Background
Freidkin was born on April 14, 1953 in Leninobod (now Khujand, Tajikistan) and studied in the Moscow English School Number.
Freidkin was born on April 14, 1953 in Leninobod (now Khujand, Tajikistan) and studied in the Moscow English School Number.
9. He has translated poetry from both English (including Ben Jonson, Robert Burns, Thomas Hardy, Ezra Pound, Roald Dahl, and Edward Lear) and French (including Stéphane Mallarmé, Alfred Jarry, Raymond Roussel, and Georges Brassens). He was director of the “Carte Blanche” publishing house, which in the 1990s released several well-known books, including a collection of the works of Olga Sedakova. He was the director and owner of Moscow’s first privately owned bookstore, “October 19th”.