Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev was a Soviet philosopher, writer, sociologist, and journalist.
Alexander Zinoviev
Autograph of Alexander Zinoviev (1995)
Grave-cenotaph of Zinoviev at Novodevichy Cemetery of Moscow
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Alexander Moiseyevich Piatigorsky was a Soviet dissident, Russian philosopher, scholar of Indian philosophy and culture, historian, philologist, semiotician, writer. Well-versed in the study of language, he knew Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali, Tibetan, German, Russian, French, Italian and English. In an obituary appearing in the English-language newspaper The Guardian, he was cited as "a man who was widely considered to be one of the more significant thinkers of the age and Russia's greatest philosopher." On Russian television stations he was mourned as "the greatest Russian philosopher."
Alexander Piatigorsky in 2009