Aleksandr Pavlovich Chudakov Has Died in Moscow From Head Wounds Sustained in a Beating

[Timothy D. Sergay]

Dear Colleagues:

I have just learned that Aleksandr Pavlovich Chudakov has been beaten to 
death by one or more street thugs. He has died of head injuries in Moscow at 
the age of 67. This was reported on Radio Liberty's Russian-language service 
in an item dated October 4, 2005 
(http://www.svoboda.org/ll/cult/1005/ll.100405-3.asp). The item features 
some personal remarks by Donald Rayfield. No more seems to be known at this 
point, and I have not yet seen any other English- or Russian-language 
reporting on the incident.

It is not for me to formulate here the magnitude of this loss to Slavic 
studies and Russian literature; this list is monitored by people with far 
longer personal histories with Sasha than I can claim. The news of his death 
came to me early only because of my work on Chudakov's single, sparkling 
novel, Lozhitsia mgla na starye stupeni, which I am currently translating 
into English.

Tim Sergay 

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