Dmitry Likhachov

1906 - 1999

country of citizenship: Russian Empire, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union, Russia

languages spoken, written or signed: Russian

educated at: School No232, Karl May School, Школа № 47 имени Д. С. Лихачёва, Saint Petersburg State University

occupation: linguist, historian, translator, literary historian, writer, university teacher

award received: Stalin Prize, USSR State Prize, Order of Lenin, Hero of Socialist Labour, Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad", Medal "For Labour Valour", Medal "Veteran of Labour", Lomonosov Gold Medal, VDNKh gold medal, Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Pushkin Medal, Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called, Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad", Order of Stara Planina, Order of the cavalier of Madara, Order of Georgi Dimitrov, Order of Cyril and Methodius, honorary citizen of Saint Petersburg, State Prize of the Russian Federation, Prize of the President of the Russian Federation, Stalin Prize, 2nd degree, honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University

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Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev (‹See Tfd›Russian: Дми́трий Серге́евич Лихачёв, also spelled Dmitrii Likhachev or Dmitry Likhachov; 28 November [O.S. 15 November] 1906 – 30 September 1999) was a Russian medievalist, linguist, and a former inmate of Gulag. During his lifetime, Likhachev was considered the world's foremost scholar of the Old Russian language and its literature. He was revered as "the last of old St Petersburgers", and as "a guardian of national culture". Due to his high profile as a Soviet dissident writer, social critic, and activist during his later life, Likhachev was often referred to as "Russia's conscience". Source: Wikipedia (en)