Background
Abovin-Egides, Petr was born in 1917 in Kiev.
Abovin-Egides, Petr was born in 1917 in Kiev.
Studied at the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and History. Studied at the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and History.
Grew up in an orphanage. Participant in World War II. Arrested in 1942, sentenced to 7 years in the Vorkuta camps. Released, chairman of a kolkhoz, 1953-1959.
Engaged in dissident activity at the end of the 1960s. Arrested for the samizdat manuscript, Edinstvennyi Vykhod Spent three years in a psychiatric hospital. Editor of the samizdat magazine, Poiski.
Emigrated, 1980. Lives in France. Editor of Poiski, Paris.
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