Background
Rafalskii, Sergei was born in 1895 in the Ukraine.
Rafalskii, Sergei was born in 1895 in the Ukraine.
Studied at Petrograd University. Studied at Petrograd University.
Emigrated during the Civil War. Continued his studies in Prague, also wrote poetry. Later moved to Paris.
After World War II, tried to return to the Soviet Union, but was refused entry. In the 1960s and 1970s, leading writer with the Russian newspaper Russkaia Mysl’ (La Pensee Russe). Became a mentor of Soviet dissidents arriving in the West in the 1970s.