Shileĭko, V. K. 1891-1930
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Name (Latin)
Shileĭko, V. K. 1891-1930
Name (Cyrilic)
Шилейко, В. К. 1891-1930
Other forms of name
Shileĭko, Vladimir Kazimirovich, 1891-1930
Шилейко, Владимир Казимирович, 1891-1930
Date of birth
1891-02-14
Date of death
1930-10-05
Occupation
Assyriologists
Poets
Sumerologists
Translators
Associated Language
rus
Gender
male
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Wikipedia description:
Vladimir Kazimirovich Shileyko (also Shileiko, Shilejko Russian: Владимир Казимирович Шилейко; February 14, 1891 – October 5, 1930) was a Russian orientalist (assyriologist, hebraist) poet (acmeist) and translator. Shileyko family had roots in the Lithuanian part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was a second husband of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. He is known for his Russian translations of the Epic of Gilgamesh. He died in Moscow of tuberculosis.
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