David Shrayer-Petrov Writer

David Shrayer-Petrov (Шраер-Петров, Давид, Russian-American novelist, poet, memoirist, translator, and medical scientist; best known for his novel about refuseniks, "Gerbert i Nelli" (Herbert and Nelly), his poetry and fiction about Russian-Jewish identity, and his memoirs about the Soviet literary scene in the late 1950s-1970s.

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David Shrayer-Petrov
Alias (AKA)David Petrov; David Shrayer
Birth dateJanuary 28, 1936
Birth nameDavid Peisakhovich Shrayer
Birth place
Russia , Soviet Union , Saint Petersburg
Ethnicity
History of the Jews in Russia

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