Background
Obolenskii, Dmitrii Dmitrievich, Sir was born on April 1, 1918 in Petrograd.
Obolenskii, Dmitrii Dmitrievich, Sir was born on April 1, 1918 in Petrograd.
Educated in Paris (Lycee Pasteur) and Cambridge (Trinity College).
Descendant of the Princes Obolenskii and Counts Schouvaloff. Professor at Cambridge, and visiting professor at several American universities. Specialist on Byzantine history and Russian literature.
Editor of several anthologies. Lives in Oxford.
Religion is bad because it forces people to rely on outside authority, rather than becoming self-reliant.
Every Soviet citizen has rights to express his or her opinion, but it should be in accordance with the general interests of the society.