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Pyotr Vail

Born

in Riga, Latvia

September 29, 1949

Died

December 07, 2009

Genre

Nonfiction, History, Humanities & Culture

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Pyotr Lvovich Vail was a Russian author, journalist, essayist and deputy director of Radio Liberty's Russian service.

Born in Riga 1949, he studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. He moved to the United States in 1977, joining the radio station in the mid-1980s. He moved to the Prague headquarters in 1995. Vail's best-known books include Genii mesta (The Genius of Place) and Stikhi pro menya (Poems About Me). He produced several books with Alexander Genis, including Russkaya kukhnya v izgnanii (Russian Cuisine in Exile) and 60-e. Mir sovetskogo cheloveka (The '60s. The World of Soviet People). He co-edited Iosif Brodsky: trudy i dni (Joseph Brodsky: Works and Days), about Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky, with Lev Losev. He died ...more

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Average rating: 4.25 · 868 ratings · 70 reviews · 16 distinct works • Similar authors

	Гений места by Pyotr Vail, Петр Вайль 4.41 avg rating — 235 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Родная речь: Уроки изящной словесности 4.32 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 1990 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	60-е. Мир советского человека by Pyotr Vail, Alexander Genis, Петр Вайль 4.02 avg rating — 163 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Русская кухня в изгнании by Pyotr Vail, Alexander Genis, Петр Вайль 4.15 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1995 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Слово в пути by Pyotr Vail, Петр Вайль, Игорь Князев (Narrator) 4.26 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Стихи про меня by Pyotr Vail, Петр Вайль 4.37 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Карта родины by Pyotr Vail, Петр Вайль 3.88 avg rating — 33 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Свобода — точка отсчета. О жизни, искусстве и о себе: эссе by Pyotr Vail, Петр Вайль 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Картины Италии by Pyotr Vail, Петр Вайль 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Американа by Pyotr Vail, Alexander Genis, Петр Вайль 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars