Bachrach, Aleksandr Vasilevic (or Bakhrakh)

Po Pamjati, Po Zapisjam, literaturnye portrety [From Memory, From Records, Literary Portraits]

Paris: La Presse Libre, 1980. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear. 204 pp, text in Russian. Aleksandr Vasil'evich Bakhrakh (also Bacherac, Bachrach), 1902-1985, an emigre writer (author of "Bunin v khalate"), a journalist, critic, and memoirist who published widely in émigré journals and newspapers. During WWII he lived with Ivan Bunin, who sheltered him from the Nazis (Bakhrakh was Jewish). Bakhrakh worked in a pro-Soviet newspaper after the war, and in the 1950s and 1960s worked for Radio Svoboda. He died in Paris in 1985. Very Good. Item #H20339

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