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Gazdanov, Gaito (Georgy) Ivanovich — prose writer, literary critic.

He was born on November 23 (December 6, New Style), 1902, in St. Petersburg into a well-to-do family of Ossetian origin, Russian in culture, education, and language. His father’s profession as a forester made the family travel frequently throughout the country, so the future writer spent only his childhood years in St. Petersburg, then lived in various cities in Russia (in Siberia, the Tver province, and elsewhere). He often stayed with relatives in the Caucasus, in Kislovodsk.

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