Dmitriy Bykov

29.07.2022 was entered by the Russian Ministry of Justice into the register of media outlets and individuals performing the functions of a foreign agent. Dmitry Lvovich Bykov is a Russian writer, poet, publicist, journalist, literary critic, literature teacher, radio and television host. He is the biographer of Boris Pasternak, Bulat Okudzhava, Maxim Gorky, and Vladimir Mayakovsky. Bykov was born in Moscow on December 20, 1967, in the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the Great October Revolution and on the day the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission was established. Brezhnev was born on December 19, and Stalin on the 21st. So his character and interests are appropriate. He is most interested in alternative history in general and Soviet history in particular. Bykov graduated from school with a gold medal in 1984 and from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University with honors in 1991. From 1987 to 1989 he served in the army. Since 1985 he has worked for Sobesednik, and since 1993 he has published in Ogonyok (as a columnist since 1997). His wife is prose writer Ekaterina Teymurazovna Kevkhishvili. Bykov has three children and many pets. Sometimes in the evenings Bykov hosts the program Vremechko on TVC.