Mikhail Salye

August 20, 1899 (age 61)

Saint St. Petersburg, Russia

Salye was the first to translate One Thousand and One Nights into Russian directly from the Arabic source. Additionally, he translated into Russian seven tales not contained in the Calcutta II edition of One Thousand and One Nights (from the manuscript in the National Library of Russia). In 1926, having graduated from the Saint St. Petersburg State University, Salye entered the Institute of the Comparative Analysis of the Literatures and Languages of the West and East of that university. In 1921-1922 Salye made trips to Tashkent, where he lectured at a local institute. In 1934 Salye was admitted to the Union of Writers of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. He translated Tawfiq al-Hakim and other authors. Salye is buried at the Botkinskoye Cemetery in Tashkent.

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In 1919–1923 Salye studied in the Saint St. Petersburg Institute of Oriental Languages.

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Salye was the first to translate One Thousand and One Nights into Russian directly from the Arabic source. Additionally, he translated into Russian seven tales not contained in the Calcutta II edition of One Thousand and One Nights (from the manuscript in the National Library of Russia). In 1926, having graduated from the Saint St. Petersburg State University, Salye entered the Institute of the Comparative Analysis of the Literatures and Languages of the West and East of that university.

In 1921-1922 Salye made trips to Tashkent, where he lectured at a local institute.

In 1934 Salye was admitted to the Union of Writers of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. He translated Tawfiq al-Hakim and other authors. Salye is buried at the Botkinskoye Cemetery in Tashkent.

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