Mar 01, 1909Smolensk, Smolensk Voivodeship, RussiaDied on 09 Aug 1966 (aged 57)
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About Alexander Gitovich
Alexander Ilyich Gitovich (Russian: ??????´??? ????´? ????´???; 1 March 1909 — 9 August 1966) was a Soviet Russian poet and translator of Chinese and Korean poetry (Li Bo, Chairman Mao Zedong and others). Gitovich was born in Smolensk and studied at Leningrad State University.
He participated to the Great Patriotic War.
He died in Komarovo, Saint Petersburg, and was buried there, not far from his friend Anna Akhmatova's grave.