Literature”, “Yunost”, “Star”, “Neva”, “Arion”, “UFO”, “World Word”, De Visu , “New Russian Book”, in the almanac “Poetry”, “Past”, “Diaspora”, “Diaspora”, Russian Studies , “Save My speech ”and other publications.

The bibliography of the publications of Boris Frezinsky has about three hundred units, including more than 40 books prepared by him. Among them are the full commented publication of the memoirs of Erenburg “People, Years, Life” (1990), an invaluable commented collected works of Ehrenburg in 8 volumes (1991–2000), the book “N.I. Bukharin. Revolution and culture. Articles and performances. 1923–1936 ”(1993), a three-volume (together with V. Popov)“ The Chronicles of the Life and Creativity of Ilya Ehrenburg ”(2001), the book“ The Fate of Serapions (2004), the album “Ilya Ehrenburg with a camera. 1923–1944 ”(2007), memoirs of Elizabeth of the Polonskaya“ City and Meetings: Book of Memoirs ”(2008), the book“ Writers and Soviet Leaders ”(2008), a collection of articles“ Our Cruel XX century: Pages of History and Culture ”(2016).