'The last writer of the Soviet era to emigrate': Eduard Limonov died

Writer and politician Eduard Limonov died at the age of 77, writes RBC.

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Died politician, writer Eduard Limonov. This was reported to RBC by his assistant Dmitry Sidorenko. According to him, this happened today, March 17. He did not specify the cause of death.

The death of Limonov was also announced on Facebook by deputy Sergei Shargunov.

“This, unfortunately, happened about half an hour ago in a hospital in Moscow. He was in touch until the last, talked, it was possible to contact him. He remained in a sound and clear mind, ”said Shargunov TASS.

Limonov made his last Facebook post on March 13th. In it, he said that he had concluded a contract for the publication of his new book, The Old Man Travels.

Photo: screenshot facebook.com/eduard.limonov

The writer Dmitry Bykov, in a conversation with RBC, described Limonov as a complex, magnificent and "unbearable person."

“In his younger years he was a brilliant writer. His novel “It’s Me—Edichka” was absolutely wonderful. I met him a little. It seemed to me that he was not the smartest person in the world, but very talented,” writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya told RBC about Limonov.

The writer Sergey Lukyanenko called Limonov a symbolic figure in every sense: in the literary, social and political. “By and large, this is the last writer of the Soviet era, who went through emigration, the struggle with the Soviet regime and then the political struggle in Russia. Probably, with his death, the era of Soviet literature finally ends, ”said Lukyanenko RBC.

Limonov, his real name Savenko, was born on February 22, 1943 in the city of Dzerzhinsk in the Gorky Region (now it is the Nizhny Novgorod Region). He spent his childhood in Kharkov. From childhood he was fond of poetry, then began to try his hand at prose and journalism. From 1967 to 1974 he lived in Moscow, then emigrated to the United States. As he explained, he had to leave the country because of a refusal to cooperate with the KGB. The authorities of the Soviet Union deprived Limonov of citizenship.

In New York, Limonov worked as a proofreader in the newspaper New Russian Word, says Wikipedia. After some time, he began to write critical articles against capitalism. Limonov's new stories were refused to be published; in 1974, in the USSR, his stories about disappointment from life in America were reprinted. For this he was dismissed from emigrant publications and forced to engage in various jobs. For several years in the USA, Limonov changed 13 different specialties and places of work.

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In 1976, he wrote the novel “It’s Me, Eddie,” which was refused to be published in America due to its graphic description of homosexual scenes and because of criticism of the United States. The Russian version of the book was not very popular. Only the publication in French gained him fame - the book was translated into 15 languages. He continued to publish mainly in Europe, in France, where collections of his stories and poems were published. In 1980 he moved to France, 7 years later he received citizenship of this country. He continued to publish in émigré and French publications.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Limonov returned to Russia and received citizenship, his novels, short stories, political articles and essays began to be published in the country. In 1994, Limonov became one of the founders of the National Bolshevik Party, which was liquidated by a court decision in 2005, recognized extremist in 2007, and its activities were banned. He was the author and editor of the Limonka party newspaper, and in 2006 he became one of the founders of the Other Russia coalition. In July 2010, Limonov led the Other Russia party, but in January 2011 the Russian Ministry of Justice refused to register the party.

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