Background
Betaki, Vasilii was born in 1930 in Rostov-on-Don.
Betaki, Vasilii was born in 1930 in Rostov-on-Don.
Graduated from the Moscow Gorkii Literary Institute.
Some of his poems circulated in samizdat. Expelled from the Writers’ Union, 1972. Emigrated, 1973. Lives in France.