Vladimir Shileyko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vladimir Shileyko

Russian translator

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1891

Place of Birth: Petergof, Russia

Date of Death: 05-Oct-1930

Profession: poet, translator, linguist, assyriologist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Vladimir Kazimirovich Shileyko (also Shileiko, Shilejko Russian: ???????? ??????????? ???????) (February 14, 1891 – October 5, 1930) was a Russian orientalist (assyriologist, hebraist) poet (acmeist) and translator.
Shileyko family had roots in the Lithuanian part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was a second husband of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. He is known for his Russian translations of the Epic of Gilgamesh. He died in Moscow of tuberculosis.