The Life of Alexander Zilber

Yuri Karabchievskii was a Russian writer, poet, and literary critic. Until 1988 he worked as a factory technician in Moscow and published his works abroad, earning him a reputation as a leading Soviet dissident intellectual. His most famous work of this period was the “philological novel” Resurrection of Mayakovsky. With the liberalization of the Soviet policy under Gorbachev, Karabchievskii’s fiction and essays began to appear in prominent Russian magazines, but the growth of his popularity was cut by his untimely death in 1992.