Mark Azadovsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mark Azadovsky

Russian academic

Date of Birth: 18-Dec-1888

Place of Birth: Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 24-Nov-1954

Profession: ethnologist, literary historian, collector of fairy tales

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Mark Konstantinovich Azadovskii (Russian: ???? ?????????´????? ?????´?????; 18 December 1888 in Irkutsk – 24 November 1954 in Leningrad) was a Russian scholar of folk-tales and Russian literature.
As the head of the Folklore department at Leningrad State University during Stalin's anticosmopolitan campaigns of 1948-1953, he was denounced and fired along with Boris Eikhenbaum, Viktor Zhirmunskii, and Grigorii Gukovskii.
Their scholarly work was expunged from literary journals and their names erased from all indices, footnotes, and bibliographies.
After his expulsion from Leningrad State University, Azadovskii began to suffer heart trouble, complications of which led to his death in 1954.