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

[Robert Chandler]

Dear Tim and all,

I am deeply sorry to hear this.

(But the web link does not seem to work.)

Best wishes,

Robert

> 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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