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Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov

Russian symbolist poet, playwright, theatre theorist, translator (1866–1949).

Born February 28th, 1866 in Moscow.

Died July 16th, 1949 at 83 years old in Rome.

Occupations
classical scholar, essayist, literary critic, pedagogue, philologist, philosopher, playwright, poet, teacher, translator, writer

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