Rid Grachev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rid Grachev

Russian writer

Date of Birth: 18-Jul-1935

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 01-Nov-2004

Profession: writer, translator

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Rid Iosifovich Grachev (née Vite, Russian: ????), also spelled Reed or Reid (Russian: ??? ????????? ??????) (18 July 1935 – 1 November 2004) was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, translator and essayist; who influenced and was a close friend of a number of Leningrad authors of the late 1950s—early 1960s, including Vera Panova, Sergey Dovlatov and, most notably, Joseph Brodsky.