Andrei Bitov (1937–2018)

Author of Pushkin House

42+ Works 391 Members 4 Reviews

About the Author

Andrei Georgievich Bitov was born in Leningrad, Russia on May 27, 1937. He held numerous jobs including stevedore and construction worker, before graduating from the Leningrad Mining Institute in 1962. He worked as a professional writer since the early 1960s. His works included Lessons of Armenia, show more Pushkin House, The Monkey Link, and The Symmetry Teacher. He died from heart disease on December 3, 2018 at the age of 81. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: A. Bitov, Andrei Bitov, Andrei Bitov, Andrej Bitov, Andrey Bitov, Andrej Bitow, Andreĭ Bitov, Andrei Bítov, Andreĭ Bitov, А. Битов, Битов А., А. Г. Битов, Andreˆi Bitov, Andrej Georgevic Bitov, Andrej Georgievic Bitov, Андрей Битов, Andrei Georgievich Bitov, Andrei Georgijewitsch Bitow, アンドレイビートフ, Андрей Георгиевич Битов

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Works by Andrei Bitov

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Pushkin House (1978) 170 copies

The Symmetry Teacher: A Novel (1989) 63 copies

A captive of the Caucasus: journeys in Armenia and Georgia (1992) 43 copies

The Monkey Link: A Pilgrimage Novel (1988) 33 copies

Monachovs vlucht (1978) 17 copies

Life in Windy Weather: Short Stories (1986) 12 copies

Georgisches Album: Auf der Suche nach der Heimat (2003) 7 copies

Koolitundi Armeeniasse : [teekond mitte just suurele maale : vanemale koolieale] (1990) 5 copies

Fotografiia Pushkina (1799-2099) 2 copies

Nevoljena Albina (1995) 2 copies

du - Zeitschrift für Kultur / Vladimir Nabokov: Das Leben erfinden: 6/96 (1996) 2 copies

Les amours de Monakhov (2005) 2 copies

Apteekrisaar 2 copies

Kutsealune (1965) 2 copies

Glas 16: Childhood (Glass Innactive Series) (1998) 2 copies

Записки из-за угла 1 copy

" Posledni͡ai͡a povest' ''. 1 copy

Моление о чаше. Последний Пушкин 1 copy

Prepodavatel' simmetrii (2014) 1 copy

Битва (Russian Edition) 1 copy

Воспоминание о Пушкине 1 copy

Одноклассники. К 90-летию О.В. Волкова и Вл. Набокова 1 copy

Путешествие из России 1 copy

"Oglashennye." Roman-stranstvie. (2001) 1 copy

Podróż do przyjaciela z lat dziecinnych (1986) 1 copy

Les amours de Monakhov (2005) 1 copy

Близкое ретро, или комментарий к общеизвестному 1 copy

Das Puschkinhaus : Roman 1 copy

Leben bei windigem Wetter 1 copy

Die Vögel. Oder Neues vom Menschen (1991) 1 copy

The Doctor (in Leopard I - CHUKHONTSEV) 1 copy

Oglashennye : roman-stranstvie 1 copy

Simetrijos mokytojas: romanas aidas (2020) 1 copy

Книга путешествий по Империи (2000) 1 copy

Воскресный день Рассказы, повести, путешествия 1 copy

We Wake Up in an Unknown Country. Мы Проснулись в Незнакомой Стране 1 copy

Povesti i rasskazy: Izbrannoe (Russian Edition) (1989) 1 copy

My prosnulisʹ v neznakomoĭ strane: Publit͡s︡istika (Novinka goda) (Russian Edition) (1991) 1 copy

Elementary Astrology of Russian Literature 1 copy

Sobranie sochinenii. Tom 1, Povesti i rasskazy (1991) 1 copy

The Jubilee (in Russian Writing Today - MILNER-GULLAND) 1 copy

Vospominanie o Pushkine Воспоминание о Пушкине (2005) 1 copy

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Associated Works

The New Soviet Fiction: Sixteen Short Stories (1989) — Contributor — 33 copies

Die letzten Dinge: Lebensendgespräche (2015) — Contributor — 11 copies

Gendaishi Techo, May 1970 — Contributor — 1 copy

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Canonical name: Bitov, Andrei
Legal name: Битов, Андрей Георгиевич
Bitov, Andrei Geogievich
Birthdate: 1937-05-27
Date of death: 2018-12-03
Gender: male
Nationality: Russia
Birthplace: Leningrad, Russia, USSR
Place of death: Moscow, Russia
Places of residence: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Tashkent, Soviet Union
Education: Leningrad Mining Institute (1962)
Union of Cinematographers, Moscow (Higher Course in Scriptwriting) (1967)
Occupations: prose writer
soldier
foreman, boreholes
poet
scriptwriter
Relationships: Akhmadulina, Bella (collaborator)
Zhvanetsky, Mikhail (collaborator)
Organizations: Soviet Writer's Union
The Russian Pen-Cllub
BaGaGe
Awards and honors: Bunin Award (2006)

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A Captive of the Caucasus by Andrei Bitov

Good heavens what a writer. A travelogue of Armenia that leaves you with both no knowledge at all about the place but also knowing everything. A writer who simultaneously tells us what is going on inside his head, gives us his view of the landscape, hovers above us in a helicopter and gives us the eagle eyed version and interprets it into the meaning of life. Full of digressions and full of detail but also the biggest of big pictures. Dear me that was a good read.

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