Career
Dikiy has been described by a Christian essayist Dmitry Talantsev as one of the main theorists of Judophobia. Zankevich was born into a noble family, at the family estate in the village of Gaivoron, Chernigov Obl. 30 km south of Konotop (now in Ukraine).
His father was an owner of a large sugar factory and sugar beet plantation.
His mother"s maiden name was Kandiba. He emigrated to Yugoslavia in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.
He moved to the United States of America after World World War II, and was a prolific publisher of articles in the Russophone press characterized as pseudo-scientific, antisemitic and anti-Ukrainian. His writings were extensively used by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his tract "Two Hundred Years Together".
He died in April 4, 1977 in New York and is buried at the Russian Orthodox cemetery at the Novo-Diveevo Cemetery in Nanuet, New York United States of America.