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Old 04-08-2018, 07:13 AM   #20
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Personally I think the likelihood of his surviving are unlikely.

He was an Author (and therefore one of the "intelligentsia") and married to a (much younger) Russian wife, educated at a boarding school in England. This is at the start of the Russian Revolution.

He probably wouldn't be able to leave the country if he wanted - his wife's roots seem to be there.

Would he have survived Stalin's purges of the 1930's ?

Much of this falls into the category "absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence" .

At least we now have a fuller name and a better understanding of why someone who thought of himself as Persian would be translating Gorky's work from Russian into English.

By the way : https://archive.org/details/adventuresofduns00dunsrich covers some of the events in Persia/Iran towards the end of WW1 and the Russian involvement during the Russian Revolution.

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