Boris Khazanov died

Today, January 11, a prose writer, an essayist, translator, doctor Boris Khazanov died in Munich. On January 16, he would be 94 years old.

This was announced by the founder of the non-profit electronic libraries Imwerden and the "second literature" Andrei Nikitin-Perentsky.

Boris Khazanov (real name Gennady Moiseevich Faybusovich) was born in 1928 in Leningrad. He studied at the classic department of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University. In 1949, in a fifth year, he was arrested on charges of anti -Soviet agitation. He was released in 1955. He graduated from the Kalinin Medical Institute, worked as a doctor, then an editor in the magazine “Chemistry and Life”, printed scientific and popular books for schoolchildren under the pseudonym, and translated letters from Leibniz.

Published prose in Samizdat and foreign publications. In 1982 he emigrated to Germany, lived in Munich. He was one of the co -founders and publishers of the Russian magazine "Country and Peace" (Munich, 1984–1992). In 1983-1993, he collaborated with Radio Liberty*, including reading his novel “Nadlfar in the Ocean of Time”.

The author of the books of prose and essays, including the “Extraordinary Consulty” (1975), “The Small of Stars” (1977), “Boy on the ocean, the biography of Sir Isaac Newton” (1981), “The Hour of the King. I am a resurrection and life. Anti -Trekhrekom ”(1985),“ Myth Russia ”(1986),“ Nadlifar in the Ocean of the times ”(1993),“ Interrogation with addiction. Exile literature ”(2001),“ City and Dreams ”(2001),“ The wind of exile ”(2003),“ So far with a silent maiden ”(2005),“ Rodniki and Stones ”(2009),“ True History of Past Times ”(2009),“ Third Time ”(2010),“ Yesterday's Eternity ”(2010),“ Let the night come ”(2013),“ Elisium of shadows ”(2013). The works of Boris Khazanov are translated into a number of European languages.

Laureate of the Geydelberg Prize “Literature in Exile” (1998), “Russian Prize” (2008), Literary Prize named after Mark Aldanov (2010), literary prize named after A.M. Zvereva of the Foreign Literature magazine (2013).

* Introduced by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in the register of media that perform the function of a foreign agent